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As the healthcare industry continues to embrace the trend toward employed physicians, an external perspective can be beneficial in assessing the comparative performance of your practices.

Driving financial performance in the outpa­tient setting is a top-of-mind priority among senior health system leaders. But managing the differing clinical documentation methodologies and risk assessment strategies present the great­est challenges to optimizing this important source of reve­nue, according to a recent HealthLeaders Intelligence survey. Provider organizations are finding the ambulatory setting is still a ‘Wild, Wild West’ in terms of assessing risk, clinical documentation, coding billing and medical record keeping practices. Download this report to discover key targets to improve ambulatory revenue.

Applications are the engines that drive today’s digital businesses. When the infrastructure that powers those applications is difficult to administer, or fails, businesses and their IT organizations are severely impacted. Traditionally, IT assumed much of the responsibility to ensure availability and performance. In the digital era, however, the industry needs to evolve and reset the requirements on vendors. HPE Nimble Storage has broken away from convention and transformed how storage is managed and supported with the HPE InfoSight predictive analytics platform. HPE engaged ESG to conduct a quantitative survey of the HPE Nimble Storage installed base, as well as non-HPE Nimble Storage customers, to better assess how HPE InfoSight positively impacts customer environments. To find out more download this whitepaper today.

This paper provides a structured approach to assessing the advantages of the appliance model. It summarizes the trends that have made modernizing backup and recovery an urgent priority, the key requirements for solution offerings, and the unique capabilities of Veritas NetBackup™ Appliances in delivering a simple, complete, and cost-effective solution.

When IT decision makers at midsized organizations are assessing the modern data protection options available to them, five key questions can help them uncover the technologies that might be most appropriate. The questions center on: What does the organization need to protect? What kinds of recoverability should it plan for? How can it reduce its costs? How long does it need to keep its data? Which cloud method or approach is best for the organization? Download this white paper to learn more.

Analyst paper outlining storage challenges, and the value of the all-flash data center as a means to achieving maximum business value from data and app performance. Includes tips for gaining support from business leaders.

HPE Nimble Storage has broken away from convention and transformed how storage is managed and supported with the HPE InfoSight predictive analytics platform. HPE engaged ESG to conduct a quantitative survey of the HPE Nimble Storage installed base, as well as non-HPE Nimble Storage customers, to better assess how HPE InfoSight positively impacts customer environments. Both HPE InfoSight telemetry data and ESG’s quantitative survey data show that the benefit delivered to HPE Nimble Storage customers is significant, driving: • 79% lower IT operational expenses. • 73% fewer trouble tickets in the environment, which are resolved faster. • 85% less time spent resolving storage-related trouble tickets. • 69% faster time to resolution for events that necessitate level 3 support. • The ability to manage and troubleshoot the entire infrastructure environment from a single, intelligent platform.

HPE InfoSight analyzes millions of sensors every second to predict and prevent problems across the infrastructure stack and transform the support experience. Based on ESG research, the benefits to enterprises stemming from HPE InfoSight are both significant and unique.

Analyst paper outlining storage challenges, and the value of the all-flash data center as a means to achieving maximum business value from data and app performance. Includes tips for gaining support from business leaders.

Many BPO providers have already invested heavily in robotic process automation (RPA), providing an opportunity to renegotiate your BPO contract to reflect the cost savings they are making as a result. But there’s more. Contract renegotiation also creates an opportunity to leverage providers’ investment to accelerate automation in your own business. Read this to discover: • the benefits of automating business processes and the impressive level of cost savings this can deliver • the impact of automation on the BPO market and the implications this has for BPO contracts • a five-step processing for assessing and renegotiating your outsourcing contract • three options for starting your automation journey.

Enterprise PC Buying Patterns Are Changing As Buyers Look To Improve Both Security And The Employee Experience At Once As employee mobility increases globally and enterprise investments shift to tablets and laptops, organizations are assessing their ongoing investment in traditional PCs. One thing that remains clear is that enterprise PC buyers still value the security and performance offered by fixed computing solutions. They also say that new form factors like the micro PC help them deliver a better experience to employees, which they value at least as much as security. Learn more about Dell solutions powered by Intel®.

Workers expect a high-quality workplace and the ability to be productive anywhere. As people increasingly prefer tablets and laptops, organizations are reassessing their continued investment in traditional PCs. Download "Security and Productivity Benefits Drive Increased Micro PC Adoption" for the latest research how business and IT leaders are rethinking the role of PCs.

If not, you are increasing the risk for costly, unplanned downtime. However, despite the importance of having a reliable flow of electricity, over half of building owners rely on reactive maintenance programs to care for their equipment. This means they wait until equipment fails completely before initiating corrective action, which is typically 3-4 times more costly than taking preventive measures. A good first step to go from being reactive to proactive is having a power system assessment performed to determine the current state and reliability of your electrical system. For more information on Power System Assessments, download our white paper, "Assessing the Health of a Facility's Electrical Power Distribution System".

