The Ultimate Guide to Cost Management
Knowing where your project costs stand at any time in a construction project is essential for understanding where you will finish. Without accurate cost data, capital owners are left guessing whether they will finish within budget or not. Accurate tracking and reporting of construction costs guarantee that you have the information you need to make critical decisions for your project.
The key to successful project cost controls begins with clearly defined systems and processes. It allows teams to handle changes swiftly, results in fewer disputes, and increases the likelihood of completing the project on time and under budget.
This guide will walk you through some of the best practices capital owners follow for estimating project costs, managing budgets, tracking commitment spending, and reporting on project health. You will be led through the process of developing a project budget and entering into a contract. We will cover how to track costs, report them, and keep spending under control to avoid cost overruns.
The Complete Buyer’s Guide to Intranets
When you’re looking for intranet software to improve communication, connection, and engagement – where do you start?
Download and discover:
- If an intranet is the right solution for your organization.
- How to create a strategy that optimizes your project.
- What to look for in a prospective intranet vendor.
- The intranet features your business needs.
The Complete SaaS Backup Buyer’s Guide
SaaS solutions have become a critical part of modern business. The volume of mission-critical data stored in them is growing by the second. However, many organizations still do not back up their SaaS data. They operate with a false belief that backing up SaaS data is not necessary and that solution providers back up and protect their data.
Most cloud service providers like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce follow the shared responsibility model. As per the model, the vendor is responsible for application uptime, availability and the underlying infrastructure, while the customer is responsible for data protection.
This buyer’s guide aims to inform IT decision-makers and professionals like you about the realities of SaaS data protection, what your responsibilities are with respect to SaaS data and the key things to consider when evaluating a backup solution.
The buyer’s guide covers:
- Quick overview of the shared responsibility model.
- Common SaaS data risks.
- Best practices for protecting SaaS data.
- SaaS backup evaluation criteria.
- And more.
3-Step Guide to Protecting Data in Microsoft 365
You’ve made the move to Microsoft 365 to take advantage of the benefits of the cloud. Ensuring that your data is protected in the cloud is as critical as protecting data stored on premises. It’s important to understand the steps necessary to provide complete protection for your Microsoft 365 data. As Microsoft says, “It’s your data, you own it.”
Microsoft 365 provides comprehensive platform protection to safeguard your data against hardware and software issues and to provide disaster recovery. Unfortunately, there are other ways to lose data that are your responsibility to protect against. That’s where Spanning Backup for Microsoft 365 can help.
The Definitive Guide to Planning a 3D Project
Managing a 3D project is exciting but can be tricky. We’ve been through it dozens of times, and this 3D ebook includes all of our learnings from the past decade.
If your company is considering a new 3D strategy, use these tips to build a successful 3D project from start to finish.
Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing in the Cloud
Having a cloud strategy isn’t innovation, it’s what organizations need to scale great ideas and deliver robust customer experiences. As environments become more complex, it’s critical to evolve to the cloud in the right way or you’ll end up just another legacy company, lost in the clouds.
From several years of research and market observation, we put together a comprehensive guide that outlines 8 cloud best practices and 7 actionable tips to measure success.
Backup and DRAAS IT Buyer’s Guide
With hundreds of vendors available, how do you pick the best Backup and Disaster Recovery solution for your organization?
Download this Backup and DRaaS guide to get:
- Organized Planning Checklists (more than 30 detailed specifications!).
- Backup & DRaaS Features Explained.
- Full Understanding of Market-available Data Retention and Recovery Options.
- Detailed Product Comparison Chart Access.
The Incident Response Planning Guide
Organizations across industries are rapidly adopting technology for smooth business operations. As technology advances, so do cybersecurity threats. With the average cost of a data breach pegged at $4.24 million per incident and cybersecurity experts forecasting an upturn in the quantity and quality of hacks, organizations will undoubtedly seek help to ensure they are prepared to battle this threat.
This eBook will answer the most pertinent IRP-related questions to empower IT pros to create an effective incident response plan and prepare organizations to face an unpredictable threat landscape.
Best Practices for Scaling and Optimizing in the Cloud
Having a cloud strategy isn’t innovation, it’s what organizations need to scale great ideas and deliver robust customer experiences. As environments become more complex, it’s critical to evolve to the cloud in the right way or you’ll end up just another legacy company, lost in the clouds.
From several years of research and market observation, we put together a comprehensive guide that outlines 8 cloud best practices and 7 actionable tips to measure success.
The Complete Guide to Company Core Values
Whether you’re on the HR team of a brand new company, have seen your organization go through a few evolutions since its inception or looking to build a rewards and recognition program, it might be time for you to go through the process of defining your company core values. Company core values can help to improve your company culture and result in stronger employee engagement.
THIS GUIDEBOOK WILL:
- Provide you with background information on core values and why they are so important to any and all organizations
- Walk you through the process of defining your core values
- Demonstrate how to successfully implement your core values to start seeing results
The Complete 2023 PPM Software Buyers Guide for PMO’s
You may think that the best PPM software is the one that fulfills all 150 of your requirements. It’s not true; we have seen companies create a long list of requirements and select the solution that best fit those requirements only to go on to waste hundreds of thousands of dollars and scrapping it later because users did not like the solution. Usability and adoption are king.
In this guide we will give you some straight talk to help you consider the important factors when selecting portfolio management software including:
- Organizational maturity
- Usability (versus complexity)
- Cost to implement (value gap)
- Capabilities (to avoid unnecessary complexity)
- Organizational change
- Portfolio management expertise
Getting Automated
Smokeball designed this guide to help you understand and overcome your automation gap so you can offload all the work you don't want to do on a cloud-based platform. We'll walk through all the tasks your firm can automate, how to implement automation and measure your success.
Automation doesn't happen overnight, but you can transform your entire practice with the right tools, strategy, and action plan. Let's get started.
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: A Beginner’s Guide
Although many organizations are dabbling in automation, they’re often approaching it with point solutions rather than a holistic view. Taking this approach can increase costs, result in duplicate efforts, and build barriers between functions and departments. Explore how Red Hat® Ansible® Automation Platform can help your organization solve enterprise IT challenges across hybrid cloud infrastructure.
Three Steps to Easier Patient Visits and Better Practice Outcomes
Your primary care practice can save time and money by delivering on patient expectations. You can enhance your ability to keep up with regulatory demands and reporting requirements—and avoid unsatisfied and unresponsive patients—when you employ best practices that address patient needs.
In this e-book, you’ll learn strategies to avoid missed revenue and save staff time by using smart efficiency improvements, such as checking insurance information up front. You’ll also learn how you can get back to caring for patients, not chasing payments—and the secret to achieving strong financial outcomes. Finally, you’ll discover how you can get paid quickly, easily, and fully—all while addressing your patient demands for an improved, more efficient experience.
Three Steps to Easier Patient Visits and Better Practice Outcomes
Many patients are frustrated by long wait times and practice inefficiencies. They feel their care quality suffers when providers are too crunched for time. They want simpler payment processes and more transparent billing.
In this e-book, you’ll learn strategies to avoid missed revenue and save staff time by using smart efficiency improvements, such as checking insurance information up front. You’ll also learn how you can get back to caring for patients, not chasing payments—and the secret to achieving strong financial outcomes. Finally, you’ll discover how you can get paid quickly, easily, and fully—all while addressing your patient demands for an improved, more efficient experience.
