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. 

This case study provides insight into a business products company that needed to find a way to integrate their e-commerce strategy with their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Learn how they were able to seamlessly manage their order statuses, histories, customer items, and more alongside their ERP software. 

E-sellers must personalize their customer interactions. Recent studies show that personalization is a highly effective method for increasing consumer lifetime value for online sellers. It can have a direct and positive impact on the core metrics that make up e-commerce success: loyalty, conversion, retention, and average order size. 

This paper offers ten considerations to help guide the selection criteria for your next e-commerce platform - which should ideally be the last e-commerce platform you would ever need to buy. Continue reading to learn these two technical considerations for evaluating e-commerce platforms. 

This paper discusses the improved functions of portals, specifically SAP NetWeaver, and how you can make the most of them within the enterprise. 

CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

This report, the second in a series of studies looking at the impact emerging online applications have on B2B technology marketing, finds that blogs and Real Simple Syndication (RSS) are catching on more quickly than previously thought. 

This quarters figures compiled by jobadswatch.co.uk show that during the fourth quarter of2010 the IT jobs market for permanent staff being recruited by retail organisations is up by5.1%.The growth indemand for IT staff in this sector shows 44.5% more vacancies being advertised than ayear ago. 

This perspective paper covers the forces that are driving the m-commerce market, the benefits available, and the kinds of business models and partnerships that are seeking to achieve that credible scale over time. 

Supply chains are the blood of your business - incredibly complex, yet vital to your success. This paper explores the relationship between partners and processes and the need to enable electronic data exchange with all your suppliers. Read this to learn about the limitations of traditional integration methods and new options that enable e-commerce. 

In this paper, you’ll find more details about the trends driving online marketing and advice on how to develop your online marketing strategy to reach goals and deliver maximum value from Web initiatives. 

Rising volumes of e-commerce transactions. Stringent data retention mandates. Increasing numbers of business productivity applications. Oracle Database 11g and Oracle’s Sun storage solutions seamlessly integrate industry-leading database and multitier storage solutions with the management capabilities you need to keep on top of it all.