As budgets stay tight and finance professionals become more involved in technology buying decisions, be better prepared to defend your business case through the use of financial metrics and Return on Investment (ROI) calculators. 

This report discusses content strategies and preferences from the unique perspectives of both the B2B technology buyers and marketers. 

Adding mobile access and social collaboration to CRM delivers significant benefits, this report from Nucleus Research reveals. 

Organisations can earn an incremental ROI of 241 percent by using big data technology to examine large and complex data sets, according to this report from Nucleus Research. 

Energy saving is just one of the benefits of better data center management – but it is the current hot topic that can trigger a CEO to scrutinize the data center. Many CIOs are staying ahead of the curve with better data center infrustructure management (DCIM) technology. To learn more, download this white paper by industry experts CITO Research. 

In this podcast, Ray Wang, Vice President at Forrester Research, offers insight on how to build a business case for enterprise resource planning (ERP) during the economic downturn - and save money in the process. 

This buyer case study presents a medical center's deployment and use of NetApp Syncsort Integrated Backup. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation 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”. 

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

Cloud computing uses 91 percent less energy than traditional on-premise applications. Nucleus evaluated Salesforce.com's customer base and found that cloud computing drives more than just significant financial savings: the effective sharing of resources also generates a substantial green benefit. 

This research brief examines the outlook for cloud adoption in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) based on market research conducted among IT decision-makers. 

Microsoft has turned its Dutch headquarters into a radical experiment which the company believes could point the way to the future of the workplace. Its office at Schiphol airport has done away with dedicated desks and offices and it has given employees the freedom to chose where, when and how they work.