When moving to an endpoint security solution, should you stick with your current vendor or shop around? To shed some light on this issue, Sophos commissioned an independent research study to quantify all of the cost areas involved in migrating to an endpoint security product and managing that solution afterward to create a TCO comparison. 

Try out this calculator, based on the Liberate-Migrate-Virtualize cost reduction strategy, which offers a 5 year TCO view of your IT spending and how you can save money around Software license, Hardware, and Operational costs with an annual and cumulative comparison of as-is and future (proposed) situations. 

Many of today's companies have third-party costs that equal up to 70% of revenue. To remain competitive, it is essential to use procurement applications to identify and accelerate savings and contribute to the bottom line. Access this eBook to learn how to close the loop between spend analysis, sourcing, and contract management. 

With the cost of compliance expected to rise, organizations must find ways to streamline compliance spending to maintain IT operations and IT security service levels in the coming year. Here are some useful best practices to slash regulatory overhead and improve the effectiveness of your compliance spend. 

Read how the utilization of a Data Enrichment and Classification toolkit can help you unlock the full potential of your existing procurement applications by making your data reliable – the key to more accurate and consistent insight into your spend. Learn how you can increase leverage opportunities and improve decision making. 

Businesses are looking to make technology investments to prepare for growth but remain cautious with the economic recovery uncertain. Businesses need to define a business case for their technology investments and build a framework to measure ROI. This paper describes a 7-step process that will help build the business case for an ERP investment. 

Servers based on the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series deliver both intelligent performance and energy efficiency. Migrating to this platform can enable server consolidation in the deployment of database-driven Web applications, resulting in operational cost savings that far exceed the cost of server refresh. Read on to learn more. 

In this case study, learn how one company automated company expense reporting, saving thousands of dollars a year and accelerating the review and approval process. 

In this transcript of the webcast, TIBCO Spotfire's John Callan will discuss how you can perform Total Spend Analysis to help drive supplier consolidation, contract compliance and identify maverick spend in a user-friendly, visual analysis environment. 

Read this paper to discover the top four tactics employed by best-in-class companies of varied sizes and industries to elevate procurement proficiencies in today's recalcitrant economy, along with the metrics they use to measure their success. 

This paper provides concrete guidance and a detailed example of how clients can gain measurable business benefit through iterative business process improvement enabled by an SAP applications platform. 

Oracle Procurement & Spend Analytics, part of the Oracle BI Applications product line, enables you to optimize supply side performance by integrating data from across the enterprise value chain—enabling executives, managers, and frontline employees to make more informed decisions. Read this data sheet for more. 

IT managers that fail to embrace on-demand services will hold back the organisation they are supposed to be supporting. Such services can save costs within IT, as well as provide new capabilities to the business that have previously been unavailable or unaffordable.