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  • Created using a case-study format that includes interviews and original survey data

  • Learn how you can get maximum value from key technologies and process improvements

An Impact Research Report answers these questions:

  1. What is the technology or process? (defines and provides context)

  2. How will I benefit from implementing this? (explains key benefits that your peers are experiencing)

  3. What are the risks? What pitfalls should I avoid? (reviews the risks and potential trouble spots)

  4. How do I get started? (create a plan with the provided tools)
Succeeding with Project Management
Succeeding with Project Management

Maturity in the three fundamental elements of Project Management is proven to deliver improved overall project performance, increased realization of benefits, and improved project manager performance. This report will identify contributors to improved performance and provide directions on how an enterprise can mature their Project Management discipline

Reducing the Cost of Your Output Fleet
Reducing the Cost of Your Output Fleet

For most companies, the output fleet represents a significant annual expenditure (5% of the average IT budget and between 1-3% of company revenue) and, more importantly, a significant opportunity for savings. The average output fleet presents a low-hanging opportunity for most IT departments to realize savings of 20-30% that directly impact the bottom line.

Optimizing Your Help Desk
Optimizing Your Help Desk

Many help desks today are missing out on valuable cost savings opportunities. This report will help identify the gap between your current and optimized state to reduce costs, improve end user satisfaction and help desk efficiency through modifications to your people, process, and technology.

IT Outsourcing with Purpose
IT Outsourcing with Purpose

This report describes when outsourcing is a good fit for your organization and the reasons you would choose to do it. Discover the cost savings potential, breadth of benefits, key pitfalls to avoid, and guidelines that will ensure a successful outsourcing vendor relationship.

Deploying Wireless LANs for Business Benefit
Deploying Wireless LANs for Business Benefit

Together with Fit and Implementation tools, this report presents the key uses of Wireless LANs and illustrates which applications result in cost savings or increased revenue. Determine appropriate applications of a WLAN for your organization, range of benefits, how much you should spend, how to mitigate pitfalls, and how to ensure a successful implementation.

Delivering Business Value Through SharePoint
Delivering Business Value Through SharePoint

SharePoint is a platform that addresses a wide range of business needs: Collaboration, Portal, Enterprise Search, Content Management, Business Forms, and Business Intelligence. This report will guide enterprises in making the SharePoint decision, identify benefit opportunities, avoid common challenges, and complete a successful deployment.

Customizing Your E-mail Archiving Strategy
Customizing Your E-mail Archiving Strategy

E-mail leaves many enterprises feeling exposed by litigation concerns, e-mail server performance issues, or compliance burdens. All enterprises should assess the need for implementing an e-mail archiving solution or moving the existing implementation to the next level. This report will guide enterprises in determining an appropriate e-mail archiving maturity level.

Achieving the Business Case in Virtualization
Achieving the Business Case in Virtualization

Complete with Fit and Business Case Suitability tools, this report presents the keys to successful implementation as reported by IT professionals across industries and company sizes. Discover the path to success, major pitfalls, and guidelines that will help plan and execute a virtualization initiative.