This independent report from analysts, Nucleus Research offers a critical assessment of Oracle’s Cloud Services. 

Organisations can earn an incremental ROI of 241 percent by using big data technology to examine large and complex data sets, according to this report from Nucleus Research. 

Read this enlightening paper featuring research from IDC to learn more on the growing trend of predictive analytics, including how it differs from non-predictive business analytics projects. Also discover some of the changes in IDC research over the past eight years as well as some of the additional benefits from predictive analytics projects. 

This expert white paper from Forrester Research discusses how the role of the sales person has changed in today's digital world and the four types of salespeople in the 21st century. 

Nucleus Research assesses Microsoft’s plans to extend  and develop the Microsoft Dynamics CRM platform. 

Watch this webcast as Forrester's Scott Santucci explores the new sales paradigm and discusses how businesses must alter their selling models. Also discover what the real value of a sales force is today, what today's sales person looks like and what a 'selling system' is and how it helps increase the productivity of the sales person of the future. 

How can you identify the hosting company that's right for you? What are the business risks? What questions should you ask? Get the facts in this interview with Phil Shih, a research analyst at Tier1 Research, who covers consumer... 

Do you ever wonder how potential buyers view the strategic approaches and tactics you commonly use to entice them? In this Webcast, KnowledgeStorm and SiriusDecisions present the results of a new research study that examine the efficacy of demand creation. 

Cloud computing uses 91 percent less energy than traditional on-premise applications. Nucleus evaluated Salesforce.com's customer base and found that cloud computing drives more than just significant financial savings: the effective sharing of resources also generates a substantial green benefit. 

Retail consumers can now research purchases online and access customer support via social networking sites, and disgruntled consumers can now shop around on the Web and on mobile devices. Read this white paper to learn more about the drastically changing world of retail. 

Over the course of several months in 2011, IDC conducted a research study to identify the opportunities and challenges to adoption of a new technology that changes the way in which traditional business solutions are implemented and used. The results of the study are presented in this white paper. 

This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

This white paper examines how SAP customers improved B2B integration by implementing a cloud-based solution - SAP Information Interchange OnDemand - and the reasons, challenges, and benefits behind doing so.