Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more. 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

This brief paper outlines how Cognos FSR automates and streamlines the financial statement reporting (FSR) production process by gathering and connecting information from a variety of sources to construct an application database of all of your data. Learn how to overcome the challenges of scalability, process accuracy, increased workloads and more. 

In order for Intel to create the infrastructure for their private enterprise cloud, Intel IT has set a goal of virtualizing up to 75 percent of their Office and Enterprise computing environment. This presents the challenge of how to rapidly virtualize thousands of servers located across Intel and owned by a variety of Intel business groups. 

This report from analyst, Freeform Dynamics, offers 7 key enablers of effective IT disaster recovery for IT department's in small and medium companies. 

This white paper presents a cost/benefit analysis of VDI based on research, surveys, benchmarks, and analyst reviews. Find out how this architecture compares to traditional PCs and obtain key findings and best practices for success. 

The challenge for Chief Compliance Officers is to understand the risks associated with each of these three drivers of compliance and how they can be mitigated. Read this paper to find out more. 

The UK public sector is in the midst of a period of transformation and improving citizen engagement will be key to the success of this change. 

The Jericho Forum has been described in a crude way as ‘those people who want to get rid offirewalls’. That’s not strictly accurate – Jericho believes that protection should be appliedclose to data (JFC#1, JFC#9)1, and that firewalls should just be ‘quality of serviceseparators’. 

This strategy guide will help IT decision-makers understand how converged infrastructure will facilitate such essential tasks as network support, stretching data storage resources, automating operations and streamlining systems management. 

To create the infrastructure for a private enterprise cloud, Intel IT has set a goal of virtualizing up to 75 percent of its office and enterprise computing environments. To achieve this goal, Intel IT will need to virtualize mission-critical applications, which is challenging due to rigorous performance, availability, and other requirements. 

This Strategic Outline Business Case sets out the opportunity to reduce costs and enhance flexibility of centralised ICT services, covering both information services delivered to citizens and staff, and the underpinning technical and physical Data Centre infrastructure.