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A new generation of tools is bringing agility to components of IT operations . Learn how recent advancements in agile data management, data virtualization, and data masking are combining to help companies achieve previously unachievable breakthroughs in IT security and risk management. Starting with a technical dive into data masking and the key concepts surrounding “virtual data”, this eBook also leverages exhaustive industry research and company surveys to translate the business value associated with these solutions.

Integrated Computing (IC), also known as Converged Infrastructure, stands to revolutionize everything about IT. IC takes all of virtualization, storage, networking, and compute into a single system and allows total infrastructure oversight through one console. As you can imagine, the improvements in ease of use, agility, and efficiency are quite substantial. This is essential because infrastructure maintenance devours about three-fourths of annual IT budgets. IC changes all of that, delivering high efficiency solutions for the lifecycle of system,reducing costs and freeing up valuable personnel. The evolution of IT awaits.

Integrated Computing (IC), also known as Converged Infrastructure, stands to revolutionize everything about IT. IC takes all of virtualization, storage, networking, and compute into a single system and allows total infrastructure oversight through one console. As you can imagine, the improvements in ease of use, agility, and efficiency are quite substantial. This is essential because infrastructure maintenance devours about three-fourths of annual IT budgets. IC changes all of that, delivering high efficiency solutions for the lifecycle of system,reducing costs and freeing up valuable personnel. The evolution of IT awaits.

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Technology has become the heart and soul of every business. The hardware boundaries of IT have exploded beyond data centers, with mobile devices in the hands of both employees and customers alike. Application options have blossomed, from traditional to open source to software-as-a-service. Business has become global, bringing with it a demand for round-the-clock agility. Employees expect that the applications they use at work should be as easy to use the Web apps they use at home. Integration remains difficult, because it's sometimes impossible to know what will happen when someone tries to pluck one strand out of the pile. IT workload and system complexity will only get more challenging, bringing the need for disintermediation through service automation.

IT departments and the organizations they serve can reap dramatic benefits by codifying and automating unique processes through the development of custom applications. These applications can lower costs, improve agility, quicken time to value, give IT greater control,and bolster productivity throughout IT and among enterprise users. In fact, with the right tools in place, organizations can enable a new class of “citizen developers” who work either in or with IT to create applications and services that are highly responsive to business needs. A platform to enable this type of innovation is not only available, cost efficient and simple to deploy, but it may already be part of your IT environment.

This white paper, based on the Process Excellence Network and K2 webinar, “5 Ways to Transform Business Processes to Optimize Agility,” by Rob Speck, Vice President of Services at K2, focuses on: What drives business process innovation What causes organizations to adopt platforms that support process innovation Examples of organizations that have done this and their return on investment (ROI) as a result Download this white paper to discover the 5 key components to transforming your business processes.

Dell Software has been chosen by over 95% of Federal agencies to complete their missions. Our federal government services and solutions are designed to be future-ready, and we’ve done it all without locking customers into proprietary technology. They’re based on open standards, and they’re modular and easily scalable to give your organization the flexibility and agility it needs to capitalize on every opportunity - even the ones that don’t yet exist. We hope this document, along with the simplified procurement of DLT Solutions, will provide enough help to get your mission needs executed.

The focus of modern business intelligence has been self-service; pushing data into the hands of end users more quickly with more accessible user interfaces so they can get answers fast and on their own. This has helped alleviate a major BI pain point: centralized, IT-dominated solutions have been too slow and too brittle to serve the business. What has been masked is a lack of innovation in data modeling. Data modeling is a huge, valuable component of BI that has been largely neglected. In this webinar, we discuss Looker’s novel approach to data modeling and how it powers a data exploration environment with unprecedented depth and agility. Topics covered include: • A new architecture beyond direct connect • Language-based, git-integrated data modeling • Abstractions that make SQL more powerful and more efficient

With a powerful, modern cloud commerce solution, e-commerce sites don’t need to sacrifice functionality, customization, or site experience to gain agility. Download this whitepaper to learn four key considerations to keep in mind when evaluating SaaS commerce solutions to achieve agility without compromise.

Organizations are investing in new analytics technologies to improve agility and performance. The technology and data must come together to serve the business users under the guidance and management of IT. Read the white paper to learn key findings in the analytics market and learn how to deliver analytics capabilities suitable for a wide range of use cases.

