<p>There is a growing recognition that rather than being a distraction or a time drain, social tools could hold the key to a more productive way of doing business, this report from Google argues.</p> 

Social content is now as much a part of businesses today as their employees. Managing it is essential to your success. How organizations go about this varies. This paper offers a clearer understanding of the benefits of social business systems. Discover how best to govern your social content to exploit it for the maximum long-term benefit. 

Read this expert paper now as business intelligence (BI) visionary Wayne Eckerson evaluates the role of collaboration in a BI environment and offers up results from a survey of BI professionals about their growing interest in and adoption of collaborative capabilities. 

Sun GlassFish ESB has been designed to catalyze a lightweight business integration deployment project. It offers a "fit-to-purpose" mix of features, functionality, extensibility, and support at the best cost possible, with minimal overheads for development</p> 

Borrowed from the Japa nese term for “chatter,” pecha kuchahas been praised as the new way to communicate in business. 

This nine-page Buyer's Guide to Customer Relationsip Management (CRM) analyses the factors CIOs and senior IT professionals will need to consider as they plan their CRM strategies. 

This document compares the pricing of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops (RHEV) with the pricing of VMware View 5 for desktop virtualization. Access a detailed price comparison for the use cases of 100 virtual desktops. 

Following nine other surveys, the BI Survey 10 analyzed the platforms of six of the largest BI vendors and asked 2,961 organizations across 80 countries many of the same questions as previous years. Read this now and learn how organizations view certain aspects of their BI tools, such as response time, performance, business benefits and more. 

Big businesses are planning to grow their mainframe computer capacity despite the downturn  this survey of 1,347 large mainframe users worldwide by BMC Software reveals. 

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

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

Rising security breaches cost UK billions over the last 12 months as cyber attacks reached record levels, according to the 2012 Information Security Breaches survey.