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 With industry leaders expressing concern that out-of-date ERP solutions have now become an impediment to competitive business, IDC set out to uncover what exactly modern companies need from their ERP systems, and why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.

"Traditional remote access technologies—like VPNs, proxies, and remote desktops—provide access in much the same way they did 20 years ago. However, new and growing business realities—like a growing mobile and distributed workforce—are forcing enterprises to take a different approach to address the complexity and security challenges that traditional access technologies present. Read 5 Reasons Enterprises Need a New Access Model to learn about the fundamental changes enterprises need to make when providing access to their private applications."

"Existing security controls are outmatched — at best static and reactive. Current layers likely aren’t protecting you against all attack vectors, like the vulnerable back door that is recursive DNS. And security mechanisms that frustrate, impede, or disallow legitimate users, devices, or applications will have low adoption rates and/or will curtail productivity. Benign users may even circumvent these processes, further undermining your corporate security posture and creating more gaps in your defense-in- depth strategy. One of the many use cases associated with a zero trust security strategy is protecting your network — and most importantly, your data — from malware. "

Il est tout aussi facile d'être submergé par l'omniprésent Big Data qu'il l'est pour les organisations d'être découragées par les défis qu'elles rencontrent lorsqu'elles implémentent une initiative en matière de Big Data. Les préoccupations liées aux ensembles de compétences associées au Big Data (et à leur absence), à la sécurité, à l'imprévisibilité des données, aux coûts non viables et à la nécessité d'effectuer une analyse de rentabilité peuvent mettre brutalement fin à une initiative en matière de Big Data.

La plupart des entreprises ont investi considérablement dans le stockage de leurs données, avec un coût de gestion continu en termes de licences logicielles, frais de maintenance, coûts opérationnels et matériel. Est-il plus judicieux d'opter pour une solution cloud ? Quels en sont les coûts et les avantages ? En combien de temps un tel choix est-il rentabilisé? Découvrez, dans ce document, la synthèse de l’enquête IDC sur le retour d'expérience de 8 entreprises utilisant Amazon Redshift.

IT is in the midst of one of its major transformations. IDC has characterized this paradigm shift as the “third platform,” driven by innovations in cloud, big data, mobility and social technologies. Progressive enterprises are seeking to leverage third-platform technologies to create new business opportunities and competitive differentiation through new products and services, new business models and new ways of engaging customers.

Transforming IT to meet the emerging requirements of a rapidly advancing digital economy is a priority for most companies today. Market economies and quickly evolving digital interactions are driving new and increasing demands on IT infrastructure for organizations of all kinds – from small businesses to enterprises to public institutions. IT requirements to support a variety of digital use paradigms (personal devices, IoT, VMs, VDI) are changing quickly, and organizations need to respond in order to be competitive in this evolving digital world. The latest generation of PowerEdge servers powered by Intel® Xeon® Platinum processors can deliver differentiated business agility over older-generation infrastructure. IDC asserted that updating servers can help businesses deploy applications up to 22 percent faster and improve application performance up to 29 percent over outdated infrastructure. Intel Inside®. New Possibilities Outside.

To remain competitive, executives must embrace change and equip employees to do the same. Conrad Electric, a 95-year-old online retail company, took just 4 months to migrate to G Suite, providing 4,000 of their employees with more transparent and agile collaboration capabilities. Read this Google Cloud report and get insights to creating a culture where people — combined with productivity tools — can reach their full potential.

La metodología DevOps ya no se considera vanguardista. Tampoco lo es la entrega continua, ni siquiera el paradigma de la resolución en origen. En este libro blanco, se explica cómo aprovechar las herramientas y prácticas de DevOps de una manera orientada a los clientes para crear valor de negocio. Se analizan los retos actuales a los que la mayoría de las organizaciones se enfrentan al extender las innovaciones de DevOps más allá del ámbito técnico, se identifican los vacíos que las compañías deben llenar dentro de las cadenas de entrega continua para abordar dichos retos y se explica cómo lograr que el compromiso con los usuarios y la experiencia de los clientes sean una consideración primordial en todas las etapas del canal de entrega.

