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Gartner shows how to achieve the unimaginable: cutting costs while building new process-focused skills.', 'doc_cd', '157633'], ['6 May 2008', 'Cost Cutting Strategies for SOA', 'Companies that develop new applications in an era of budget constraints should not abandon the use of service-oriented architecture, although initial costs can sometimes be higher than with alternatives. However, IT managers may need to change how they are implementing SOA and defer some spending.', 'doc_cd', '156829'], ['28 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting Using IT Management Practices', 'Key IT management practices can help lower IT costs. The five practices listed in this research can realize up to 5% savings in IT staff budgets and up to 20% savings in total IT budgets.', 'doc_cd', '157295'], ['22 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting in IT: Beware of the Cost Avoidance Versus Actual Cost-Cutting Trap', 'Clients must not limit IT's cost reduction initiatives to only identifying cost avoidance targets.', 'doc_cd', '157040'], ['22 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting by Rightsizing Network Reliability', 'Examining the reliability needs for different sites on the enterprise WAN and aligning them to optimum technology solutions can significantly reduce network costs. However, ensure that the business understands and accepts the impact of such changes on site availability.', 'doc_cd', '155940'], ['15 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting for BPM Technologies', 'Users unable to afford the entry costs for business process management technologies can consider open-source software, SaaS and "free" options to jump-start the effort and learn. Maximum Year 1 savings or deferred software license costs are estimated to be $850,000.', 'doc_cd', '156699'], ['15 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting for Printing in Offices to Achieve Operational Efficiency', 'Almost everyone in an office uses printers, copiers and multifunction products without paying much attention to their functions and features. Printing-related costs can be reduced by managing such devices on a companywide basis and introducing effective software products, functions and services.', 'doc_cd', '156412'], ['14 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting by Offshoring Application Development to China', 'The offshoring of application development saves money by distributing different labor and infrastructure costs between countries. The level of cost reduction achieved depends on differences in productivity and communication overheads.', 'doc_cd', '156292'], ['10 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting in E-Mail Infrastructures', 'There are numerous ways companies can save money on e-mail infrastructures, from server consolidation to storage optimization and user segmentation models.', 'doc_cd', '156121'], ['10 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting by Optimizing Investment for Business Intelligence Tools', 'Many user organizations feel that business intelligence tools are expensive. If there is a mismatch between usage of BI tools and the user segment, a rethink of tool distribution can reduce software support costs.', 'doc_cd', '156382'], ['9 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting by Telecom Expense Management Services', 'Organizations need to gain a comprehensive, centralized understanding of the usage and costs of their communication devices and services. One way to gain such understanding is for organizations to immediately start investigating the use of telecom expense management services.', 'doc_cd', '156381'], ['9 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting in PC Procurement and the Pitfalls Between Price and Power Consumption', 'When purchasing low-priced desktop PCs to reduce hardware procurement cost, power consumption must be balanced against price. For true cost reduction, companies need to review wider considerations, such as general organizational expenditure, rather than just the initial price of hardware.', 'doc_cd', '156391'], ['7 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting by Reducing Customized Applications and Deploying More Packaged Products in Japanese Enterprises', 'Where dependence on customized applications is unnecessarily high in Japanese businesses, we recommend using packaged products for processes that have little relevance to the core competence.', 'doc_cd', '156389'], ['4 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting Through the Use of an Integration Competency Center or SOA Center of Excellence', 'In a tough economy, companies should look for any way to reduce IT project costs. Surprisingly, many companies don't realize