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. 

This white paper explores the hazards of application sprawl, and how using the strategy of rationalization - the process of identifying software which no longer provides business benefits to justify maintaining it - can reduce complexity, cut costs, and dramatically increase organizational agility. 

This seven-page Buyer’s Guide to Cloud Computing by Computer Weekly journalists details the kinds of cloud offering that CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to take into account as they plan future outsourcing, hosting and application strategies. 

Read this white paper to learn how one government-owned business was able to optimize their organizational performance by leveraging strategic workforce planning. Discover the benefits they're enjoying and how they went about their approach. 

In this paper we look at the levels of maturity and capability necessary for deploying enterprise wide initiatives, such as comprehensive MDM, and ponder why these initiatives stall. Read on to learn more. 

This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA. In particular, it explores the role of governance throughout the SOA lifecycle as well as the technology enablers that help organizations develop and maintain an SOA that delivers measurable, sustainable business value. 

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. 

This white paper examines not only the technologies, but the organizational dynamics necessary to successfully implement an environmental footprint management program that can encompass all organizational impacts on the environment. 

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. 

Read this white paper to learn about how Serena is well positioned to help customers that want to re-evaluate, restructure and orchestrate their service delivery processes that cross organizational boundaries as part of a broader ITSM initiative. 

This paper examines an array of solutions for SAP customers to optimize the Order-to-Cash processes in ways that contain costs and achieve optimum organizational efficiency, high customer retention and successful cash management. 

BY relying on a comprehensive set of organizational capabilities, top performing companies are able to plan, implement, and manage their BI strategies more efficiently, ultimately leading to a lower cost per user, and a higher return on their BI investment.