At a Glance Today’s workforce has grown accustomed to using personal technologies that make communication easy and simplify their lives. But many enterprise tools haven’t kept pace. Most current project and portfolio management solutions fail to provide simple ways of performing everyday tasks. They don’t facilitate contextual communication that would help to solve problems, and they lack key functionality: the ability to narrow the focus to relevant data, to drill down for additional information and to efficiently forecast financials and model outcomes. Download this whitepaper now to see how CA PPM brings more value to your business by providing 15 key features that remain unaddressed by other products on the market today.

Speed is increasingly becoming the most important factor in project execution for a modern business. Of course, it has always been important to deliver projects as quickly as possible—that’s why schedules were developed and managed to. But historically those schedules were usually rather arbitrary. Today, things are very different. Customers expect more functionality more quickly than ever before, and they are unwilling to tolerate delays or missed commitments. Organizations have recognized the importance of minimizing time to delivery, seeking to leverage opportunities and solve challenges in as little time as possible, but in doing so they have frequently forgotten one critical aspect. They aren’t actively managing those time horizons—they are simply careening headlong toward the end goal. That can introduce significant problems, and that’s what we want to look at in this white paper.

Les solutions modernes telles que CA PPM continuent d’élever la barre en matière d’outils dernière génération de gestion de la demande IT en proposant en permanence de nouvelles fonctionnalités permettant d’alléger la charge des bureaux de gestion de projets (Project Management Office, PMO), des directeurs financiers, des gestionnaires des ressources et des chefs de produit. Ces dernières années, de nouveaux fournisseurs cherchant à tirer parti du vaste marché toujours plus influent de la gestion de portefeuilles de projets (Project and Portfolio Management, PPM) ont développé des modules qui « s’intègrent » à leurs plates-formes SaaS. Ils se targuent du fait que leurs outils sont faciles à installer et à gérer et promettent des économies à leurs clients. Cela semble trop beau pour être vrai. Et pour la plupart des organisations, c’est malheureusement le cas.

The popularity of integration platform as a service (iPaaS) started with business users looking to gain control and share data among their proliferating SaaS apps?without needing IT intervention. iPaaS was then adopted by IT to support business users to ensure security measures were being maintained and to provide more of a self-service environment. Now, iPaaS has evolved from a niche solution to taking a much bigger role: Read this whitepaper to learn about: Drivers for cloud integration Five emerging uses cases for iPaaS that enable better responsiveness, APIs, event-driven capabilities, human workflows, and data analysis Questions to ask when evaluating your current solution

The use of SaaS applications within an organization is the new normal. In fact, there's a good chance that just your marketing department alone is using over 10 SaaS products. According to Gartner, the 2015 worldwide market for SaaS software application sales was $33.4 billion, with projections to double to $67.2 billion by 2019. Integration needs are changing, with SaaS applications, as well as mobile traffic, social networks, IoT, suppliers, partners, and customer channels all new integration points that will need to be captured in your business processes. Read “Five Principles for Integrating Software as a Service Applications” to learn: Key principles for successful hybrid integrations New integration use cases to grow your business upward and outward The why and how of integration as both an enabler and a differentiator Benefits of the TIBCO integration platform and its various offerings

According to Forrester Research, "Enterprise data virtualization has become critical to every organization in overcoming growing data challenges," with faster access to connected data, self-service, and agility among the many benefits seen. In this report, Forrester analyzes past research and Forrester Wave reports, user need assessments, and vendor and expert interviews to evaluate the offerings of top vendors in enterprise data virtualization. In compiling the vendor rankings, the report reviews the current offering, strategy, and market presence for the 13 most significant vendors. They discuss where TIBCO ranks in the evaluation and positions TIBCO Data Virtualization as a leader in enterprise data virtualization Read The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Data Virtualization, Q4 2017 report to learn more.

Transportation companies are expected to solve logistical challenges, improve service, optimize costs and increase efficiencies. More and more, they are turning to new IoT technologies to help them achieve this. In this guide, we’ve identified the latest location, routing and other data-driven services, that are helping commercial fleet management and logistics organizations differentiate and lead the way in an increasingly complex market.

This report outlines the reasons that organizations choose not to upgrade ERP solutions, and cautions against this approach, by supplying research that illustrates the benefits of keeping your ERP current and up-to-date.

