This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

Download the Oracle CRM White Paper, "Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer," to learn how you can deploy several best practices to achieve unparalleled sales success in your organization. 

One of the biggest dangers in establishing best practices for your contact center is to do so in isolation from your self-service stakeholders. Instead, all customer "touch-points" must be viewed as part of a continuum. Customer touch points include Web Self-Service, Interactive Voice Response, Contact Center Agents, and Face-to-Face transactions. 

Loyal customers are the lifeblood of a business. Read this paper for a discussion, given by executives Don Peppers and Melissa Boxer, of the four key principles of success in gaining customer loyalty. 

This paper explains how ProStrategy Colman, an IBM Business Partner, helped BMR become the first company in Europe to implement IBM Cognos Express – an all-in-one business intelligence and planning solution designed for mid-sized companies. Continue reading to learn how BMR toned up its sales performance with advanced analytics. 

Read this now to learn how single-view software could enhance your customer relationship interactions with more insightful data. 

This white paper examines research that reveals how sales and marketing professionals who use collaboration and Sales 2.0 tools gain a competitive advantage over their peers who do not use them. 

This white paper will expand on what Oracle defines as Complete CRM – how businesses can better engage customers and users, manage customer transactions, and analyze results to adapt and take advantage of changing business and economic circumstances to realize greater value from CRM. 

CPG companies are discovering that high product volume sales come at the expense of extreme data complexity. Companies struggle to maintain open lines of communication with retail customers and distributors trying to manage the flow of product. Learn how CPG companies deliver BI to business managers to better manage fluctuating product demand. 

Interactions between partners, customers, and employees are much faster-paced in our highly-networked world. It is important that CRM solutions understand these relationships. Watch this video to learn strategies for CRM evolution. 

In seven simple steps, eBusiness, customer experience and contact center professionals can right channel online customer service inquiries, boosting sales and customer satisfaction while reducing customer service costs by delivering the right information and service to the right customer at the right time. 

Effective negotiations and management of telecom contracts can have a measurable impact on a business’ financial performance. 

Read this white paper to learn how investing in a new loyalty solution or improving your existing one will enable you to truly differentiate your business around the customer experience and drive lasting relationships.