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As organizational structures get flatter, opportunities for meaningful global collaboration are increasing. However, without the right tools in place, those opportunities will go to waste. Workplace by Facebook asked Harvard Business Review to find out how its audience is thinking about adopting, deploying, and using social collaboration tools at work. The results from over 750 magazine and e-newsletter readers, customers and HBR.org users show that the time to act is now. Download this info-graphic to view the results from over 750 magazine and e-newsletter readers, customers and HBR.org users

Modernizing your data warehouse is one way to keep up with evolving business requirements and harness new technology. For many companies, cloud data warehousing offers a fast, flexible, and cost-effective alternative to traditional on-premises solutions. This report sponsored by Google Cloud, TDWI examines the rise of cloud-based data warehouses and identifies associated opportunities, benefits, and best practices. Learn more about cloud data warehousing with strategic advice from Google experts.

People analytics is increasingly on the agenda for organisations. With the rise of workplace technology allowing leaders to track employees’ performance, productivity and wellbeing, we partnered with the CIPD to survey over 3,000 business professionals to understand how people analytics is being used. And the results are in. 65% of respondents who work in an organisation with a strong people analytics culture, say their business performance is strong compared to competitors. As well as outlining the key opportunities leaders can capitalise on, this report covers: - How different professions are using people data - The various types of people data that are being used - How people analytics adds value to organisations - What the future holds for people data

Location has become paramount to building new apps, services, experiences and business models. If data is the new oil, then location is the crude oil. This is why most of the top location platform players have been developing technologies to power next-generation autonomous mobility systems. And the “richness” of location data and real-time intelligence are becoming strong monetization opportunities. The 2018 Counterpoint Research Location Ecosystems Update compared 16 location platform vendors, including Google, TomTom and Mapbox. Learn why the HERE Open Location Platform – described as super-rich, always up-to-date, and a neutral offering – is a leader in the location data arena.

It only takes one accidental Tweet to undo years of brand reputation. It's important to understand the opportunities and risks your brand faces on social, and what you can do about them. Download this whitepaper to learn more about the risks and gain advice and tips on how to protect your brand.

After moving traditional workloads to public cloud, most customers realize they must replace many of them with cloud-native alternatives to reap the full benefits. Technology product management leaders must deliver cloud-native offerings now to capture business opportunities and avoid irrelevancy.

Meet the complex needs of your healthcare organization with a single cloud-based system that combines analytics, planning, finance, and HR for more comprehensive supply chain management. Read the datasheet to learn how you can: Reduce supply chain costs while improving inventory control, gain deep insight into the cost, quantity, and utilization of your supplies, and identify purchasing trends and standardize opportunities.

Cloud implementation, integration and delivery once again topped the National State Chief Information Officer’s list of priorities facing state CIOs in 2018. The same is true on the local government side of the equation, with organizations pursuing infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service models. However, now that those deployments are being realized, governments are looking for more opportunities to reap the cost-savings, flexibility and scalability of cloud environments.

Managing inventory efficiently is one of the challenges that lumber and building material businesses face. Evolving technologies, including mobile functionality and connected business, offer opportunities for LBM business growth. With a deep understanding of the challenges facing lumber and building materials dealers, Epicor has identified six ways integrated inventory management can have a positive impact on your LBM business, including: • Operational efficiencies • Data access and Insights • Mobile functionality Epicor has a proven history growing profits and increasing efficiencies for lumber and building material businesses. Read this Epicor Tip Sheet and discover how your LBM business can benefit from integrated inventory with BisTrack.

Over the past few years, improvements in mobile devices, Wi-Fi, and cloud computing have made mobile point of sale (POS) solutions e ective and a ordable for businesses of all sizes. Tablets have emerged as the most popular platform for mobile POS solutions, and you may have already heard the buzz about them. There’s a reason for all the hullaballoo. In addition to integrating payments and making retail transactions more e cient than using a traditional electronic cash register (ECR), tablet POS solutions can provide robust management data. A tablet POS solution makes sense for many retailers, particularly if you’re looking to: • replace an ECR or want to have a mobile POS in place on opening day • unlock new pro t-making and cost-saving opportunities • expand your business • keep pace with ever-changing customer expectations Figuring out which tablet POS solution is the best for your business may seem like a huge challenge. But don’t worry. Taking the right approach, by using too

Today, new application architectures like Devops microservices are opening great opportunities for innovation. But you still have traditional IT-managed applications to provide for. How do you bridge the gap between these different architectures? Download “The ADC Guide to Managing Hybrid (IT and DevOps) Application Delivery” to learn more. Fill out the form below to receive this eBook. This eBook identifies ADC considerations for: -Managing traditional and microservices apps in a unified environment -Monitoring and troubleshooting your entire application delivery infrastructure -Delivering consistent features and capabilities for all applications

Apps are constantly changing — and they quickly spread across your network. You need an ADC that can support hybrid cloud and application delivery in new ways with new technologies to create opportunities for innovation as your enterprise strives toward digital transformation. How do you create a strategy for your networking and app delivery strategy? This eBook identifies ADC key considerations for: -Hybrid Cloud -New generation application architecture -Emerging security threats -Infrastructure and app interdependence

The cyberattacks of 2017 proved more numerous, sophisticated, and ruthless than in years past. Threat actors, armed with knowledge stolen from the CIA and tools lifted from the NSA, demonstrated an elevated level of proficiency. WannaCry and NotPetya, two prominent threats from last year, successfully exploited these stolen assets in their assault on systems worldwide. As 2017 progressed, new opportunities developed in ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS), opening the gates of malware-for-profit to everyone. Advancements in fileless attacks provided new ways for threats to hide from once reliable detection methods. Malware features such as polymorphism continued to play a powerful role in evading traditional defenses. The victims of cybercrime ranged from private businesses to the fundamental practices of democracy. France and the United States saw significant data breaches during their recent presidential elections. Several high-profile companies lost their customers’ personally identifiable information to cyberattacks, blemishing their brands and costing them untold millions in recovery operations. This report contains an overview of the threat trends and malware families Cylance's customers faced in 2017. This information is shared with the goal of assisting security practitioners, researchers, and individuals in our collective battle against emerging and evolving cyberthreats.

