Organizations running mature SAP or Oracle applications experience significant ongoing savings from third-party support.  Nucleus found Rimini Street customers can reduce their annual license maintenance fees by at least 50 percent and avoid upgrade costs while extending the value of their software investment. 

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? 

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

Dolphin’s Content Archive Service for Cloud lets SAP users use Storage as a Service as an ArchiveLink repository. The service allows a direct connection from the SAP archiving layer to major public cloud provider. It’s an option that makes sense for any organization, whether or not you are running other SAP solutions in the cloud. 

This white paper examines the real power of the Cisco ASA and its ability to combine variationsof NAT and PAT in advanced configurations. It also discusses both basic and advanced implementation examples and their relevant uses. 

The recent surge in cyber attacks has forced organisations to align cyber security efforts across all of their operations, rather than focusing on IT, but CEOs now need to take the lead in protecting their organisations, this report from PwC argues. 

Project management performance is improving but the environment is increasingly challenging. This final report from the ComputerWeekly Project/Programme Management Survey details the state of the art and offers insights and recommendations for greater project success. 

Building private or enterprise clouds eliminates the concerns over control, compliance and privacy which come along with using the public cloud. This white paper will discuss the advantages of enterprise clouds, the optimal infrastructure for supporting cloud services, determining what you need in a new server, and more. 

Learn how to leverage and extend the value of security intelligence to automate risk management functions in mission critical areas including network and security configuration, compliance management and vulnerability assessment. View now to uncover 5 steps to proactive risk management to change your security posture from reactive to predictive. 

By using the Oracle Exadata Database Machine as a data warehouse platform you have a balanced, high performance hardware configuration. This paper focuses on the other two corner stones, data modeling and data loading, providing a set of best practices and examples for deploying a data warehouse on the Oracle Exadata Database Machine. 

This paper is an introduction to the Oracle Optimized Solution for Lifecycle Content Management, which offers integrated content management, tiered storage, and archival1. Included is a discussion of the business needs for an integrated solution and the value of implementing such a strategy. 

<p>Many firms are now planning to run mission critical workloads on public cloud, according to this research from Forrester and BMC.</p>