Global Knowledge keeps up to date with trends in IT careers, certifications, and compensation. In this, our inaugural quarterly report, we offer a look at salaries for the top 25 IT jobs, organized by region. We also offer a look at the top certifications and in-depth analysis from our resident market research analyst. 

Each year, organizations across the globe face astronomical project failure rates, often wasting millions of dollars per failed project. This paper examines the roots of project failure and centers in on the elusive, often undefined role of the business analyst. 

In this week’s issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key trends and technologies that will be on IT leaders’ agenda in 2012. Our first Buyer’s Guide of the year examines how IT consumerisation will affect business technology; and Home Office IT director Denise McDonagh tells us why government IT isn’t working. Download the new issue now. 

In this transcript of the webcast, TIBCO Spotfire's John Callan will discuss how you can perform Total Spend Analysis to help drive supplier consolidation, contract compliance and identify maverick spend in a user-friendly, visual analysis environment. 

Four leading European law firms help you navigate the legal maze when using social media for recruitment in France, Germany, UK and Italy.   

In this paper, IDC analyzes the role of next-generation mobile enterprise platforms as organizations seek a more strategic deployment of mobile solutions, and analyzes why mobility is important to enterprise customers. This paper will also identify vital criteria for choosing a next-generation platform. 

This special Computer Weekly report analyses the market for supercomputers, peripherals and applications, the supercomputer community, developments in technology, and offers a country by country comparison. 

Stratus needed to address 3 key needs: Salesforce.com integration; user access through a familiar Outlook interface; and full self-service visibility for salespeople. The SpringCM Contract Accelerator for Salesforce.com enables Stratus' sales teams to collaborate, share best practices and to streamline contract negotiation and approval processes. 

Your cloud architecture depends on solid storage solutions. This paper provides step-by-step instructions to set up and evaluate the two most common block-level storage protocols, fibre channel over Ethernet (FCoE), and Internet small computer system interface (iSCSI), run over 10GbE from end-to-end. 

This white paper explains a structured way to manage requirements and how risk-based requirements and quality management are inseparable from the larger process of managing the planning, test and release of a software system. 

This paper provides answers to basic questions relating to the management of outsourced development and maintenance. What is the metrics approach to managing sub-contractors? What is the quality of the code expected to be that has been developed by the sub-contractor? Read on for the answers to these and other important considerations. 

How well-versed are you in the three key areas of contract lifecycle management (CLM) that will give you the visibility to control your contracts and comply with regulations? Take this quick quiz to determine your contract competency and understand whether a CLM solution would benefit your organization.