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It's time to debunk the myth that insurmountable obstacles lie between your legacy systems and IP-enabled communications. Download "The Great Barrier Myth: Why Migrating To SIP Is Easier And More Cost-Efficient Than You've Been Told" to discover why right now is a realistic time to start your SIP migration.

Modernize your understanding of Hybrid WAN. Have you heard what industry analyst, Mike Sapien from Ovum, is saying about hybrid WAN? Hint: It doesn’t include the need to abandon MPLS.

It’s time to think differently about your network security. Forget the fragmented and reactive approach you’ve used in the past with patchwork point solutions under separate IT silos. According to Frost & Sullivan’s report, you need a holistic approach to network security.

You’ve heard the varying definitions of UC&C. Now it's time for clarification. Download "Unified Communications & Collaboration: Navigating The "All-Or-Nothing” Misconception" to learn more about how a flexible approach to IP–enabled communications can suit your needs and expectations.

Note: Part two of Karen Walker’s blog series continues her insights about Digital Transformation and spotlights how Cisco’s Marketing and Communications team is using technology to transform their function. Excerpt: Today’s marketers are delivering more and more content digitally, but to be effective that digital content can’t just be generic reference material. Rather, effective content must be relevant, timely, and personalized. And its goal should be to create a dialogue with the customer. This is no easy task. It requires investing in marketing technologies that help deliver personalized content with speed and agility. For modern marketers, technology opens the door to new revenue pipelines. Digital platforms and applications combined with data and analytics augment our go-to-market model.

You can succeed in your digital transfomation and deliver applications and services faster, better, and safely. How? With Enterprise Agile Delivery. Enterprise Agile Delivery brings a wealth of benefits to organizations and can be adopted by any Agile hybrid framework: SAFe, LESS, Nexus as well as Agile/lean frameworks like Scrum and Kanban. Yet to achieve Eneterprise Agile Delivery, enterprises need an easy to use modern ALM tool for quick and successful onboarding. Download this white paper to understand how the right solution will help you: • Strategiaclly align feature releases and backlogs with your overall business strategy • Identify and prioritize dev and test activities with visibility into project waves and portfolios • Make data-based decisons for safe releases with real-time insights and multidimensional views into delivery risks • Sync business, dev, QA and release teams around shared objectives with automated coordination and communication

The mobile app has become “the” strategic initiative for all digital organizations attempting to drive business forward. “By 2017, mobile apps will be downloaded more than 268 billion times, generating revenue of more than $77 billion — making apps one of the most popular computing tools for users across the globe.”1 The app has become more than a simple method of communication. It is the new critical point of engagement, the face of the organization, and quite possibly the difference maker in customers staying or leaving. Getting the “user experience” (or UX) right in the eyes of the consumer is no longer a nice to have but fundamental to achieving success.

How are small and medium businesses (SMBs) thinking about and adapting to create a smarter, more agile workforce? SMB Group recently surveyed 730 SMB decision-makers via our 2016 Small and Medium Business Communication, Collaboration & Mobility Study to find out.

In today’s very competitive business world, it’s difficult to retain employees that are a “fit” with the corporate culture. Keeping the teams motivated is a constant challenge and good communication between departments and even co-workers can sometime seems like an unattainable goal. Team building can improve employees' ability to work together and increase your organizations' efficiency and productivity. By building a strong team, your employees will also feel a sense of belonging and loyalty to the business. Cirque du Soleil not only provides high quality entertainment, but offer a range of turnkey corporate packages that will allow you to truly socialize with your team members.

OpenLab provides an environment and set of resources where customers representing telecommunications, education, government, financial services, and virtually every other vertical market can explore new technologies, all in the spirit of network transformation. By examining SDN/network automation solutions such Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), software-defined WAN (SD-WAN), and others, OpenLab offers a platform for developing and delivering new network-integrated functionality that serves the greater need.

Automation and gold have much in common. One of the most coveted materials in the world, gold isn’t just beautiful – it has a wide array of uses within industry. ’Au’ is of course the first two letters of automation! Automation is the gold of the software world. It’s the backbone of modern business, enabling communication and orchestration between components. As the only company with a dedicated automation team, at CA Technologies, we set the Automation Gold Standard. With that in mind, this is our Golden Book of Automation.

