More than ever, small businesses need to efficiently control costs and optimise cash flow, but how, and what role does automation play in this process? 

This white paper describes how today's end-to-end IT Service Management software can help you take control of the key business functions critical to most IT solution providers. Continue reading to learn more. 

Universities and other higher education establishments increasingly have to address the need for savings across the board. One area of focus has to be expenses from faculty members and others associated with the faculty. 

Managing mobile costs is a challenge for all organisations, especially as responsibilities and budget authority may often sit in several places—IT, finance, personnel, managers and, of course, the employees themselves. 

While most common payroll process errors are avoidable, they are also easily overlooked. Unfortunately even the smallest errors can lead to long-term issues and increased expenses. Read more to find out the top 10 payroll pitfalls and how to prevent them. 

The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change. 

<p>Until you actually implement a unified computing system, it is difficult to justify your investment in one. This report quantifies the benefits of these systems as well as costs to factor into your purchasing decision.</p> 

This webcast shows the features of IBM Cognos Business Intelligence for report authors, detailing how the author can create, manage and analyze a professional report easily accessible by any manager on or off the network. Discover how to use the interactive dashboards, create color-coded charts, integrate external data with platform data and more. 

Watch this webcast and learn what's new in the most recent release of Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBI EE), and how Noetix BI platforms are designed to support and integrate with OBI EE to reduce the effort and expense in deploying reporting tools by accelerating the set-up of the metadata layer required for BI. 

See how midsize companies around the world are reducing costs, creating more accurate reports, gaining deeper insights into their businesses and improving productivity and efficiency with IBM Cognos Express, the powerful, integrated reporting, analysis and planning solution purpose-built for midsize businesses. 

With rising energy prices and increasing building costs, a data center’s running costs can have a big impact on your operational expenses. Try our online data center energy efficiency self-assessment tool to gauge your current energy usage and see how you can help reduce your data center operational costs. 

Test Drive IBM Cognos Express in the Cloud! Check out this easy online trial of IBM Cognos Express. Take a closer look at selected reporting, analysis and planning capabilities – without installing any software on your system. You can access the trial online for up to four hours and repeat the trial as often as you like. 

Service providers and network equipment manufacturers are adding automation to their pre-production testing process for a combination of reasons. This Market Snapshot will focus on the need for test automation of networks and connected devices, identify a path to automation adoption and provide an overview of the market.