that simple governance can substantially reduce the cost of their application integration and service-oriented architecture projects.', 'doc_cd', '156233'], ['4 April 2008 ', 'Cost Cutting in Japanese Enterprises Can Cut IT Outsourcing Costs by Optimizing Service Task Worker-Hours', 'The IT departments in Japanese organizations can reduce their outsourcing costs by visualizing service tasks and performance in IT outsourcing contracts to optimize outsourced worker-hours.', 'doc_cd', '156236'], ['3 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting Options for IP Videoconferencing', 'Enterprises can realize a faster return on investment and lower total cost of ownership by migrating IP videoconferencing to customer-owned multipoint control units.', 'doc_cd', '155507'], ['2 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting for IT in 2008 Means Saving Money While Improving Service and Quality', 'Moving to scheduled releases of small, bundled application changes can produce significant savings in staffing, and improve service and software quality.', 'doc_cd', '156118'], ['31 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting by Deferring 2008 Windows XP Desktop PC Replacements Until 2009', 'Organizations looking to cut budgets in 2008 can defer desktop PC purchases until 2009 if the PCs they are replacing are running Windows XP. Extending the life of desktop PCs due to be replaced in 2008 by one year will also enable faster Vista deployments in 2009 at no additional cost.', 'doc_cd', '155291'], ['31 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting by Using Your PC Configuration Management Tool More Effectively', 'Many organizations are underusing at least one PC configuration management tool. Such organizations may have a higher total cost of ownership than those with no tool at all. Enact policies and processes so your configuration management product can help reduce costs.', 'doc_cd', '155774'], ['24 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Supply Chain Management Applications', 'Because SCM costs can be 10% or more of a company's revenue, there are hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars of cost-saving potential from prudent SCM investments.', 'doc_cd', '155319'], ['20 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting While Improving Security', 'Security spending does not necessarily equal improved security. Chief information security officers can use simple, actionable best practices to reduce security costs, while improving their enterprises' security levels.', 'doc_cd', '155980'], ['14 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in 2008 Using Remote Infrastructure Service Providers', 'IT departments are under continual and intense pressure to deliver their services at reduced costs. A viable option to achieving this goal is using external service providers to offer remote monitoring and support services.', 'doc_cd', '155500'], ['14 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting Disaster Recovery in 2008', 'The best way to spend less in disaster recovery is to ensure that you spend in the right areas; however, additional strategies can trade-off increased risk for lower costs.', 'doc_cd', '155395'], ['14 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in IT: Eliminating Hidden Costs', 'IT organizations can reduce their costs by adhering to finance policies and engaging in some basic accounting tasks.', 'doc_cd', '155615'], ['14 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting on the Minds of BPM Conference Attendees', 'Cost cutting raised its head at Gartner's recent U.S. Business Process Management Summit. BPM leaders must prepare.', 'doc_cd', '156114'], ['7 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting for Midsize Businesses Through Reduced Network Spending', 'Midsize businesses are always looking for ways to cut costs. Many are finding cost-saving opportunities in their networks through the adoption of new technologies and by using industry best practices for contract negotiation and management.', 'doc_cd', '155899'], ['6 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting Needs Quick Prioritization of Viable Options', 'Faced with demands to cut costs, CIOs and other IT leaders have only a limited range of viable short-term options. Here is an outline of where to find viable options and how to choose the best ones.', 'doc_cd', '155826'], ['5 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in IT to Cope With Economic Slowdown', 'For a variety of reasons, IT organizations are under pressure to reduce the cost of IT and to use IT to reduce the operating costs of the enterprise. This report compiles a list of common IT-related budget-cutting ideas with links to specific research currently available from Gartner.', 