Papers from Quocirca

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1. Managed Print Services Landscape, 2013
This report examines the competitive landscape for MPS and discusses the key market drivers and trands that will shape future generation MPS engagements.
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2. The next frontier for managed print services
The MPS market has matured since many organisations inked their first deal. Organisations moving beyond first generation engagements have often reached the end of their cost-cutting phase and are looking for innovation to drive more business value.
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3. The identity perimeter
This paper should be of interest to all those in roles charged with the responsibility of providing secure access to online resources and to those who want to make the case for rolling out new online services.
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4. 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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5. 2012 - The year of Application Performance Management (APM)
The report should be of interest to senior IT and business leaders.
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6. De-risking IT Lifecycle Management
This report looks at how an organisation and its IT department should agree a risk profile, and how it should apply a Total Value Proposition to an ITLM strategy.
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7. 4 C's of social media: Community, connection, conversation or channel
The social network landscape is packed with choices and pitfalls for the unwary, so a careful, well thought out and appropriately nuanced respoonse is required.
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8. Managing expenses in the legal sector
One of the main headaches is the allocation of expenses to the right client while maximising the amount that can fairly be claimed from each client. Another is ensuring the expenses can be reported in a granular and auditable manner to those clients.
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9. Managing employee expenses in the financial sector
The need to ensure that employees remain within the bounds of policies dictating permitted expenses cannot be left to chance, or to expenses being dealt with after the point of transaction.
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10. Limiting social networking abuse of mobile bills
All organisations need to fully understand their employees' mobile usage and behaviours to be able to put appropriate policies in place to ensure business requirements are met whilst acceptable personal use is still enabled.
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11. 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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12. Avoiding the shoebox: managing expenses in small and mid-sized businesses
More than ever, small businesses need to efficiently control costs and optimise cash flow, but how, and what role does automation play in this process?
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13. 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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14. 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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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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