European Community

WHITE PAPER: The UK's June Budget provides a mandate for all government departments to submit their spending review plans before the summer break and reports that it has scheduled the government spending review for October.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource examines the challenges and benefits of IT certification and includes tips for improving pass rates.

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This quarters figures compiled by jobadswatch.co.uk show that during the fourth quarter of 2010 the IT jobs market for permanent staff being recruited by media organisations is up by 1.8%. This is the sixth consecutive quarter that has seen higher demand.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource examines the 7 skills essential to employee success and how to keep your employees productive and satisfied.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 23 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper discusses leadership development and the role of technology-based learning in leadership development programs.

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this article, we describe how some key Digital Britain proposals have been implemented in the Digital Economy Act 2010.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This resource examines IT skill shortages, how to minimise them within your company, and 7 deadly skills that your IT team should possess.

Posted: 18 Apr 2012 | Published: 18 Apr 2012

IT BRIEFING: European consumers' growing use digital channels as part of their shopping experience is driving retailers’ focus on delivering efficient online, cross-border operations in Europe, this research report from Accenture reveals.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This paper highlights key directives and legislation within the European Union that have an impact on IT security practitioners, especially those responsible for the safe storage of data using data loss prevention technologies.

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 | Published: 20 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: An increasing number of organisations are considering how online communities and team workspaces can help them be more collaborative both internally and externally with customers and partners. If you’re thinking about, or have already started developing a strategy for an online community.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

ANALYST BRIEF: With a potential economic crisis looming in the Eurozone, Gartner offers a checklist of questions that CIOs and CEOs should ask each other.

Posted: 02 Apr 2012 | Published: 02 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: In this year’s report you will be able to see analysis presented on a global basis, compare trends across continents and explore country-by-country overviews. The results show that the CIO community is wrestling with significant pressures as the Great Recession fades into history and a new decade, with a new competitive landscape, emerges.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This white paper discusses how on-demand solutions are revolutionizing business-to-business collaboration and how you can create community within your business partner network.

Posted: 15 May 2012 | Published: 15 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: This research brief examines the outlook for cloud adoption in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) based on market research conducted among IT decision-makers.

Posted: 03 May 2012 | Published: 03 May 2012

WHITE PAPER: Few could have envisioned the global success of SMS (short message service) when the first text message was sent in 1992. SMS has crossed network and technology boundaries, and continues to find new applications, as well as providing inspiration for industry innovation as IP (Internet Protocol)-based messaging builds momentum.

Posted: 25 Oct 2011 | Published: 25 Oct 2011

EZINE: Check out this special European edition of Storage magazine for expert analyses and forecasts about where storage is heading and how you can get ahead of the curve.

Posted: 21 Mar 2012 | Published: 21 Mar 2012

EZINE: This issue of the e-zine, IT in Europe: Data Management & BI Edition, is rife with info on everything from BI to analytics and beyond. The opening article discusses how European finance professionals are using BI and analytics to analyse trends and cut costs, the second is on predictive analytics and the third is on master data management.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this white paper to learn how leveraging the data management, analysis, and visualization capabilities of geographic information system (GIS), empowers social workers and other human service professionals to understand community needs, measure environmental forces, deliver services more efficiently, and detect fraud and abuse.

Posted: 14 Mar 2012 | Published: 14 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Read this case study to learn how one growing Euopean retailer was able to migrate to an architecture that could support real-time delivery of shop data to the data center for processing and real-time communication of pricing events to its shops using open source integration software.

Posted: 07 Dec 2011 | Published: 07 Dec 2011

WHITE PAPER: This report looks at the promise and issues of cloud computing as described today, along with the direction cloud needs to take in order to fulfil on its promise.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: While current technologies and techniques allow for more sophisticated and effective approaches to counterparty risk management than those that fell short in 2008, there are still barriers to successful adoption that will require organizational changes. Read this white paper to learn more.

Posted: 22 Feb 2012 | Published: 22 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: The enterprise must be ready to embrace technologies that facilitate the blurring of the boundaries between work and life, in order to maximise the productivity, insight, innovation and collaboration gained from investments in its people, as well as technology itself.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

IT BRIEFING: There is a growing recognition that rather than being a distraction or a time drain, social tools could hold the key to a more productive way of doing business, this report from Google argues.

Posted: 21 May 2012 | Published: 21 May 2012

IT BRIEFING: Big businesses are planning to grow their mainframe computer capacity despite the downturn  this survey of 1,347 large mainframe users worldwide by BMC Software reveals.

Posted: 09 Mar 2012 | Published: 09 Mar 2012

WHITE PAPER: Voice remains the most important element within the broader mobile telecoms market; however several threats exist to this mainstay  of operator revenues.  Indeed, the role that voice plays in the telecommunications ecosystem  of the future will be very different from today owing to unprecedented structural, competitive and technology drivers.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

EZINE: This week’s Computer Weekly examines research that suggests CEOs want to invest in IT more than ever, but still see CIOs as technical experts and not business people. We review SQL Server 2012 and ask if Microsoft's database software is catching its competitors as well as concluding our Buyer's Guide to data security.

Posted: 23 Apr 2012 | Published: 23 Apr 2012

WHITE PAPER: This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This product overview looks at the features and benefits of Esri Maps for IBM Cognos.

Posted: 11 May 2012 | Published: 11 May 2012

EZINE: 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.

Posted: 16 Apr 2012 | Published: 16 Apr 2012

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how the Phoenix airport implemented a geographic information system (GIS) to address their need to improve customer service and safety and allow airport personnel to effectively manage work activities.

Posted: 13 Mar 2012 | Published: 13 Mar 2012

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: This study from Booz&Co reveals industry concerns that anti-piracy measures will deter venture capital organisations from investing in internet start-ups.

Posted: 20 Feb 2012 | Published: 20 Feb 2012

WHITE PAPER: Security needs are growing fast. Businesses are facing a large-scale and well-resourced criminal network intent on defrauding them and their customers. On top of this there is the growing threat of cyber espionage, and the need to meet ever more stringent compliance benchmarks.

Posted: 24 Oct 2011 | Published: 24 Oct 2011