In this week’s Computer Weekly, we look at the importance of IT strategy when budgets are under pressure. The first part of our Buyer’s Guide to virtualisation examines the barriers preventing many organisations from adopting the technology; and Transport for London’s CIO talks about how IT helps avoid Olympic travel chaos. Download the issue now. 

While insurers have invested in automating high volume decisions, most are not leveraging advanced analytics and other data-driven strategies to improve pricing decisions and cross-channel opportunities.  In this white paper, FICO describes how to use business rules management systems as a core technology to improve revenue while controlling costs. 

Read this white paper for a discussion of the business case for data archiving as the first step in an SAP ILM strategy; strategies for Data Archiving, Retention Management and the Retention Warehouse strategy for legacy decommissioning in SAP; and Dolphin’s best‐practices approach to an effective, long-term ILM strategy. 

This presentation transcript explores effective products and strategies for implementing virtualization. Learn how to choose the right tools and approaches and calculate your organization’s virtualization investment. 

Intel’s new data center strategies shift the emphasis away from reducing the number of physical data center facilities to, instead, focusing on approaches that leverage the full potential of their data centers worldwide, enabling a nominal cost savings of about USD 1 billion by 2014. 

Experience Intel IT's data center strategy that has us on track to create USD 650 million of value for Intel. Through a series of videos, gain a deeper understanding of our facilities, compute, networking, and storage approaches. Then take a video tour of our world-class data centers. 

Quocirca looks at the case for mobile printing in the enterprise and suggests best practices for a mobile print strategy. 

Small and medium size businesses often thrive by being high-value specialists. The dilemma is how to stay specialized in a particular niche yet grow aggressively. In this white paper, learn about multiplication as a growth strategy. Discover the risks and effective methods of mitigating them to ensure a successful implementation. 

In this webcast, gain a CISO’s perspective on their experience with executing a successful security strategy, offering best practice tips and an analysis of the access governance and role-based access control initiatives that were implemented. 

There are a wide variety of applications for SAP to help enhance performance and simplify processes. In this eGuide, readers will learns about tips and best practices when it comes to planning an SAP application strategy. 

Social networks have become a new avenue to cybercriminals today, using social engineering to exploit systems and data. In this expert resource, uncover how social networking is impacting data loss prevention (DLP) strategies and explore eight key questions to ask your vendor to help mature your DLP solution. 

Read this presentation transcript for an explanation of today's extended supply chain, and explores technologies and strategies for improving visibility for better collaboration. 

The inaugural issue of BI Trends & Strategies offers sound advice to help you in ensuring your organization is on track to keep up with the rapidly changing landscape of BI and analytics. In this issue, readers will learn about a big data definition and the impact it will have on BI and data warehousing, agile development methodology and more.