To maximize profitability, companies must know the true cost of making and delivering their products and services. Traditional cost accounting, devised in a simpler era, does not satisfy that need. This paper examines indirect and overhead costs, which are crucial to managing profitability. 

Read this CFO Research study to understand how CFOs should prioritize the external and company-wide mandates, as well as how they should manage the finance function itself. 

BMC CONTROL-M is a powerful WLA (Workload automation) solution that should be in consideration for any WLA consolidation project. 

This white paper discusses why Dell chose BMC's CONTROL-M when they embarked on a broad initiative to integrate and upgrade its IT services to better satisfy business needs. 

Many organizations these days have updated to service-oriented architectures without updating their job schedulers. Outdated, platform-dependent job schedulers are demanding. Learn how companies that switched from legacy job schedulers to modern enterprise workload automation with BMC Software have seen significant business benefits. 

In this Quest Software white paper by the Enterprise Strategy Group, learn more about the benefits of moving to a virtual desktop environment – and how choosing the right tool for the job makes it easy. Find out about a solution that not only makes implementing virtualization easy, but keeps cost low and uptime and efficiency high while doing so. 

Many data centers are using the cloud to host applications and data storage but typically aren’t using the cloud to process effective batch computing workloads. Enterprise workload automation tools can give businesses a chance to take a much greater advantage of cloud computing. Read this whitepaper to learn how. 

Virtualized servers are yielding dramatic cost savings through consolidation of physical resources, reductions in power and cooling requirements, and slashed operational expenses. It’s delivering a magnitude of benefits that many businesses find virtually amazing. Read this whitepaper to learn more about the benefits of server virtualization. 

The massive expansion of compute infrastructure over the last few decades has left many organizations facing power and cooling, floor space, and administrative challenges. Read this paper to learn how adopting application and server consolidation strategies to lower costs and streamline operations. 

Just as Lotus Notes/Domino® revolutionized and empowered corporate workers of all ranks, cloud computing with Google Apps represents the next increment in the natural evolution towards computing that is better for end users, cheaper for organizations and faster for those who adopt the new technology. Read this paper to learn more. 

This has never been a more exciting – or challenging – time to be an IT professional in K-12 education. Complex technology, diverse applications and the quest for cost efficiencies makes the job of the educational technology leader unique and challenging. Read on to learn more. 

The planning sequence described in this paper covers the design of the data center's physical infrastructure layer, whose job it is to house, power, cool, and protect the data center's computing and network functions. 

The global recession that began in 2008 has impacted almost everyone, either through job loss, reduction in salary and benefits, or job change. This year’s salary survey, the third in partnership between Global Knowledge and TechRepublic, captures the magnitude of changes that have impacted the IT profession.