'doc_cd', '155211'], ['4 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting for Banks to Derive Value From Multichannel Integration With a Shrinking IT Budget', 'Banks can implement process-focused multichannel integration that saves IT costs without diving into an endless project.', 'doc_cd', '155467'], ['3 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Production Print and Mail Operations', 'Production print and mail productivity improvements generate immediate 10% to 15% labor cost savings. Better still, only minimal and low-risk investments are necessary to reduce these operating costs.', 'doc_cd', '155374'], ['28 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting Within the Billing Process Is Achievable for Health Insurers', 'Health insurers can achieve immediate cost reductions through the deployment of electronic bill presentment and payment. Savings can be achieved in hard costs (such as paper and postage), labor and time, costs of customer service, and a reduction in days sales outstanding.', 'doc_cd', '155590'], ['27 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting Requires Corporate Performance Management', 'As organizations look to improve margins and strive to better manage their costs, many are evaluating corporate performance management solutions. CPM helps clients identify actual cost and revenue drivers based on the consumption of resources.', 'doc_cd', '155089'], ['27 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting in 2008 and What It Means to the Project Portfolio', 'Active projects, and those being considered, are always scrutinized when cost cutting must be performed. Learn how to find the right things to cut, while leaving the organization "healthier" for its efforts.', 'doc_cd', '155544'], ['26 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Government Must Consider the Public Value of IT', 'Government organizations that are faced with IT cost containment should not ignore its impact on the public value their IT generates.', 'doc_cd', '155314'], ['25 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting in E-Commerce', 'IT organizations responsible for e-commerce efforts will face the difficult task of enabling online sales growth while cutting IT expenditures by 5% to 25%. Careful attention to e-commerce efforts can save money, while boosting sales and improving the customer experience.', 'doc_cd', '155264'], ['22 February 2008', 'Cost-Cutting Initiatives for Office Printing ', 'The global macroeconomic outlook is increasingly negative, and there is a risk of recession in global economies. We outline some immediate steps that organizations can take to reduce the cost of office printing.', 'doc_cd', '155489'], ['19 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting for IT Content Management in 2008 ', 'We present eight key areas in which CIOs can significantly cut costs in their 2008 content management efforts. Following these steps can yield cost savings of $200,000 or more within one year.', 'doc_cd', '155021'], ['15 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Data Management and Integration, 2008 ', 'In this document Gartner presents nine key areas in which CIOs can significantly reduce costs during 2008 as they continue to support data management and integration-related initiatives.', 'doc_cd', '155299'], ['8 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting for IT in Web Analytics', 'Success with software as a service delivered Web analytics tools is often greater than those operated by IT organizations. The cost of premises-based tools can be cut from the budget, and subscription fees shifted to end-user organizations.', 'doc_cd', '154954'], ['8 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Enterprises, and Six Ways Identity and Access Management Programs Can Help', 'Identity and access management can help cut enterprise costs by addressing needs with focused, targeted and versatile deployment programs.', 'doc_cd', '155042'], ['8 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting, Reducing Risk and Driving Economic Value in 2008: Advanced Mortgage Analytics', 'Financial services providers should implement advanced mortgage analytics to reduce costs and prepare for prepayment risk as interest rates fall.', 'doc_cd', '155112'], ['8 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting to Reduce Enterprise Search License Costs by $250,000 or More', 'Enterprises can postpone expenditure of $250,000 or more by "federating" (improving interoperability) of existing search engines or by selecting tactical, inexpensive measures as alternatives.', 'doc_cd', '154992'], ['7 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting by Effectively Using Existing Software', 'As companies look for ways to control expenses, purchasing new software may not