There is a lot of hype around the potential of big data and organizations are hoping to achieve new innovations in products and services with big data and analytics driving more concrete insights about their customers and their own business operations. To meet these challenges, IBM has introduced IBM® Spectrum Scale™. The new IBM Spectrum Scale storage platform has grown from GPFS, which entered the market in 1998. Clearly, IBM has put significant development into developing this mature platform. Spectrum Scale addresses the key requirements of big data storage - extreme scalability for growth, reduced overhead of data movement, easy accessibility , geographic location independence and advanced storage functionality. Read the paper to learn more!

In the age of "big data," it's essential for any organization to know how to analyze and manage their ever increasing stores of information. Packed with everything you need to know about Hadoop analytics, this handy guide provides you with a solid understanding of the critical big data concepts and trends, and suggests ways for you to revolutionize your business operations through the implementation of cost-effective, high performance Hadoop technology.

The start of a new chapter of your business, whether you're moving upmarket or adding products and features, is a great time to scale your customer service operations in a smart way. We know customers prefer self service, via a knowledge base, if one is available. A Gartner report estimates that CIOs can reduce customer support costs by 25% or more when proper knowledge management discipline is in place. If you've been on the sidelines waiting to take the self-serv ice leap, this white paper will prove that you and your agents already partake in the activities needed to offer great self-service,every single day.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has rapidly transformed the digital landscape and the world we live in. Intelligent devices and sensors connect smart cars, robotic manufacturing equipment, smart medical equipment, smart cities, industrial control systems, and much more in a way that improves lives and saves businesses billions of dollars. But along with its benefits, rapid IoT growth introduces a new dimension of security vulnerabilities that dramatically escalates the nature and seriousness of cybercrime risks. In addition to traditional confidentiality cyber risks, IoT threats include attacks that can: • Render smart appliances useless • Shut down city power grids • Threaten lives through hacked pacemakers and other medical devices. Such security flaws not only endanger lives, frustrate customers, and disrupt business operations, but they create significant cost and public relations damage for IoT developers and manufacturers.

Cloud-based systems are the future for cities and counties looking to reduce budgets and use staff wisely. The cloud allows governments to end constant upgrades to legacy systems, improve security, and invest in operations—not capital expenses. Join the Governing Institute for an overview of the benefits of a migration to the cloud and gain valuable insights from the City of Rochester’s successful transition.

It’s time to find a new communications solution for your company. Before you start your search, consider this: No two company’s operations are quite the same and different organizations benefit from different types of phone systems. Understanding the factors that are driving many businesses to move their communications to the cloud will help you determine if a cloud communications solution is right for you. Here are seven operational trends propelling today’s move to Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS). Check off each statement that rings true for your company. The more checks, the more your company will excel in the cloud.

Large industrial facilities such as warehouses and manufacturing plants present a huge operational challenge because of their size. With extremely tall ceilings and a lot of square footage to cool or heat, keeping occupants comfortable is difficult. The solution: MacroAir big industrial ceiling fans. MacroAir large industrial fans create a more comfortable climate and reduce energy costs for large industrial facilities. MacroAir invented the large industrial ceiling fan in 1998 to deliver a cost-effective climate control solution by generating large amounts of airflow. MacroAir’s big industrial fans produce a cooling effect, help control the effects of humidity, and can also help conserve heat in colder months by pushing warm air that is trapped at the ceiling toward the walls and down to the floor at occupant level. MacroAir big industrial ceiling fans create an environment where employee’s feel comfortable, which results in increased productivity and improved industrial operations.

HotSchedules is a technology company that streamlines several aspects of running a business in the service industry. The sales team at HotSchedules had been using Salesforce for several years, but they were spending a lot of time on data entry and other manual tasks. They needed a way to simplify recordkeeping so they could spend more time talking to prospects. The HotSchedules sales team is taking advantage of the full suite of features in Groove to enhance their sales operations at every turn — from Salesforce integration to multi-step campaigns to analytics. Let’s take a look.

