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ROI

ALSO CALLED: Return On Investment, ROI Calculators, Cost Calculators, and IT ROI
DEFINITION: The law of diminishing returns is a classic economic concept that states that as more investment in an area is made, overall return on that investment increases at a declining rate, assuming that all variables remain fixed. To continue to make an investment after a certain point (which varies from context  … 
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MDM funding: Steps to getting executive support for your MDM project
sponsored by DataFlux Corporation
PODCAST: In this expert podcast, Rob Karel, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, offers steps to creating a business case for MDM that will include a speedy path to ROI, as well as business value demonstrations.
Posted: 04 Dec 2008 | Premiered: 04 Dec 2008
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Finding the ROI of RFID: Exploring Compelling Use Cases for RFID in Manufacturing
sponsored by Zebra Technologies
WEBCAST: View this Expert Webcast to explore common RFID use cases and learn how calculate a clear ROI of RFID for your organization.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Is RFID Worth the Time, Cost and Effort?
sponsored by Zebra Technologies
PODCAST: This Expert Podcast explores how to assess whether your manufacturing organization will benefit from an investment in RFID.
Posted: 25 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 24 Nov 2008
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Should You Deploy Wireless Notebooks as Your Primary Employee PC?
sponsored by Intel Corporation
PODCAST: This podcast provides a comprehensive look at the value IT at Intel has delivered to the business through this approach.
Posted: 21 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 21 Nov 2008
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Calculating Your Return on Investment from Email Archiving
sponsored by Google
WEBCAST: In this webcast Daniel Garrie and Liane Komagome will explain how to calculate your return on investment from email archiving.
Posted: 20 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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SharePoint in 2008: The Next Steps
sponsored by SearchWinIT
VIDEO: Microsoft SharePoint is rapidly becoming an important part of the enterprise. This videocast will cover the growth of SharePoint, the challenges of maturing deployments, and the market for tools that support enterprise needs.
Posted: 17 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 17 Nov 2008
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Exchange Archiving: Plan, Install, Succeed
sponsored by Incentra Solutions
WEBCAST: Take advantage of this Webcast to get an overview of a new archiving product that provides a simplified management platform for managing all of your data sets from a common platform.
Posted: 17 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Podcast: Service Delivery Best Practices: Translating Customer Needs into Network Services
sponsored by Alcatel-Lucent
PODCAST: This podcast will look at the methodology associated with creating optimally profitable services while also optimizing infrastructure and operations investments.
Posted: 11 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 05 Nov 2008
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Windows Essential Business Server - A Real-World Customer Perspective
sponsored by Microsoft
WEBCAST: Join us for this technical session to get real-world insight into how Windows Essential Server Solutions are working for customers today.
Posted: 10 Nov 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Combat Your IT Challenges with XenApp 5.0
sponsored by Citrix
PODCAST: Address the top challenges facing your organization today - how to reduce application management costs, support telecommuters and outsourcers and ensure business continuity. Explore the requirements and best practices that XenApp 5 brings.
Posted: 08 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 10 Nov 2008
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The Positive Impact of Agile Development in a Down Economy
sponsored by Rally Software Development Corp.
PODCAST: With real life agile ROI case studies from large companies, this podcast provides an understanding of the benefits and impacts of adopting Agile practices.
Posted: 04 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 03 Nov 2008
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Podcast: Cutting Infrastructure Costs by Stopping Unwanted Mail at the Perimeter: Introduction to Stopping Unwanted Mail
sponsored by Sendmail, Inc.
PODCAST: This new Ask the Expert podcast series focuses on how businesses can significantly cut costs by modernizing their messaging infrastructure and stopping unwanted mail from ever touching it.
Posted: 03 Nov 2008 | Premiered: 31 Oct 2008
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Maximizing Business Value Across Your Enterprise...Understanding the ROI of Database Archiving
sponsored by IBM
WEBCAST: View this Webcast to hear how your organization can optimize its IT infrastructure with a solution that supports compliance and discovery initiatives, mitigates risks, and controls costs.
Posted: 31 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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US Bank® Raises the Bar in Cross-sell Marketing using Next Generation Uplift Modeling
sponsored by Portrait Software
WEBCAST: View this Webcast and learn how best-in-class companies such as US Bank are delivering deep-targeted campaigns, which drive down marketing costs and increase campaign ROI using next generation Uplift modeling.
Posted: 21 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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E-Discovery: Thriving in the Information Explosion and Recent Economic Times
sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company
WEBCAST: Join us for an informative discussion about how to not only survive these challenging times, but to use information management to thrive during them.
Posted: 16 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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A 5-Step Framework for Understanding and Achieving the Strategic Value of Cloud Computing
sponsored by rPath
WEBCAST: Most IT professionals don't have a context for understanding the role of cloud computing and its potential for their organizations. In this webinar, rPath and featured guests Amazon Web Services and Forrester Research bring clarity to this topic.
Posted: 07 Oct 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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A Holistic View of Virtualization in the Data Center
sponsored by Agilysys-Sun Technology Solutions
WEBCAST: Each type of virtualization - server, storage, desktop, application, and network - offers its own ROI. Learn about features and benefits of the five main types of virtualization to cater your virtualization strategy to your organization.
Posted: 29 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Citrix & Microsoft: The Future Of Virtualization
sponsored by Citrix
WEBCAST: This webinar will help you understand how Citrix and Microsoft are working together to deliver a comprehensive set of technologies that will enable organizations to harness the promise of virtualization to meet dynamic business demands.
Posted: 26 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Make Compliance Work for You: iSeminar
sponsored by Oracle Corporation
WEBCAST: View this Webcast and learn how to make compliance work for your organization, rather than the other way around - with Oracle solutions for midsize organizations.
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Data quality best practices: How to get started, build a business case and structure programs
sponsored by IBM
VIDEO: Get updated information and data quality best practices, from expert Larry English. Find out how to get started, build a business case and structure program teams for data quality success.
Posted: 16 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 15 Sep 2008
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Increase Brand Loyalty While Streamlining Your Marketing Processes
sponsored by EMC Corporation
WEBCAST: View this Webcast and discover a solution that can provide your organization with more flexibility to launch products quicker, respond to competitive threats, and enter new markets.
Posted: 16 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Efficient and Cost-effective Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware Environments
sponsored by Quantum Corporation
WEBCAST: Customers of all sizes rely on VMware's Virtual Infrastructure to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green by using virtualized servers.
Posted: 16 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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Efficient and Cost-effective Disaster Recovery Solutions for VMware Environments
sponsored by Quantum and VMware
WEBCAST: Customers of all sizes rely on VMware's Virtual Infrastructure to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green by using virtualized servers.
Posted: 15 Sep 2008 | Premiered: Available On Demand
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BladeCenter HS 12 and JS 12 Video
sponsored by IBM
VIDEOCAST: Find out how the IBM BladeCenter HS12 and JS12 deliver availability, scalability and redundancy by watching this video.
Posted: 11 Sep 2008 | Premiered: 11 Sep 2008
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Initiating Your Virtualization Project
sponsored by IBM
VIDEOCAST: In this presentation, virtualization expert Barb Goldworm provides an in-depth introduction to virtualization, showing how and where virtual technology can add value to IT infrastructure.
Posted: 18 Aug 2008 | Premiered: 18 Aug 2008
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ROI DEFINITION (continued): …  to context) is to receive a decreasing return on that input.

The law of diminishing returns has broader applications than economics. In fact, it is one of the most widely recognized economic principles outside of the economic classroom. In a call center, for instance, service level improvements decline in rate in relation to each additional successive agent added.

Other real-world examples abound:



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