The use of analytics will define the successful midmarket business of the next decade, just as it will define the successful larger organization in this information age. The past decade has seen rapid change in the business climates with an explosion of global competition and economic uncertainty. Despite this, many midmarket companies have thrived by using their size and agility as a competitive advantage. Certainly they have fewer resources than large corporations who are able to invest large sums in IT. However, small yachts can turn and adjust their course much quicker than large cruise ships. The same came be said for midmarket companies. The most successful organizations are ones that can react the quickest to changes in the market place. Midmarket companies can take advantage of their smaller size by being more agile and quicker to change, or even reinvent themselve

Within any organization, business content – applications, forms, reports, office documents, audio, video, and social media – is poorly managed and often out-of-reach of critical business processes. And, when business content is invisible, unclassified or unmanaged, it creates chaos. Content chaos causes a breakdown in the flow of information between an organization and its customers, its partners and even within itself – failures that often impact customer engagement, business agility, and the capacity to collaborate securely and effectively. It's time you learn how to put your business content to work.

Today’s Digital Business needs a strategy for business content – one that spans the creation, capture, activation and analysis of it – which assures security, compliance with regulations, and minimizes risk. This session will confront content chaos and its impact on business agility. We will share stories from IBM customers who are using business content solutions to deliver on the promise of the Digital Business today. Many are using ECM Centers of Competency to bring together all stakeholders in the business to create a unified vision for information management across all departments and all forms of data and content, whether on-premises, mobile, or in the cloud.

IDC Research shows that manufacturers worldwide are rapidly embracing new technologies to transform their business models and operations to improve agility, customer engagement, profit and sustainable competitive advantage.

Choosing Azure revolutionizes your environment's agility, simplicity, and innovation, but have you achieved the cost savings you expected? Discover 10 ways you can reduce your spend in Azure, including: -Terminate Zombie Assets -Delete Aged Snapshots -Rightsize Virtual Machines -Rightsize SQL Databases Read 10 Best Practices for Reducing Spend in Azure, to learn key strategies for optimizing cloud spend and saving 10-20% on your monthly Azure costs.

To gain transformational benefit from a private and/or hybrid cloud deployment, I&O leaders should look beyond provisioning compute and storage to address the networking domain; those that don't will sacrifice business agility.

In this article we examine the top five considerations in choosing the right solutions to make sure your network can deliver the performance, security, agility, innovation and simplicity you need for now and for the future.

This video explains the integrations from IBM Case Manager and Box that enables secure collaboration with cases.

Energy companies are being challenged on multiple fronts. Core expectations require the delivery of safe, reliable, affordable and sustainable energy. Business models are being challenged by alternatives such as renewables and consumers demanding more sophisticated interactions through social and mobile. Energy companies need to: Disruptively innovate business processes through analytics driven operational excellence to increase agility and responsiveness, reduce operational costs and improve asset reliability Assume the role of energy integrator to optimally balance supply and demand points Deliver a 360-degree customer-of-one experience to increase customer satisfaction and loyalty, reduce costs, and improve management of energy demand

To compete in today’s fast-paced business climate, enterprises need accurate and frequent sales and customer reports to make real-time operational decisions about pricing, merchandising and inventory management. They also require greater agility to respond to business events as they happen, and more visibility into business activities so information and systems are optimized for peak efficiency and performance. By making use of data capture and business intelligence to integrate and apply data across the enterprise, organizations can capitalize on emerging opportunities and build a competitive advantage.

Business Process Management For Dummies, 4th IBM Limited Edition, shows you what BPM is and how it can help your organization. You see how the BPM solutions from IBM help you gain many benefits, from higher customer satisfaction to greater agility in adapting to changing market conditions. You also learn about the latest advances in BPM, including the application of cognitive technologies.

Business Process Management For Dummies, 4th IBM Limited Edition, shows you what BPM is and how it can help your organization. You see how the BPM solutions from IBM help you gain many benefits, from higher customer satisfaction to greater agility in adapting to changing market conditions. You also learn about the latest advances in BPM, including the application of cognitive technologies.

In the digital economy, big IT budgets, lots of brick sand mortar and an established market presence are no longer at the foundation of a competitive advantage. What matters now is the agility and speed to ensure that customer centricity is supported as an overriding priority of business operations and decision making. Game-changing ideas are developing and competitive threats are emerging at a rapid and unpredictable pace. The resulting digital disruption is not just occurring at the margins or within isolated pockets of industry and commerce. It’s the new normal and its consequences are far reaching. The essential question for every organization in every sector is simply: Will we be the disruptor or will we allow ourselves to be the disrupted?

Massive shifts within the digital business landscape are sparking immense opportunities and reshaping every sector. In some cases, complete upheaval is happening at lightning-fast speed. In other instances, digital undercurrents are stirring beneath the surface as organizations scramble to monetize vast volumes and variety of data in an effort to sharpen their competitive edge and not be blindsided by unforeseen events that completely upend existing business models. While long-standing industry leadership might be no match for the next cool app, agility, speed and the ability to harness more data than was ever imagined is fueling powerful possibilities for reinvention among companies of every size. Data is following rapidly from mobile devices and social networks, as well as from every connected product, machine and infrastructure. This data holds the potential for deep insights that can replace guesswork and approximations as to locations, behaviors, patterns and preferences. As the w