This paper outlines some of the most common questions regarding BI and analytics and provides recommendations and best practices for improving your strategy. 

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. 

Explore the growing body of evidence suggesting a direct link between investment in business analytics solutions and organizational performance. This IDC white paper highlights market trends that point toward more pervasive use of BI solutions. 

As a consequence of tightening budgets and increasing uncertainties, government organizations are looking at how to leverage cloud computing as a model to ensure greater flexibility, lower costs, more-rapid provisioning and greater focus on areas that are more domain-specific. 

<p>This white paper presents two options for how to address talent management support: enterprise resource planning (ERP) software or a Software as a Service (SaaS)-based, best-of-breed strategy. Read now to decide for yourself which one is the best fit for your specific organizational needs.</p> 

This research brief is based on a recent Tech Target survey with more than 200 storage administrators and IT professionals in mid-sized and enterprise-class companies, and focuses on how these decision-makers view the storage-related challenges that result from server virtualization. 

Blue Coat needed to improve its test automation practices with tools & solutions that automate test cases during the development phase, increase test coverage, & identify changes that are not easily identified from build to build. Read why Blue Coat selected FanfareSVT test automation software to work seamlessly within its existing infrastructure. 

Named as one of Storage magazine’s “Hot Technologies for 2011”, automated storage tiering is an effective way to make efficient use of installed data storage resources, and to take advantage of the high performance of solid-state storage. 

This white paper discusses the enterprise content management decision process and provides recommendations for line-of-business managers. 

<p>Your talent management strategy can make or break the success of your organization, but this can be a challenging task if you’re a SMB that still collects documentation manually. Read this white paper to learn how to automate your paper-based procedures to improve your talent management life cycle.</p> 

Is your IT able to keep up with the constant pace and demands in enabling organisational agility? 

This brief paper discusses why business intelligence and corporate performance management are critical capabilities of overall performance management. 

In the traditional IT approach, every new software application required a new server. This added costs to every project and deployment took days to weeks. This also drove server sprawl. Watch this demo for an animated explanation of how virtualization addresses common data center challenges.