Artificial intelligence (AI) seems to be on everyone’s mind. It powers natural language recognition within voice-powered assistants like Siri and Alexa, beats world-class Go players, and enables hyper-targeted e-commerce and content recommendations across the web, as we see with Amazon and Netflix. But recently, AI has begun actively expanding its footprint within the enterprise. Executives are trying to more fully comprehend what AI is and how they can use its insights into their data to better capitalize on business opportunities. This additional information can enable engaging with customers more productively and efficiently, forming an edge against the competition. Read more in our AI survey summary.

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eCommerce Marketers who want to exploit the full potential of e-mail should develop plans to consistently grow their permission-based e-mail lists of customers and prospects. This allows them to build loyalty and promote cross-sell and up-sell opportunities.

Businesses are struggling with numerous variables to determine what their stance should be regarding artificial intelligence (AI) applications that deliver new insights using deep learning. The business opportunities are exceptionally promising. Not acting could potentially be a business disaster as competitors gain a wealth of previously unavailable data to grow their customer base. Most organizations are aware of the challenge, and their lines of business (LOBs), IT staff, data scientists, and developers are working to define an AI strategy. IDC believes that this emerging environment is to date still highly undefined, even as businesses must make critical decisions. Should businesses develop in-house or use VARs, systems integrators, or consultants? Should they deploy on-premise, in the cloud, or in some hybrid form? Can they use existing infrastructure, or do AI applications and deep learning require new servers with new capabilities? We believe that many of these questions can be

Digital transformation is not a buzzword. IT has moved from the back office to the front office in nearly every aspect of business operations, driven by what IDC calls the 3rd Platform of compute with mobile, social business, cloud, and big data analytics as the pillars. In this new environment, business leaders are facing the challenge of lifting their organization to new levels of competitive capability, that of digital transformation — leveraging digital technologies together with organizational, operational, and business model innovation to develop new growth strategies. One such challenge is helping the business efficiently reap value from big data and avoid being taken out by a competitor or disruptor that figures out new opportunities from big data analytics before the business does. From an IT perspective, there is a fairly straightforward sequence of applications that businesses can adopt over time that will help put direction into this journey. IDC outlines this sequence to e

Some organizations focus on the scary aspects of failing to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. But there are many long-term benefits of following through with plans for sustainable GDPR compliance – such as gaining a competitive edge, or developing new products or services. To learn how organizations have approached compliance efforts, SAS conducted a global survey among 183 cross-industry businesspeople involved with GDPR. Based on the results, this e-book delves into the biggest opportunities and challenges faced. Read the e-book to: • Get advice from industry experts. • Find out what steps peers have taken. • Learn how an integrated approach from SAS can continue to guide your journey.

With the widespread adoption of predictive analytics, organizations have a number of solutions at their fingertips. From machine learning capabilities to open platform architectures, the resources available to innovate with growing amounts of data are vast. In this TDWI Navigator Report for Predictive Analytics, researcher Fern Halper outlines market opportunities, challenges, forces, status and landscape to help organizations adopt technology for managing and using their data. As highlighted in this report, TDWI shares some key differentiators for SAS, including the breadth and depth of functionality when it comes to advanced analytics that supports multiple personas including executives, IT, data scientists and developers.

Medicaid fraud is prevalent, costly and difficult to prevent. With a combination of more integrated data and advanced analytics, state agencies can turn the tables on fraudsters. They can accelerate the transition from detection to prevention, as new forms of fraud are recognized faster and fewer improper payments go out the door. This IIA Discussion Summary explores the challenges and opportunities in preventing Medicaid fraud in an interview with SAS’ Ellen Joyner-Roberson, Principal Marketing Manager for Fraud and Security Intelligence, and Victor Sterling, Principal Solutions Architect.

Industry historically has run on the concept of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Companies that had found success with a process or technology were content to maintain their status quo, and it wasn't until they started falling behind their competition that they considered making a change. Digital Transformation changed that, as organizations increasingly embraced technology to push ahead of their competitors and be more proactive in the decisions that impact their business.

Companies across the globe are all facing the same economic headwinds: business change in the form of competitive threats and new opportunities is coming at an unprecedented pace. The watchword for meeting these challenges is innovation – both in terms of business processes as well as the underlying technology that enables those processes. The sum of the experiences discussed in this report showcase how SAP S/4HANA, running on-premise or in the cloud, can form the basis for a broad-based business transformation that does not require a big bang implementation to succeed.

In the digital economy, data is becoming more interconnected every day. The volume of highly-connected data is growing rapidly, while also becoming a highly-valued corporate asset. By exploring relationships among people, processes and things, new business opportunities emerge, helping grow your business's competitive advantage.