In this week's Computer Weekly, we take an in-depth look at HP's strategic shake-up, and ask what it means for the supplier's customers and the UK IT industry as a whole. We also discuss a major research study into why IT projects go wrong, and start our latest Buyer's Guide, about business intelligence. Download the new issue now. 

Reporting speed and accuracy are vital today. But it would be wrong to assume that you have to spend more to go faster and do a competent job. This white paper illustrates how some organizations achieved top-tier results in financial reporting and why some did not. 

Using benchmarks and code samples throughout to anchor the discussion, this paper explores how Quercus - Caucho's Java implementation of PHP - can perform faster than the standard Apache-based PHP both in synthetic benchmarks and real-world applications. The results are quite impressive. 

In this Quest Software white paper by the Enterprise Strategy Group, learn more about the benefits of moving to a virtual desktop environment – and how choosing the right tool for the job makes it easy. Find out about a solution that not only makes implementing virtualization easy, but keeps cost low and uptime and efficiency high while doing so. 

HP Business Service Management solutions enable your IT organization to monitor and maintain the health of the key business services and processes it supports, and to make improvements to those processes to better support the business. 

SAP's unique Product and Service Leadership framework is a strategy for companies to bring innovative products to market faster and to drive value for their customers. Learn more about it in this whitepaper. 

The arrival of VMware virtualization technology and the multi-core Intel® Xeon® processor specifically designed for virtualization helps upgrading the company's core business systems in a limited amount of time. 

This article explores some of the new capabilities of Windows Vista, our new set of deployment tools, and ways that you can benefit from these tools to make the process of deploying Windows Vista much easier. 

How do mobile operators make the right network investments to effectively meet consumers' increasingly insatiable demand for mobile data services? While some operators are continuing down the 3GPP 3G migration path, other operators are considering a move directly to Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology. 

Consult this white paper to learn more about the successful measure of a business intelligence (BI) project. Are you getting the right information to the right people to help with their decision-making? Read on to find out more about how you can deliver timely self-service BI to your management. 

In this report from the Harvard Business Review Analytic Services, examine the survey data and responses from hundreds of executives, managers, and professionals across the globe about their changing decision-making processes and BI/analytics tools. 

Dell has teamed-up with Intel and Red Hat and developed a migration strategy to simplify the consolidation of the enterprise data center from an outdated, proprietary architecture to an easily managed open systems platforms. To learn about how easy it is to migrate from UNIX to Red Hat Enterprise Linux on Dell PowerEdge servers, please read on. 

Making The Move: What To Do When You've Outgrown QuickBooks is designed to give you smart, unbiased tips as you prepare to make the move to a more powerful business management software solution.