This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

This paper is an introduction to the Oracle Optimized Solution for Lifecycle Content Management, which offers integrated content management, tiered storage, and archival1. Included is a discussion of the business needs for an integrated solution and the value of implementing such a strategy. 

IT operations are evolving in a number of ways. Some of the obvious changes include virtualization and the cloud. However, there are 5 less obvious trends that are changing the dynamics of IT operations, each of which is explained in this white paper. 

This paper shows the shifting mindset surrounding case management, offering up the results of surveys with 155 global case management influencers and decision-makers on how they view this concept. Learn why older process automation approaches based on archaic mass production concepts are no longer viable in today's era of people-driven processes. 

Application performance monitoring (APM) is gaining traction in today's constantly changing and complex application environment. This paper outlines the increasing need for such a solution, offering insight into the five dimensions of modern APM, how to ensure a positive end-user experience, how to measure APM and so much more. 

Find out more about value management and building value realization practices into every IT project. Discover how using value realization best practices during the lifecycle of your implementation can help you achieve greater value from your IT investments. Learn about the value of ASAP methodology and SAP offerings. 

<p>This white paper offers an overview of key considerations for implementing a strategy to automate fax and email orders (plus EDI, web and other order sources) into your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.</p> 

This paper releases key findings of the offerings on the current market and assists with making your own storage systems decisions. 

Insurance organizations are turning to advanced case management solutions to overcome challenges from manual processes and legacy systems no longer equipped to handle today's influx of info. This paper outlines how one advanced case management option can facilitate better collaboration and analytics, both of which can help detect fraud quicker. 

This comprehensive white paper explores the call center landscape, details the benefits of hosted call centers along with the risks involved in cloud-based services. 

This resource explores how SCADA systems have inherent vulnerabilities that can be best resolved by adhering to security best practices, and how network security solutions can be used to mitigate the risk to SCADA systems 

Read this white paper and trace the steps to a successful converged network infrastructure. By identifying today's most important IT trend - virtualization - you'll be on your way to implementing HP supported technologies to enhance your virtualized computer networks.