As organizational structures get flatter, opportunities for meaningful global collaboration are increasing. However, without the right tools in place, those opportunities will go to waste.
Workplace by Facebook asked Harvard Business Review to find out how its audience is thinking about adopting, deploying and using social collaboration tools at work. The results show that the time to act is now.
Download this info-graphic to view the results from over 750 magazine and e-newsletter readers, customers and HBR.org users.
Over the past decade, businesses have made tremendous investments in information capture, storage, and analysis. But having a wealth of data isn’t the same as having valuable information. Data Virtualization products and services provide a way to turn your data stores into valuable information that improves decision-making and propels experimentation and innovation. This paper explains:
What data virtualization is and its benefits
When and when not to use data virtualization
How to deploy data virtualization to benefit your business
How to unlock the value of your SAP data
Over the past decade, businesses have made tremendous investments in information
capture, storage, and analysis. But having a wealth of data isn’t the same as having
valuable information. TIBCO®
Data Virtualization products and services provide a way
to turn your data stores into valuable information that improves decision-making and
propels experimentation and innovation. This paper explains:
•?What data virtualization is and its benefits
•?When and when not to use data virtualization
•?How to deploy data virtualization to benefit your business
Enterprises use data virtualization software such as TIBCO® Data Virtualization to reduce data bottlenecks so more insights can be delivered for better business outcomes. For developers, data virtualization allows applications to access and use data without needing to know its technical details, such as how it is formatted or where it is physically located. For developers, data virtualization helps rapidly create reusable data services that access and transform data and deliver data analytics with even heavylifting reads completed quickly, securely, and with high performance. These data services can then be coalesced into a common data layer that can support a wide range of analytic and applications use cases. Data engineers and analytics development teams are big data virtualization users, with Gartner predicting over 50% of these teams adopting the technology by 202
Published By: Rackspace
Published Date: Feb 01, 2019
Nearly nine in 10 enterprises have adopted a multi-cloud strategy, according to the latest RightScale State of the Cloud Report, and these enterprises use eight different clouds, on average. Increasingly, their cloud of choice is a public cloud.
Every public cloud, however, is different. GCP is rapidly gaining users among companies of all sizes.
Today, GCP’s customers include large global brands like Disney, eBay, HSBC, The Home Depot, Schlumberger and Verizon, and smaller ones like gaming platform Smash.gg and the Rhode Island School of Design, one of the nation’s leading arts and design institutions.
Whether GCP is a good fit for your company depends on a multitude of factors. To find out what these are and how Rackspace can help your business, download this whitepaper today.
Published By: Mimecast
Published Date: Jan 17, 2019
Two-thirds of all internally generated email sent is from employees communicating within an organization*. Yet most IT organizations only focus on inbound email when it comes to protecting against cyber-attacks. In doing so, they ignore the serious risks posed by internal and outbound emails and the actions of two at risk groups of users - the compromised and careless employee.
Mimecast Internal Email Protect extends the security capabilities of Targeted Threat Protection to provide advanced inside-the-perimeter defenses. Watch this on-demand webinar where Mimecast’s Chief Trust Officer, Marc French, and Cyber Security Strategist, Bob Adams discuss:
The top things to do to optimize your Targeted Threat Protection implementation and prepare for addressing the threats on the inside.
The multiple ways internal email threats start, and why human error nearly always plays a role.
The scale and impact of attacks that spread via internal email.
How to extend your current protection with Mim
Published By: HotSchedules
Published Date: Jan 17, 2019
Founded in 2011 by entrepreneurs Allen Reagan and Walt Powell, Flix Brewhouse is the world’s only first-run movie theatre and fully functioning microbrewery. The operation faced some challenges as the business grew including a lack of of structured training program and disengaged training sessions.
With the help of Clarifi Talent Development Flix Brewhouse was able to turn it all around. With a fully functioning training program, Flix Brewhouse now has 71 custom training courses with increased sales and improved service times. With 660 active users in their online training academy, they are able to maintain high-quality service for their customers. Learn how they 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
Organization: Arup
Headquarters: London, England
Users: 13,500
Objective: Global professional services firm, Arup, moved from Cisco Cloud Web Security (CWS) to Cisco Umbrella. By implementing a secure internet gateway in conjunction with nextgen endpoint security, Arup secured access to the internet wherever users go, reduced its exposure to malware and improved the ability to detect, respond and remediate when necessary.
Solution: Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Umbrella Investigate & Cisco AMP for Endpoints
Impact:
• Substantially reduced administrative time
• Accelerated response and remediation process
• Increased performance of cloud applications
• Reduced time to investigate
Published By: Forcepoint
Published Date: Jan 03, 2019
All Clouds are not Equal
Today’s organizations turn to the cloud for all types of productivity-gaining tools – including security.
Features such as security for mobile users and data loss protection are key, but it’s also important to separate fact from fiction when looking at the infrastructure of the provider.
Download the ebook to discover five common misconceptions about cloud-based security infrastructure, and what you should really be looking for in a cloud-based security solution.
