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. 

Technology upgrades are a constant in any IT environment, often driven by the need for more capacity or a platform’s end of life. Over the past few years, IT shops have been upgrading to improve their return on investment (ROI) as well. Read this white paper to learn about new ways to maximize technology ROI through better operations management. 

Oracle’s Sun SPARC Enterprise servers are designed specifically as general-purpose application, database, data warehousing, and consolidation servers. They are especially suited to address the needs of enterprise datacenters, with a goal of increasing performance and flexibility while consolidating systems to reduce datacenter costs and complexity. 

This case study outlines the solution that Medtronic, the largest medical technology company in the world, selected for its ability to transfer large amounts of data from Excel to SAP while minimizing errors, ensuring that its SAP deployments were completed as smoothly as possible. Read this now and learn more about why Medtronic chose this option. 

Manual data entry can be cumbersome and time-consuming. This case study outlines how Wales and West Utilities selected a solution that streamlines SAP data loading and extraction in multiple business areas. Discover how it uploaded 750,000 transactions with an opportunity of saving 2,284 working days over the course of just six months. 

This edition of the CEM e-zine examines the role social media can play in your company. Learn how Major League Baseball is capitalizing on this revolution to fill its stands even during the darkest of times of the season, why Pinterest is such a success and how Dell measures it's social media success by tracking 22,000 daily online comments. 

The three main drivers of SaaS adoption-low initial cost of ownership, speed of deployment, and low internal IT resource profile-make SaaS solutions attractive at any time, but even more so in times of a challenging market, provided there is a bona fide business need and the initiative can be expected to create additional revenue or save money. 

In this third edition of the Customer Experience Exchange e-zine, Chris Maxcer delves into world of incorporating team-building activities into contact center agents' schedules, Vangie Beal discusses Dell's six-year investment in social media and Anna Fiorentino writes about why customer loyalty has dipped nearly 10%. 

USA Technologies sought a solution that offered better QA and testing to meet the expanding demand of transactions at its 48,000 point-of-sale, cashless micro-transaction machines. This paper outlines the solution it chose and how it offers an automated software load and elevated performance testing. Read this to learn more about its benefits. 

This white paper discusses the ways in which organizations are striving to maintain excellent customer service for all types of clients while at the same time controlling support costs. Read this white paper to learn more. 

With cloud computing rapidly increasing in popularity, businesses are look for solutions that further enhance cloud capabilities. Watch this brief video to learn about a flexible open-based solution that can save your business time and money while simultaneously enhancing your cloud experience. 

With the right intelligence and personal information, there are plenty of new opportunities for you to provide superior experience and maximize the opportunity of every customer touch point. This paper shares actionable strategies needed to deliver personalized and relevant content, based on a variety of factors.