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Mobile Line of Business Applications for the Midsize Business: An ROI Analysis

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Overview This White Paper sponsored by Microsoft, IDC analyzes the Return On Investment (ROI) and value proposition around mobility solutions available to the midsize business. The White Paper examines key market requirements for mobility solutions, alignment with business goals for mobile workforces, key challenges and the impact of mobility solutions on costs and business value.

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Publisher	IDG (International Data Group)	File Format	PDF
Date Published	June 2008
Format	White Papers
Topics	Business Management, ROI - TCO, Mobile - Wireless Communications

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Business Analytics and Optimization for the Intelligent Enterprise

Based on our survey of 225 business leaders worldwide, we found that enterprises are operating with bigger blind spots and that they are making important decisions without access to the right information....

Publisher:
IBM

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diagnostics and analysis

Enterprise mobility: connecting to a world of opportunity

Benefits of enterprise mobility span the business-to-employee (B2E), business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) spectrums. Enterprise mobil-ity can improve an organization's productivity, optimizelogistics operations, enhance customer relationships and streamline supply chain...

Publisher:
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access technologies

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Publisher:
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broadband

HP print solutions and 3M

Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard (HP)

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multifunction peripherals

Harnessing the Power of Location Intelligence in the Public Sector

Throughout the world, public services today are under pressure. The current economic climate, where tax receipts are naturally suppressed, provides very serious funding challenges. Moreover, in good times and bad, increasing regulation...

Publisher:
Pitney Bowes

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data mining - analysis

The Value Proposition: IP - a new metric for the Information Age

Despite all the journals, reports and seminars which have been produced on the subject, it remains extremely difficult for companies to justify their sometimes vast IT budgets. It's not exactly a quantitative science.

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Comment & Analysis

The Value Proposition: the Y2K ransom theory

If we consider for a moment the modus operandi of a kidnapper, it is one of extracting the maximum ransom from the victim's next of kin, based on the perceived worth of the victim's family. A corporate ransom would be based not on the complexity of...

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The Value Proposition: IT and the utopian fallacy

It's commonly claimed that the Internet age empowers individuals and small firms, creating opportunities for all and improving the distribution of wealth. For the small number of entrepreneurs who have managed to make a quick buck out of the dot...

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The Value Proposition: power, information and the European Union

Ebusiness exposes small, local suppliers to a global auction which inevitably will place them at a severe disadvantage to Third World unregulated manufacturers. In the UK, we can see the global market at work, losing thousands of jobs in our home...

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Comment & Analysis

The Value Proposition: The Economics of Application Service Provision

Application service provision (ASP) is fast becoming the most talked about development to come out of the internet computing model. In an age of skill shortages and escalating IT support costs a solution that gives management the whip hand...

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Comment & Analysis

Gartner on 2003 - the bad news

CIOs need to establish a value proposition versus value from an external partner. Call it realism, call it pessimism - just don't look to Gartner for false cheer about the IT market. The analyst house said it has taken some flak from vendors for...

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Comment & Analysis

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