Former Intel CEO Andy Grove once coined the phrase, “Technology happens.” As true as Grove’s pat aphorism has become, it’s not always good news. Twenty years ago, no one ever got fired for buying IBM. In the heyday of customer relationship management (CRM), companies bought first and asked questions later. Nowadays, executives are being enlightened by the promise of big data technologies and the role data plays in the fact-based enterprise. Leaders in business and IT alike are waking up to the reality that – despite the hype around platforms and processing speeds – their companies have failed to established sustained processes and skills around data.

In a recent report, Aberdeen's research suggests that Hadoop usage could be a catalyst for an enhanced and well-rounded data strategy. Read on to find out more.

Organizations today collect a tremendous amount of data and are bolstering their analytics capabilities to generate new, data-driven insights from this expanding resource. To make the most of growing data volumes, they need to provide rapid access to data across the enterprise. At the same time, they need efficient and workable ways to store and manage data over the long term. A governed data lake approach offers an opportunity to manage these challenges. Download this white paper to find out more.

This Knowledge Brief investigates the impact of a data lake maintained in a cloud or hybrid infrastructure.

This document outlines how Best-in-Class firms use efficient content processes to achieve higher levels of customer centricity.

The purpose of this executive brief is to explore the challenges companies face in implementing enterprise search and to offer a new, robust set of technologies to help.

IT departments are under constant pressure to deliver improved user experiences that lead to revenue growth. Achieving this goal requires addressing multiple areas at once: taking advantage of the flexibility and scalability of the cloud; empowering mobile users with anytime, anywhere access; and accelerating digital transformation.

Are you making the most of your enterprise content? Doing so can mark the difference between being a disruptor and being disrupted. Download this infographic to find out more.

The number 1 independent tire retailer tried, unsuccessfully, to build an online platform based on Windows. Ultimately, the company succeeded instead with a solution built with Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Network Satellite, Apache, WebLogic, and IBM Lotus Domino Server.

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Take a look at this summary which reveals that companies who have implemented comprehensive B2B Integration programs are reaping huge benefits!

Need for Speed and Flexibility Drives Manufacturers to Reengineer External Processes Around B2B Integration.

The 2017 CEI results indicate that brands have significant room for improvement in terms of satisfying customer expectations: On a scale from 0 to 100, the average CEI score is 33. Download this white paper to find out more.

This Total Economic Impact (TEI) analysis has been prepared exclusively for you based on your inputs. The analysis provides a high-level estimate of the impact of implementing IBM customer behavior analytics solutions.

Read this white paper to discover the 5 best practices for understanding customer journeys.

The analytics tools you’ve come to rely on probably haven’t kept pace with this rapid change, and may now be less effective. Systems may not be nimble enough to follow customer journeys across channels and time. Different platforms in different departments can’t talk to each other, so reporting is slowed. And it’s difficult to take proactive steps when your view of the total customer experience is a little blurry. Download this white paper to find out more.

SugarCRM has leveraged IBM and other strategic partnerships to broaden its omnichannel appeal to enterprises, making Sugar a strong alternative to Salesforce.com, Microsoft, Oracle and SAP. Learn how SugarCRM's four-pillar strategy enables businesses to create extraordinary customer experiences.

According to industry analyst IDC, the mean cost of an hour of downtime can range from USD 224,952 to USD 1,659,428, depending on the size of your organization.1 And each instance of downtime increases your total cost of ownership (TCO) and eats away at your IT budget.

Today, everything computes. Intelligence has been infused into things no one would recognize as computers: appliances, cars, roadways, clothes, even rivers and cornfields. Tomorrow, many of these things will think, thanks to breakthroughs in cognitive computing. Even the things that don’t think themselves will continue collecting and reporting the massive quantities of data that feed cognitive systems.

In today’s always on world, IT systems are so interdependent with business operations that even a few minutes of downtime can have big implications—for your productivity, reputation and finances. New technologies like cloud, mobile, analytics and social can help your business be more flexible and responsive, but at the same time they increase your risk.

Technological advances are transforming the way we connect, disrupting the status quo and creating huge turbulence. Industries are converging, and new opportunities and threats are emerging, as never before. So how are CIOs managing their way through the mayhem? In the first installment of our latest C-suite Study, we interviewed 5,247 top executives to find out what they think the future holds and how they’re positioning their organizations to prosper in the “age of disruption.” This report delves more deeply into the views of the 1,805 CIOs who contributed to our research – and what the IT gurus of the most successful enterprises do differently.

Welcome to IT as a Service For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. IT as a Service is the emerging technique that gives technology leaders the flexibility of providing the right set of services to the business. The world of IT is changing dramatically. Businesses are increasingly discovering that IT services are becoming the foundation for the customer experience. IT as a Service isn’t simply a new delivery model for applications. Instead, IT as a Service is a new approach to providing an array of modular services that are targeted to solve changing business problems. While services can be as straightforward as compute or storage in the cloud, they can also be used to complex solutions. Other services may include microservices or integration services that enable a business to quickly create new solutions to help service customers in a more creative and efficient manner.

In the age of digital transformation and hybrid cloud, business expectations for seamless, personalized, always-on service run high. Technological advances such as cognitive capabilities and automation are blurring business distinctions and empowering competitors to emerge from any industry and geography. Staying ahead requires a willingness to change course and embrace constant reinvention.

Moving workloads from an on-premise software-defined data center to the cloud is an extremely stressful time for CIOs. But with the powerful IBM-VMware alliance, businesses can now extend their VMware workloads from on-premises environment to the IBM® Cloud within hours, not weeks.