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Automation is not only a positive disruptive force for finance teams, but also a benefit to other departments as the savings trickle throughout the business. Here are five ways that automation can drive value across the entire company.

An imperative for many enterprises is to undergo a digital transformation to develop new business models, engage better with customers and employees, and remain competitive. Underpinning this transformation is the use of cloud services, which support the rapid innovation and responsiveness required in the digital age. Unfortunately, current enterprise networks tasked with delivering these innovative services are complex, rigid, costly, and were not built for the speed and flexibility needed in the cloud and digital era. As a result, many organizations are challenging the status quo of traditional networking by taking a software-defined approach. Watch this webinar featuring research from Forrester to discover: * Trends that are compelling 90% of organizations to evolve their networks * Why SD-WAN is a critical enabler of digital transformation * Key capabilities companies look for in an SD-WAN solution

This report provides the 10 essential SQL server security tasks

Digital Elektronik bought four Epson robots for the job, and these robots completed the task in just a few months. Since then Digital Elektronik has used the robots for new applications, some similar but others quite different, demonstrating a key advantage of Epson robots in being flexible and reusable. Volker Spanier, head of factory automation at Epson Germany, says, “I think this is an excellent example of how Epson robots can improve production line efficiency and complete tasks that may not even be possible by hand. It’s also great to see our robots involved in the construction of such a memorable landmark that will stand the test of time.”

Most HR departments spend up to five hours of every day with tedious data-related administrative issues and reactionary tasks. The right HRIS software will automate your critical processes and free your time to be more accelerated, responsive and strategic. Learn how HRIS technology will help you to: . Eradicate benefit errors . Manage attendance . Automate compliance

Did you know that sales reps typically waste up to 16 hours per week on non-selling tasks? If your sales team is spending too much time on non-selling tasks, logging sales activities to Salesforce, hunting for customer information and documents, or copy-pasting data between separate systems, they might resist the rise of mobile CRM solutions like Salesforce1. However, it’s important to figure out how to enable these teams in the field, as 55% of salespeople will access sales applications exclusively through smartphones or tablets by the end of 2016. It’s not surprising that salespeople will increase their use of mobile apps 125% from 2015-2017. In this whitepaper from Tact, you’ll learn 1) common challenges facing field sales teams, 2) a framework for thinking about mobile sales productivity, 3) essential characteristics for evaluating mobile sales solutions, and 4) key trends in mobile sales.

Projects to implement ERP tend to be difficult, expensive and drawn-out. They are often full of painful surprises and overrun budgets and schedules that were extravagant in the first place. They fail entirely in an alarming number of cases.  Why this should be so is not immediately apparent. If we list, at a fairly high level, the tasks required to implement an ERP system in a company that’s already familiar with ERP practices, what we see is a significant but not daunting amount of work.

Getting your applications to work properly over a Wide Area Network (WAN) is a complex task, and it is not likely to get easier any time soon. Trends such as data center consolidation, the advent of Web 2.0 applications, and the move to web-based application delivery have only served to increase complexity and slow user response times. Often, the result is sluggish application response and at worst, abandoned applications and shopping carts due to slow or failed web page loads. The good news is that you can do something to improve application performance over slow or congested WAN networks. An Application Delivery Network can accelerate your applications and help make sure they’re secure, fast, and available.

NetApp® SnapManager® for Oracle (SMO) is designed to significantly simplify all these tasks and more. In this article, we examine how you can deploy SMO to simplify and even automate data protection, recovery, and cloning across both primary and secondary storage. Learn more today!

The primary goal of this guide is not simply to provide a checklist of tasks, but to help you develop an understanding of the disaster recovery (DR) planning process and the principles that underlie it. Before getting into the details, let’s consider first just what this guide will do for you and equally importantly, what it will not do. What this guide will do is to lay out a framework for DR planning that keeps things conceptually simple and helps you know what steps must be carried out and why, without a lot of jargon or unnecessary formality.

Reduce the work need to provide better security.

A Harvard Business Report providing an insight into how smart knowledge workers delegate tasks - or eliminate them all together

Today's businesses need simpler more efficient and flexible computing models. The IBM PureSystems family is comprised of platform systems and infrastructure systems that include built-in "patterns of expertise" to address complex business and operational tasks for smarter computing.

To better support the business, I&O managers often turn to IT service support management (ITSSM) tools. ITSSM tools enable IT operations organizations, specifically infrastructure and operations (I&O) managers, to better support the production environment. ITSSM tools automate the tasks and workflows associated with the management and delivery of quality IT services to the business. The vendors in this Magic Quadrant offer integrated products that address functionality from a combined perspective of people, processes and tooling. BMC was rated as a leader by Gartner in the Magic Quadrant.

