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The critical trends that are reshaping the world of work are colliding with the changing demographic profile of the employees and shifting expectations of the work experience. Despite an uncertain future, there is optimism in the air. The events of 2016 and early 2017 have set a course of change that brings the promise of more equity and transparency and more accountable decision making. An overarching theme of Empowerment permeates how business leaders. HR professionals, and employees are viewing the world of work, both today and in the future.

With the growing need to effectively monitor your infrastructure, metrics have emerged as a way to gain insight to the trends and problems within your IT environment. collectd is an open source daemon that collects system and application performance metrics. With this data, collectd then has the ability to work alongside another tool, such as Splunk, to help identify trends, issues and relationships you may not be able to observe otherwise. This e-book gives you a deep dive into what collectd is and how you can begin incorporating it into your organization’s environment. Download your complimentary copy of “A Beginner’s Guide to collectd” to learn how to: *Get and configure collectd *Analyze collectd data *Use Splunk and collectd together to analyze large amounts of infrastructure data

Gain a bird's-eye view of how online fraud affects the airline industry Fraud continues to be a major source of revenue loss for the global airline industry. With airlines pushing for more direct bookings and the accelerating use of mobile as a booking platform, incidence of fraud is rising, albeit only slightly. Despite these factors, many airlines are not devoting the necessary resources and tracking the required metrics to measure and control fraud. CyberSource partnered with Phocuswright to benchmark global metrics and trends in fraud management and protection among airlines. The study also explores airline awareness of various fraud-related issues and examines their approaches to and implementation of fraud management tools and services. To learn more, download the study today

This technical whitepaper by Radiant Advisors covers key findings from their work with a network of Fortune 1000 companies and clients from various industries. It assesses the major trends and tips to gain access to and optimize data streaming for more valuable insights. Read this report to learn from real-world successes in modern data integration, and better understand how to maximize the use of streaming data. You will also learn about the value of populating a cloud data lake with streaming operational data, leveraging database replication, automation and other key modern data integration techniques. Download this whitepaper today for about the latest approaches on modern data integration and streaming data technologies.

Whether you’re a newly appointed demand gen specialist or a well-versed, highly-skilled demand gen ninja, this session is for you to learn about the Demand Gen imperatives for 2019 from the renowned, demand gen master himself, Andrew Gaffney. In this session, you’ll learn about the latest best practices for breaking down the top channels to optimize your demand gen efforts. We’ll discuss everything from how to breathe new life to your lead-gen webinars to creating killer content that drives pipeline. As a bonus, Andrew will share the latest, fresh-off-the-press findings from the 2019 Demand Gen Benchmark Study.

Spear phishing is a threat that’s constantly evolving as cybercriminals find new ways to avoid detection. This report takes an in-depth look at the three most prevalent types of attacks: brand impersonation, business email compromise, and blackmail.

The 2019 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index looks back at the threats, tactics, and trends that emerged in 2018 based on insights from IBM X-Force Security Research Team. Deriving data and insights from security clients, incident response services and penetration testing engagements, the IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index 2019 report outlines the most prominent threats and provides key insights into various industries, attack tactics, and major vulnerabilities that emerged during the year.

Digitalization has spurred new opportunities for how business gets done. With the emergence of big data and mobility, enterprises see the promise of making employees more productive and keeping customers more engaged. And they recognize that efficient, prompt application development and delivery are instrumental for taking advantage of these new opportunities. In this unforgiving era of digitalization, you need to be first to market if you want to flourish.

New disruptive digital technologies are changing the face of workplace as well as worker expectations. The rapidly evolving 21st-century workforce is becoming increasingly mobile, contract-based, and technology savvy. Corporate real estate, IT, and HR leaders need to improve their work environments to suit these evolving needs, or they risk losing their employees to competition. This paper: • Discusses why your employees are disengaged • Discusses the six trends that will dominate the workforce of the future • Describes how Cisco® Workforce Experience solutions can help enable these rich workforce experiences

CNP fraud is showing no signs of deceleration and is, in fact, expanding rapidly. New trends and new threats call for a revolutionary approach to effectively stop fraud. Learn how to deploy solutions that can quickly distinguish between genuine and fraudulent transactions and take appropriate action instantly. Explore the CA Risk Analytics Network.

Discover the four big trends in fleet management being powered by location services. Trends to help you differentiate your solutions and enable transportation companies to overcome their logistical challenges and increase asset utilization. Discover what’s making the biggest impact, together with how, by integrating some of these trends into your solutions, you can position yourself as the service provider of choice in fleet and transportation management solutions. And find out how HERE is delivering features, from comprehensive mapping capabilities and real-time location data, to truck-specific attributes, to help you do just that. Complete the form to the right to receive the ebook today.

HERE was named the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum), overtaking Google for the first time. Ovum’s Index assesses and ranks the major vendors in the location platform market. According to Ovum: ‘HERE has always scored well on the completeness of its offering, leading on this front for some time. Where it traditionally lagged Google was on the reach of its platform, but this has been steadily improving thanks to the wide range of verticals its platform addresses. An important factor in HERE topping the leader board has been its strong focus on the developer community.’

