In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more. 

This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations. 

View this resource center to learn why many organizations are considered packaged services for delivering the software they need to run their mission-critical business processes while focusing limited resources on business outcomes as opposed to software project requirements. 

Siemens product lifecycle management (PLM) software for the consumer packaged goods and food and beverage industries enables companies to optimize package design and accelerate innovation while reducing costs. 

Most organizations strive for efficiency because it ties to cost savings and better performance, while helping to anchor competitive advantages. However, improving efficiency requires organizations to continually seek new methods of managing increasingly complex business processes. 

Read this paper for an explanation of how current IT methodology for implementing application integrations and business process automation is failing the business over the long run. Learn about the four established patterns of innovation that help organizations avoid these negative consequences. 

IT is challenged to meet rising business expectations while managing increasing infrastructure complexity at the lowest cost possible, and generic IT processes are no longer effective. 

Enteo has developed a full set of integrated products to manage each step in the system lifecycle; together, they comprise the most efficient solution portfolio in the area of system management today. 

This brief paper outlines how Cognos FSR automates and streamlines the financial statement reporting (FSR) production process by gathering and connecting information from a variety of sources to construct an application database of all of your data. Learn how to overcome the challenges of scalability, process accuracy, increased workloads and more. 

<p><strong>High-tech companies face challenges keeping pace with new</strong> <strong>cloud-based business models, this study from Accenture reveals.</strong></p> 

As businesses build the optimized data center, VMware vSphere can deliver consolidation as well as cost effective business continuity, disaster recovery, and high availability for mass application adoption with packaging and pricing that matches individual market segments. Read this paper to learn more. 

The approach to end-of-life compliance that many manufacturers are taking today will not scale with the rapid growth and increased complexity of regulations and industry or supply chain requirements. Read this paper to discover the benefits of best-in-class approaches to environmental management programmes and the systems need to support them.