Financial Analysis Reports

Should Your Email Live In The Cloud? A Comparative Cost Analysis
sponsored by Google Apps
ANALYST REPORT: This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users.
Posted: 19 Jan 2011 | Published: 19 Jan 2011

Google Apps

Cost-Benefit Analysis: Comparing Key Players for Structured Analytics
sponsored by IBM
WHITE PAPER: Can your organization implement Hadoop clusters without being crippled by IT costs? This resource considers two major players offering structured analytics. Access now to see each of their cost-benefit results and discover the best choice for your business.
Posted: 26 Oct 2015 | Published: 26 Oct 2015

IBM

E-Book: Unix-to-Linux Migration: A step-by-step approach for data center managers that covers everything from making the business case to getting the best training
sponsored by Red Hat & IBM
EBOOK: When migrating from  Unix to Linux, the most important case you will need to make is not a technical case but a business case. It’s all about the bottom line. How will the business benefit by moving over? What is the total cost of ownership and return on investment for the migration? Read on to learn more!
Posted: 08 Dec 2010 | Published: 08 Dec 2010

Red Hat & IBM

Lowering the Cost of Business Intelligence With Open Source: A Comparison of Open Source and Traditional Vendor Costs
sponsored by Pentaho Corporation
ANALYST REPORT: Many of the top reasons given for the use of open source BI software is "lower costs." The question is whether commercial open source actually matters when it comes to lowering license and support costs. Read this analyst report for comparison of the software and support costs of traditional BI vendors versus commercial open source BI from Pentaho.
Posted: 03 Jun 2010 | Published: 03 Jun 2010

Pentaho Corporation

CIO strategies for DR planning in virtual environments
sponsored by Dell Compellent
EGUIDE: Regarding disaster recovery, expenses currently overshadow the risk of theoretical disaster. As a result, CIOs who hope to implement or upgrade their DR plans must compromise. This e-guide discusses how to make a value case for DR, along with a series of low-cost strategies for planning, implementing, and testing virtual DR plans.
Posted: 27 Jun 2011 | Published: 24 Jun 2011

Dell Compellent

Business Intelligence Strategies for 4G Operators
sponsored by Sybase, an SAP company
WHITE PAPER: This paper explores the opportunities and challenges presented by the introduction of services on 4G networks, and examines how a strategic BI implementation can help to transform the services a company provides while managing costs of providing them. It also considers the variety of practical applications of a BI system.
Posted: 12 Nov 2010 | Published: 11 Nov 2010

Sybase, an SAP company

Cloudonomics: The Economics of Cloud Computing
sponsored by Rackspace Hosting
WHITE PAPER: In this paper we detail these four mechanisms and introduce several case studies and examples to show the increased economic value that Cloud Computing brings to an organization.
Posted: 11 Feb 2011 | Published: 11 Feb 2011

Rackspace Hosting

Database Manageability and Productivity Cost Comparison Study: Oracle Database 11g Release 2 vs. Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Release 2
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WHITE PAPER: Review this cost comparison study of Oracle Database 11g R2 and Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 and uncover which technology came out on top. Find out which solution offered a 49% higher time savings, 46% more in complexity savings, and whose time savings amounted to saving $58,800 per year per database administrator.
Posted: 03 Jul 2012 | Published: 25 Jun 2012

Oracle Corporation

Distributed Data Capture: Reducing the Cost of Remote Business Processes
sponsored by Kofax, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: In today’s global economy, information exchange is vital. Competitive advantage goes to the companies that can share information and collaborate quickly and accurately in the most cost-effective manner. Read this white paper now to learn how to effectively lower the costs of your business's document capture process.
Posted: 10 Mar 2011 | Published: 10 Mar 2011

Kofax, Inc.

Release Management: Closing the Gap in Application Lifecycle Management
sponsored by SERENA Software, Inc.
WHITE PAPER: Businesses are struggling to keep up with the massive amount of change to their software applications. By strategically automating release management, companies can create a crisp, accurate Release Management function that dramatically boosts the competitive edge gained from application change. Control application change or let it control you.
Posted: 18 Jan 2011 | Published: 18 Jan 2011

SERENA Software, Inc.