be an option. Instead, companies can focus on ensuring that they are using existing software more efficiently.', 'doc_cd', '155025'], ['5 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting Endpoint Protection Platforms', 'Endpoint protection is often the single-biggest software expense in enterprises\' security budgets. Waning emphasis on security and a softening economy will force enterprise buyers to do more with less money.', 'doc_cd', '154904'] ];// make sure last item has no , comma at end //['2008', 'Cost', 'savings.', 'doc_cd', '155417'], var industryList = [ ['Banking & Investment Services', '', '', '', ''], ['20 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting for IT in 2008 Must Deal With a Potential Economic Downturn at Banks and Investment Services Firms', 'Banks and investment services firms must assess the medium-term cost of cutting IT spending, as well as the short-term savings. They must preserve IT investments that can drive the greatest business value, and those that help maintain competitiveness or leverage economic upturns.', 'doc_cd', '155482'], ['10 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting Through Market and Reference Data Management', 'Here are 12 things financial services firms should do now to bring third-party market and reference data procurement as well as administrative costs under control. While producing short-term cost savings, the most important benefit is the long-term value that taking these measures will produce.', 'doc_cd', '155641'], ['4 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting for Banks to Derive Value From Multichannel Integration With a Shrinking IT Budget', 'Banks can implement process-focused multichannel integration that saves IT costs without diving into an endless project.', 'doc_cd', '155467'], ['8 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting, Reducing Risk and Driving Economic Value in 2008: Advanced Mortgage Analytics', 'Financial services providers should implement advanced mortgage analytics to reduce costs and prepare for prepayment risk as interest rates fall.', 'doc_cd', '155112'], ['Energy & Utilities', '', '', '', ''], ['8 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Utilities Can Be Supported Through Asset Investment Planning Tools', 'As energy and utility executives push further cost-cutting initiatives to drive performance, asset managers and IT leaders must leverage asset investment planning processes and tools to help prioritize budgets, drive long-term business performance and minimize risk.', 'doc_cd', '156697'], ['4 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting for Utilities' 2008 IT Budgets Using SMS Self-Service From Meter-to-Cash', 'Short Message Service provides utilities an opportunity to reduce cost-to-serve by providing customers a self-service channel for all meter-to-cash interactions, reducing the need for meter-read visits and paper bills.', 'doc_cd', '156513'], ['2 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Utilities Can Come From Better Asset Management', 'The credit crisis in North America and Europe is bringing extra attention to the ways that IT can reduce costs. For an asset-focused utility, any reduction in the cost of asset support will be a significant contribution to overall savings.', 'doc_cd', '156193'], ['31 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Utilities' Customer Service Provisioning Area', 'A looming economic recession is driving utility companies to explore ways that IT can contribute to cost reduction. For a utility, any reduction in customer-servicing costs can provide significant overall savings.', 'doc_cd', '156404'], ['Insurance', '', '', '', ''], ['7 April 2008', 'Cost Cutting for Insurance New Business and Sales by Digitizing Paper-Based Transactions', 'Life and P&C insurers have traditionally used paper transactions for their new business and sales processes. Replacing these paper-based transactions with electronic mechanisms can provide potential savings of 50% to 90%.', 'doc_cd', '156581'], ['28 February 2008', 'Cost Cutting Within the Billing Process Is Achievable for Health Insurers', 'Health insurers can achieve immediate cost reductions through the deployment of electronic bill presentment and payment. Savings can be achieved in hard costs (such as paper and postage), labor and time, costs of customer service, and a reduction in days sales outstanding.', 'doc_cd', '155590'], ['Manufacturing', '', '', '', ''], ['31 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Consumer Goods Companies Must Balance Belt Tightening With Investing', 'In the current uncertain economic climate, consumer goods IT organizations must understand how a more cautious approach to the available budget will impact them, develop a plan accordingly and execute