The data center has assumed a new, more prominent role as a strategic asset within the organization. Increasing capacity demands and the pressure to support the “always-on” digital business are forcing data centers to adapt, evolve, and respond at an increasingly accelerated rate. Cloud, mobility, IoT, big data – these and other interrelated trends are putting enormous pressure on the modern data center. To keep pace, today’s physical infrastructure has become vastly more complex, interconnected, and performance-driven than a decade ago.-

Whether your company has been selling online for 20 minutes or 20 years, you are undoubtedly familiar with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard). It requires merchants to create security management policies and procedures for safeguarding customers’ payment data. Originally created by Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American Express in 2004, the PCI DSS has evolved over the years to ensure online sellers have the systems and processes in place to prevent a data breach.

To out-innovate and out-pace their competition, organizations must be on a consistent path to keep their infrastructure modern. IT is under constant pressure to deliver optimized infrastructure for new business initiatives and supporting applications all while trying to contain or even reduce costs. In fact, respondents to ESG’s ongoing research consistently cite cost reduction as one of the top business drivers affecting their IT spending. When asked in a research survey how their organizations intended to contain costs in 2017, 27% of respondents said that they would be purchasing new technologies with better ROI. 1

More than half the world’s population now lives in towns and cities, putting pressure on current infrastructures. As a fast-growing city, Chicago wanted to harness enormous advances in technology to improve quality of life. It created City Tech Collaborative/City Digital. HERE joined the collaborative in October 2017 and this case study takes a brief look at the solutions it has already worked on, including easing congestion on Chicago Cubs games nights. HERE is one of the largest tech companies in Chicago, with more than 1,100 employees invested in it. They are committed to improving quality of life for themselves, their neighbors and future generations of Chicagoans.

Sus clientes tienen más conocimientos técnicos que nunca y han descubierto que prefieren resolver los problemas y dudas por sí mismos. Estudios realizados por ICMI durante años han confirmado que los clientes prefieren resolver los problemas por sus propios medios y en sus canales preferidos . Además, solo buscan una interacción directa cuando han agotado infructuosamente las opciones de autoservicio. Esta opinión está respaldada por los datos de American Express, según los cuales un 48 % de los clientes prefiere hablar con un representante de servicio de atención al cliente cuando tiene que resolver problemas complicados, pero solamente un 16 % escoge el mismo método de contacto para los asuntos más simples . Este documento tiene un objetivo sencillo: queremos ayudarle a generar un portal unificado que incluya su base de conocimientos, su comunidad y sus clientes. Todo esto se puede hacer con un Centro de Ayuda como Zendesk Guide.

Seus clientes eles entendem mais de tecnologia do que nunca e preferem a abordagem "faça você mesmo" para resolver seus problemas e responder às suas próprias dúvidas. Anos de pesquisas feitas pelo ICMI confirmaram que os clientes preferem resolver seus problemas por conta própria e usando seus canais favoritos. Além disso, os clientes só procuram interações diretas quando esgotam todas as opções de autoatendimento. Essa informação se baseia em dados da American Express, que descobriu que 48% dos consumidores preferem falar com um representante do atendimento ao cliente para lidar com problemas complexos, mas apenas 16% preferem esse mesmo contato para resolver problemas simples. O objetivo desse documento é simples: queremos ajudá-lo a criar uma base de conhecimento, uma comunidade e um portal do cliente completos. E você pode fazer tudo isso usando a Central de Ajuda do Zendesk Guide.

DevOps allows teams to effectively build, test, release, and respond to your software. But creating an agile, data-driven culture is easier said than done. Developer and devops teams struggle with lack of visibility into application monitoring tools and systems, accelerated time-to-market pressure, and increased complexity throughout the devops lifecycle process. As a Splunk customer, how are you using your machine data platform to adopt DevOps and optimize your application delivery pipeline? Download your copy of Driving DevOps Success With Data to learn: How machine data can optimize your application delivery The four key capabilities DevOps teams must have to optimize speed and customer satisfaction Sample metrics to measure your DevOps processes against

Never has so much pressure fallen on the shoulders of finance to be timely and credible with the reporting of financial results. Ninety percent of financial executives report feeling pressured to close the books faster, according to a recent Adra Match study. This burden is driven by the needs of managers who have less time than ever before to make important tactical decisions. To download this White Paper, please complete the following form.

Multinational companies (MNCs) are facing a unique combination of escalating customer, competitive and operational pressures which are forcing them to fundamentally change the way they do business and manage their IT infrastructures supporting network, security and mobility needs. Lack of IT resources, limited capex and more complex global implementations are driving an increasing proportion of MNCs to offload, or 'out-task', various aspects of their day-to-day management responsibilities to skilled third-parties that can help perform these functions well.

IT teams across industries face growing pressure to deliver projects faster while reducing costs. All too often, dated legacy systems hinder IT’s ability to accomplish either of these objectives. Legacy systems can also slow the speed at which IT can deliver new projects to support the business. For these reasons, legacy modernization has emerged as a key strategic imperative. But where should organizations start? One large global bank provides a detailed blueprint for how large enterprises can do so. Read this legacy modernization blueprint to learn: The bank’s legacy modernization strategy, and how they used Anypoint Platform Best practices for modernizing legacy SOA web services How to think about re-architecting monolithic applications into microservices The role that APIs play in driving an effective legacy modernization strategy

Traditional insurers are no longer safe with insurtechs challenging incumbents to rethink their business and operating models. This mass disruption creates increased pressure on IT to deliver intrinsic business value, including new services, customer touchpoints, and experiences. Successful insurance transformation requires rethinking the traditional IT operating model to allow IT to focus on creating reusable assets that empower lines of business. Doing so increases IT’s delivery capacity, making businesses more agile. Read this whitepaper to learn: An overview of the challenges insurers are facing in the industry. How a new IT operating model – API-led connectivity – allows IT teams to unlock data from legacy systems and drive reuse across the enterprise. Strategies for using APIs to create a single view of the customer and build connected customer experiences.