In the Application Economy, speed, innovation, and quality, have become table stakes. If you can’t meet your customers’ expectations, they will surely find a competitor who can. Whether your organization is in one of the sectors facing the most intense digital competition (like insurance, banking, telecommunications or retail), or a more traditional industry, how rapidly and successfully you embrace a software-driven digital transformation strategy will likely have a profound effect on your organization’s long term viability. In this Whitepaper, learn how the Application Economy is driving Digital Transformation in companies, and how you can position your organization for success.

Read this Stratecast white paper from Frost & Sullivan to learn about the challenges over-the-top (OTT) competitors such as Google, Hulu, Netflix, and Facebook are causing communications service providers (CSPs). Learn how CSPs can use customer behavior data to deliver personalized experiences and offers, and discover the solutions that can turn data into a competitive advantage.

Discover what it takes to deliver truly proactive care to customers and find out how active customer experience management can deliver significant business benefits in the form of cost savings, reduced churn, and increased revenue.

The whitepaper is intended for security practitioners as well as developers and administrators of applications who can benefit from secure communications. The paper presents carious strategies for securing applications using Oracle Solaris 11 security and hardware-assisted cryptographic acceleration features of Oracle's SPARC processors. The paper unveils the core mechanisms, configuration, and deployment strategies, as well as the role of relevance of using Oracle Solaris Cryptographic Framework and Java Cryptography Extension-based techniques for delivering a high-performance, end-to-end security solution. With Oracle's new Software in Silicon capabilities coupled with an innovation cache and memory hierarchy, Oracle's SPARC M7 processor delivers dramatically higher processing speed and revolutionary protection against malware and software errors.

It’s no longer enough just to convert—to stay competitive, you need to turn prospects into lifelong fans of your brand. But with commerce channels and buying behavior changing so fast, we all know that’s easier said than done. What were once communications channels are now becoming commerce channels, with consumers making purchases on their TVs, on Twitter, and by text message. In the past, commerce and content data and experiences sat in their own silos. Those days are gone.

Welcome to the conversion best practices toolkit from Optimizely! You’re already one step closer to delivering meaningful digital experiences and turning prospects into customers. In an increasingly competitive landscape where customers demand more from their digital interactions with companies across a growing number of communication channels, customer acquisition can be a big challenge. In this toolkit, you’ll find a variety of resources aimed at helping you identify conversion optimization opportunities and acquire new customers with greater efficiency.

This competitive review between Red Hat and TIBCO integration technologies has presented multiple differences between the products. A notable difference is that only Red Hat JBoss Fuse is a 100% open source product. Red Hat is committed to leveraging existing open source projects and using open standards whenever possible for both product implementation and integration communication. This includes Camel, the de-facto integration standard included with Red Hat JBoss Fuse. Red Hat’s open source commitment extends to Active MQ, the upstream messaging technology used with JBoss A-MQ and included with Red Hat JBoss Fuse. Another difference is that Red Hat JBoss Fuse clustering is based on the upstream Fabric8 community project and offers much more functionality than TIBCO clustering options.

How a web hosting provider can help relieve the pressure of managing your online presence.

HR has an important opportunity to drive enterprise social collaboration. Read how social technology enables employee productivity, how HR can add value to social communication, and how social tools can improve HR functions.

Smart technologies are a force multiplier for public safety agencies.

DevOps helps drive continuous collaboration with the end-customer, gaining further visibility into online and mobile application usage and its effect on the brick-and-mortar experience. The data your company can derive from this collaboration should be used to continuously validate assumptions made earlier in the development process. Today’s empowered consumers have high expectations for the companies they do business with. They expect real-time communication, instant information, and the ability to connect in multiple ways. And they want it to be simple. A DevOps approach can help to accomplish this.

Every interaction, every communication, every touch point creates a digital breadcrumb — a piece of data that can put people at greater risk of identity theft. This paper from Forrester Research compares various segments and demographics to understand which groups are at the greatest risk of identity theft.

Documents are an integral component to the successful operation of an organization. Whether in hardcopy or digital form, they enable the communication, transaction, and recording of business-critical information. To ensure documents are used effectively, organizations are encouraged to continually evaluate and improve surrounding workflows. This may involve automating elements of document creation, securing the transfer and storage of information, and/or simplifying the retrieval of records and the data contained within. These types of enhancements can save time, money, and frustration. This white paper will discuss top trends and requirements in the optimization of document-related business processes as well as general technology infrastructures for document management. It will also address how some office technology vendors have reacted to these trends to guide their design and development of products, solutions, and services.

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