This report from Knowledge Peers and Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), reveals what leaders of Small and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBs) think of IT – its strategic value, its potential, and the changing way in which it is being used in their organisations. 

Learn how you can improve operating results by enabling managers to make fact-based, data-driven decisions. 

Industry wide SOA rollouts have seen enterprises deploy critical supporting infrastructure around Web services security and Web services management. Forum Systems and Oracle Corporation "Secure SOA Infrastructure" is a market-leading solution that integrates software and hardware for mission critical SOA deployments. Find out more. 

This report from KPMG identifies business priorities across a wide range of geographies and industries, and assesses the economic outlook. 

In 30 minutes, we'll introduce you to QuickBase, the leading, hosted workgroup application platform. 

Download this report to learn how your organisation can use smart technology to drive innovation and enhance your competitive position, without breaking the bank. 

This week’s Computer Weekly examines the growing threat from smartphones being targeted by hackers and viruses as the devices are increasingly used for work. Hospitality giant Mitchells & Butlers talks about its migration to the cloud and the CIO of Airbus discusses his IT priorities and how he spends €500m a year on IT. 

Team interaction is an essential component of job success. Often, the creation of teams can lead to communication breakdown and conflict. Learn to identify positive versus negative conflict and how each can impact on your project. This paper also includes a behavioral quiz to help you determine the health of your team. 

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. 

David Cotterill, head of innovation at the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP), explains how he using social media to help drive innovation in this short presentation. 

This resource examines the challenges of big data in the enterprise, as well as the strategies and potential benefits for managing and understanding big data. 

Outsourcing is the quest to offload either commodity or very specialized activities, so that staff can focus on work that truly adds value to the business. 

Most IT budgets work on the basis that 70% of costs go on operations, and 30% on innovation – but many IT managers would prefer that ratio to be reversed. Servers are often seen as an operational burden requiring costly management time, so how can you free up cost and time to allow more of your server budget to be spent on innovation?