Gartner analysts, William Clark, David W Cearley and Avivah Litan, explain how business can exploit context-aware computing and social media. 

The promise of creating value by harnessing collective activities is attractingorganisations to technology that connects employees, engages customers and partners inconversation, or boosts their R&D through crowdsourcing initiatives. 

Read this now to learn how single-view software could enhance your customer relationship interactions with more insightful data. 

In this article, Kaplan, of Harvard Business School, and Norton, founder and director of the Palladium Group, explain how to effectively manage both strategy and operations by linking them tightly in a closed-loop management system, which comprises five stages. 

Read these articles to create a framework for stating your company's case for implementing a data governance strategy. 

This case study provides insight into a business products company that needed to find a way to integrate their e-commerce strategy with their existing enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Learn how they were able to seamlessly manage their order statuses, histories, customer items, and more alongside their ERP software. 

The demand for greater ecommerce capabilities is growing leading CIOs and IT professionals concerned with choosing the perfect vendor. Through this in-depth vendor analysis by Gartner, uncover the top 6 questions you should ask and the strengths and weaknesses of the top 20 e-commerce vendors. 

<p>This e-guide features editorial articles with insight from IT industry consultants and technology professionals on the importance of data quality as well as advice for ensuring a successful program.</p> 

<p>Gain insight into Google’s new privacy policy and what changes you will need to make for continued data protection. Also, discover tips to help you recognise and prevent a PC scam.</p> 

This paper discusses the improved functions of portals, specifically SAP NetWeaver, and how you can make the most of them within the enterprise. 

This expert resource from Gartner examines integration brokerage and how it can apply to a variety of integration problems. 

This e-guide features two shop-floor quality-control articles from our award-winning editorial team. Read on to learn critical advice for increasing your manufacturing without compromising compliance or quality. 

Supply chains are the blood of your business - incredibly complex, yet vital to your success. This paper explores the relationship between partners and processes and the need to enable electronic data exchange with all your suppliers. Read this to learn about the limitations of traditional integration methods and new options that enable e-commerce.