What if the cloud could radically improve your customer’s experience, your operations, and your bottom line? There’s a reason why many organizations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud for contact centers. This eBook, focuses on two profiles for small contact centers, small business and small of large - a small contact center that is part of a much larger enterprise. Get key insights from independent market research that will help you make a case to take your customer communications platform to the cloud. With the right solution, your business can benefit from enterprise-quality capabilities at a price you can afford. And you can realize a return on investment in as little as three months! Download this eBook and learn: • How to calculate ROI and time-to-value in different types of small contact center profiles • What factors to consider when selecting a cloud vendor • Three common myths about the cloud

"What’s In The Report? The Forrester Graph Database Vendor Landscape discusses the expanding graph uses cases, new and emerging graph solutions, the two approaches to graph, how graph databases are able to provide penetrating insights using deep data relationships, and the top 10 graph vendors in the market today Download The Report If You: -Want to know how graph databases work to provide quick, deep, actionable insights that help with everything from fraud to personalization to go-to-market acceleration, without having to write code or spend operating budget on data scientists. -Learn the new graph uses cases, including 360-degree views, fraud detection, recommendation engines, and social networking. -Learn about the top 10 graph databases and why DSE Graph continues to gain momentum with customers who like its ability to scale out in multi-data-center, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments, as well as visual operations, search, and advanced security."

Automation today can dramatically scale a broad range of business operations, making them run faster, easier and more accurately.

In this on-demand webinar from the Institute of Management Accountants (IMA), Sherri Liao of The Hackett Group and Jim Collins of IBM discuss the steps your organization can take to link financial planning to operational decision making more effectively. You’ll hear about: Simplifying and amplifying reporting Optimizing decision-making: Predictive vs. historical analytics Aligning finance and operations Reporting beyond finance to include cross-functional measures of performance The path to building a World-Class finance organization

Experience IBM Watson Order Optimizer How can retailers efficiently leverage inventory from one channel to serve another without breaking the bank? See how IBM Watson Order Optimizer helps Fulfillment, Operations, and Inventory: Gain a holistic view of omni-channel operations across different functional areas Optimize in real-time against multiple, competing business objectives Utilize inventory at its most profitable price point Make better fulfillment decisions with cognitive insights

Customer service organizations are struggling to react to the pace of innovation and the explosion of channels and devices. To get ahead of these challenges, AD&D pros must deeply invest in automation — automated answers, automated conversations, automated agent guidance, and automated end-to-end processes. They must also invest in intelligence to ensure automated technologies evolve and learn from prior interactions over time. Automation and intelligence quell the headcount increases. They will free agents from working on low-value or repetitive tasks, as they will only have to address highly complex customer scenarios or exceptions to standard operations. This also enables them to focus on building connections with customers to garner their satisfaction and loyalty.

The ADC market continues to evolve, with various new cloud-integrated and software-centric use cases having arisen. This report provides infrastructure and operations leaders with a snapshot of the market's transition and profiles vendors representative of emerging and very different approaches.

Organizations across industries look to technology, not only as a way to run their operations more smoothly, but as a way to gain competitive advantage. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning have transformed the businesses that are aggressively adopting these technologies, allowing them to systematically solve business problems faster and more effectively.

Enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is the backbone of modern manufacturing information systems, enabling the digital transformation that’s changing operations and customer expectations. As the movement toward a digital workplace evolves, your ERP system must keep pace. Epicor commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) of deploying Epicor ERP. Several manufacturers using Epicor ERP found: • Faster access to data and improved real-time visibility enabled better decision-making • Improved multi-company operational efficiency • Increased competitiveness with faster turnaround of customer quotes and improved pricing accuracy • Increased versatility with the Epicor ERP cloud offering • Access to deep expertise in manufacturing best practices Read the study to find out how else Epicor ERP has helped manufacturers.

Ease, effectiveness and emotion drive great customer service, but top-line growth requires that application development and delivery (AD&D) professionals keep an eye on trends. Forrester Research has identified 10 customer service trends in 2018 for AD&D and others who support customer service. Before you strategize on improving your quality of service, read this Forrester Report by Vice President and Principal Analyst Kate Leggett. You’ll learn which investments are critical and the advantages of: • Focusing on context and inquiry type to deliver the best customer experience • Using automation and AI to uncover new revenue streams and transform operations • Exploring new labor models to maximize human connections in a digital world

