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Does the Vista view include Real ROI?
A discussion on initial ROI research and modeling of the business case for Vista.  With the official release of Microsoft Vista many corporations will be getting requests to upgrade, and puzzling over whether it makes fiscal sense. The major question to be answered: Does Vista derive enough savings to make the case for near-term migration, or should the organization take a wait-and-see approach?

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Mainframe Migration Case Studies: A Total Cost of Ownership Comparison
Lowering Cost and Improving Flexibility by Migrating to Open Systems.  As Open Systems grew in scale, reliability and popularity throughout the 1990s IBM and other vendors of proprietary mainframe solutions braced for the assault on their dominance of the corporate datacenter. Mainframe vendors developed innovative partitioning strategies and software and hardware pricing practices to compete with the less expensive RISC and Intel based platforms. This paper examines two representative case studies to investigate the economic factors for migrating application work loads off of mainframe platforms in favor of open systems alternatives.

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The Windows Mobile Messaging TCO Tool is an online calculator developed to analyze the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of competing mobile solutions. Developed in partnership with Wipro, the analysis tool is based on research of mobile deployments by 160 customers, and a comparative lab-based study to determine the TCO of the leading mobile platforms for e-mail messaging and collaboration. The tool was introduced today at the Windows Mobile Partner Summit 2007.

The Alinean Windows Mobile Messaging TCO Tool is the first research-based tool to allow IT executives and solution providers to quantify the advantages and true cost of ownership for competing mobile platforms. Based on the Wipro TCO research and Alinean tool, Windows Mobile showed clear advantages as the lower cost platform, some 20-28% less expensive than RIM BlackBerry solutions.

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IBM System p5: Lower TCO Through Server Consolidation:  This paper examines the economic justification for server consolidation on the latest IBM System p5™ servers through the analysis of a detailed case study. This study is based on the infrastructure and operational costs for a representative insurance company, as well as savings projections based on research by Alinean. The results of this study revealed that consolidating computing resources on new IBM System p5 servers offered significant opportunity for IT cost reduction through lowered operations expenditures, projecting an impressive 56% lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) over three years for the IBM solution, versus maintaining the current inefficient infrastructure. »

Shrinking the Supply Chain Expands the Return: The ROI of RFID in the Supply Chain:  Many organizations that produce, distribute, handle or sell various goods are researching what RFID can do to improve operating efficiency, reduce business risk and drive additional revenue opportunities. The purpose of this paper is to review various business benefits of implementing RFID, and discuss various typical ROI results, providing a guide to the value typical organizations can expect from streamlining supply chains using RFID implementations. »

 Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle® Database: A Comparative Study on Total Cost of Administration (TCA):  As platforms continue to evolve in the technology industry, a central concern for IT executives is implementing the right systems to maximize the return on their investments. Since labor costs dominate most IT budgets, selecting platforms with lower implementation and on-going management costs can significantly improve overall IT efficiency, and allow for the reallocation of resources from basic maintenance and operations to more innovative functions. In this paper, Alinean examines the Total Cost of Administration (TCA) for two of the industry's leading database management offerings from Microsoft Corp. and Oracle®. »

The ROI of Enabling Software Development Governance using IBM Rational Solutions:  In this paper, the Alinean analyst team studies the business value of various information technology solutions and practices, and builds models to quantify the business case for change. In our return on investment (ROI) studies, IBM® Rational® has been able to help organizations better govern their software delivery lifecycle, from business concept to the deployment of live systems. »