Budget Management
IT Budget Management can be a delicate balance between what technologies would be most desirable for the business and what the company can actually afford. Limited financial resources require careful evaluation to obtain the most cost-effective systems design and application management possible. Effective cost management, building a viable business case for new purchases, evaluating staffing productivity, and knowing when to outsource IT resources are just a few of the issues that require an up-to-date understanding of cost containment techniques and industry spending trends.
Check out these Budget Management white papers and other sponsored resources for the latest vendor information on this critical topic.
Hot White Papers
The Fast-Payback SAP Projects for Saving Money in 2009
Read this detailed research report to find opportunities to reduce the total business expenses associated with your substantial and mission-critical investments in SAP technologies.
Managing IT in a Downturn: Beyond Cost-Cutting
This white paper discusses how strategic IT investments, based on an end-to-end look at business processes, can have up to ten times the impact of traditional IT cost reduction efforts.
A Complete View of the Enterprise: Linking Operational and Financial Planning in Global Organizations
Read this white paper from CFO Research Services that examines why and how chief financial officers are looking to create "highly integrated" organizations by moving from standalone spreadsheets to integrated planning, budgeting, and forecasting systems.
Extreme Savings: Cutting Costs with WAN Optimization
Download this white paper on cost-savings through WAN optimization and discover how businesses of all different sizes have realized a return on investment in just a few months through significant hard cost savings in areas such as bandwidth reduction and IT consolidation.
Still Struggling to Reduce Call Center Costs Without Losing Customers?
This white paper discusses how organizations can increase the focus on their customers' experience while keeping a firm grip on costs by leveraging the full potential of state-of-the-art technology.
Investment Governance: The Key to Proving and Improving the Value of IT to the Company
In this executive brief, Rich Murphy, former IT CFO for Deutsche Bank, shares his insight and experience with applying Investment Governance principles and provides a framework for successful process implementation.
Documenting Savings with HP Storage Essentials Software
This white paper explores the time and cost saving benefits that SRM software can deliver to organizations using virtualized server technology.
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This Forrester report provides analysis, selection criteria and other recommendations for selecting an enterprise applications vendor for midsize businesses.
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Maximizing Customer Value with Oracle Business Intelligence (BI) Applications
This technology brief highlights how BI applications can integrate information across data sources and departments, provide a single, integrated view of customer and enterprise information, and enable greater alignment of decisions and execution to drive higher customer profitability and share of wallet.
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Rethinking Server Virtualization — Breaking Performance and Manageability Barriers
This white paper describes the advantages of scale-out iSCSI storage in four areas — cost, high availability and disaster recovery, performance, and management — and illustrate how iSCSI SANs provide better overall support for virtualized environments.
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