In the wake of recent legislative pressures and the formation of the Digital Transformation Agency, Australian state and federal government agencies face an imperative to deliver superior digital services to employees and citizens without a corresponding increase in budget. As a result, many agencies have turned to IT modernisation as a means of driving more cost-effective digital transformation. The key to successful execution of digital transformation initiatives depends on a new approach to integration and API strategy called API-led connectivity. In this whitepaper, you will learn: Why Australian government agencies must change how they deliver IT projects, and the role integration and an API strategy play in supporting the modernisation of government IT How to build out an API-led architecture within a government agency to realise 2-5x increases in IT productivity How best practice from initiatives like Service NSW provide a model for government agencies to pursue digital trans

For many organizations, managing and delivering the knowledge contained within documents is difficult or impossible due to technological disparity. Conventional approaches to knowledge management work within the constraints of disparate platforms, applications, and output devices, and fail to address technological disparity.

When the IASB and FASB issued a joint press release on May 28, 2014 1 announcing new revenue recognition standards for revenue from contracts with customers, the adoption deadline seemed a long way off. After pushback from companies across various industries, the implementation date was extended by one year, granting companies more time to update their policies and systems to adhere to the new standards.

Saint Joseph Abbey and Seminary College in Louisiana was using several separate products to help protect their network, filter content and monitor Internet usage. After installing the Astaro Security Gateway home use version, the solution quickly impressed with its usability and power.

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In the financial services industry (FSI), high-performance compute infrastructure is not optional; it’s a prerequisite for survival. No other industry generates more data, and few face the combination of challenges that financial services does: a rapidly changing competitive landscape, a complex regulatory environment, tightening margin pressure, exponential data growth, and demanding performance service-level agreements (SLAs).

Today, ERP is a cornerstone of many organisations’ tech infrastructure. Yet many of the solutions in play are legacy products, decades old and designed for an entirely different business landscape. With industry leaders expressing concern that out-of-date ERP solutions have now become an impediment to competitive business, IDC set out to uncover what exactly modern companies need from their ERP systems, and why SAP S/4Hana seems so well placed to deliver.

New market forces are creating unprecedented pressure for companies to move faster, with greater agility, and change in response to new threats and opportunities. Companies that are embracing a new approach built on Intelligent Cloud ERP are gaining valuable advantages — such as boosting profits, growing faster, entering new markets, and disrupting their industries. Learn how Intelligent Cloud ERP empowers you to leverage the opportunities presented by changes to how we work, collaborate and achieve success in this practical, actionable overview.

Modern networks are vast and complex, spanning the globe to make information available to everyone within an organization and have begun to encompass new areas of technology. The Internet has unlocked tremendous new capabilities and technologies, but these innovations require persistent and reliable network connectivity. Salesforce’s© Customer Relationship Management (CRM) cloud product for example is now widely used by businesses for its significantly lower cost and overhead when compared to on-premise predecessors. The cloud is driving an insatiable demand for faster, more reliable network access, and for IT organizations the pressure is on.

Modern networks are vast and complex, spanning the globe to make information available to everyone within an organization and have begun to encompass new areas of technology. The Internet has unlocked tremendous new capabilities and technologies, but these innovations require persistent and reliable network connectivity. Salesforce’s© Customer Relationship Management (CRM) cloud product for example is now widely used by businesses for its significantly lower cost and overhead when compared to on-premise predecessors. The cloud is driving an insatiable demand for faster, more reliable network access, and for IT organizations the pressure is on.

The operation of your organization depends, at least in part, on its data. You can avoid fines and remediation costs, protect your organization’s reputation and employee morale, and maintain business continuity by building a capability to detect and respond to incidents effectively. The simplicity of the incident response process can be misleading. We recommend tabletop exercises as an important step in pressure-testing your program.

Customers are more technically savvy than everand have come to prefer the DIY approach to solving their issues and answering their own questions. Years of research by ICMI has confirmed that customers prefer to resolve issues themselves and within their channels of choice. Furthermore, customers onlyseek direct interactions when they unsuccessfully exhaust their self-service options. This is backed up by data from American Express, which found that 48% of consumers prefer to speak with a customer service rep when dealing with complex issues, but only16% prefer the same contact for simple issues. The goal of this paper is simple: We want to help you build an all-in-one knowledge base, community, and customer portal. All of which can be accomplished with a help center like Zendesk Guide.

You’ve spent time and money to develop an impressive in-game experience and attract and acquire new players. You’ve studied your CPA and eCPI, tweaked key in-game events to drive retention and conversion, and you’ve got your marketing engine humming, focused on engagement. Despite all this effort, you’re still not hitting your goals. Conversions are lower than expected. Churn is high. Something is not right, but you are not sure what it is. Akamai has been helping game developers and distributors maximize the web performance of games for more than a decade. This brief outlines some common obstacles and how you can overcome them.