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. 

This paper outlines how one specific business intelligence (BI) platform can benefit your financial organization. Read this now and learn how CFO dashboards can be used to measure, monitor and optimize banking performance, why creating a risk intelligent enterprise is critical, how to efficiently manage customers and investments and so much more. 

This white paper details five actual business rule management systems deployments, providing a before and after view for each credit and lending application. 

This guide from Sybase is full of examples of mCommerce at work. The benefits range from speeding up economies to life-changing improvements. For merchants, operators and banks, the new channel offers another way to grow business and revenues while meeting the financial needs of customers. 

This report from Aberdeen looks at how leading companies are using business intelligence (BI) to achieve superior performance in sales management, customer service and financial efficiency. Read how your organization can achieve similar performance by following specific steps and actions. 

<p>Fixed assets are extremely important components of your organization, so how well you manage them could have a strong impact on your business performance. In this expert resource, find seven questions and answers concerning best practices and proper management of your fixed assets.</p> 

In this white paper, find out how to realize the benefits of service catalogs by following ITIL guidelines and tips from organizations that have successfully implemented service catalogs. 

<p>Purchasing new hardware may seem counterintuitive to reducing data center power costs. But server upgrades can enable significant energy savings. Learn about various hardware configurations and their key performance characteristics here.</p> 

Tape remains the most cost effective, energy efficient and reliable program technology for storing large amounts of inactive, off-line or near-line data while complimenting disk-based data protection and retention solutions. Read this paper and find out why. 

This white paper highlights the importance of implementing a hybrid delivery strategy to your ever-changing IT service delivery model. Within, you’ll find key strategies for optimizing your IT resources to ensure ideal IT service delivery. 

There's potential for SAP Workflow to provide structure to a crazy mix of papers and financial forms at any company.  In this white paper, find out best practices to get the most out of the SAP Workflow experience. 

General-purpose PDAs and ruggedized enterprise mobile computers are made for separate markets, designed for different tasks, and vary by their size, weight and materials. But the biggest difference between these device types is their total cost of ownership (TCO). This white paper explains how your business can get TCO as low as possible. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security.