Increasing numbers of enterprises are incorporating project portfolio management in their strategic planning. And just as individuals use financial reports and analyses to consider various investment options, the enterprise uses an analysis called the Business Case to evaluate various project proposals for inclusion in the project portfolio. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

After carefully weighing competing options, Anchorage Water and Wastewater Utility chose Quantum's DXi-Series solution with deduplication technology for its data protection system upgrade. This case study explains why they made that choice. 

Many application development teams have been distracted by shiny new technologies, methodologies, and platforms,  and have thus failed to engage design principles and talent effectively. Read this Forrester Research paper to discover seven design qualities that are key to creating better software, faster. 

This tool offers you a better understanding of your organization’s ability to manage growing volumes of information. It only takes a few minutes to answer these questions and receive your score. Try it now. 

In this expert e-brief discover the answers to every CIOs top change management questions. Uncover strategies for keeping up with the rapid pace of change management, how much of the change management process should be automated, how to speed up the change management process to keep pace with business demands, and much more. 

If you’re like most midsize companies, the only way to grow the business is by being smarter and nimbler than the next guy. Watch this short video to see how you can be instantly executing your business strategy based on the latest, most accurate information, while the other guys are still trying to figure out exactly what just happened. 

This paper discusses how traditional BI systems with disconnected capabilities fall short at monitoring, aligning and benchmarking performance. Learn how Oracle BI 11g is designed to help today's organizations drive profitable growth, change, and many other operational and functional performance goals. 

How do you manage performance for apps with 100 to 500 users and no budget for the extra servers to handle random load spikes? With elastic load balancing. View this webcast to learn how to cost-effectively run your applications & balance your load across virtual machines. 

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 offers improved support scalability, reliability, and availability, but its changes do impact existing installations. Learn how to make a smooth transition and optimize performance based on Microsoft recommendations for highly available deployments. 

Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more. 

In this expert E-Guide, brought to you by SearchServerVirtualization.com and Dell, you will discover how to balance the storage and networking demands of today's virtual environments.