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Reducing the cost of doing business comes down to reducing your IT resource expenses. This can go from lowering your costs on admin staffing to maintain hardware to lowering the expenses you make on business travel.
The following IBM solutions can help you increase productivity and lower your IT resource expenses
Improve productivity by lowering IT expenses
ROI projected in 12 months or less
In today's economy, organizations want to save money wherever they can. Reducing your Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of your IT investments is one meaningful way to reduce your IT expenses.
The IBM Smarter Collaboration TCO/ROI Calculator offers a 5 year TCO view of your IT spending and how you can save money around Software license, Hardware and Operational costs. Discover your potential savings!
Unify your communications and collaboration to get more done for less.
ROI projected in 3 to 6 months
IBM Lotus software for Unified Communications and Collaboration delivers enterprise instant messaging and web conferencing, point-to-point video, Internet telephony and much more. Integrating all of your collaboration and communications into a unified experience makes it easier for your teams to access each other and collaborate. More gets done faster and you can dramatically cut costs associated with disparate IT and telephony infrastructures.
- Download a trial version of IBM Lotus Sametime
- Webcast: Work Smarter with Telephony Integration and Unified Communications and Collaboration
Get the big picture
ROI projected in 4 months or less
Too much paper can weigh down your organization and hurt your bottom line. Get more value from your information through electronic records and content management. Reduce costs by eliminating printing needs and reduce risk (and further costs) through improved compliance.
Identify quickly the key cost factors involved in using and storing paper in business processes and estimate your potential savings with the ROI Calculator: Quicklook Cost Estimator.
Get the big picture
Build in productivity when you build in security
ROI projected in 12 months or less
IBM Rational web application security solutions stop security threats by incorporating security measures in the development process. They can be used for web application vulnerability scanning in all stages of development and by testers with or without security expertise. The result is greater productivity for your entire organization by avoiding damaging and time-consuming security breaches.
- White paper: Understanding Web application security challenges
- Success story: NAV CANADA takes advantage of IBM Rational AppScan software to address the security and compliance of its online applications (US)

