The current recession and credit crunch deeply affected IT spending in the last quarter of 2008 and into 2009. This SWOT Analyst report for Q3 2009 regroups the market contenders by categories for an easier evaluation to enable vendor strategy professionals to substantiate decisions about their partnership and go-to-market strategies. 

This guide is intended to help advisors who are considering going independent or who have already struck out on their own to better understand and navigate their technology options. 

Simple changes in software investments and practices can have the dual effect of reduced energy consumption and improved team productivity. IBM Rational Software provides an opportunity to make day-by-day shifts toward this goal. 

The objective of this paper is to present the buyside with a framework in which to understand the changes in the U.S. trading market, to offer a vision for the trading platforms that will support this new world and to explain why the future belongs to independent broker-neutral systems supplied by software firms rather than sellside brokers. 

This white paper demonstrates how Real-time Feedback Analytics (RFA) has very high ROIs, even under conservative estimates, both in absolute terms and relative to the many productivity investments. 

Read this white paper to learn how after deploying PingFederate or PingConnect your organization will yield a high return on investment and run more efficiently and will have distinct competitive advantage over companies that do not leverage Internet Identity Security Software. 

The range and complexity of government information technology (IT) investments makes assessing their returns a daunting prospect. This white paper presents a public ROI assessment framework that addresses the shortcomings in the available methods and models for assessing public returns. 

A disciplined IT performance measurement program is critical not only for business growth but also for economic viability. This paper provides a framework for a Return on IT (ROIT™) methodology and discusses how to deploy it within a company's business processes. 

Check out these three ROI calculators for estimates on your return on investment using one or more IBM solutions. 

This webcast, featuring Nucleus Research, uncovers research findings from analyzing numerous deployments in business intelligence and performance management within an SAP environment. Discover why many companies are turning to one specific vendor for the benefits it provides over SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse. 

This white paper discusses detailed best practices for deploying a 150-user, 250-GB, three-tiered SAP® Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) landscape. 

Document process automation is an investment that can help turn accounts payable around to become a very efficient and money saving process by getting rid of all the paper and manual processing. Read this paper to learn how document process automation can help save your company money and time, overall adding to your company's bottom line. 

This paper outlines the Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, illustrates its relevance to small and midsized business customers, and provides the resources to help you evaluate how your business might benefit from the service.