WHITE PAPER:
New IBM DB2 features make compatibility easy. In this guide, you’ll learn about native support for PL/SQL, new data types, scalar functions, improved concurrency, built-in packages, OCI, SQL*Plus, data movement tools, best practices and more—all designed to improve your ability to run applications on both DB2 and Oracle platforms
WHITE PAPER:
This article overviews the new PL/SQL compatibility features in IBM DB2 software version 9.7, making it easier to adopt and allowing you to take advantage of its autonomic and high-performance characteristics.
ESSENTIAL GUIDE:
Computer Weekly's CW500 Club heard from IT leaders plotting a roadmap to software-defined everything – this presentation was given by Rob White, executive director of the global database group at Morgan Stanley.
EBOOK:
The National Museum of Computing has again been looking into Computer Weekly's 50 years of magazine issues for another selection of articles highlighting significant news published in the month of July over the past five decades.
EZINE:
In this week's Computer Weekly, we examine the digital transformation of retailer Majestic Wines and find out how buying rival Naked Wines led to a cloud overhaul of the firm's IT. We look at the challenges for IT managers as they prepare for the end of Windows 7 support. And our buyer's guide discusses deep learning technology. Read the issue now.
ESSENTIAL GUIDE:
This article in our Royal Holloway Security Series examines the more significant risks involved when an enterprise uses line-of-business applications hosted in the cloud.
EZINE:
In this week's Computer Weekly, the BBC faces in-depth scrutiny over its digital plans – we take a look at progress. Do you need to keep data forever? We examine the technologies behind infinite storage. And we find out about the digital transformation challenges in vehicle dealerships. Read the issue now.
ANALYST REPORT:
According to Gartner, vendors must demonstrate both "completeness of vision" and an "ability to execute" to be evaluated as a leader. Gartner's 2011 Magic Quadrant for Integrated Software Quality Suites evaluates IBM as a leader. Read the report to learn more.
EGUIDE:
IT leaders are used to doing more with less, but the pandemic has forced many organisations to reassess whether the way processes have always been run, is optimal. With people having to work from home, many organisations have needed to automate previous manual tasks, in order to remain operational.
EGUIDE:
Software as a service has seen a rapid increase in deployment since the pandemic. In this 15-page buyer's guide, Computer Weekly looks at the implications of its vast market, the issues it can cause through IT complexity and how to deal with SaaS governance.
