Papers from Quocirca

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1. 2012 - The year of Application Performance Management (APM)
The report should be of interest to senior IT and business leaders.
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2. Maintaining the chain
This report looks at the problems organisations face, the options open to them and provides advice on how Quocirca believes an organisation should approach putting in place an effective, integrated, overall B2B solution.
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3. Sustainability through Managed Print Services
This paper highlights thge environmental impact of printing and discusses how a managed print service can support an organisation's sustainability goals, whilst also lowering costs and driving business efficiency.
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4. Outsourcing the problem of software security
The report looks at how businesses are deploying sofware and what measures are in place for checking the security of applications.
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5. Tiers for Fears
For many organisations 'IT' is split between two groups. The data centre facility is provided and managed by facilities management, while the IT equipment within the facility is provisioned and managed by the IT department.
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6. Rethinking MPS: The independent approach
This paper outlines the need for MPS and why organisations that are operating a heterogeneous print environment should consider an independent MPS provider to proactively manage and transform their print infrastructure.
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7. Managed print services: An SMB priority
This paper discusses the printing challenges faced by SMBs and how, by using a simple and flexible MPS, a business can save time and money whilst improving employee productivity.
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8. 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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9. Managed Print Services Comes Of Age
With increased awareness of MPS amongst large enterprises, Quocirca believes that innovation will shape the success of larger MPS engagements, requiring a broader use of document workflow solutions for business process improvement.
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10. 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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11. 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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12. 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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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. Tackling printing costs in midmarket businesses
The emergence of simple and affordable packaged services for print management helps to reduce operational costs, increase uptime and allows strained IT resources to focus on more strategic tasks.
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15. Utilising SOA in defence logistics
Defence logistics have multiple touch points with logistics systems operated by civilian and quasi-civilian organisations, and must be able to operate effectively, rapidly and transparently with these systems.
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