This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security. 

In this brief white paper, Jeff Martin, Station Casinos’ director of business intelligence (BI), provides specific examples of the types of problems that the company wanted to solve, and offers insight into the specific job scheduling solution it selected to overcome its challenges. 

View this brief video to learn how the University of Cincinnati is becoming more cost-effective and better serving its students by distributing its dollars to the programs that need it through the budgetary visibility that SAP software gives them. 

This e-guide provides two articles from our award-winning editorial team on how to overcome data governance program issues and best practices for applying on-going data governance tactics. 

Network Rail’s CIO, Susan Cooklin, says her biggest challenge is increasing the business literacy of her IT staff. She said the rail company faces a period of restructuring and budget pressures. 

Read this white paper to get an overview of the Oracle Database family of products and learn how you can transform your business, budgets, and service levels with Oracle Database 11g Release 2. 

With shrinking budgets and a number of employees set to retire, federal HR directors are having trouble with workforce planning. This white paper discusses how cloud-based workforce analytics and planning technologies can resolve these issues and help you regain control of workforce management. 

This paper explains how the HP Oracle Accelerate program benefits customers by providing a complete solution with an effective delivery mechanism that speeds deployment and improves business processes. 

<p>Oracle customers, TransUnion, CMC Markets, Diamond Resorts International and National Marrow Donor Program, discuss defense-in-depth database security with data encryption, privileged user access control, data masking, and consolidated auditing and reporting.</p> 

This expert e-guide explores the existing conditions that should spur the creation of a data governance initiative as well as the teams that should be involved in building it. Read this now and also gain a clear understanding of why data retention is imperative to your business and why it deserves the utmost attention from the proper stakeholders. 

This white paper highlights some of the issues that reduce or increase the effectiveness of customer loyalty programs and suggests a solution that offers tips for building a more loyal customer base. 

SQL Server database administrators (DBAs) are often asked to fix performance problems without being given  sufficient training, time or budget. Read this paper to discover three straightforward workaround strategies to use as well as guidelines for fine-tuning your application efficiency that will improve your SQL Server performance. 

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