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Accelerate Digital Transformation. Make data center infrastructure cloud-ready. Optimize storage across clouds and data centers.

"Extracting value from data is central to the digital transformation required for businesses to succeed in the decades to come. Buried in data are insights that reveals what your customers need and how they want to receive it, how sales, manufacturing, distribution, and other aspects of business operations are functioning, what risks are arising to threaten the business, and more. That insight empowers your businesses to reach new customers, develop and deliver new products, to operate more efficiently and more effectively, and even to develop new business models. "

The bar for success is rising in higher education.  University leaders and IT administrators are aware of the compelling benefits of digital transformation overall—and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular. AI can amplify human capabilities by using machine learning, or deep learning, to convert the fast-growing and plentiful sources of data about all aspects of a university into actionable insights that drive better decisions. But when planning a transformational strategy, these leaders must prioritize operational continuity. It’s critical to protect the everyday activities of learning, research, and administration that rely on the IT infrastructure to consistently deliver data to its applications.

"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."

Accelerate Digital Transformation. Make data center infrastructure cloud-ready. Optimize storage across clouds and data centers.

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To compete in today’s world, business leaders are placing increased demands on IT. Unfortunately, many IT departments are not able to deliver future innovation with their current infrastructure, applications and processes. To meet these demands, IT must digitally transform the enterprise through the adoption of cloud native practices, allowing them to both optimize and transform their existing infrastructure and applications. Recent Avanade research supports this thinking, finding that 88% of senior IT decision-makers believe that IT modernization is crucial to addressing the emerging requirements of the digital business1 . On the upside, those surveyed also indicated that by modernizing their IT infrastructures they expect to deliver real business results, such as boosting annual revenue by 14%, while at the same time reducing business operating costs by 13%1 . For many, this sounds like a winning strategy but what does it mean to adopt cloud native approaches, and how does it impact

The term outsourcing can have a negative connotation, conjuring images of layoffs and relocating jobs to third parties in remote locations. However, outsourcing can take many forms, and finance and accounting outsourcing (FAO) does not always mean the displacing of the finance back office. Specifically, FAO leverages digital technology to complement and support the back office, streamlining processes while providing enhanced transaction processing, reporting and analytics capabilities. It also allows key resources to focus on strategy, analysis and decision-making.

Application programming interfaces, or APIs, are the way software talks to other software—so by definition, they’re a technology that connects systems. Many enterprise leaders think of them primarily in these terms. For example, 57 percent of respondents to Google’s enterprise digital maturity assessment tool, Apigee Compass, characterize APIs as systems integration technology.

Enterprises can extend their services with scale and speed that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. They can focus on their core strengths while leveraging resources from other ecosystem participants, creating richer, more valuable digital experiences than most companies have the resources to produce alone and spreading their businesses to new audiences and markets. The speed of change and the range of opportunities are dizzying—which is why it’s so easy for businesses to hit hurdles or chart the wrong course.

Headquartered in Chicago, Bean Suntory owns over 70 premium spirit brands from whiskey and rum, to vodka, cognac, tequila, and gin. Beam Suntory generates $4 billion in annual revenues. But that revenue was in danger. The company’s production software, Wonderware, which controls embedded systems driving almost every critical production process, was underpinned by ageing hardware. If it failed, production would come to a grinding—and expensive—halt.Every hour of downtime results in lost production, which can amount to millions of dollars in losses,” says Sanjay Kirtikar, Director Digital Technologies, Beam Suntory. To ensure Wonderware never failed, Beam Suntory implemented hyperconverged clusters integrated with Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform software The results were instant and outstanding. Beam Suntory expects a 25-35% cost benefit from lower support and maintenance efforts, and a 50% reduction in power usage.

Digital transformation has become a popular theme across enterprises. However, companies are confronted with several challenges. In a survey done recently, two-thirds of IT investments by Japanese companies were about "running-the-business", and a very small sum was focussed on business innovation and growth. What are the processes that an organization should create to promote digital transformation? What are the challenges? Read this article from Nikkei XTech that analyses the IT enterprise in Japan and challenges that it faces today.

In today’s digital world, technologies such as cloud have become commonplace to take digital transformation projects to the next level. But while cloud is critical to business transformation success, Australian IT decision-makers (ITDMs) still feel that the C-suite does not understand the time and complexity of the journey. This paper explores: • Insights on challenges faced by Australian ITDMs when rolling out cloud projects • The role of the ITDM today • Key blockages IT stakeholders encounter when driving digital change, and; • What they need from the business and wider technology ecosystem to navigate the risks associated with starting a cloud project or moving to a full cloud-first model.

Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Core, Intel vPro, Core Inside and vPro Inside are trademarks of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and/or other countries. The diversity and bureaucratic nature of government agencies have complicated communication for decades. But today digital technologies offer a path to connectivity and information sharing that could help break the gridlock. Innovative mobile and field force automation (FFA) technologies are helping state and federal government agencies break down the walls that hindered cooperation and decision making between offices and field personnel. This document is designed to help ensure that your mobile device platform selection and processes provide the power, reliability, and flexibility you need to achieve your mission — in the office, in the field, or ten flights up in the air.

