While data warehouses are important for many types of analytical systems, they aren’t always necessary. Building a data warehouse can dramatically increase the cost of a BI project. This paper describes data warehouses, along with many other options for placing relevant, timely information in the hands of business users. 

Intranets and portals are too complex for everyone in your company to adopt - not to mention the costs to build and maintain them. This webcast explains how to store your critical business information in one location, share confidential information with the right people, and empower business users with the ability to access the data they need. 

The mobilisation of Web 2.0 is fostering new partnerships and rivalries throughout the value chain. 

The SAP Portal Site Management app allows you to run multiple portals within an integrated Web content management (WCM) system. Watch this step-by-step demonstration to see just how easy it is to edit an existing Web page using the tool. Learn how SAP Portal Site Management can enhance your portal environment and improve your overall experience. 

This paper discusses the improved functions of portals, specifically SAP NetWeaver, and how you can make the most of them within the enterprise. 

In this webcast, Wayne Eckerson discusses key factors in deciding between in-house or third party analytic platforms and tips for evaluating analytical tools. 

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. 

The way we work is now open to wide-ranging review. The concept of the office as the ‘dumb’ container for work, housing the corporation and its infrastructure assets, will be challenged by a number of factors explored in this paper. Work, in the future, will only be a verb. It is becoming a process, not a place. 

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. 

In this third edition of the Customer Experience Exchange e-zine, Chris Maxcer delves into world of incorporating team-building activities into contact center agents' schedules, Vangie Beal discusses Dell's six-year investment in social media and Anna Fiorentino writes about why customer loyalty has dipped nearly 10%. 

This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services. 

Fujitsu has been an insular company, with a market centred in Japan. Does it have what it takes to reinvent itself as a well-represented global player, with cloud computing at its heart? 

Leveraging Dell's Advanced Infrastructure Manager (AIM), the Virtual Integrated System (VIS) Self-Service Creator combines a self-service portal with policy-based provisioning and resource control. Download this InfoWorld preview for further details.