In this white paper IDC highlights the latest research about the evidence of the competitive differentiation to be gained from investment in BI and data warehousing. The paper highlights the need to view BI and data warehousing technologies as complementary components of a decision support solution. 

Juniper Research defines mobile banking as  “the provision of banking services to customers on their mobile devices”: specifically we mean in the vast majority of instances “the operation of bank current and deposit or savings accounts”. 

CIOs are more confident of securing technology budget increases than at any time in the last five years, according to the CIO Technology Survey 2012. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

This report from Accenture looks at the challenges facing the public sector in offering digital services. 

This report from Cisco provides insight into the mindset, expectations and behaviour of the world's next generation of workers and what this will mean for businesses in preparing to accommodate the demands of this workforce. 

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. 

This week’s Computer Weekly contains an exclusive interview with JP Morgan COO India Gary-Martin about juggling multiple legacy IT systems while keeping the merchant bank compliant. We also look at how near-field communications technology promises to revolutionise consumer spending and we ask whether 2012 could be the year that APM becomes vital? 

This report, Issue One: How Technology Marketers Meet Buyers' Appetite for Content is the first in the Connecting Through Content series, which explores content creation, distribution and lead nurturing through the dual marketers' and technology buyers' perspectives. 

The phrase “augmented reality” was coined by Boeing researcher Tom Caudell in the early 1990s to describe a digital display viewed through a headset  which guided workers through electrical wires in aircraft. The term has since gained currency and is now taken to describe digital information overlaid on the physical world. 

This paper examines the various benefits of using document sets. Document setsare an excellent solution that enables teams of users to handle multiple related documents as a group. All-in-all, document sets are designed to make your life easier from the perspective of maintaining and finding similar content. 

Customers are urgently looking for the WOW Effect to create awareness and transfer an innovative image. Most digital signage to date has been a video feed or a slide-show, where it is almost like a poster replacement. 

Condé Nast Digital manages the online presence for the content of digital magazines such as Vogue and Wired. Read this brief case study to learn about the application server they looked to when they wanted to improve the performance of their Java infrastructure.