In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

Download a free trial of IBM Cognos Express and test its full range of features and capabilities for 30 days. See how Cognos Express delivers the essential reporting, analysis, dashboard, scorecard, planning, budgeting and forecasting capabilities that midsize companies need at a price they can afford. 

Read this white paper to learn how IBM XIV Storage System solutions for Microsoft Exchange can help address today’s challenges surrounding email production as well as archiving environments. 

As As companies implement SOA and extend their mainframes applications as web services, it is important that all applications be maintained and enhanced appropriately. 

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<p>For any business to stay competitive, they must get their products and services quickly and in a cost-effective manner. Luckily, a new, integrated system is helping organizations accomplish this goal. Read this white paper to learn more about this advanced platform and the beneficial features it offers your IT software development team.</p> 

This expert e-guide will help you formulate an application performance management strategy. Read this now and learn about certain techniques that can help your agile development team prevent potential problems before deploying apps. Discover why communication is an essential component to preventing problems, as well as three testing models. 

Read this brief case study to learn how one company leveraged performance testing to increase their productivity when performing data-driven testing. 

Read this expert e-guide to learn the benefits of testing the cloud for storage vendors. Unveil why this trend is catching on and what the future holds for this kind of testing. Also find information about the additional charges that cloud storage users pay for individual transactions. 

Read this case study to learn how iPass, a mobile application developer, implemented automated testing in their real and live network mobility scenarios and the benefits they achieved. 

Do you have a large, complex set of interconnected, multi-tier applications that need ongoing development and testing? Spending too much time and resources setting up physical machines and resetting them than actually doing development and testing? Do you lack sufficient machines to test your multi-tier applications the right way? You're not alone. 

<p>Access this resource to find survey results of polled software developers, testers, and performance test engineers about their access to test environments. Learn how you can increase your test environment access to ensure higher quality test processes and significantly increase your project success rate.</p>