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Your business is changing. As a finance leader, you know that accounting is a labour-intensive, costly process where systems often don’t allow for expedient exception handling and many days are fraught with difficulty in matching invoices to other databases for reconciliation. Like most companies, you know where you want to go but may not have infrastructure or internal expertise to handle electronic fund transfers, credit card payments or cheque processing— all the pieces required to make your vision for an efficient, integrated operation a reality.

In December 2017, Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a study refresh to determine how enterprise organizations are structured from an IT departmental perspective. The study explored two types of IT: digital controllers and digital transformers; and the trends and challenges seen in PC provisioning. Digital controllers are often associated with top-down approach, linear structure, and emphasize security and accuracy. In contrast, digital transformers focus on innovation, employee-and customer-centricity, and prioritize speed and flexibility. By understanding the two groups, enterprises can overcome challenges that arise from PC life-cycle management. By investing in existing PC management tools and partnering with a company that specializes in PC deployment and management, firms can empower employees to better serve customers. Download this Forrester report to learn more about the approach and strategy differences in how these two groups address the dynamic digital demand

A modular, holistic approach to change Digital disruption is forcing companies to fundamentally rethink how they compete. You probably used to solve this challenge by buying better technology. But in today’s complex, fast-changing business world, that single-minded approach is destined for failure. KPMG’s Technology Strategy and Selection (TSS) framework is a modular, holistic approach that drives lasting, long-term value from technology change. This article walks through the four key phases of the leading edge framework—creating a transformation vision, blueprinting the future organization, selecting the supporting technology, and implementing the new tools.

In this report, VSI applies HERE’s HD map data to a lane keeping application and examines performance of lane keeping with a map-based approach compared to a camera and computer vision-based approach. VSI tested the lane keeping system with and without map data on a local road in 3 scenarios: Lane lines expanding into a turn or exit lane An intersection without lane lines A widening in the lane The results show that in all scenarios, the computer-vision-only lane keeping systems got confused and made errors in a vehicle’s trajectory when lane markings were out of the ordinary or invisible. Faced with the same road conditions, the map-based lane keeping system stayed within the desired trajectory outperforming the compute- vision-only systems. This report proves that using a lane model from an HD map can solve common issues involved in computer-vision-only lane keeping.

Lenovo’s VMware vSAN-based hyperconverged solution reduces TCO by 40% within the datacenter. VMware-based hyperconverged solutions from Lenovo come with a set of certified components that can be deployed to create platforms that support a broad array of workloads, performance, and budgetary requirements. With VMware vSAN pre-installed, pre-configured, and pre-tested, Lenovo’s VMware-based hyperconverged solutions help improve productivity, and cut complexity quickly and easily. VMware-based hyperconverged solutions from Lenovo represent proven solutions that are enterprise-class and are already being leveraged within mission-critical environments around the world. Download IDC’s Infobrief on “The Real-World Value of Hyperconverged Infrastructure” and learn how you can: • Cut the cost of scaling infrastructure • Reduce time spent on infrastructure provisioning • Improve application performance • Eliminate complexity and cost related to refreshing traditional infrastructure

The way that people and companies leverage IT is in the process of a revolutionary change. To maintain a competitive edge in the face of an unrelenting pace of innovation, opportunity creation and environmental turmoil, organizations must exploit the provisioning of IT resources to facilitate new ways of doing business. And whether you’re talking about the increase in mobile technologies, the Internet of Things or some other transformative technology, cloud is at the forefront and the heart of this change

A multi-cloud world is quickly becoming the new normal for many enterprises. But embarking on a cloud journey and managing cloud-based services across multiple providers can seem overwhelming. Even the term multi-cloud can be confusing. Multi-cloud is not the same as hybrid cloud. The technical definition of hybrid cloud is an environment that includes traditional data centers with physical servers, private cloud with virtualized servers as well as public cloud provisioned by service providers. Quite often, multi-cloud simply means that an organization uses multiple public clouds from many vendors to deliver its IT services. In other words, organizations can have a multi-cloud without having a hybrid cloud, or they can have a multi-cloud as part of a hybrid cloud.

It’s hard to imagine a world without Netflix. Yet less than 20 years ago, the world’s leading internet television network was nothing more than an idea and a vision. To meet incredible global demand and figure out how to expand rapidly, Netflix turned to Workday to help scale its resources quickly and modernize its systems. Check out this compelling story from Netflix to discover how Workday enabled Netflix to consolidate 11 systems into 1, streamline workflows, increase visibility, and bring its HR, IT, and finance functions together as a single team.

Sangoma has introduced the most cost-effective, easiest to provision and easiest to manage line of enterprise SBCs on the market. The four available options deliver maximum flexibility when selecting a solution -- Learn how they can help you.

The most cost effective, easiest to provision, and easiest to manage line of SBCs on the market. Sangoma's Vega Enterprise SBC provides full-featured protection and easy interconnection at the edge of enterprise networks.

