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Cloud Computing—What is its Potential Value for Your Company?

Cloud computing may be new, but one thing hasn’t changed: management’s insistence on justifying IT investments by return on investment and total cost of ownership. You still weigh a solution’s advantages/disadvantages and benefits/costs. This paper reviews four organizations who gained savings, productivity and innovation with Google Apps.

Cloud Computing—Latest Buzzword or a Glimpse of the Future?

Cloud computing frees up budgets hand-cuffed by IT expenses. Instead of purchasing software licenses and hardware for new employees and locations, businesses simply add accounts to expand computing capacity. This paper surveys cloud computing today: What are the benefits? Why are businesses embracing it? What are its payoffs and pitfalls?

Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis

According to Forrester, "Google is setting a new price floor on email and archiving costs." (Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis, Forrester Research, Inc., January 2009). Download the independent research report comparing the costs of email from Google and other providers.

Trend Micro Data Loss Prevention: Leveraging Data Loss Prevention Technology to Secure Corporate Assets

Whether accidental or malicious, 78% of data breaches come from authorized insiders. Learn how to address this growing threat with technology that provides a unique DNA of each document and protects data at rest, in use and in motion. This unique approach combines endpoint-based enforcement with highly accurate fingerprinting and content matching technology.

Smarter System Development

A systems engineering trade study to support green initiatives with model-driven development.

Systems development in the twenty-first century: delivering business value by connecting people, processes and tools

The complexity of smarter products—which comprise an interconnected network of systems, software and hardware—makes development projects more complex and presents management and quality challenges. Poorly managed projects can decimate budgets and schedules, and poor-quality products can diminish brand equity and ruin customer confidence and relationships with those customers.

Staying In Control When Requirements Change

Organizations need to know how changing requirements in a complex system will affect development. This white paper will explain how an effective change management process can help you better identify how alterations will affect cost and schedule so you can keep them in control.

SharePoint and ECM Working Together

The rapid adoption of Microsoft SharePoint has created confusion in many organizations as regards to their future strategy for information management, particularly those with existing and established ECM, BPM and Records Management (RM) systems. There are a number of alternative strategies that acknowledge the strengths of SharePoint for collaboration and Enterprise 2.0, whilst utilizing traditional ECM and BPM suites for secure repositories and industry optimized business processes. In this report, we have measured the current thinking amongst the AIIM user-community as regards where to use SharePoint and where to use ECM suites. We do not focus on comparing feature-sets, but more consider the enterprise implications of different SharePoint and ECM strategies, and how to combine the best of the two product types.

Benchmarking Videoconferencing Success

Exactly what defines a successful videoconferencing session? This document highlights findings from 20 interviews conducted by Wainhouse Research with videoconferencing managers. The goal was clarify issues surrounding the measurement of videoconferencing success and provide a set of recommendations and guidelines for organizations to measure and track their videoconferencing success.

ROI in Action: How Polycom’s Global Collaboration Network Benefits the Bottom Line

In today’s tough economy, Polycom cut more than $7 million in operating expenses all while increasing collaboration, heightening productivity and streamlining business processes. See how we did it.

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