Dead things are valued more highly than people, skills and ideas, and ratios such as ROI, ROA and ROE (Return On Investment, Assets and Equity) quantify the efficiency of a company at creating accounting profits from capital.
Storage resource management (SRM) tools will be one of the leading segments in terms of growth and importance. IDC claims SRM's 2004 compound annual growth rate will be almost 22 per cent. The trend in software storage is towards a mixture of...
At one level, mobility should increase efficiency and productivity. Platform Computing, known for distributed resource management and grid computing software, has recently made some announcements that extend its market presence.
A government watchdog has said councils that share services and use innovative working practices could save much more money than the current public sector efficiency targets. An Audit Commission (AC) report dubbed The Efficiency Challenge claims...
A think-big-start-small approach can quickly demonstrate how assessing and optimising the printing practices of one department or location can eventually translate into savings and efficiency improvements across the enterprise.
Fahy said the drive for efficiency at Lehman Brothers has meant the company has shifted to charging for internal services based on consumption - by calculating how much resource is required to run individual applications, instead of, say...