Total cost of ownership is a key metric for assessing costs, benefits and risks of a UC solution, enabling organizations to properly evaluate competing solutions. This white paper examines the total cost of ownership measured in different ways.

The Red Hat Cloud Quickstart consulting engagement leverages Red Hat's Cloud Foundations Reference Architecture Edition One to speed up assessing the viability of a cloud environment for your enterprise, and, if chosen, it can demonstrate a tangible implementation of a private cloud for testing purposes.

Adobe has an exceptional understanding of, and a vision for, campaign management technology. We’ve drawn from our experience to create this document to help you better differentiate the myriad of solutions on the market. This guide provides a comprehensive list of questions and criteria to help companies evaluate campaign management solutions

When it comes to IT infrastructure, it’s fair to say the perimeter has left the premises. Whether it’s discovering short-lived assets (e.g., containers), assessing cloud environments or maintaining web application security, today’s attack surface presents a growing challenge to CISOs looking to understand and reduce their cyber risk. To combat this issue, a discipline called Cyber Exposure is emerging to help organizations manage and measure this risk. This ebook provides insights on how CISOs are addressing the modern attack surface.

How are your peers securing the expanding attack surface within and beyond the traditional perimeter? Digital transformation is putting pressure on every organizational function – especially IT security. Whether it’s discovering short-lived assets like containers, assessing the state of cloud environments, or maintaining the security of web applications, accurately understanding and reducing cyber risk across your entire attack surface is a growing challenge. To give you perspective and insights into how other InfoSec leaders are addressing this challenge, join us at 2pm ET, March 15, 2018 for “Panel Webinar: Reducing Cyber Exposure from Cloud to Containers.” Tenable has assembled a panel of experts who will share their experiences and respond to your questions. Topics covered will include: Making the attack surface as small as possible Understanding asset priority and location Expanding visibility and control over assets beyond the perimeter Enhancing basic security practices to ac

Intel's Bob Rogers, chief data scientist for big data solutions, sat down with Dan Magestro, research director at the international Institute of Analytics (IIA), to discuss the power of asking questions when assessing an organisation's analytics maturity. Read on to find out more.

Attracting Investors Webinar: With more than $18 billion in M&A activity in the first half of last year alone, the colocation industry is riding the bubble of rapid growth. Colocation data center providers are being evaluated by a wide range of investors, with varying experience and perspectives. Understanding the evaluation criteria is a critical competency for attracting the right type of investor and investment to your colocation business. Steve Wallage, Managing Director of Broad Group Consulting, has led more than 30 due diligence projects and will discuss specific areas of focus including assessment of financials, management, customers, business plan, competitive positioning and future strategy and exit. By attending this presentation colocation providers will: • Hear how investors are assessing colocation providers • Understand different types of investor strategy and positioning • Explore actual case studies –success stories as well as examples where investors walked away • Walk away with a greater understanding of how to not only attract investment, but the right type of investor to propel their business growth

Enterprise PC Buying Patterns Are Changing As Buyers Look To Improve Both Security And The Employee Experience At Once As employee mobility increases globally and enterprise investments shift to tablets and laptops, organizations are assessing their ongoing investment in traditional PCs. One thing that remains clear is that enterprise PC buyers still value the security and performance offered by fixed computing solutions. They also say that new form factors like the micro PC help them deliver a better experience to employees, which they value at least as much as security.

Companies need capabilities for identifying data assets and relationships, assessing data growth and implementing tiered storage strategies-capabilities that information governance can provide. It is important to classify enterprise data, understand data relationships and define service levels. Database archiving has proven effective in managing continued application data growth especially when it is combined with data discovery.

This Network Guide explains the challenges, benefits, and unknowns of replacing dated technology.

The digital, connected world is fundamentally changing the dynamics of the financial services industry. Consumers expect anytime and anywhere access with a customer experience commensurate with the Internet world, while fintech start-ups disrupt established value chains, driving a need to deliver faster innovation. This is creating tremendous pressure on the network, with escalating demands for performance and agility, while cost control and compliance imperatives remain as dominant as ever. This paper looks at optimal strategies for CIOs and CTOs, exploring how the future network needs to evolve to both drive operational effectiveness and enable business change, while assessing key investment and strategic considerations for equipping the network for the digital financial institution.

SDx Central host a webcast to look at troubleshooting top-down application performance in Cisco SDWAN networks as well as assessing impact to application bottoms-up in a Cisco ACI data Center. Featuring: Jeremy Rossbach, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, CA Technologies Jason Normandin, Sr Principal Manager, CA Technologies Jessica Lyons Hardcastle, Senior Editor, SDx Central