The Economist Intelligence Unit reviews changing expectations for technology and assesses their implications for  CIOs, the IT function and the business. 

In order to combat the ever-evolving challenges of today’s networks, it’s time to head back to school in our exclusive Network Evolution University – Featuring three distinct classes and nine progressive learning lessons that explore all there is to know about next generation networks and how to overcome the challenges they present. 

Emerging markets offer huge potential for technology companies to expand. This report from Grant Thornton assess the opportunities in a range of emerging markets. 

This Ventana Research report discusses product information management (PIM) based on the Value Index. Learn how PIM systems can synchronize all your attributes and definitions used in the identification, description, sales and fulfillment of products across all channels that customers, suppliers and partners use. 

Gartner research director, Valdis Filks, offers tips to help businesses get to grips with escalating storage costs. 

Research from KnowledgeStorm shows that a high percentage of leads that begin their research on the Web ultimately result in an active project. The technology vendors that nurture these Early Stage leads are often in a better selling position than those vendors that later "pile on" to more advanced, but also more competitive, leads. 

This finantial e-guide covers the impact of real-time data and how to take advantage of new risk strategies. Articles and research focus on technological innovation, business strategy and geographical markets and is full of insights from Sybase experts and other leaders across the financial services industry. 

This paper from Quocirca outlines the need for Managed Print Services (MPS)  and why organisations that are operating a heterogeneous print environment should consider an independent MPS provider to proactively manage and transform their print infrastructure. 

Join Jeff Paschke, Data Center Research Analyst with Tier1 Research, and Todd Goldman, VP Product Management with nlyte Software, for this informative online session on the why's and how-to's of data center consolidation. 

Management of Cloud APIs presents a challenge and tremendous business opportunity. In this session, Forrester Research will decompose the API's role in cloud application control & security and show it opens new doors to connect smart-phone applications, browsers, middleware, legacy apps and just about anything that can talk HTTP. 

The majority of user authentication schemes today still use userid and password. The burden to users of managing large numbers of userids and passwords has led to proposals for Federated Identity systems, where a single set of credentials can be used to authenticate with several organisations, which have agreed to work together as a federation. 

This white paper examines how SAP customers improved B2B integration by implementing a cloud-based solution - SAP Information Interchange OnDemand - and the reasons, challenges, and benefits behind doing so. 

This white paper discusses the growing trend of using data integration to make large amounts of information a fully-accessible and useful part of your organization. Learn how this strategy can help manage organizational data and why performance is being used as the new benchmark for success.