This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

This Gartner analyst report discusses the changing nature of data management tactics due to the demands of big data and the need for business agility in today's economy. 

The global adult industry is among the largest in the world, estimated to be worth nearly $100 billion worldwide by 2006. 

“Before Autotask, we were spending way too much time billing and invoicing. Now an invoice goes out half an hour after the work was completed.” Richard Fitzgerald, President of 2GEN Pty LTD 

Global Knowledge keeps up to date with trends in IT careers, certifications, and compensation. In this, our inaugural quarterly report, we offer a look at salaries for the top 25 IT jobs, organized by region. We also offer a look at the top certifications and in-depth analysis from our resident market research analyst. 

Interested in automating the AP process? Before moving ahead, consider whether it’s best to automate AP workflow inside or outside the SAP system. Integrating a solution that runs AP workflow inside the SAP system might seem logical, but there are some important factors to take into account. Learn about the advantages of external AP workflow. 

View the helpful blog post to learn how to build the most cost-effective applications using Windows Azure Storage (WAS) by understanding how bandwidth, transactions, and capacity are billed. 

<p>Discover why data center power consumption has become a driving force behind operational and investment decisions. Gain insight into cloud and IT service providers need for a data center power management solution – one that enables IT to attain a holistic view of demand and consumption at a device, circuit, and phase level.</p> 

This quarters figures compiled by jobadswatch.co.uk show that during the fourth quarter of 2010 the IT jobs market for permanent staff being recruited by software houses and consultancies is up by 8.1%. The growth in demand for IT staff in this sector shows 27.3% more vacancies being advertised than a year ago. 

Cleantech is emerging as a suitable alternative source of energy or a means of reducing  consumption of expensive resources, this report from Grant Thornton reveals. 

In this white paper, Rajesh K. Gupta, Electronic Arts' senior manager of applications for business intelligence (BI) and data services, explains how EA avoids many costly problems due to timely data access. Read this now to gain insight into how EA deployed job scheduling software and what benefits it reaped by doing so. 

With global supply chains, volatile markets, growing volumes of "big data," and advancements in real-time analytics capabilities, technological enablement of sales and operations planning (S&OP) is gaining increasing importance for today's manufacturers. Read this IDC paper to learn more.