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These are the end times for traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions. Overstatement? Not really—especially for growing businesses like yours. Old-school ERP systems are simply too slow, complex, and inflexible to keep up with today’s business climate. Think about your existing ERP. Does it support industry-specific best practices, ever-changing regulatory requirements, and emerging technologies such as social media, mobile, cloud, and analytics? If not, you could risk losing ground to your competitors as a result.

Did you ever wonder what enterprise resource planning or ERP is and how it can help your business? Or perhaps you know a little about ERP but you’re not sure if you should opt for an on-premise or cloud solution and what to expect from your final choice. Don’t worry. If you’re a business owner, manager or director in a mid-sized or growing business and you’re confused about ERP, this guide will help you.

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This white paper outlines a framework that emphasizes digitization and business transformation and the new opportunities pull processes bring. The mechanism of “Pull” processes—those triggered by an actual event instead of a forecast—is nothing new. It is at the heart of many successful manufacturing strategies. Recent technological advances in digitization, including the harnessing of Big Data analytics, the use of the cloud, Business Process Management (BPM), social media, IIoT, and mobility, have extended the power of Pull beyond Lean manufacturing. In the wake of the current technological innovation wave, it is not uncommon for manufacturers to not know what next step to take. In light of these new developments, this white paper will focus on the mechanism of business transformation enabled by these technologies, which can be attributed to two major forces: the power of Pull and digitization. Nine practical applications are detailed, showing how innovative manufacturers can better

Leading banks have been talking about integrating risk and finance operations with the aim of securing a single, consistent and multidimensional view of their businesses for years. But with a few exceptions, relatively little progress has been made. Read this insight to find out: • why the time to act on risk and finance integration is now • what value integrated risk and finance operations can deliver • what shape a new integrated capability might take • how to prepare the ground for effective transition • key dangers to address to achieve successful transformation. Download the insight now

Security professionals attribute more than 63% of confirmed breaches to weak, default or stolen passwords. Analysts say more than 80% of all confirmed breaches involve privileged credentials. And the average cost of a data breach totals more than $3.8M. Almost every story reporting statistics like these concludes with “the password is dead.” The world clearly must move on from passwords in the battle to protect data – or at least attempt to phase them out.

It seems like every day there’s another article about IoT, big data analytics, and cloud architectures—and their unlimited potential for companies trying to gain a competitive edge in this digital world. If your business is in the midst of a digital transformation (and chances are, it is), you’re probably already enjoying some the benefits of the public cloud: economies of scale, preconfigured solutions that can be spun up with a few clicks, utility billing, and more. What you may not have heard, however, is how the shared security model of the public cloud affects your security responsibilities —and how it can be used to your advantage in these multicloud environments.

Desktop virtualization is a powerful driver of business transformation, making it possible to deliver the apps and data people depend on to get work done. Learn how Citrix XenDesktop with FlexCast allows you to use a variety of methods to balance user requirements and costs for each use case in your organization.

As cost and productivity expectations persist, many functions are rethinking the way their work gets done to remain both efficient and innovative. But not all business partners may welcome these kinds of transformations. To stay progressive, the best companies enable employees to exercise greater influence over internal clients and alter the entrenched views their function.

Remember Y2K – the IT “problem” that should have brought businesses to a screeching half? Despite the hype, the preparation led to widely documented business benefits and uncovered new opportunities that transformed organizations worldwide. Similarly in today’s highly regulated Financial Services industry, enabling GRC by integrating data from silos can be the driver for future business use cases like machine learning and anti-fraud detection services. GRC can be your catalyst for new opportunities. Listen in as our panel of financial services experts discuss the keys to reinventing your data strategy. We’ll cover: How to align your GRC strategy with a business transformation agenda How to ensure your organization’s approach to data management isn’t just a one-off solution, but a comprehensive one adaptable to changing regulations How to navigate the increasing regulatory demands for granular data security How to turn your compliance spend into new opportunities to earn revenue

It’s the backbone of the modern enterprise, not just another function within it. For businesses to continue to succeed in an increasingly technology-dependent world, CIOs must assume a strategic leadership role and drive change throughout the enterprise. Driving business strategy is not an entirely new role, but it is an added responsibility to the traditional CIO job function. While many CIOs possess the skills and ambition to impact business strategy, existing IT operational models and an aging infrastructure are holding them back. CIOs who have been successful in bridging the divide between IT and the business did it by ?rst accelerating IT transformation.

