This brief paper outlines a solution that seamlessly synchronizes your customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) data to grant you timely access to the information you need to make pivotal and proper business decisions. 

This is the first in an annual series of reports highlighting trends in the structural quality of business applications regarding characteristics such as robustness, performance, securit y, and changeability. 

Cloud computing is one of the latest computer and business industry buzz words. This paper will discuss the definition of cloud computing, the public or external cloud, the private or internal cloud, the evolution of cloud computing and more. 

Here five things about Windows Server 2008 that are the less obvious, more esoteric, yet useful features or quirks. The following is a brief list of some things that I tend to assume that many people know, and I am constantly amazed by clients and students who really don't know them. How many do you already know? 

With a transition to new endpoints, capabilities and services, changes are on thehorizon for videoconferencing, and the emphasis is now shifting to improvingendpoint coverage and adding reach. 

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. 

KnowledgeStorm and The Artemis Group conducted an in-depth analysis of 15,452 Web leads generated by KnowledgeStorm. The objective of this study was to identify characteristics of Web leads that maximize sales opportunities and to debunk myths around what makes a good sales lead. 

The IBM Rational ALM value estimator illustrates how your organization can be positively impacted by the use of Rational software solutions as you manage your software development and delivery from definition to deployment. 

This resource examines how the New York Philharmonic digitized their enormous collections to provide universal online access with a robust, scalable document management system. 

The definition of a mobile payment is often open to interpretation and can differ from source to source.    Juniper Research has a simple definition of a mobile payment as “payment for goods or services with a mobile device such as a phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), or other such device.” 

Gain a better understanding of the modern definition of “tier-1” storage according to ESG and find out attributes and categorization required for your infrastructure to operate a modern data center. 

<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> 

<p>Read this white paper to learn why you should always have an effective requirements definition before you begin any kind of software development. Use this paper as a guideline to learning how to create an effective outline of expectations, how to put them into action, and the benefits you’ll reap at the end of the process.</p>