against the plan. Here, we provide direction on doing this.', 'doc_cd', '155419'], ['27 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in Automotive Means Preparing for Uncertainty While Preserving Agility', 'A key success factor for an automotive company is its ability to respond quickly to market fluctuations and changing consumer demands. This includes adjusting budgets based on economic realities such as a softening market.', 'doc_cd', '156307'], ['24 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting in 2008 for Manufacturing CIOs', 'Should manufacturing CIOs suddenly be asked to pare IT budgets due to an uncertain economy, they should examine the organizational culture. Knowing where to cut is as important as knowing how much.', 'doc_cd', '155468'], ['17 March 2008', 'Cost Cutting for Life Science Manufacturers in a Soft Economy', 'In the current uncertain economic climate, life science IT organizations need to understand how a more cautious approach to budgets will impact them, then plan accordingly and execute against that plan. Here we provide direction on how to approach the problem.', 'doc_cd', '155417'] ]; var marketList = [ /* */ ['Market Optimization', '', '', '', ''], ['22 April 2008', 'Market Optimization for IT Hardware: How IT Hardware Providers Can Weather an Economic Downturn', 'Hardware providers should anticipate moderately slower IT hardware spending in 2008; they should discount doomsday predictions for their markets. Providers should take a defensive stance during what should be a short slowdown; they should avoid deviating from long-term plans for their markets.', 'doc_cd', '157151'], ['9 April 2008', 'Market Optimization for Telecom Equipment Vendors: How to Succeed During a Slowdown', 'Forecasts suggest that regional economies will experience a slowdown during 1H08. We outline steps that telecom equipment vendors can take to market their products and services most effectively during a slowdown which might change carriers' and enterprises' needs and wants.', 'doc_cd', '156576'], ['9 April 2008', 'Market Optimization for Industry Markets: How to Succeed in Vertical Markets During a Slowdown', 'In a market slowdown, technology and service providers can find ways to increase revenue in their vertical markets. They could rebalance industry portfolios, refine account strategies, and tailor sales and marketing to address cost cutting and economic uncertainty.', 'doc_cd', '156990'], ['9 April 2008', 'Market Optimization for Software Vendors: How Software Vendors Can Survive, Even Thrive, in an Economic Downturn', 'Economic slowdowns can create new opportunities for software vendors through proper market planning and product/business strategy analysis. New and flexible best practices must be implemented in regard to controlling costs and allocating R&D and market resources.', 'doc_cd', '156934'], ['7 April 2008', 'Market Optimization for Telecom Carriers: How to Succeed During a Slowdown', 'Forecasts suggest that regional economies will experience a slowdown during 1H08. We outline steps that telecom carriers can take to explore market opportunities and to market their services most effectively during a slowdown.', 'doc_cd', '156583'], ['7 April 2008', 'Market Optimization for Semiconductors: Maintaining Revenue in a Slowdown', 'Semiconductor vendors can grow their businesses in a downturn, but the time required for most strategies will exceed that of a short recession. Holding onto existing business is the key challenge.', 'doc_cd', '156647'], ['28 March 2008', 'Market Optimization in IT Services: How IT Services Providers Can Survive, Even Thrive, in an Economic Downturn', 'The economic downturn in the U.S. requires that IT services providers act decisively to institute contingency plans to address changing client expectations across all service disciplines.', 'doc_cd', '156169'], ['Insights', '', '', '', ''], ['28 March 2008', 'Dataquest Insight: Impact of a Sharper 2008 U.S. Recession on the PC Market', 'Gartner has reduced its PC forecast, anticipating that 2008 global PC unit growth will be slowed by the U.S. economic recession. Global growth is expected to be 10.9%. However, there is a 20% chance that growth could drop to 9.3% if the U.S. experiences a deeper and more extended recession.', 'doc_cd', '156130'], ['20 March 2008', 'Dataquest Insight: How an Economic Slowdown Will Affect the Worldwide Telecom Industry in 2008 ', 'Economic forecasts suggest that the U.S. economy will enter into a recession in 1H08, while other regions will see a slowdown. Consequently, telecom carriers and vendors will face threats, but new opportunities will also present themselves. Here we examine both.', 'doc_cd', '155530'], ['5 March 2008', 'Dataquest Insight: Server Market Forecast Alternative Scenario Shows How an Economic