Learn how you can strengthen your ability to compete and grow profitably in today's consumer products industry by managing trade spending, providing a key service to channel partners and strengthening your ability to compete and grow profitably. 

Online data backups and backing up data to a remote online backup service provider can be a good way to back up your data. Read this FAQ guide sponsored by Iron Mountain to learn more about remote backups today. 

Read this brief case study of LinkedIn's implementation of DocuSign and Salesforce to speed up sales deals and receive completed contracts quicker. 

Stratus needed to address 3 key needs: Salesforce.com integration; user access through a familiar Outlook interface; and full self-service visibility for salespeople. The SpringCM Contract Accelerator for Salesforce.com enables Stratus' sales teams to collaborate, share best practices and to streamline contract negotiation and approval processes. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we look at the new smartphone from BlackBerry – it's designed to please both business and consumer users, but is it enough to save the company? We examine the options for using cloud services for disaster recovery. And IT leaders tell us what they think about the future of the data centre. Read the issue now. 

Entraction has no reservations about the effectiveness and efficiencies that are possible using device fingerprinting paired with device reputation; this is real data pulled from the user's computer, coupled with fact-based evidence of fraud from that computer's past. Read this case study to learn about how Entraction is fighting fraud. 

SAP in-memory computing is putting the "r" back in "real-time" computing by bringing together online transaction processing (OLTP) applications and online analytical processing (OLAP) applications at a lower total cost. Get an in-depth look at how this technology will impact business. 

This podcast, the third in a series of studies examining the impact that emerging online media have on B2B technology marketing, shows how three mainstays of the Web 2.0 culture are evolving into B2B information delivery tools: Online video, Social networks and Wikis. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we visit the £65m datacentre that sits at the heart of Tesco's ambitious online strategy. Government has approved the iPhone for use by Whitehall officials – we assess the risks. And the CIO at British Gas talks about how IT transformed the firm's customer service. Read the issue now. 

Effective negotiations and management of telecom contracts can have a measurable impact on a business’ financial performance. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, we talk to the British Library about the enormous storage challenges of digitising its printed archive; we examine the state of the UK IT jobs market and the skills that are most in demand by employers; and we look at case studies of the best virtualisation projects. Download the new issue now.