In February, 2009, Microsoft released their next major release, designated as R2, to their IP PBX product Office Communications Server (OCS) 2007. Several great features and enhancements to Microsoft's existing product make OCS 2007 R2 a significant contender in the Unified Communications (UC) marketplace. 

<p>This white paper offers an overview of key considerations for implementing a strategy to automate fax and email orders (plus EDI, web and other order sources) into your enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.</p> 

Read this brief paper and learn how IBM Cognos can lead finance teams into the next generation by offering driver-based budgeting with vastly shorter planning cycles, flexible rolling forecasts, faster and more reliable financial close and consolidation, tighter control over operational performance, swifter reporting capabilities and so much more. 

Pitney Bowes MapInfo® location intelligence solutions enable Time Warner Cable to more quickly and accurately identify new customers and increase sales. 

The tech chasm that has allegedly formed in the workforce created by a cross-generational 1divide  – between those who grew-up with technology and those that didn’t – is vastly overstated. 

Design teams across the world collaborate to create and develop prod­ucts. Unfortunately, IT organizations face serious challenges when collaborative teams share large files. This white paper will assess the strengths and weaknesses of the four technologies most commonly used to enhance file sharing for distributed teams. 

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. 

Read this white paper to explore 5 key strategies to enhance customer satisfaction and discover how to leverage enterprise resource planning (ERP) technology to meet this objective. 

This week’s Computer Weekly, we talk exclusively to Tesco CIO Mike McNamara about why the UK's biggest retailer is spending £150m on its online business. And, with the London 2012 Olympics only weeks away; we look at how IT testing is progressing. 

This edition of BI Trends and Strategies opens with a piece by Lou Agosta on the need for data warehouses to adapt to new data types, innovation and big data. Alan R. Earls also offers advice for incorporating spreadsheets into your BI programs without problems and Richard Herschel calls for universities to step up their BI and analytics programs.