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Your customers are asking for it. Your developers are ready for it. Your operations team is demanding it. What’s behind this momentum? Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is a fundamental shift away from traditional software licensing to a market-driven subscription model. Keystone engaged 20 ISVs who successfully transitioned to a SaaS model, and found: New customer segments open thanks to lower adoption and operating costs. With less complex infrastructure under SaaS, customer TCO drops. ISV products improve with value-added cloud services and SaaS data capabilities. Financial predictability improves with recurring revenue model. New pricing models aligns ISV value to customers’ business needs, driving increased revenue. Additional, significant operational benefits from switching to a SaaS model. Fill out the form at right to get the free report, The Shift to SaaS: A high-value opportunity for ISVs. The collection of product usage data increases the speed of product development by 33%. –

A surge in new petrochemical production capacities across China, mainly for paraxylene, is likely to be the key factor that will heavily impact the sector globally, with US-China trade tensions next in line. Both factors have the potential to cause disruptions and change trade flows, while triggering fluctuations in margins. Volatile upstream markets, such as crude oil and naphtha, are not making these markets any more predictable either, and 2019 is set to be a year full of challenges. This special outlook report takes an in-depth look at the key themes expected to shape key Asian petrochemical markets in the months ahead.

Sometimes a perfect storm comes together to signal a radical shift or rebirth of an industry. But it’s not enough to say public relations is in flux or rapidly changing. It’s more impactful to discuss the evolution of the change, understand the potential gaps, and be early to capitalize on opportunities created by these gaps. The path for change in the PR industry has been tumultuous. And understandably so. The irrationality of basing performance on vanity metrics is so ingrained in the profession that the left-brain, rational piece has been pushed aside. This has created a culture of estimating based on vanity metrics like AVE (ad value equivalency), leading to a dynamic where the C-suite craves that WSJ or TechCrunch story, yet doesn’t believe PR’s reporting on the value of that coverage. When everyone in the marketing stack is crunching numbers and showing real, tangible value, PR is holding onto air. Why keep setting the profession up for failure by perpetuating the cycle of abstr

"Upgrading your ERP system can be vital to your organisation's survival in this era of disruption. This Gartner report offers actionable advice for IT leaders looking to keep pace with innovation, such as defining your ERP strategy goals and incorporating AI that can drive business value. Read now."

With disruptive ideas and technologies coming thick and fast, formulating a strategic response is critical to long-term survival. How can you prepare a strategy for success? Read this report to find out: • how established organisations are meeting the challenge from disruptors • what models they’re using to gain first-mover access to technology innovation • why designing an overall portfolio of disruption responses is key • how to navigate disruption successfully, with a clear four-step approach. Download the report now

The business is increasingly side-stepping the IT function to procure new technologies. Do you have the right governance in place to encourage innovation and ensure investment is directed for maximum impact? Read this report to find out: • how to balance the opportunities and risks from emerging technology • how to ensure funding for innovation is available and prioritised • where to direct funds for innovation • why ‘guardrails’ work better than rules in the current environment. Download the report now

La manera en que ponemos en marcha nuestros vehículos, calentamos nuestros hogares e impulsamos nuestras industrias está cambiando de manera radical. Las tecnologías que se han implementado a gran escala pero que resultan ser ineficientes, como los automóviles que utilizan motores de combustión interna, están siendo reemplazadas con alternativas electrificadas y más efectivas. Y las energías renovables como la solar, la eólica y la térmica, entre otras, apoyadas por el almacenamiento en baterías de próxima generación, están atendiendo un porcentaje cada vez mayor de la demanda de energía. Este reporte aborda cómo el proveedor líder de infraestructura de tecnologías de la información, TIBCO, está impulsando la transformación digital al permitir tomar mejores decisiones y realizar acciones más veloces e inteligentes a través de TIBCO® Connected Intelligence Cloud. Los siguientes ejemplos muestran cómo la tecnología de TIBCO está ayudando a las empresas de la industria energética:

Gartner evaluates eighteen digital commerce platforms and for the second year in a row, Gartner has identified Magento Commerce as an Industry Leader (top 3). According to Gartner, Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well-positioned for tomorrow. Magento Commerce, part of Adobe Experience Cloud, is innovating on platform functionality to help businesses like yours with the performance, scalability, and security required to deliver full-lifecycle customer experiences. Digital commerce platform choice has grown in complexity due to increased vendor choice and breadth of offerings, pricing model complexity and emerging managed service offerings. This report evaluates 18 vendors of digital commerce platforms to assist application leaders supporting digital commerce.

In this Magic Quadrant, Gartner evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of 18 providers that it considers the most significant in the marketplace and provides readers with a graph (the Magic Quadrant) plotting the vendors based on their ability to execute and their completeness of vision. The graph is divided into four quadrants: niche players, challengers, visionaries, and leaders. At Solutions Review, we’ve read the report and pulled out the key takeaways.

