This week’s Computer Weekly asks what chancellor George Osborne's Budget means for the UK IT community and if he can deliver his goal to make Britain "the technology centre of Europe". Also you'll find the final part of our private cloud Buyer's Guide and we examine the options for choosing the right WAN optimisation strategy. 

Use this resource as a guide to selecting an enterprise resource planning (ERP) platform within your budget without the headache. Additionally, learn how a small food seasonings producer cut through the clutter to find the right ERP system and get tips for reviewing and selecting a platform for you with limited IT resources. 

Read this Aberdeen Insight analyst report to learn how a good enterprise resource planning (ERP) strategy can make your software selection process a breeze. Find survey results on how companies approached their selection process and how ERP impacts a company's overall performance. 

Selecting a supplier for manufacturing ERP solutions is more important than ever before, due to the increasingly complex set of business processes involved.  Manufacturers now require the ability to share data in real time across all functional areas touching the manufacturing process. This paper takes a fresh look at manufacturing ERP options. 

During past economic slowdowns companies didn’t plan ahead to safeguard the ability to grow profitably. While the current economic downturn shows a need to reduce costs, many SMMs are also pursuing growth. They’re responding to market pressures and rising costs by targeting IT solutions like industry-specific ERP to set the stage for future growth. 

Access this brief white paper for a case study on how Load Trail improved its customer relationships and lowered labor costs with a new ERP software system. 

Due to an increased need for productivity in an ever-changing environment, more and more solution providers have turned to PSA tools to streamline operations and integrate third-party systems. In this expert e-Guide, sponsored by Autotask, you will be introduced to the advantages, concerns and available opportunities of key PSA functions. 

Read this white paper to learn how Newell Rubbermaid Inc. improved its use of the available-to-promise (ATP) functionality of the SAP enterprise resource planning (ER) application to better allocate inventory and determine what goods were available to customers, and create even greater supply chain efficiencies. 

The partnership with SAP gives VMware the opportunity to address an additional large segment of the enterprise market, and enables SAP to sell its products on the industry-leading virtualization platform. 

In an effort to decrease maintenance costs from its legacy payroll system, full service manufacturer Wisconsin Plastics, Inc. (WPI) chose to implement the payroll and time and attendance modules offered by its enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor. Read this case study to learn about the rapid return on investment that WPI experienced. 

<p>Read this presentation transcript to get an in-depth understanding of what fixed assets management is, why it’s getting so much attention lately, how it can help you improve your bottom line, and what your software and implementation options are.</p> 

<p>This report examines the business benefits Unified Communications (UC) can bring to your business and how your extended internal stakeholders – and your budget – can benefit from a broader UC strategy.</p>