This report from Deloitte argues businesses are again investing in IT to provide the differentiation and innovation critical from their competitors despite the downturn. 

This article from IndustryWeek features advice on streamlining your business for leaner operations. 

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. 

Every two years, one of the biggest events in the UK fundraising calendar is Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day. In 2009 the charity implemented the Riverbed Stingray Traffic Manager to make sure its web and donation platforms could scale up to handle vast peaks of website traffic. 

Content provided by Google. When it comes to cloud computing, some companies have concerns around security and a perceived loss of control. But others are grabbing the opportunity to move to a more collaborative, Web-based platform. In this E-Book, we take a look at several companies that have migrated to Google Apps. 

Learn how to manage your electronic tools before they manage you. This paper will teach you how to properly utilize your office technologies and set effective communication rules with your project team. 

The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more. 

Content provided by Google. This report presents a spreadsheet cost model to help you calculate your fully loaded on-premise email costs and compare it against cloud-based alternatives. Bottom line: Cloud-based email makes sense for companies or divisions as large as 15,000 users. 

In this white paper, we will discuss how SharePoint workflows work and how you can implement them to im­prove existing business processes. We will look at the existing predefined workflows that come with SharePoint and you will see how to create your own using the SharePoint Designer. 

In 30 minutes, we'll introduce you to QuickBase, the leading, hosted workgroup application platform. 

In this paper we discuss an emerging direction for Intel® vPro™ technology called Dynamic Virtual Client (DVC) computing. This article examines emerging computing usages and identifies key gaps and challenges associated with realizing client virtualization. 

How can you tell if your organization is ready for an enterprise resource planning (ERP) software implementation? Read this guide for advice on how to know if choosing ERP is the right strategy for you and get answers to the three most important questions you should address before you select an ERP vendor.