Downturn Could Affect the Worldwide Server Market ', 'The quarterly server forecast assumes that the worldwide server market will be disrupted in 2008 by an economic slowdown but that there will not be a large-scale decline in server spending. This document looks at what could happen if the server market is heavily affected by an economic downturn.', 'doc_cd', '155658'], ['5 March 2008', 'Dataquest Insight: Impact of Economic Slowdown on IT Services Forecast', 'The ongoing subprime credit crisis and the associated housing price decline have moved the U.S. economy into a mild recession as of February 2008, but these events do not foretell a decline in the IT services market. There is more good news than bad for the U.S. and worldwide IT services market.', 'doc_cd', '155943'], ['20 February 2008', 'Dataquest Insight: Semiconductor Market Forecast Preview, 1Q08 Update', 'A potential economic slowdown in the U.S. — the focus of much media attention — is likely to have an adverse effect on electronics and semiconductor demand initially. However, revenue growth in the semiconductor industry is determined not only by demand but also by supply.', 'doc_cd', '155584'], ['8 February 2008', 'Report Highlight for Dataquest Insight: Software Markets Should Weather Economic Slowdown, but Restructurings Are Expected ', 'The enterprise software markets will weather the current economic downturn better than in 2001 and 2002 because market conditions are dramatically different in terms of maturity, penetration, confidence in IT, and geographic and vertical mix.', 'doc_cd', '155324'], ['23 January 2008', 'Dataquest Insight: A Look Ahead at Vertical Markets in 2008 ', 'This document outlines the major market themes that defined 2007 and the leading business/technology issues that will be important drivers of IT spending across vertical markets in 2008.', 'doc_cd', '154844'], ['Forecasts', '', '', '', ''], ['13 March 2008', 'Forecast: Enterprise Software Markets, Worldwide, 2007-2012 ', 'This report contains detailed country forecast for infrastructure and application software software market is set to grow to more than $260 billion by 2012, at a compound annual growth rate of 8%.', 'doc_cd', '156082'], ['13 March 2008', 'Global PC Forecast and Shipments Quarterly Statistics: Database', 'Global PC Shipments and Forecast QSTATS provides market size and share data by vendor revenue, unit shipment, and end-user spending for Gartner Dataquest by Region. PC products are segmented by form factor, price band, and user segments.', 'id', '303920'], ['12 March 2008', 'Servers Worldwide: Forecast Database ', 'Servers Worldwide Cluster provides quarterly forecasts by shipments and vendor revenue for Gartner Dataquest's regions. The forecast data are segmented by region, CPU, O/S, and platform. As a part of the Q104 Worldwide servers forecast update, please be advised that the segmentation has been changed. Based on client requests and changes in the market, the two categories of >$100K and Supercomputer have been replaced with two new categories, $100K-$500K and >$500K. All other segmentation remains the same.', 'id', '365411'], ['11 March 2008', 'Forecast: Insurance IT Spending, Worldwide, 2006-2011', 'The insurance industry will spend $135.9 billion in 2008 on IT (hardware, software, IT services, internal services and telecommunications). The compound annual growth rate from 2006 through 2011 will be 5.3%.', 'id', '620018'], ['7 March 2008', 'Market Trends: Worldwide PC Market Scenarios, 1Q08 ', 'Gartner is holding its near-term PC unit growth forecast steady at 11.6% for 2008. However, we believe growth could be highly volatile this year given the uncertainties surrounding PC market fundamentals and the global economy.', 'id', '619712'], ['15 February 2008', 'Forecast: Banking and Investment Industry IT Spending, Worldwide, 2006-2011', 'The banking and investments industry will spend $406.2 billion in 2008 on IT (hardware, software, IT services, internal services and telecommunications). The compound annual growth rate from 2006 through 2011 will be 5.7%.', 'id', '605310'], ['29 January 2008', 'Dataquest Insight: Semiconductor Manufacturing Wafer Fab Equipment, Worldwide, 1Q08 Update', 'Stronger-than-expected growth in 2007 has carried over into 2008. 2008 will be a year of recovery as the memory supply-and-demand picture is realigned with industry needs.', 'doc_cd', '154902'], ['10 January 2008', 'Forecast: Smartphones by Operating Systems, Worldwide, 2004-2011 ', 'The smartphone market continues to evolve rapidly, with adoption rates, vendor and platform leadership differing by region. We forecast smartphones sales for 2008 will reach about 173 million units, up 42% compared to 2007. By 2010, smartphone sales will surpass 1 billion units cumulatively.', 'id', '579907'] ];