Your enterprise needs the ability to identify all duplicative or outmoded IT and business applications, services and other resources, and then to consolidate those worth keeping, migrate those worth updating, and retiring the rest. And that consolidation delivers multiple business benefits. Key among these: a single interface to multiple tools and resources, and more agile global operations. With the right practices, policies and technology platform, your enterprise can accomplish these goals in ways that accelerate growth, cut costs and complexities, and enhance competitiveness.

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The business of IT has changed dramatically. An always-on, always-connected world means that competition is fiercer, customers are more demanding, and businesses need to innovate faster than ever. Companies can try to harness digital transformation by trying to do things the old way, but they will fall behind; the traditional IT operating model is fracturing under the digital demands of their customers, partners and employees. This book will showcase: -how digital transformation is affecting your business -a roadmap to help you innovate faster, lower operational costs, and increase your IT capacity -real-life case studies of companies who achieved great business outcomes through API-led connectivity

MuleSoft surveyed 802 IT decision makers (ITDMs) globally to assess how organizations of all sizes are executing on digital transformation initiatives, IT challenges and the role of APIs to meet business goals. The survey results reveal challenges that are hindering IT’s ability to achieve digital transformation fast enough. Just 18% of ITDMs are very confident that they will succeed in meeting this year’s digital transformation goals. IT challenges are not only slowing down their ability to complete digital transformation goals this year, but they are also directly putting business revenue at risk. In fact, 66 percent of ITDMs said that their company’s revenue would be negatively impacted within six months. However, the survey found that IT teams are looking to APIs and reuse of existing applications, data and digital resources to speed up the pace of business.

Learn how IBM Watson Health clinical application advisors helped Floyd Health Care System take full advantage of the platform’s many benefits. Business Challenge As part of its journey toward population health management, Floyd wanted to optimize the way it used the IBM® Phytel® solution from IBM Watson Health™ and take advantage of its analytical tools. Transformation With help from an IBM Watson Health clinical application advisor, Floyd expanded its IBM solutions and used their unique capabilities to progress toward a more robust population healthcare model by adding care coordination activities and improving key process measures.

Enterprises today are pursuing digital transformation to improve customer experience, reduce costs, better weather business disruption, and create competitive advantages. A hybrid cloud operating model is foundational to achieving this digital transformation.

"With consumers increasingly flocking to social to talk to (and about) brands, it’s crucial for brands to think about social in a smart, tactical way. In this paper, Sprinklr and IBM partner to explore the full impact of social media on the business. *This is a joint effort by Sprinklr and IBM Watson Marketing. To learn more about IBM Watson Marketing, visit ibm.com/watson/marketing"

Financial institutions should consider rapidly transforming business models in ways that are cognitive and digital. These transformations should include: Developing alternative revenue sources and streamlining costs.

While being the backbone of many organization’s Offices of Finance and Accounting, it is now commonly acknowledged that this overreliance on Excel spreadsheets coupled with the lack of visibility associated with its use represents a very real risk. With automation available to improve both process efficiency and effectiveness, the challenge many companies face isn’t why they should transform their process but how. The key to overcoming this challenge is creating a strong business case for investment. One that not only sets out the objectives of the project but is also underpinned by a robust financial analysis, in the form of qualitative and quantitative ROI, and a thorough understanding of risk.

Cloud has evolved from a technological innovation to an integral part of business. Companies in every industry are investing in Digital Transformation initiatives to evolve and grow; often, cloudbased platforms are foundational elements of these transformations, as businesses increasingly seek the flexibility and agility to roll out new software services in days or weeks, versus months or years. As Digital Transformation initiatives unfold, one key challenge is to modernize the data center to facilitate rapid delivery of new applications and services—while still ensuring that existing missioncritical applications remain high performing, available, and secure. Another challenge relates to new requirements for accelerating the analysis of organizational data to near real time, much faster than previously possible with earlier incarnations of Business Intelligence (BI). Agile businesses are demanding faster access to the information contained within operational and business data stores to

It's demanding times for businesses. Facing risks as diverse as extreme weather and cyber-attacks, ?rms are focusing more intently on business continuity plans. At the same time, the digital revolution is changing lifestyles, disrupting business models and acting as a catalyst for change. Energy itself is undergoing a transformation, as generation moves towards renewables and decentralization, while technological advances present new opportunities. Energy now has the potential to deliver competitive advantage, to enhance sustainability and resilience, and to power innovative business models. But equally, the range of new options available is making the management of energy more complex. Read this thought leadership paper to find out how energy can drive your business strategy.

Digital Transformation: Insight into Getting it Right, is new research commissioned by Avaya and undertaken by IDC. The Infobrief contains key insights from over 1,300 enterprises and consumers to help brands plan and improve digital transformation, specifically through the modernisation of business communications infrastructure. Because business communications technology is at the heart of digital transformation.