This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

The latest trends, market research and analysis, on handheld PCs, smartphones, and the mobile payment market from KPMG. 

This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services. 

USA Technologies sought a solution that offered better QA and testing to meet the expanding demand of transactions at its 48,000 point-of-sale, cashless micro-transaction machines. This paper outlines the solution it chose and how it offers an automated software load and elevated performance testing. Read this to learn more about its benefits. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

Bonus payments have long been a feature of the reward package for most IT professionals, but when the UKeconomy went into freefall during late 2008, many employers either reduced such payments or did away withthem altogether. 

Managing the performance of mobile applications presents a new challenge for IT teams. Read this white paper to learn why mobile application performance monitoring is uniquely challenging and discover the tools you'll need for effective mobile management. 

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. 

This whitepaper aims to help you realize the essentials for monitoring, analyzing, and optimizing in today’s IP networks and how a network performance monitoring and analysis solution can help you get the job done. 

Daunted by the possibility of management, mobility, and performance issues, many organisations have been reluctant to deploy desktop virtualisation. This white paper explores the concept behind Intelligent Desktop Virtualisation (IDV) and explains how it can address these and other concerns without a significant infrastructure investment. 

This document presents a reference architecture and additional controls needed to address the three cloud challenges to achieve PCI compliance. 

This SearchSQLServer.com E-Guide offers expert insight about what organizations can do to improve the performance of their BI system and new ways to improve BI performance and scalability. In addition, you'll learn how to meet BI performance challenges. 

A recent ESG survey indicates that "increased use of server virtualization" is the number one IT priority for the next 12-18 months. Access this white paper for a summary of ESG testing results that reveal what infrastructure features can help you virtualize your tier-1 applications with confidence and move closer to a 100% virtualized data center.