The credit crunch is starting to bite. So what can you do to make sure your business survives – or even thrives? Now’s your chance to find out. On 22 April HSBC and RBI gathered a panel of industry experts together to tackle the issues
Continuing ComputerWeekly.com’s Webinar programme for senior IT professionals, IT Infrastructure for Better Business Outcomes will ensure you can meet and exceed the increasing demands the business places on IT.
SOA is an effective way in which a company can integrate not only its diverse applications suite but also the business tasks and processes it carries out. The result is a more streamlined, flexible, adaptable, and hence competitive and effective organisation.
Over the course of 2007, the challenges facing IT departments and the servers that they deploy throughout their businesses has changed subtly. No longer is it enough for IT departments to deploy the best or most appropriate technological server solution; they also have to look at the wider business context of server technology deployment.
UK retail executives face a unique set of challenges and are searching for the insights into their business, marketplace and customers to provide them with a competitive edge.
Retailers must deliver valued innovations to market before the competition does in order to increase sales and market share, whilst at the same time improving productivity and reducing costs.
The need for all firms to have an effective, robust and flexible IT security strategy is as important as it ever was.
Yet there exists a train of thought that security is a business hygiene factor; that firms simply have to invest in security. However, strategic investment in security technology can actually act as an agent of change for the business.
The proliferation of removable media and portable devices-including PDAs, MP3 players and USB memory sticks-in the enterprise creates a dilemma for IT security administrators. Even though many devices are valuable business tools, they also present new security challenges-including data leakage and introduction of malware-that could jeopardise the confidentiality, integrity and availability of sensitive corporate information.
The vast majority of industry experts predict that the adoption of Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) will grow rapidly over the coming year. It’s not surprising why. In essence SOA is an effective way in which a company can integrate not only its diverse applications suite but also the business tasks and processes it carries out. The result is a more streamlined, flexible, adaptable, and hence competitive and effective organisation.
There are two main pressures facing all businesses: coping with downward financial pressure and aligning IT with business objectives. In fact the former makes the latter much more of an essential item.
Many SMEs can use trusted IT services successfully, with these services covering the typical IT tasks that SMEs need to address and in a fashion that is tailored precisely to their business needs. This webinar makes the case for IT services for SMEs.