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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: 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

CASE STUDY: With IBM, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was able to launch its ePassport system in just six months—enabling it to obey a new country law as it went into effect. This comprehensive system used IBM Business Partner document readers, fingerprint and photo.

Posted: 01 Jul 2011 | Published: 01 Jul 2011

ESSENTIAL GUIDE: Public sector organisations are experiencing increasing levels of economic crime, including cybercrime, and are particularly at risk from being defrauded by their own employees and their suppliers, according to findings from PwC’s latest Global Economic Crime Survey.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 2012

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 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 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

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

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

EZINE: Virtualisation has been one of those technologies that the channel has been encouraged to get to grips with for the past few years. Starting with the server the technology has expanded to the desktop and an entire vendor community has grown providing management tools.

Posted: 13 Jan 2012 | Published: 13 Jan 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

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we go behind the scenes at the datacentre that knows everything about you, at credit checking firm Experian. We analyse the government's new plans to change the way it works with IT suppliers; and kick-off our Buyer's Guide to outsourcing with a look at the latest trends. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 28 Nov 2011 | Published: 28 Nov 2011

WHITE PAPER: This is a white paper compiled of survey findings on understanding a business' online customer experience.

Posted: 02 Nov 2011 | Published: 02 Nov 2011

EZINE: In this week's issue of Computer Weekly, we look at the key technologies that retailers are turning to for IT-enabling customers' Christmas shopping. We examine research revealing the huge cost of application software that fails to meet requirements; and we talk to one of the pioneers of agile software development. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 19 Dec 2011 | Published: 19 Dec 2011

EZINE: In this week's Computer Weekly, we hear from Visa Europe CIO Steve Chambers on the technology behind the credit card transactions that retailers rely on. We examine the challenges facing the government's G-Cloud project; and we ask how Microsoft will cope when customers no longer want to purchase software licences. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 14 Nov 2011 | Published: 14 Nov 2011

ANALYST REPORT: Need to compare open source business intelligence (BI) technologies and understand which vendor leads the pack? Download Forrester’s evaluation of open source BI vendors and learn why Actuate BIRT is named the leader due to its richness of reporting functionality.

Posted: 17 Jan 2012 | Published: 17 Jan 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

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: In this week's special issue of Computer Weekly, we reveal the UKtech50 - our list of the 50 most influential people in UK IT. This year's winner is Mike Lynch, CEO of Autonomy, who talks in an exclusive interview about his hopes for the UK technology industry, and life at HP since the company's 7bn GBP acquisition. Download the new issue now.

Posted: 12 Dec 2011 | Published: 12 Dec 2011

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: Read this brief white paper to familiarize yourself with eSignature laws so that your company can gain a competitive edge and increase your business's productivity.

Posted: 20 Jan 2012 | Published: 20 Jan 2012

WHITE PAPER: This white paper details the challenges faced by multi-site and multinational organizations and describes what to look for in an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution to address these issues.

Posted: 05 Jan 2012 | Published: 05 Jan 2012

EGUIDE: Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn have taken social media by storm, but widespread adoption of social networking systems in manufacturing has not taken off. In this guide, learn best practices for implementing social media software and highlights of the business benefits provided.

Posted: 08 Feb 2012 | Published: 08 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

CASE STUDY: Read this case study to learn how BancVue utilized Sugar Professional to optimize their customer’s business models and extend the base model contract module for improved contract management. Continue reading to learn how BancVue is winning the war against the big banks with the help of Sugar Professional.

Posted: 08 Nov 2010 | Published: 08 Nov 2010

WHITE PAPER: The present need to radically cut public expenditure provides a once in a generation opportunity to transform the efficiency of the public sector. In order to achieve this, the public sector needs to radically change its current business processes to achieve greater efficiency.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

WHITE PAPER: This nine-page Buyer’s Guide to Financial Services IT assesses the implications and challenges facing CIOs and senior IT professionals.

Posted: 21 Oct 2011 | Published: 21 Oct 2011

EGUIDE: Although large data sets contain valuable business insights, they are often difficult for CIOs to manage. This expert e-guide from SearchCIO.com underscores the need for CIOs to make use of this information and describes new technologies that can assist them in their efforts.

Posted: 03 Feb 2012 | Published: 03 Feb 2012