Papers from Quocirca

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1. Beyond Big Data - The New Information Economy
Organisations are faced with an ever-increasing flow of different data types, including formal, database transactional information as well as less structured documents, voice and video.
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2. The wastage of human capital in IT operations
This report presents research that underlines the scale of the problem and makes the case for more automation in IT operations management, rather than deploying more and/or cheaper labour.
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3. The mobile print enterprise
This report highlights the market drivers for mobile printing in the business environment, discusses some of the main offerings in the market and suggests some best practices for building a mobile print strategy.
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4. E-invoicing: Ready for Prime Time
Despite today's digital age, of the 30 billion invoices sent and received in Europe every year, more than 90% are in paper format. This is not only labour intensive and error prone, but comes at both a financial and environmental cost.
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5. The total MSP
Comprehensive management and protection of information can only be achieved when both, data centres and end points, are under control. Managed service providers (MSPs) have typically focussed on just data centres. It's time to change their thinking.
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6. On the road again: managing the road warriors' expenses
From customer contact and records keeping, through calendaring and scheduling to mapping and news feeds, the mobile phone is usurping the laptop as the main point of technology for the road warrior.
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7. Improving IT efficiency through print management
Midmarket businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses, trying to accommodate increasing demand for new IT capabilities and services.
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8. Channels to Managed Print Services in Europe
A review of Managed Print Services (MPS) programmes for SMBs and midmarket organisations - European vendor analysis 2010
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9. Cloud Computing - taking IT to task
Much of the discussion around modern IT still revolves around purely technical aspects of a given platform, leaving many business people in the dark as to what true value of a new technical architecture actually is.
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10. Building a case for datacentre infrastructure management
Ensuring that a data centre is run at its optimal levels will become increasingly important - yet the tools required to carry out such a task are not necessarily covered by the general IT budget:
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11. A gift from IT to the business
IT managers need to keep demonstrating how IT can help drive the business forward and underpin survival and growth, even in a tough economic climate. On-demand spend analytics is a quick and easy win with a potentially huge return on investment.
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12. Telecoms re-invention - death of the traditional telco
The communications provider landscape is evolving as the demand for data-in fixed locations and on the move-outstrips the still growing demand for voice communications.
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13. Be prepared to be flexible
Communications needs are changing rapidly - Internally, there are new technologies appearing and changes in working styles to deal with but there is now the influence of more social and consumer choices affecting the officially deployed systems.
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14. Keeping online orders flowing
Ensuring that customers receive a prompt and personal experience, whilst remaining assured about security, is essential to the ongoing success of online retail.
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15. Keeping mobile data flowing
This paper discusses how mobile network operators (MNO) can prepare their networks for what is likely to be a continually growing demand for mobile data access.
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