This webcast featuring Wayne Eckerson, BI expert and Director of Research for Business Application and Architecture at TechTarget, examines how BI tools will balance top-down, metrics-reporting with bottom-up, ad hoc analysis in a user friendly manner that delivers fast performance while securing information consistency. 

Despite well-publicised concerns regarding security, compliance and data integration issues, banking institutions have begun embracing cloud computing across the services spectrum. 

Access this exclusive research report to understand how CFO’s and CIO’s around the world view cloud computing and learn how they are planning to implement this technology into their organization. Learn how you can leverage the cloud to reduce costs, become more responsive to customers, and improve scalability. 

As businesses embrace the digital revolution, they're rethinking what customers value most and creating operating models that take advantage of what’s newly possible for competitive differentiation. This report is designed to provide senior executives with analysis and insight on how fast and how far to go on the path to digital transformation. 

Findings of the Web Lead Evaluation and Scoring Study, conducted by KnowledgeStorm and The Artemis Group, suggest companies using the Internet to generate leads might discover that focusing on the C-suite is not the fastest route to improved lead-to-close ratios. Listen to this podcast to find out why. 

The Economist Intelligence Unit reviews changing expectations for technology and assesses their implications for  CIOs, the IT function and the business. 

This report, the third in a series of studies examining the impact that emerging online media have on B2B technology marketing, shows how three mainstays of the Web 2.0 culture are evolving into B2B information delivery tools: Online video, Social networks and Wikis. 

Check out this brief videocast to learn the top reasons enterprises are adopting cloud computing technology. Discover how the cloud satisfies key business needs, such as fast time to market, high flexibility, and significant cost-savings. 

In February 2008, CFO Research Services, a unit of CFO Publishing and part of The Economist Group, began a research project with Business Objects, an SAP company, asking senior finance executives to give views on their priorities and challenges around integrating operational and financial planning processes. 

In order to combat the ever-evolving challenges of today’s networks, it’s time to head back to school in our exclusive Network Evolution University – Featuring three distinct classes and nine progressive learning lessons that explore all there is to know about next generation networks and how to overcome the challenges they present. 

In this week's issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key technologies that retailers are turning to for IT-enabling customers' Christmas shopping. We examine research revealing the huge cost of application software that fails to meet requirements; and we talk to one of the pioneers of agile software development. Download the new issue now. 

In order to analyze the cost of deploying and managing an email system, Osterman Research undertook a primary and secondary research program. This data was then combined with secondary research in order to develop a cost model that compares MDaemon and Microsoft Exchange. Read on to see how the results may impact your own decision.