What is the future of transportation? What will new transportation technologies mean for the future of business? An excellent question that demands an excellent answer. To get that answer, the Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) surveyed 513 executives whose core roles focus on the development and use of new transportation and mobility capabilities. The results of this survey, supplemented by interviews with industry and academic experts, are at the heart of MEDC’s eBook, Paving The Way: How Leading Businesses Are Shaping the Future of Transportation and Mobility. The report offers a snapshot of the current transportation landscape while highlighting the steps businesses must take as they prepare for this fast-arriving future. This future will be built on a foundation of new technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), 5G-enabled vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communications, lightweight materials, and electric vehicles. These advances are p

Healthcare organizations are a favorite target for determined attackers. Any disruption to critical services provides a strong incentive to pay a ransom and patient medical data is highly lucrative for the information it contains. Research finds that providers have traditionally under invested in IT security, which further compounds the problem. Read the report to learn: • Important cyber security risks • The impact of a data breach to your organization • Key regulations around the globe

This report investigates year-to-year trends since June 2011, including the evolving threat of software portfolios and global vulnerability data.

Are you a finance leader looking to get on track with digitization? With insight from over 650 global finance leaders, this report examines the top priorities for financial transformation and provides a valuable road map for successfully redefining the finance function. Download the report now.

In this report we’ll explore comparing the cost of an on-site hyperconverged solution with a comparable set up in the cloud. The on-site infrastructure is a Dell EMC VxRailTM hyperconverged appliance cluster and the cloud solution is Amazon Web Services (AWS).

As the number and variety of threats mushroom, an Ovum survey has found that security teams have become physically unable to respond in an appropriate way to the ones that actually matter, with 50% of respondents in India saying they deal with more than 50 alerts each day. Shockingly, for 6% of organizations, that figure rises to between 100 and 1,000 threats a day. The Solution? Ovum believes that security decision-makers should invest in centralized management capabilities, enabling them to control the disparate security tools in their infrastructure, and address the challenge of prioritizing the volumes of daily alerts they receive. Download the Report to find out what else Ovum has discovered about security practices in India.

Real estate and facilities executives work across a broad agenda, from supporting business growth to improving building performance. Where should technology fit in and when is the right time to review your options? Independent research firm, Verdantix, explores the multiple trends profoundly changing real estate management and driving the need for a refreshed technology strategy. Download your complimentary report and learn more.

This report describes how improving the efficiency of data storage, deduplication solutions has enabled organizations to cost-justify the increased use of disk for backup and recovery. However, the changing demands on IT storage infrastructures have begun to strain the capabilities of initial deduplication products. To meet these demands, a new generation of deduplication solutions is emerging which scale easily, offer improved performance and availability and simplify management and integration within the IT storage infrastructure. HP refers to this new generation as "Deduplication 2.0.

"This IDC Technology Spotlight examines the evolution of vulnerability management. By leveraging the cloud and new technologies that deliver greater visibility, organizations can gain an accurate picture of their assets and overall risk posture. This is a critical step toward addressing the current landscape where attackers are using a wide variety of vectors such as mobile, social, and cloud-based attacks to infiltrate organizations and steal data. By reading this report you will get an overview of: - Benefits of cloud-based security and vulnerability management - Challenges of adopting cloud-based vulnerability management - IDC assessment of Tenable.io cloud vulnerability management"

In this report by Forrester Research, find out what 120 executives in the US with influence and decision-making responsibility regarding healthcare management do to manage costs and increase employee engagement.

Almost 700 businesses in North America and Europe were independently surveyed to understand whether they are already experiencing the impact of poor application performance in their cloud application deployments, and how this is affecting their cloud strategies going forward.

Technology has always enabled companies to reinvent how they engage with customers. But now we are seeing a profound shift – the convergence of physical and digital customer interactions – which is fundamentally changing how customers will interact and transact with brands and businesses everywhere. To better understand these dynamics, the IBV is conducting a Customer Experience (CX) study, published as a series, with multiple reports organized by topic.

Technology has always enabled companies to reinvent how they engage with customers. But now we are seeing a profound shift – the convergence of physical and digital customer interactions – which is fundamentally changing how customers will interact and transact with brands and businesses everywhere. To better understand these dynamics, the IBV is conducting a Customer Experience (CX) study, published as a series, with multiple reports organized by topic.

Technology has always enabled companies to reinvent how they engage with customers. But now we are seeing a profound shift – the convergence of physical and digital customer interactions – which is fundamentally changing how customers will interact and transact with brands and businesses everywhere. To better understand these dynamics, the IBV is conducting a Customer Experience (CX) study, published as a series, with multiple reports organized by topic.

Financial planning and analysis is evolving to support digital business initiatives. Application leaders supporting finance transformation must focus on new ways of managing financial performance by enabling broader integration with operational plans and actionable performance reporting. Download this complimentary Gartner report and discover how.

Financial planning and analysis is evolving to support digital business initiatives. Application leaders supporting finance transformation must focus on new ways of managing financial performance by enabling broader integration with operational plans and actionable performance reporting. Download this complimentary Gartner report and discover how.