The most cost effective, easiest to provision, and easiest to manage line of Session Border Controllers on the market. Sangoma’s Vega Enterprise SBC VM/Hybrid provides full-featured protection and easy interconnection.

The most cost-effective, easiest to provision, and easiest to manage line of SBCs on the market. Sangoma’s Vega Enterprise SBC VM/Software provides full-featured protection and easy interconnection at the edge of enterprise networks.

Replacing your point of sale (POS) software can be daunting, yet most retailers recognize that innovation is important for delivering on evolving customer expectations. Selecting the right software is an investment of time and money that can pay off with increased customer loyalty, more productive employees, and simpler business management. Epicor has been a part of successful retail businesses for years. All that industry experience has given us insight into what not to do, like: 1. Not involving the head of the organization in the decision-making process 2. Skipping the planning phase because it “takes too much time” 3. Considering a technology partner that doesn’t truly understand your industry 4. Assuming you will do things exactly the same way you do things today 5. Selecting a vendor that lacks a long-term product vision Read the white paper to learn more about how these mistakes can cause your organization to stumble—and how you can avoid them.

Replacing your point of sale (POS) software can be daunting, yet most Farm and Agriculture retailers recognize that innovation is important for delivering on evolving customer expectations. Selecting the right software is an investment of time and money that can pay off with increased customer loyalty, more productive employees, and simpler business management. Epicor has been a part of successful retail businesses for years. All that industry experience has given us insight into what not to do, like: 1. Not involving the head of the organization in the decision-making process 2. Skipping the planning phase because it “takes too much time” 3. Considering a technology partner that doesn’t truly understand your industry 4. Assuming you will do things exactly the same way you do things today 5. Selecting a vendor that lacks a long-term product vision Read the white paper to learn more about how these mistakes can cause your organization to stumble—and how you can avoid them.

Hobson & Company (H&C), a leading research firm focused on total cost of ownership (TCO) and return on investment (ROI) studies, conducted independent research and found that a proven Apple device management solution delivers a quick and compelling ROI to both large and small enterprises. • Simplifying IT management o 90% reduction in time spent managing apps o 80% reduction in time spent provisioning • Improving end-user experience o 60% reduction in end-user productivity loss o 15% reduction in volume of help desk tickets • Mitigating risk o 90% reduction in time spent creating inventory reports o 65% reduction in time spent managing policy and setting changes

Key Findings ? Budgets for analytics tools and talent are going up, as marketing leaders see analytics as a business requirement and source of competitive advantage. ? Marketing analytics users rate functionality, performance, product roadmap and future vision as the primary factors they consider when evaluating vendors. ? Customers of these vendors also report putting a premium on user experience and ease of use among their requirements. ? Digital marketing analytics vendors are addressing these needs by adding more advanced features and investing in upgraded and flexible user interfaces, including intelligent assistants.

Flexible infrastructure choices and application architectures are changing the way that modern enterprises run their computing. Enterprises have become application-centric, investing significant effort and resources on continuous delivery goals and DevOps practices to achieve automation of routine IT and operations tasks. With application owners seeking public-cloud-like simplicity and agility in their own data centers, IT teams are under pressure to reduce wait times to provision applications and updates.

Surviving and thriving amid the global, digital shopping revolution, in which consumers fluidly browse and buy from their smartphones, computers and in store, calls for a supply-chain makeover.

This paper presents an overview of IBM System i high availability to companies that are beginning to explore this powerful business continuity technology.

This white paper will provide a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action.

Journaling is a powerful feature, one that IBM has continued to develop and improve over the years. Yet, depending upon your business requirements, you probably still need more protection against downtime than journaling alone can provide. This white paper will cover what you need to know about journaling, what it can do and how it supports and cooperates with high availability software.

Achieving effective and efficient high availability protection for larger IBM i environments requires careful thought and clear understanding of the technology options. This white paper describes what you need to know in order to make an informed decision about IBM i high availability strategies so that your business requirements for Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) are not compromised

This white paper provides a road map to the most effective strategies and technologies to protect data in AIX environments and provide fast recovery should data be lost or corrupted due to accident or malicious action. The paper also outlines the benefits of continuous data protection (CDP) technologies for AIX.

Continuous member service is an important deliverable for credit unions, and. the continued growth in assets and members means that the impact of downtime is affecting a larger base and is therefore potentially much more costly. Learn how new data protection and recovery technologies are making a huge impact on downtime for credit unions that depend on AIX-hosted applications.

This SAS and Intel collaborated piece demonstrates the value of modernizing your analytics infrastructure using SAS® software on Intel processing. Readers will learn: • Benefits of applying a consistent analytic vision across all functions within the organization to make more insight-driven decisions. • How IT plays a pivotal role in modernizing analytics infrastructures. • Competitive advantages of modern analytics.