The time has come for enterprise risk management to change. Mobile devices have become core to our personal and professional lives, yet most enterprises remain focused on traditional PC endpoints. Although many of the same elements of risk that affect PCs also apply to mobile endpoints, simply extending current PC security controls to your mobile feet is ineffective. Enterprise risk management needs to evolve to address mobile risks, and security professionals must architect mobile specifc security. To encourage this evolution, Lookout developed the Mobile Risk Matrix. Its purpose is to help security organizations understand the spectrum of risk on mobile devices and to provide data that demonstrates the prevalence of mobile risk.

Mobile security is making the role of today’s CISO more complicated than ever. Watch the webinar for a discussion of current threats, a review of mobile security solutions, and best practices for adoption and implementation.

Looking for a general primer or quick tactical reference on social marketing? We wrote the 2018 version of the Social Media Pocket Guide for you. In engaging, easy-to-read chapters, the Pocket Guide provides a broad overview of social media’s evolution — including current themes like pay to play, digital integrations, social care, and more. We also break down the latest tips and tactics for the four most common social objectives and explore specific use cases like product launches, events, and capitalizing on real-time trends. Do you learn by example? This guide is packed with fresh strategy inspiration from 15 different global brands and media properties. Keep The Social Media Pocket Guide on hand as your quick and definitive reference on all things social strategy.

Your company is only as agile, connected and secure as its networks are. But making changes to your networks can feel risky, since improving security often means harming connectivity and vice versa. Even still, if your networking approach is inconsistent or labor intensive, it’s probably time for a change. Modernizing the Distributed Enterprise Network investigates how Forcepoint NGFW is changing the status quo and enabling digital transformation efforts: Enterprise-grade SD-WAN connectivity. Deploy and operate connections between more than 1,000 sites from a single console Security. Top-rated security that doesn’t impede performance and reliability Ease of Deployment and Operation. Built specifically for true, centralized manageability, even at enterprise scale Future-Proof Agility and Flexibility. Adapts to different environments seamlessly Read Modernizing the Distributed Enterprise Network and take the first step toward true network efficiency.

This paper introduces a brief explanation of digital continuity and the opportunities and threats that it faces. The movement of product information to the digital domain in the 21st century has meant that we do not have physical items, like pieces of paper, which we can authenticate as being reliable information for decision making. Digital continuity is meant to remedy shortcomings of the digital environment by ensuring that information is unique, authoritative, current, and consistent, or more simply, has the characteristic of singularity. This paper includes: • Digital continuity within the Product Lifecycle • Digital continuity within manufacturing • Threats to digital continuity If we implement digital continuity correctly, we have all the advantages of the singularity of paper documents, but with the instantaneous and simultaneous ability to access the latest, updated information. Offered Free by: Dassault Systemes

A&D manufacturers and their suppliers now depend more than ever on global supply chains. As they reach across time zones, languages and cultures, supply chains have to work around challenges that build up costs and drag down production schedules. Communication between distributed engineering and production centers can be labored and error-prone. These problems are often compounded by repetitive programming, incomplete simulations, time-intensive production methods, and concern that the shop floor may not be working with current data. Ideally, global companies should be able to design products at any location and produce them at selected sites, with all stakeholders from design to the shop floor working concurrently from a single unique global data source. Understand how manufacturing companies can deliver machined parts faster and increase revenue by reducing costs – despite operating globally across time zones and cultures.

In the PC era, employees operated from within a well defined enterprise IT perimeter and passwords were sufficient to establish user trust. However, in today’s mobile-cloud environment, the enterprise perimeter has dissolved and business information is available to users on a variety of endpoints, apps, services, networks, locations. In this dynamic access environment, organizations need a different approach to security that is able to: • Establish user trust using multiple factor authentication • Correlate user trust with other factors such as endpoint, app, network, and more • Apply adaptive, risk-based policies that match the user’s environment

The cost of labor can be managed effectively when restaurateurs are equipped with the right training, tools and processes. Traditional methods for capturing critical forecasting data and formulating labor plans & budgets are incomplete and often inaccurate, rarely accounting for menu pricing changes or current economic conditions. Even when the best practices of forecasting are employed, the information isn’t always available to the store managers who are attempting to manage the cost of labor. This ebook will walk you through the ins and outs of labor forecasting and best practices to build efficiency, grow revenue, and positively impact your restaurant’s bottom line.