This white paper explores 5 ways in which this process will move forward in 2016 - with a practical focus on what is actually likely to happen in the next 12 months.

Globally, payments are going digital—whether they are cash moving to cards, QR codes at point of sale (POS), purchases moving from physical to online stores with electronic forms of payment, or payments becoming seamless with in-app experiences. This phenomenon is not new, but does appear to be accelerating. This increased speed of adoption is driven by multiple factors, including an abundance of new electronic payment methods—many of which are layered on top of existing payment methods— focused on convenience, speed and the overall consumer experience. To find out more download this whitepaper today.

PayerView, an annual healthcare payer rankings report by athenahealth, uses objective, data-driven methodologies to analyze the payer-provider relationship. The 2013 healthcare payer rankings report, which covers industry trends in 2012, does not show dramatic industry changes over the year, but highlights areas where there could be trouble as industry changes emerge.

Healthcare mergers and acquisitions and medical group growth have been strong industry trends for years. One reason is the desire for critical mass to gain leverage with payers as reimbursement declines and costs increase. Healthcare mergers and acquisitions may offer benefits for many medical groups; it is not without its challenges. Read this whitepaper to learn how to successfully manage growth of your medical group.

Did you know that the average health of marketers’ data is only “questionable?” Dun & Bradstreet analyzed 695M customer contact records and surveyed more than 500 B2B marketers to provide the truth about the state of B2B marketing data. Download the fourth annual report to discover how you can turn improved data quality into a competitive advantage. • The trends and pitfalls every data-driven marketer needs to know • The true state of B2B marketing data quality • Benchmarks for assessing your own data quality • Dun & Bradstreet’s research of B2B marketers’ data-fueled priorities for 2016 Do you have the data strategy you need to deliver on your marketing goals? Download the B2B Marketing Data Report to find out!

There’s no question about it: purpose-built all-flash storage is an exceptional catalyst for improving data center operations and supporting the transition to the cloud operating model. AFAs’ highly strategic role in both IT and business underscores the need to move storage purchase discussions and decisions beyond the storage team. IT leaders who want to see their organizations reap AFAs’ benefits—performance improvement, productivity gains, and cost savings, among others—should actively define their AFA strategies and oversee storage-related decision making, thus treating storage like the newly strategic asset it has become. To learn more, visit purestorage.com/cloud.

Cloud computing and all-flash storage are two of the most important innovations driving next-generation IT initiatives. While it may seem at first that these are parallel trends, in reality they are inextricably intertwined. Without the benefits of all-flash storage —driving new levels of performance, agility and management simplicity — enterprises would not be able to modernize their infrastructures to deliver cloud services. It is no coincidence that the largest hyperscale cloud providers rely on all-flash storage solutions as their storage foundation. Pure Storage all-flash storage arrays provide enterprise customers with a safe, secure and smooth path to the all-flash cloud. You can take the journey in stages, starting small with a single application or two, and then adding more applications through consolidation and virtualization. You can also implement multiple stages at once.

Digitale Technologien verändern alles – und ihr disruptiver Einfluss ist sowohl in der Konsum- als auch in den Unternehmenslandschaften spürbar. Verbrauchern steht es dabei theoretisch frei, digitale Lösungen anzunehmen oder zurückzuweisen. Für Unternehmen sieht es jedoch anders aus: Entweder sie rüsten sich für diesen Wandel – oder sie riskieren unterzugehen. Unternehmen in Deutschland haben verschiedene Trends nicht nur analysiert und evaluiert, sondern sich auch damit beschäftigt, wie sie digitale disruptive Strömungen, Technologien und Produkte für sich nutzen können. Angesichts der bisher nicht gekannten regulatorischen Veränderungen wird digitale Technologie als wertschöpfende, Umsatz generierende Kraft gesehen.

According to eMarketer, digital marketers have a “love affair with data,” and are planning to increase spending and usage in data-driven marketing strategies. Data helps marketers make more informed decisions about their most receptive audiences, so it should come as no surprise that 75% of B2B marketers currently leverage data to inform their digital advertising strategy, according to a new study.

This is an at-a-glance guide to the key innovation trends in fleet management that leverage location data to improve last-mile efficiency and road safety. Presented to you by HERE, one of the world’s leading location platforms in 2019.

Discover the four big trends in fleet management being powered by location services. Trends to help you differentiate your solutions and enable transportation companies to overcome their logistical challenges and increase asset utilization. Discover what’s making the biggest impact, together with how, by integrating some of these trends into your solutions, you can position yourself as the service provider of choice in fleet and transportation management solutions. And find out how HERE is delivering features, from comprehensive mapping capabilities and real-time location data, to truck-specific attributes, to help you do just that. Download the eBook now

This infographic illustrates how technologies, applications, and trends are driving a transformation in service provider business models and network infrastructures.

This white paper reveals how IT organisations need to innovate due to the new technology demands.