Now that smart phones are being used by professionals in fields ranging from field service to customer care, evaluating and selecting the optimal device has become more challenging. Read this white paper for an in-depth look at which smart phone features make work easier and why ruggedness is a requirement. 

Real-time, global data updates have become a critical business requirement for financial-services firms. Quick reactions require near-instant access to data, risk analysis and deeper computational analysis for effective decision making. View this webcast to learn how to better manage ever-increasing data volumes and transaction rates. 

Today’s post and parcel organizations have been drastically affected in recent years by rising costs and shifting requirements. This white paper discusses an error-reducing solution that eliminates costly, advancement barring problems and can help the postal workforce experience increased efficiency and productivity. 

Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines the growing threat from smartphones being targeted by hackers and viruses as the devices are increasingly used for work. Hospitality giant Mitchells & Butlers talks about its migration to the cloud and the CIO of Airbus discusses his IT priorities and how he spends €500m a year on IT. 

Explosive data growth is causing storage costs to skyrocket, which is forcing IT organizations to look for more cost-effective archival and backup solutions. Oracle's StorageTek tape product family has maintained a market leadership position for many years and now includes the world's fastest and highest capacity tape drive. 

Watch this brief webcast to see how Group Credit Agricole of Moroccodeployed IBM XIV and halved response times, cut 6-hour batch runs down to 3.25 hours, and reduced administration. 

Through increased information visibility and data accuracy, Barclays Capital was able to mitigate exposure to operational and reputational risk. Read the entire case study now, compliments of Sybase. 

Your company’s success relies heavily on the quality of its core  business applications. Watch this webcast to see how Levi Strauss & Company cut costs and improved their operational efficiency with SAP’s application life cycle management solution (ALM). <br /><br /> 

BI empowers companies with the ability to offer products and services at the lowest cost and with the greatest amount of efficiency and productivity possible- while returning the highest revenues and profits. Learn how BI can help you to establish a culture of measurement and begin a powerful cycle of continued improvement within your organization. 

Following on from the first cycle of research carried out in February 2011, this r e-run of the next generation datacentre research covered 10 regions to identify what progress organisations have made in preparing to adapt to new IT architectures and approaches to computing. 

Utilizing the latest procurement technologies can help improve your supplier performance, produce better products and improve resource allocation. Read this editorial e-book to get expert advice on the latest procurement technologies for today’s manufacturers. 

You must ensure that the processes that move data from source to target systems run smoothly and quickly and that any errors are identified and resolved rapidly. This white paper takes a closer look at five common BI and ETL process management challenges that companies must address to deliver accurate data in a timely manner.