BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: TCO
- total cost of ownership
Wiktionary Definition for: TCO
- Total Cost of Ownership, the sum of costs arising when deploying technology, especially IT.
Additional Resources
- Outsourcing ERP, A New Competitive Lever
- To remain competitive and advance ERP to the next level, more and more leading companies are turning to outsourcing to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership TCO, achieve a predictable and transparent cost model, and improve enterprise value of the application. The paper outlines that the key to jumping ERP...
- White papers 2004-06-21
- Comparative TCO Analysis of Siebel 7.x CRM Applications on Alternative Platforms
- Businesses are always looking to maximize their investments in hardware, software, and people to lower overall costs as well as increase worker productivity. Siebel is one of the CRM applications used to achieve those goals, and there are many platform choices that Siebel can be implemented upon. Which is the...
- White papers 2005-04-15
- How to Calculate CRM Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Although it may look and sound complicated, calculating the Total Cost of Ownership TCO for on demand CRM is as simple as elementary subtraction. Or to go one step further, more money will be going into the business rather than the system that struggles to support it. The on demand...
- White papers
- What Is the Total Cost of Ownership in Enterprise Mobility Solution Deployments?
- When discussing enterprise mobility solution deployments, there is often some debate concerning the actual Total Cost of Ownership TCO. Typically this paper focuses on whether to deploy a rugged mobile solution or a commercial-grade solution. In an effort to better understand the TCO debate as it relates to mobile computing...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Data Warehousing: Total Cost of Ownership Research on Sun Microsystems and NCR Teradata
- Ventana Research, a leading research and advisory services firm in data warehousing, business intelligence and performance management and Consensure, a leading business and economic case software and services company, conducted research into data warehousing TCO to provide insight on the costs and cost variances between two large suppliers - Sun...
- White papers 2004-11-01
- Managing Your Total Cost of Ownership
- Understanding the value of an IT investment can be a real challenge. That's why SAP, in collaboration with the Americas' SAP Users' Group ASUG, developed a benchmarking initiative on Total Cost of Ownership that's designed to tease out best practices for managing TCO.
- White papers 2006-01-01
- Crunching ERP Deployment Schedules to Derive Value
- A large US based insurance firm was struggling with the drawbacks of 2-tier architecture and felt the need to move to purely Web-enabled 4-tier architecture. Infosys deployed select modules of PeopleSoft 8.4, and delivered an all-encompassing solution in a matter of just 11 months. The solution reduced TCO and resulted...
- Case studies
- The Freedom of Linux: The Power of DB2 Software From IBM
- With DB2 for Linux, companies have a cost-efficient means for integrating and leveraging their valuable data assets to make more informed decisions, provide better customer service and transact business more efficiently with partners and suppliers. As well as running DB2 software on the open-source, Linux OS offers more than a...
- White papers 2002-12-01
- Optimizing the Scalability/TCO Ratio in BPM Implementations
- Business Performance Management BPM initiatives can deliver extraordinary value to the business. The extent to which they become one rather than the other is contingent on making the right choices from the start. This typically results in faster response to emerging opportunities, quicker detection and remediation of poor performance, more...
- White papers 2005-07-22
- Total Cost of Offshore (TCO): Understanding the True Offshore Financial Rewards and Costs
- There are upfront costs and hidden costs involved in offshore outsourcing. How should one accurately identify these costs? What is the total cost of offshore sourcing and what is the financial reward that enterprises can expect from their global sourcing initiatives? This comprehensive paper provides an in-depth report on the...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- The Hidden Costs of Offshore Outsourcing
- Moving jobs overseas can be a much more expensive proposition than one may think. The current stampede toward offshore outsourcing should come as no surprise. In this article, one will explore a new TCO—the total cost of offshoring. It will uncover all the hidden costs of outsourcing-areas in which one...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Unsure About The Cost Of Outsourcing?
- Outsourcing non-core business functions is now a common occurrence in many industries, allowing a company to: focus its effort on core competencies; budget effectively; reduce risk. If you are unsure whether outsourcing provides a cost-effective solution for your company, look closely at your current TCO and then talk to some...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Electronic Payments
- Faced with demanding customers and regulatory pressures, banks are rethinking business and operational plans for payments. Financial institutions aim to achieve seamless straight-through processing STP from customer initiation to final beneficiary notification, while integrating value-adding information with the payment. This paper examines some technological advances that will enable financial institutions...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- CRM ROI: How To Justify Your Investment
- Customer Relationship Management CRM can be a complex and costly venture. Yet, many organizations drastically underestimate the Total Cost of Ownership TCO of a CRM solution. Additionally, they often harbor unrealistic expectations and miscalculate the real business benefits they expect to achieve. As a result, they often fail to realize...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Accelerating ROI With On-Demand eProcurement
- For companies that have not yet invested in online procurement software, On-Demand or hosted e-procurement has been worth the wait. Enterprises increasingly require fast ROI and lower TCO for any IT initiative, and AMR Research suggests hosted e-procurement can save 5% to 15% in selected categories. On-Demand systems get companies...
- White papers 2004-07-21
- Beyond TCO: Impact of IT Efficiency on Business Costs & Performance
- The ability of IT investment to achieve competitive advantage and increase bottom-line business performance has been clearly demonstrated. Demand for new IT solutions continues unabated. Yet many organizations face growing pressures to reduce or at least contain growth in IT expenditure. This paper is about these opportunities. Specifically, it presents...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- Calculating The ROI Of Your Learning Management System
- In this free white paper, learn to accurately and realistically assess the potential value of a Learning Management System LMS in terms of its total cost of ownership TCO. Discover how new technologies and deployment models allow organizations like yours to realize a much faster ROI. Also: discover the two...
- White papers 2007-05-01
- Total Cost of Ownership: A Strategic Tool for ERP Planning and Implementation
- This paper examines TCO Total Cost of Ownership in the context of higher education spending for large scale administrative systems known as Enterprise Resource Planning ERP systems. Typically ERP system projects span many years are very costly carry important political and human resource challenges and either consolidate or completely replace...
- White papers 2004-01-06
- IT Consolidation for Government Agencies
- While today’s imperative to do more with less is universal, achieving that goal can be especially difficult for IT leaders in the public sector. Take IT consolidation, for example. Taming server sprawl and co-locating infrastructure resources are important steps in simplifying IT environments and decreasing TCO, but it can be...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- Application Portfolio Redesign for Payment Solution Provider
- The world's leading payment solutions services provider was catering to the IT needs of all of its regional operations spread across the globe through a central shared services organization. This centralization had led to a series of problems including long lead-time of IT solutions, limited regional flexibility, and lack of...
- Case studies
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