In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the IT challenges facing retailers, as consumers turn increasingly to web and mobile shopping channels. Oracle president Mark Hurd talks about how the supplier intends to simplify IT infrastructures. And new government CIO Andy Nelson discusses how he plans to transform Whitehall IT. Read the issue now. 

This special eight-page indepent report from Computer Weekly, packed with graphs and diagrams, is essential reading for anyone doing business, or thinking of doing business with EMC. 

In this week’s Computer Weekly, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude talks about releasing government datasets to the public and why open data will drive the next industrial revolution. We also review the latest test version of Windows 8 and see how it shapes up for tablet computers and business users and much more. 

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. 

This special eight-page report from Computer Weekly analyses the challenges facing Microsoft, its financial performance, the services it offers, its place in the IT market and its future strategy. 

In this podcast, virtualization expert Anil Desai provides an easy-to-understand primer on virtualization that will quickly bring any listener up to speed on the topic. 

This week's Computer Weekly examines how the Football Association's IT director is using technology to help improve the prospects for the England national team. Our Buyer's Guide to government IT looks at the future of open source in the public sector and we report from Infosec 2012 on the rising number of cyber attacks. Read the issue now. 

<p>This case study follows one organization's approach to addressing their space, power, and cooling constraints. Explore the virtualization architecture they decided on and the key hardware, software, and service components that comprise it.</p> 

This exclusive research reveals what IT professionals really think about technology, their employers, and their careers 

The pressure to allow employees to use more of the technologies they have at home in the workplace has reached critical levels. 

Read how a growing IT service firm decreased its auditing time and gained $10 million in revenue growth after deploying a solution using Microsoft Dynamics SL. 

Despite being so important, the process to create the annual report, the 10-K and the 10-Q is still stuck in the Middle Ages. This paper explores the history of annual reporting, the process of manually creating the annual report, and how to bring this process into the 21st century. 

Using a Visual Data Analytics Platform to Monitor and Manage Positions/Exposures in Real-Time Firms that engage in financial trading are exposed to counterparty risk (i.e., credit risk), market risk, and operational risk.