In the face of shrinking margins, today’s retailers seek a large competitive advantage. Given that a retailer’s largest controllable expense is its workforce, retailers that implement a solution that gives real-time visibility into labor practices and generates optimized schedules will help with labor costs, store sales and customer service levels. 

Access this Oracle Exadata Online Forum, where Oracle executives, customers, and industry experts come together to share what extreme performance really means for your business. 

n this week's Computer Weekly: BlackBerry and Windows have been the mainstay of corporate IT for years, but how do their latest releases stack up? We examine the user response. Communications minister Ed Vaizey talks about broadband and 4G policy. And we ask if Nationwide's £1bn IT plan can increase competition in banking. Read the issue now. 

It's long been expected that the use of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology would have beneficial effects. RFID is indeed having a positive impact - but it's the retail store, rather than the supply chain, that is seeing the biggest benefits. Read this white paper to learn more about the benefits retailers are seeing from RFID. 

This eBook gives expert advice on successfully achieving PCI compliance, by selecting the right auditor and implementing new requirements into your company's IT infrastructure. Read this book and learn how to master PCI compliance. 

Check out this expert eBook and learn about best practices and techniques for protecting your company's data with encryption technology. 

This new Ask the Expert podcast series focuses on how businesses can significantly cut costs by modernizing their messaging infrastructure and stopping unwanted mail from ever touching it. 

In the April edition of SearchNetworking.com’s Network Evolution E-Zine, we explore how VDI is solving many BYOD challenges and provide examples of how this strategy has seen success within industries including retail, healthcare and finance. 

Attend this webcast, led by seasoned Datalink storage experts, to learn exactly what deduplication can do for you-what's real and what's hype. 

This expert Podcast, featuring Jerome Wendt, President and Lead Analyst of DCIG, Inc. puts an end to the confusion by offering insights to the most commonly asked questions he hears in the field today. 

CIOs must marry online and physical offerings to personalize business interactions for each and every customer in today's collaborative world. Find out how leading businesses are paving the way with top-notch customer experience strategies. 

In this e-guide, you’ll find expert advice, news and best-practice tips to help you decide if social media analytics is right for your business. You’ll also learn about the maturity level of social media analytics software and the skills and cultural attributes that companies need to have for a successful social media analytics project. 

In this week's Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at the building of Heathrow's high-tech Terminal 2 and hear from its CIO about the IT innovations. John Lewis saw 44% online sales growth over Christmas – we find out how the IT team delivered. And News International talks about moving its IT to Amazon's public cloud. Read the issue now.