Published By: IBM UK&Ireland
Published Date: Nov 14, 2017
In Forrester’s 40-criteria evaluation of omnichannel order management (OMS) vendors, we identified the nine most significant software providers in the category — Aptos, IBM, Jagged Peak, Kibo, Manhattan Associates, NetSuite, Oracle, Radial, and SAP Hybris — and researched, analyzed, and scored each. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where each stands in relation to one another to help eBusiness professionals select the right partner for their omnichannel order management needs.
Published By: IBM UK&Ireland
Published Date: Nov 14, 2017
Flexible and quick fulfillment of online orders has become a differentiator for retailers in the battle for omnichannel customers. But omnichannel fulfillment is expensive and difficult to execute, eroding already thin margins and exposing fragile fulfillment systems. Furthermore, the amount of data that must be processed to ensure the most profitable transaction is more than a fulfillment professional can handle alone, with literally hundreds of decision points to consider.
Published By: IBM UK&Ireland
Published Date: Nov 14, 2017
Our inclusion criteria for this Magic Quadrant emphasize the financial wherewithal of the digital commerce vendors as well as the robustness of their digital commerce platforms, most of which enable large volumes of buying transactions and significant levels of digital commerce GMV revenue. Many platforms support the needs of multiple industries and multiple regions, if not offer global support.
The new, more accessible workplace needs to be, in a word, manageable. This IBM white paper examines how today's workplace can ultimately help create greater enterprise value and offers best practice for how to best harness a flexible workplace to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of enterprises and institutions.
The enormous volume, velocity and variety of data flooding the enterprise, along with the push for analytics and business intelligence, is creating a massive challenge that is overwhelming traditional storage approaches. As the demand for capacity continues to escalate, companies must be able to effectively and dynamically manage the storage supply, but also the demand for storage resources. The key is to optimize the infrastructure through standardization and virtualization, and replace manual tasks with policy-based automation.
Many organizations have understandably turned to consolidation and virtualization to reduce server complexity, footprint and cost-to-scale. The next step is to optimize performance using analytics, policy-based automation and new technologies like cloud computing. Companies that focus on server optimization are seeing greater flexibility and sustained cost and operational efficiencies, with administrators able to manage 2.5 times more servers and almost twice as many virtual machines per server.
The explosion in IT demand has intensified pressure on data center resources, making it difficult to respond to business needs, especially while budgets remain flat. As capacity demands become increasingly unpredictable, calculating the future needs of the data center becomes ever more difficult. The challenge is to build a data center that will be functional, highly efficient and cost-effective to operate over its 10-to-20-year lifespan. Facilities that succeed are focusing on optimization, flexibility and planning—infusing agility through a modular data center design.
Read the white paper to learn how to put a plan in place for full functional validation, and get details on the importance of validating resiliency in a live environment; learn why small-scale recovery “simulations” are inadequate and misleading.
Building and managing cloud resiliency solutions in-house is difficult. Many organizations prefer to work with a third-party technology provider for the development and management of cloud solutions.
This paper explores the implications of cloud, big data and analytics, mobile, social business and the evolving IT security landscape on data center and enterprise networks and the changes that organizations will need to make in order to capitalize on these technology force.
For a network that better supports your cloud and brings the most value possible to your business, its design has to be considered in the early stages of cloud planning. Read the white paper "Networking for cloud computing" to discover specific networking considerations for public, private and hybrid clouds.
This paper explores the implications of cloud, big data and analytics, mobile, social business and the evolving IT security landscape on data center and enterprise networks and the changes that organizations will need to make in order to capitalize on these technology force.
Read this white paper to learn about the potential networking ramifications of various cloud deployment models and learn how to meet these challenges head on.
IBM Integrated Multivendor Support provides lifecycle-based recommendations concerning what hardware should be kept on OEM maintenance, moved to IBM maintenance or replaced. We help you streamline multivendor support by serving as a single point of contact and accountability.
Users expect quick, consistent access to their business-critical data and applications around the clock. That’s why outages, whether they are planned or unplanned, can negatively affect revenue, consumer trust and your reputation.