Compliance is a fast-moving target, and it’s getting harder to keep up. In a survey by IT Policy Compliance Group, a consortium dedicated to helping IT security professionals meet policy and compliance goals, 70 percent of all respondents reported being subject to multiple regulatory compliance mandates, as well as contractual obligations and industry standards. Download to learn how Symantec Certificate Intelligence Center allows enterprises to automate discovery tasks and set up alerts to notify administrators when certificates expire or require maintenance.

Customer service has evolved from a reactive activity viewed largely as a cost center-based tactical necessity, to a proactive management task that can in many ways set a company apart from the competition. At the same time, the channels by which customers receive support are growing and fragmenting very rapidly. The telephone is still the primary mode of support, but is steadily declining as text, social media, chat, knowledge bases, email and online communities provide new avenues for customers to get the help they need. Some organizations are embracing this evolution by implementing technologies that enable them to interact with customers regardless of the channel or the device they’re using. This approach not only improves customer service, but also boosts the brand image and helps companies achieve broader business goals.

As companies aggressively determine how to monetize their mobile channels, or deploy mobile applications to improve business efficiency, those tasked with quality assurance need to support these efforts for all types of devices—in an efficient and cost-effective manner.

We evaluate vendors providing applications that support the management of marketing resources, such as plans, people, budgets, projects, tasks, assets and cycle times. This Magic Quadrant will help marketing leaders and CIOs find an MRM solution to better manage their marketing resources.

You’ve determined how ECM can help your organization automate manual tasks, improve workflows and eliminate paper-based processes. Next is developing an ECM solution based on your business needs.

When compliance managers think about the good old days, they do not have to look back too far. In fact, prior to 2008, the world was a much simpler place: the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published a list of sanctioned companies and individuals, and as long as their company was not doing business with any person on that list, they seemed to be in good shape. This was definitely not an easy task. However, after 2008, it became more complicated when OFAC guidance stated that an ownership interest of 50% or more by a sanctioned subject was blocked or otherwise limited.

Today’s organizations are tasked with managing multiple data types, coming from a wide variety of sources. Faced with massive volumes and heterogeneous types of data, organizations are finding that in order to deliver insights in a timely manner, they need a data storage and analytics solution that offers more agility and flexibility than traditional data management systems. A data lake is an architectural approach that allows you to store massive amounts of data into a central location, so it’s readily available to be categorized, processed, analyzed, and consumed by diverse groups within an organization. Since data - structured and unstructured - can be stored as-is, there’s no need to convert it to a predefined schema and you no longer need to know what questions you want to ask of your data beforehand.

For many companies, language barriers increase as business globalization becomes the norm rather than the exception. Perhaps a call center agent cannot handle customer contact in an unfamiliar language. Or a manager travels to a face-toface meeting only to sit across a conference table from clients wanting to speak in their own native language. Even within your organization, teams across global geographies must collaborate to achieve collective goals, but language barriers often stand in their way. Meanwhile, HR leaders are tasked with recruiting and retaining top talent and L&D managers must align programs with business goals. Each of these scenarios and areas of responsibility have something in common: A clear need for company-sponsored training to develop employees’ language proficiency so they can engage successfully with colleagues and customers anywhere. Thousands of learners were surveyed about the impact of language training with Rosetta Stone® business solutions.1 Results show

There was a time when middle managers were seen as fairly expendable. If you needed to cut costs or eliminate layers, managers were the first to get the axe. The realities of today’s environment are changing that, however. Managers are playing a pivotal role, not just in making sure key tasks get done, but in engaging employees to be more vested in the organization and motivated to contribute their best. As we keep asking people to “do more with less,” step up to new challenges, and embrace new organizational directions, managers are the ones who have the greatest opportunity to influence the actions on the front lines. They are also critical for helping organizations keep and grow top talent, a particular concern as employee disengagement and turnover rates are costing companies billions of dollars annually.

Global organizations such as Nestle?, Shell and others retain their leadership by solving their toughest challenges with advanced optimization. Manufacturers are seeking ways to apply advanced analytics and optimization through the entire planning and production lifecycle. This can help you achieve: Improved profitability, reliability and revenue by 10% or more Deploy a new planning solution in as little as 3 months Compute ready-to-implement plans for complex tasks within minutes Reduce your dependence on IT and rapidly evolve solutions Leverage industry-leading analytics and optimization and innovative modeling methodologies Monetise your existing analytic, ERP and other solutions, accelerate growth and reduce costs Learn How Three Manufacturers Are Using Optimization to Revolutionize Manufacturing

Mobile devices help clinicians improve the quality of patient care and save lives by improving staff communication and collaboration, and by providing instant access to a wealth of mission-critical information — from real-time lab results to a change in a patient’s condition or verification of the “5 rights” of medication administration at the patient bedside. In addition, mobility also helps healthcare organizations comply with important governmental and regulatory safety standards, without tasking an already overburdened nursing staff with additional paperwork. This white paper provides guidance for planning and implementing a clinical mobility solution in today’s healthcare environment, including a five-step roadmap to help key stakeholders identify needs.