Most organisations look at virtualisation and empowering flexible working as separate issues, the former driven by cost savings and IT team and the latter by the need for secuire remote access for users. This paper argues that they should be part of a combined strategy. VIEW SUMMARY

This report serves as a practical guide for understanding and calculating the financial benefits of open source, introsucing the basics of financial analysis, concepts, processes and elements to help identify and capture the costs and potential benefits for adopting open source software. VIEW SUMMARY

This white paper compares open source data integration technology with proprietary alternatives, giving ten reasons for choosing open source. Provides case studies. VIEW SUMMARY

This report discusses the current trends IT service providers across the UK have adopted as business models and the technology platform that will deliver profitability and growth. VIEW SUMMARY

As the global economy recovers from a state of financial crisis, insurance firms around the world are faced with key challenges across their value chains regarding customers, distributors, and workers. VIEW SUMMARY

As the technologies and business practices surrounding BPM, SOA, and Web 2.0 mature, more and more organisations are adopting them—both individually and collectively. As a result, fundamental changes have arisen in the way IT and business stakeholders work together. VIEW SUMMARY

The emergence of high-speed IP networks, such as GEANT2 in Europe, is creating opportunities for new kinds of real-time applications in universities and schools around the world. The most profound changes are in the area of bandwidth-hungry visual communication applications. VIEW SUMMARY

Video is leaving the video conference room and becoming a standard tool and part of daily workflow. In turn, this trend is having a profound impact on the scalability requirements of the visual communication system which now must support tens of thousands of users. VIEW SUMMARY

Modern integrated application suites such as Sage 1000 offer companies a powerful tool for coordinating activity across the organisation to maximise the value delivered to customers and minimise costs. VIEW SUMMARY

Collaboration and communication are not just top of agenda for the CIO. Sucecssive studies show that CEOs, and senior HR and Finance leaders also see these as top priorities. This paper looks at how the motivations of all four groups are co-inciding, and how the CIO can exploit this. VIEW SUMMARY