The tool of choice to the highly mobile workforce is the  mobile phone. From customer contact and records keeping, through calendaring and scheduling to mapping and news feeds, the  mobile phone is usurping the laptop as the main point of technology for the road warrior. 

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. 

Juniper Research defines mobile banking as  “the provision of banking services to customers on their mobile devices”: specifically we mean in the vast majority of instances “the operation of bank current and deposit or savings accounts”. 

Economies of scale, flexibility and costreduction – cloud advocates have made sure that we are familiar with these potential benefits, even if we have yet to agree on an exact definition of cloud computing. But doubters argue that none of these benefits will actually be available unless some fundamental security issues can be overcome. 

This paper outlines the critical requirements - reliability and availability, scalability, security, and performance - of an SMB messaging environment and describes and end-to-end messaging solution that meets those requirements. 

This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available. 

More IT pros are looking to introduce a cloud infrastructure to their organization. However, as the definition and its potential benefits have morphed over time, knowing exactly what this technology offers is not always easy. This white paper highlights cloud computing to help you better evaluate this technology. Learn more here. 

With a transition to new endpoints, capabilities and services, changes are on thehorizon for videoconferencing, and the emphasis is now shifting to improvingendpoint coverage and adding reach. 

This case study illustrates how Sun World International, a mid-sized grower in California, shifted its competitive strategy to capitalize on analytics and gain real-time insight into the competitive market. Learn how it gained a 5% reduction in harvesting costs, a 20% reduction in fuel usage and an eight-fold increase in profit per acre. 

<p>Read this white paper to learn why you should always have an effective requirements definition before you begin any kind of software development. Use this paper as a guideline to learning how to create an effective outline of expectations, how to put them into action, and the benefits you’ll reap at the end of the process.</p>