In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

With the acquisition of Sun, Oracle now provides Oracle Optimized Solutions: a complete applications to disk solution engineered, tested, and certified to work together as a single system. Read this white paper to learn more about Oracle Optimized Solutions and how they can be used to improve Oracle E-Business Suite operations. 

As outsourcing, global commerce and constantly improving technologycontinue to change the business world, specialized professionals like scientists,engineers and information technology (IT) workers are increasingly beingasked to take on more business-oriented tasks. 

Enterprise analysis by a Business Analyst (BA) is a method used to identify and define why an organizational change is needed. Read this whitepaper to learn the importance of this process to an organization. 

This white paper will expand on what Oracle defines as Complete CRM – how businesses can better engage customers and users, manage customer transactions, and analyze results to adapt and take advantage of changing business and economic circumstances to realize greater value from CRM. 

For many years network administrators have expected security breaches to come from outside an organization or at the upper layers of the OSI model. This paper will focus on securing layer 2 switching at the access layer through port security and preventing denial of service (DoS) attacks at layer 2. 

As a consequence of tightening budgets and increasing uncertainties, government organizations are looking at how to leverage cloud computing as a model to ensure greater flexibility, lower costs, more-rapid provisioning and greater focus on areas that are more domain-specific. 

This white paper explores the hazards of application sprawl, and how using the strategy of rationalization - the process of identifying software which no longer provides business benefits to justify maintaining it - can reduce complexity, cut costs, and dramatically increase organizational agility. 

Read this white paper to learn how to integrate your operations into a new structure acquired through mergers and acquisitions; align your IT operations into a single platform; enhance customer service; increase the productivity of your global workforce; and bolster supply chain efficiency. 

High turnovers and a changing marketplace are forcing companies in the retail sector to rethink the way they conduct their business. Many are turning to training and talent management as a means to drive organizational success. Read this white paper to learn more about this strategy and how it can benefit your business. 

This brief paper discusses why business intelligence and corporate performance management are critical capabilities of overall performance management. 

This paper presents an overview of strategies and practices for governing the transformation to, and the evolution of, SOA.