The commercial potential of cloud computing and cloud services is widely accepted, both in private industry and in the public sector.  The opportunities for cost reduction and efficiency in the UK public sector are real and achievable, but require significant changes to procurement practices, delivery frameworks and across the supplierlandscape. 

ArcGIS® 10 is an innovative geographic information system (GIS) technology. 

While email has become the most commonly used form of commercial communication, there are a number of inherent legal and security risks. In this resource explore the regulatory regime in the EU and United Kingdom relating to the use and storage of emails, and the legal consequences from unintentional or deliberate misuse. 

This engineering services company engages in global underwater recovery operations. Learn how it uses modern systems to maintain accurate financial data and estimate costs for clients in the commercial and government sectors. 

Over the course of 2010 and 2011, Forrester Research spoke to hundreds of customers about their enterprise service bus (ESB) activities, and conducted briefings and demonstration reviews as well as over twenty customer interviews to evaluate five commercial and four open source ESB product vendors. Access this paper to examine Forrester's findings. 

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. 

Automated order management software can be expensive and complex to implement. Read this white paper to learn how leveraging SaaS for order processing automation can save you time and money. 

This white paper takes an exclusive look at how pharmaceutical and medical device companies are overcoming their order processes challenges by making smart use of their technology, understanding the true cost of manual transactions, and automating their processes. 

This paper examines an array of solutions for SAP customers to optimize the Order-to-Cash processes in ways that contain costs and achieve optimum organizational efficiency, high customer retention and successful cash management. 

Read this exert e-guide to learn how to avoid the pitfalls of SAP sales order management that all too often lead to data confusion. 

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. 

In this expert e-guide, readers will learn about pitfalls to avoid in order management, as well as how to take advantage of financial tools within the system.