Ihre Kunden sind auf vielen Kanälen aktiv. Sorgen Sie dafür, dass Ihr Unternehmen mithalten kann. Die Gewinnung von Neukunden und die Pflege der Beziehung zu Bestandskunden sind mit Zeit und Aufwand verbunden. Wenn Ihre Kunden mit Ihnen in Kontakt treten wollen, können sie dies dann auf dem Kanal ihrer Wahl tun? Angesichts der ständig voranschreitenden Digitalisierung wird es für Unternehmen immer wichtiger, mit ihren Kunden jederzeit über die Kanäle kommunizieren zu können, die die Kunden wünschen – sei es per Telefon, SMS, Chat oder über soziale Medien. In diesem E-Book erfahren Sie mehr zu den folgenden Themen: Kundeninteraktionen in einer hochvernetzten Welt Einfache und effiziente Betriebsabläufe für Kundeninteraktionen Gute Argumente für eine cloudbasierte All-in-One Lösung für Contact Center

The finance team’s data analytics skills put CFOs in the driving seat of digital change. Read the Economist Intelligence Unit report now to learn: • How finance helps other business units meet their digital ambitions • Why finance needs to make data visible across the business • Why it’s important to develop metrics for digital success Download now

After talking to 27 leading CFOs, the Economist Intelligence Unit finds that the finance team’s data analytics skills put the CFO in the driving seat of digital change. The result is that the CFO has a new responsibility to: • Help other business units meet their digital ambitions • Make relevant data visible across the business • Develop goals and metrics for digital success Watch the webinar

Where’s Your Supply Chain’s Weak Link? Identifying and repairing gaps in your supply chain is critical to ongoing success in a digital world. Here are 5 questions you need to ask.

Practice Supply Chain Best-in-Class What does it take to thrive in a digital world? A strong, strategic relationship with customers; data that supports confident decision-making; and an end-to-end SCM and ERP platform that brings it all together. See how industry leaders do it.

Organization: Telecom Italia (TIM) Headquarters: Milan, Italy Users: 600,000 Objective: As Italy’s businesses grew increasingly vulnerable to the threat of ransomware, data breaches, and other malicious malware attacks, service provider TIM sought an innovative solution to effectively and efficiently protect the network and data of its business users. Solution: Cisco Umbrella for Service Providers (SPs) Impact: • Rolled out TIM Safe Web to more than 600,000 customers, with less than 1 in 10,000 customers opting out of the service • Provided TIM with a unique competitive differentiator • Created an incremental revenue stream for TIM

The speed at which technologies evolve is all but a cliché, and nowhere is that speed more apparent than in the rise of mobile. The mobile tipping point—the point at which more people used mobile devices to access the web than desktop devices—came in the first quarter of 2017, when 50.03% of global web traffic was from mobile devices. Today, mobile is the de facto standard. Simply put, if you are not already building your business on the assumption that your digital visitors are using mobile, you are missing the mark.

Los contact centers modernos pueden dar soporte a varios canales digitales —correo electrónico, chat, conavegación, redes sociales, video— a través de múltiples puntos de contacto digital (web o dispositivos móviles). Lo que no pueden hacer es vincular las interacciones en un journey paso a paso para brindar una experiencia personal y contextual a cada cliente. Descargue el eBook Descubra cómo: Diseñar una estrategia de engagement digital exitosa Ofrecer a los agentes una visión 360 de las interacciones del cliente en todos los canales de voz y digitales Entregar experiencias omnicanal personalizadas, contextualizadas y de poco esfuerzo

Customers today expect their customer service to be as connected as they are. If you can’t deliver a seamless omnichannel customer experience or easily add digital channels such as mobile, social media and web, you risk being left behind. Some companies try to deliver omnichannel with dated technology, a tangle of point solutions, bolted together with duct tape. But you don’t have to. Read this ebook and see: Why force-fitting more channels into an aging infrastructure is not the right approach How to create a future-ready customer experience How an integrated approach improves your metrics and reduces operating costs

To remain competitive in an increasingly customer-centric world, mid-sized organizations are undergoing digital transformations of their contact centres. IDC surveyed companies in 27 countries globally, including companies from Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), to examine the current market dynamics of cloud-enabled customer service environments. Eighty-five percent of the respondents fell within the small to mid-sized category with contact centres with 300 seats or fewer. Get this paper to access complete survey results for EMEA and to gain key insights including: Nearly 65% of respondents in EMEA already use or are in the process of implementing cloud-based contact centre solutions Only 13% of respondents in EMEA indicated that they currently are using a public cloud environment, the lowest among all geographies worldwide Drivers, benefits and challenges for adopting cloud contact centre technology