The greatest challenge is to identify where AI will have the maximum impact and reap the greatest benefits; what type of AI initiatives the business should be undertaking; and how to implement Smart Automation as a step towards becoming an Intelligent Enterprise. Applications of AI cover a wide range of functional areas, so organizations must decide where AI will have the biggest impact. This will typically be in value added business areas: for example, in retail organizations it will be the marketing and sales function; in advanced manufacturing it will be in operations. Organizations with a “cloud first” strategy have a head start with AI. Deploying ERP on the cloud and cloud-ERPs is an essential requirement in the transformation towards a digital Intelligent Enterprise. These organizations can deploy and leverage multiple technologies: the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, Chatbots, Predictive Maintenance, Blockchain and Big Data.
Chances are, your organization is already on a path to a hybrid cloud architecture. But as an IT leader, can you confidently state that you have a clear and defined hybrid cloud strategy? With teams running in many different directions and little consensus on what hybrid cloud means, you may not know where to begin.
This white paper will help you get started. It will guide you through the benefits and challenges of a hybrid cloud architecture and help you develop your hybrid cloud strategy, including:
-The components of an effective hybrid cloud strategy
-Selecting and managing cloud vendors
-The people and skills you will need to accomplish your vision
-Demonstrating sufficient ROI on your IT spend
Download this free white paper today and get started building a world-class hybrid cloud strategy.
Published By: Alert Logic
Published Date: Nov 19, 2019
Every day, more organizations are adopting “cloud-first” strategies, shifting core business processes to public cloud systems and services. And though security concerns have been a barrier to digital transformation and cloud adoption in the past , it’s clear from the latest market projections—which see worldwide spending on public cloud services and infrastructure reaching US$210 billion in 2019 (up 23.8% over 2018) - companies migrating to the cloud from traditional environments are now prioritizing the benefits of the public cloud over any potential security risks to their business by understanding this new cloud security model and making strategic adjustments.
AP automation is often described as low hanging fruit in the
garden of digital transformation. And for a good reason – the
barrier to entry is impressively low in terms of both cost and
effort needed to get up and running, particularly in comparison
to the implementation projects for other business applications.
Despite that fact, the value provided from AP automation is
comparably high. For such an easy implementation, the benefits
reach throughout an organization, beyond the walls of the AP
department, and are near-immediate from day one of using the
solution.
Standard benefits include:
- Immediate value from day one with an expected ROI within the first year
- Up to 95% truly touchless invoice processing with access to real-time cloud data for benchmarking and reporting
- Easy access to financial data, such as cash flow & accrual reporting, with full visibility and control of the AP process
This guide will help you kick-start your AP automation project by
defining the 6 steps to build a solid business case and gain the
internal approvals needed to get started.
Learn how Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) that are leveraging Hybrid Cloud are seeing several critical benefits. Based on new Aberdeen research, these gains and benefits are even more vital for today’s organizations. With hybrid cloud, your SMB can reduce downtime, cost and risk while increasing flexibility and scalability.
"IT needs to reach beyond the traditional data center and the public cloud to form and manage a hybrid connected system stretching from the edge to the cloud, wherever the cloud may be. We believe this is leading to a new period of disruption and development that will require organizations to rethink and modernize their infrastructure more comprehensively than they have in the past.
Hybrid cloud and hybrid cloud management will be the key pillars of this next wave of digital transformation – which is on its way much sooner than many have so far predicted. They have an important role to play as part of a deliberate and proactive cloud strategy, and are essential if the full benefits of moving over to a cloud model are to be fully realized."
Businesses are using hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to untangle today’s big IT challenges. HCI can help you accelerate workloads, meet growing storage needs, gain the commercial benefits of hybrid cloud and more – all with easy-to-manage building blocks.
Published By: Cisco EMEA
Published Date: Jun 05, 2018
This Technology Spotlight highlights the tangible benefits achieved by early SD-WAN adopters across key use cases and outlines a vision for sustained ROI and value creation from the solution.This paper also looks at the role of Cisco in the strategically important SD-WAN market.
SD-WAN has arisen as the WAN's response to the migration of enterprise apps to the cloud. As the march of enterprise apps to the cloud gathers momentum,it is inevitable that SD-WAN gets the spotlight.
The IDPA DP4400 provides modern and powerful data protection for midsize organizations allowing companies to leverage the benefits of the cloud within their existing environments. The DP4400 can help transform your environment for the future, laying the technical foundation for the data center while modernizing your data protection for the cloud.