In today’s digital world, the messaging and texting that have become a prominent part of most people’s lives are a form of asynchronous messaging. These are a simple, convenient method of communication for people on the go, with varied time in response based upon intrigue and urgency. Asynchronous messaging has become so ingrained in consumers’ lives, an expectation has evolved that businesses should be able resolve issues just as quickly and easily, and on the customer’s timetable. To keep up with consumer expectations and offer differentiated customer experiences, there is a strong case for implementing capabilities where messages can be fielded by bots using artificial intelligence, with a human touch through skilled representatives, or a combination of both within the same conversation, without losing context. Download this white paper to learn about: • 6 benefits to asynchronous messaging in B2C customer experience and operations • Incorporating asynchronous messaging into your u

Digital transformation (DX) has progressed well beyond the abundant hype predicting it to where it is now an existential concern for many enterprises. We are at an inflection point as digital transformation efforts shift from "project" or "initiative" status to strategic business imperatives. Growing enterprises, regardless of age or industry, are striving to become "digital native" in the way their executives and employees think, what they produce, and how they operate. IDC predicts that by 2021, at least 50% of global GDP will be digitized, with growth in every industry driven by digitally enhanced offerings, operations, and relationships, and that by 2020, investors will use platform/ecosystem, data value, and customer engagement metrics as valuation factors for all enterprises.

We’re at a tipping point for customer service operations. Customers contact enterprises at a greater rate over a greater number of channels — shifting between them seamlessly and even using channels simultaneously. Enterprises react by adding headcount — an unsustainable strategy. You must transform operations by developing strength in automation, AI, and knowledge. This report reveals the top 10 customer service trends in 2018 for application development and delivery (AD&D) pros supporting customer service.

In un contesto dove le imprese cercano di replicare le modalità agili di sviluppo delle Internet company e di innovare in mercati altamente concorrenziali, lo sviluppo di applicazioni è diventato sempre più complesso. La grande mole di codice sorgente monolitico tradizionalmente alla base delle applicazioni aziendali rendono difficile avviare rapidamente nuovi servizi. Lo sviluppo distribuito e settorializzato e la distribuzione geografica dei team di sviluppo e di operations portano a problemi di allineamento aziendale. A tutto ciò si sommano le aspettative crescenti degli utenti, che rendono necessari un dimensionamento efficace e un monitoraggio costante delle distribuzioni per assicurare ai clienti prestazioni elevate e un’esperienza uniforme. E naturalmente, il tutto deve essere realizzato assicurando una disponibilità continua dei servizi.

LogMeIn offers consistently reliable service to its Bold360 customers and is vigilant in efforts to provide services that are not only robust and scalable, but also secure. This document describes how we achieve reliable scalability and the measures taken by LogMeIn to protect Bold360 customer data.

In evaluating the security posture for your Global Transit Network, your first question might be: Why do I even need additional security? Isn’t what Amazon provides “out of the box” adequate? This is not the right question to ask first. It’s important to appreciate that, while Amazon says it has a shared security model, your Amazon EC2 instance may not meet your security requirements “by default.” Though Amazon makes specific security features available to you, it’s still up to you to choose judiciously among the many native and third-party options. As part of our fact-filled AWS Bootcamp series, Aviatrix CTO Sherry Wei and Neel Kamal, head of field operations at Aviatrix, walk through five use cases and examine what Amazon provides, and the questions you need to be asking to implement Amazon services – or add additional ones – that are appropriate for your business. After examining each use case, we’ll show you how we handle it for our own business. Who Should Watch? Anyone responsi

Once you've designed and secured your Global Transit Network, are you done? Are you ready to hand day-to-day responsibility over to an operations team? Or, are there other elements you need to ensure that the day-to-day operation of your transit hub is efficient and effective? As part of our fact-filled AWS Bootcamp series, Aviatrix CTO Sherry Wei and Neel Kamal, head of field operations at Aviatrix, demonstrate the best practices they've gleaned from working with operations teams, all who require: • Visibility: Do you have a way to centrally view your network, see performance bottlenecks, control security policies, and set other configuration details? • Deep Analytics: Can you easily gather performance and audit data and export it to Splunk, DataDog, or other advanced reporting tools? • Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Do you have a real-time view of network health, and how easily can you access the data needed to locate and fix issues? • Alert Management: When issues do occur, what r