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Five Tips for Improving the ROI of your Software Investments sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Five tips for improving the ROI of your software investments. Posted: 22 Apr 2011 \| Published: 22 Apr 2011 TOPICS: Cost Benefit Analysis \| Investments \| Product Development \| Product Management \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management \| ROI \| Software Development Life-Cycles \| Software Project Management

What CFOs Should Ask their Software Development Leaders sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: This paper illustrates a new way of thinking about the funding of IT software projects, one that considers funding in terms of investment, and value as an expansive, longitudinal variable. Posted: 20 Sep 2011 \| Published: 20 Sep 2011 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business IT Alignment \| CIOs \| Cost Benefit Analysis \| Financial Management \| Investments \| Project Portfolio Management \| Strategic Planning

Making Investments Count: Three Capital Spending Challenges sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper for a discussion of capital investment challenges that many companies are facing and what enterprise project portfolio management solutions are available to help. Posted: 05 Apr 2010 \| Published: 15 Jan 2010 TOPICS: Capital Expenditures \| Investments \| Oracle (Product) \| Portfolio Management (Finance) \| Project Management \| Project Management Software \| Project Portfolio Management

Total Economic Impact Of Oracle Enterprise Content Management Suite sponsored by Oracle Corporation WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper examines the financial impact and potential ROI on companies who use OracleEnterprise Content Management Suite. It provides companies with the ability to easily manage, reuse, and retain content and to streamline related business processes Posted: 07 Aug 2008 \| Published: 10 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Benefits \| Content Management \| Data Management \| Information Storage and Retrieval Systems \| Investments \| Regulations \| ROI \| Storage Management

Best Practices in Performance Measurement and Reporting: Understanding the Global Investment Performance Standards sponsored by Advent Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: This whitepaper, written in conjunction with Ashland Partners, explains the steps to becoming Global Investment Performance Standards compliant. Posted: 10 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Jul 2008 TOPICS: Asset Management (Finance) \| Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Investments \| Management Service Providers \| Performance Testing \| Reporting Software

Funding for BI: It’s All About ROI, ROI, ROI sponsored by IBM WHITE PAPER: Read this paper for a summary of the 2nd webcast in a series sponsored by IBM that is designed to empower IT and Business Unit managers to develop a strong business case for the return on investment (ROI) of their business intelligence initiatives. Posted: 10 Aug 2010 \| Published: 07 Dec 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business Intelligence Software \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Management \| Business Systems \| Investments \| ROI \| SAP (Product)

ASG's metaCMDB™ Master or "Citizen" CMDB Containing Critical Enterprise Configuration Information sponsored by ASG Software Solutions WHITE PAPER: The sound understanding and visibility of configuration information provided by ASG’s metaCMDB™ is critical for ITIL initiatives and business service management (BSM) implementations, service desk support, and the integration of disparate technologies. Read this paper to find out more. Posted: 25 May 2010 \| Published: 25 May 2010 TOPICS: Business Service Management \| CMDB \| Configuration Management \| Hardware \| Investments \| IT Infrastructure \| Metadata \| Software

Business Case Development Best Practices for Data Center and IT Projects: Speed Up Your Project Approval and Start with Confidence sponsored by HP & Intel® WHITE PAPER: How do companies create winning business cases to justify key data center and IT initiatives and speed-up the budget approval process? Read this paper for tips and best practices for how to succeed in the budget approval process and business case development. Posted: 28 Sep 2009 \| Published: 25 Jun 2009 TOPICS: Budgeting \| Business Development \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Management \| Data Center Management \| Data Centers \| Investments \| Project Management

Hedge Funds: Why Comply? - A Practical Guide to Developing a Culture of Compliance sponsored by Advent Software, Inc WHITE PAPER: This white paper written by Advent Software outlines how hedge funds can create a "culture of compliance" with best practice ideas for accurate record keeping and reporting, transparency in operations and, putting the interests of investors first. Posted: 10 Jul 2008 \| Published: 01 Jan 2006 TOPICS: Compliance (Finance) \| Compliance Best Practices \| Compliance Software \| Investments \| Operational Support Systems \| Order Management Systems \| Portfolio Management (Finance) \| Reporting Software

Leadership Makes the Difference during Times of Global Financial Crisis: Optimizing Business Cycles through Technology Investment sponsored by SAP America, Inc. WHITE PAPER: Investing in the right IT platform and end-to-end business processes enables companies to simplify the IT landscape and reduce total it cost. Posted: 26 Jan 2009 \| Published: 23 Jan 2009 TOPICS: Business Intelligence \| Business IT Alignment \| Business Models \| Business Process Management \| Inventory Management \| Investments \| IT Asset Management \| IT Governance \| IT Systems \| Leadership