Despite momentous benefits, cloud computing has its own set of challenges that must be addressed. The primary concern that many enterprises and end users have is related to security, especially data protection and privacy and loss of control. This article discusses the several challenges associated with security for cloud-based video conferencing and how organizations can remove these barriers by adopting solutions that implement security as a key tenet.
Published By: Equinix
Published Date: May 18, 2015
This white paper explores how CIOs and business leaders need to think much more broadly about how their technology fits into a global network of services due to the rise of cloud infrastructure, software as a service, the global data footprint, and mobile apps.
This white paper from Symantec™ Health provides a guide for IT departments as they examine their current image archiving strategy and explore new options. It summarizes challenges, existing approaches, and the benefits of cloudbased archiving approaches.
Making the decision to move to cloud accounting is one step in the right direction; understanding the best approach and how you'll get there is half the battle. But guess what? It doesn't have to be difficult. The purpose of this ebook is to provide you with details on how to best plan your cloud accounting implementation, the benefits of a single cloud approach, and offer some key insights and recommendations when evaluating solutions that will make the implementation process so much easier.
Published By: Broadsoft
Published Date: Apr 04, 2017
Enabling greater flexibility and productivity without the need for large capital investment, the benefits of Cloud Communications enable businesses to free themselves from the limitations of traditional, office-based phone systems.
IT Transformation enables IT to become a service-centric partner to the business, helping deliver new products and services more quickly. An IDC study of 16 global companies shows the financial benefits.
Today’s always-on business environment relies on IT to deliver a competitive advantage. IT Transformation is the key. Transform your IT with leading hyper-converged, cloud, data storage, servers, open networking and data protection from Dell EMC and Intel®.
The industrial Internet of Things (IoT) has made equipment more efficient while improving customer experiences. For the first time, it enables manufacturers to gather and analyze sensor-based data to enhance operations. One industry that is experiencing the benefits of IoT is commercial and industrial washing machine manufacturers.
OctaveTM, Sierra Wireless' new device-to-cloud solution, lets you securely extract, orchestrate, and act on data from your washing equipment at the edge, to the cloud.
Published By: Lenovo UK
Published Date: Oct 28, 2019
Businesses are using hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) to untangle today’s big IT challenges. HCI can help you accelerate workloads, meet growing storage needs, gain the commercial benefits of hybrid cloud and more – all with easy-to-manage building blocks.
Published By: Dell EMEA
Published Date: Jun 14, 2019
The manufacturing industry has always been at the forefront of embracing new ways of doing things faster, smarter and better. Today, we’re at a fascinating inflection point. Industry 4.0 — a long-used term in manufacturing — has become increasingly mainstream, due to the availability of affordable IoT infrastructure, the desire to gain new business insights from data plus the arrival of advanced connectivity technologies, such as 5G.
As a solution builder, you can help your manufacturing customers realize benefits in the era of new industrial revolution. We can help you manage data across the entire manufacturing process and supply chain, from the edge to the core to the cloud, speeding up you application development and compressing time to market.
Our team of engineers and project managers are ready to help you design and build solutions on Tier 1 infrastructure to meet your unique requirements.
Download this eBook to learn how to take advantage of Industry 4.0 and deliver Next Gen
In this executive Q&A, Cloud Luminary and DonorsChoose.org CTO Oliver Hurst-Hiller discusses the importance of being able to seamlessly and quickly switch to a cloud service, the benefits of having all aspects of your company moved to the cloud, and more.
Employees, devices, and applications are no longer locked away inside the corporate perimeter. They’re on the web and on the go. Providing security for a new breed of anytime, anywhere workers and cloud-based applications requires a novel approach: a zero trust security model.
Assuming that every user, request, and server is untrusted until proven otherwise, a zero trust solution dynamically and continually assesses trust every time a user or device requests access to a resource. But zero trust offers more than a line of defense.
The model’s security benefits deliver considerable business value, too. Read this white paper to learn more about:
-Protecting your customers’ data
-Decreasing the time to breach detection
-Gaining visibility into your enterprise traffic
-Reducing the complexity of your security stack
-Solving the security skills shortage
-Optimizing the end-user experience
-Facilitating the move to the cloud
This study provides a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of an on-premises private cloud deployment. Download this study (commissioned by Dell and delivered by Forrester Consulting) to better understand the benefits on your organization and to understand how leveraging private cloud can help your organization win, serve and retain customers. Costs, flexibility, risks and ROI associated with a private cloud deployment.