Published By: Forcepoint
Published Date: Jan 03, 2019
Downtime Is Not an Option: High Availability Next Generation Firewall
Access to applications, data, and resources on the Internet is mission-critical for every organization. Downtime is unacceptable. Security for that network must also be highly available and not cause performance degradation of the network.
The increased workload of security devices as they analyze traffic and defend users from malicious attacks strains computing resources. The next generation of security solutions must build in high availability that can scale as the business changes. Download this whitepaper to find out how high availability is at the core of the Forcepoint NGFW (Next Generation Firewall).
Collaboration in the enterprise requires a triumvirate of people, process and technology to be successful. With the plethora of collaboration applications available today, both IT professionals and collaboration business users alike need to take a holistic approach to be successful with
collaboration. This paper lets you know about some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.
If your organization's servers run applications that are critical to your business, chances are that you'd benefit from an application delivery solution. Today's Web applications can be delivered to users anywhere in the world and the devices used to access Web applications have become quite diverse.
Published By: Citrix Systems
Published Date: Feb 14, 2019
"Now that 72.3% of cloud users have a mix of on-prem/off-prem clouds, the networking game has changed. Traditional app delivery solutions can’t ensure reliable, secure access in a SaaS, multi-device, hybrid, and multi-cloud world.
Get this solution brief to learn why a holistic strategy innately reduces complexities that otherwise would prohitib visibility and control in distributed architectures. The brief also explains:
- The Citrix Networking approach to delivering reliability and a high-quality experience
- How to ensure reliable access to apps at branch and remote locations while keeping costs low
- How to provide full visibility and analytics for your network, applications, users, and data"
Published By: Citrix Systems
Published Date: Feb 14, 2019
"As work moves beyond walls, you need a new security framework that enables more flexibility, productivity, and innovation, not less. Citrix offers a comprehensive security approach that delivers the secure contextual access you need to provide an enhanced user experience while you maintain control.
Get this brief to explore how Citrix can help you:
- Put the right controls in place to secure SaaS and Internet access
- Use a single solution to deliver an integrated experience for end-users and admins alike
- Consolidate multiple and disparate access solutions into one"
Published By: Citrix Systems
Published Date: Feb 14, 2019
"Ransomware is one of the biggest nightmares facing IT today. Hackers are targeting organizations of all kinds with malware designed to encrypt crucial data—and hold it hostage until payment is made. This white paper reveals four highly effective measures for reducing your exposure to ransomware and keeping your apps and data accessible to authorized users—not hackers and their clients.
Download this white paper to learn how to:
- Shield users of web apps from infection and keep sensitive data off the endpoint
- Prevent email-born ransomware from compromising the endpoint
- Protect mobile devices against attack
- Ensure the rapid recovery of ransomware-encrypted data"
Application downtime impacts everyone. This paper provides best practices for communicating application downtime to end-users in a manner that maintains - or can even improve- your organization's credibility and brand image. Learn what to do and what not to do in this informative white paper.
If you're a brand marketer or digital agency looking to amplify your social marketing initiatives this year, this document will guide you through the growing world of Facebook apps. Today, there are more than 500,000 active applications on Facebook, but of these only 250 applications have more than one million monthly active users. You've downloaded this guide because you recognize that marketing today means creating a two-way dialogue with your customers.
Published By: Sitecore
Published Date: Jan 06, 2009
This guide offers insight into the WCM technology choices available today, discusses some of the requirements both IT and business users should consider when selecting a WCM solution, and includes advice for ensuring a successful evaluation process.
Published By: StrongMail
Published Date: Sep 08, 2010
With more than 500 million active users, Facebook can be an extremely effective channel for engaging customers around your brand. However, before you rush out to build a fan page, you need to first understand the best way to interact with them based on conversations about your brand that are already happening on the social web.
Published By: 123Together
Published Date: Mar 17, 2009
With the current state of the economy, IT executives are being asked to stretch their budgets in order to keep their businesses profitable. In 2008, Median IT spending per user fell to $6,667 from the previous year's $7,397, according to Computer Economics. This represents a 6.2% reduction, consistent with the fact that IT managers were supporting an increasing number of users without corresponding increases in IT spending. IT spend continued to decline in 2009 and uncertainty and caution is still prevalent in 2010.
Published By: Cotendo
Published Date: Sep 01, 2010
The company needed a different CDN and website acceleration solution to provide its users with the level of responsiveness to changing stock market conditions that they depend on - and that Seeking Alpha demanded of itself.
HCM suite vendors are building out their offerings to address administrative, strategic and operational needs of users in multiple geographies, but solutions still vary. HR IT leaders should use this research to identify best-fit vendors based on their own critical product and service/support needs.
Published By: Windstream
Published Date: Oct 30, 2015
UCaaS enables businesses to transition their enterprise communications costs from a capital-expenditure (CapEx) to an operational-expense (OpEx) model, transforming the upfront costs related to on-premises PBX and UC deployments to a flexible per-user pricing model, which allows them to quickly scale the number of UC users up or down as business needs dictate.
Published By: Windstream
Published Date: Oct 30, 2015
UCaaS enables businesses to transition their enterprise communications costs from a capital-expenditure (CapEx) to an operational-expense (OpEx) model, transforming the upfront costs related to on-premises PBX and UC deployments to a flexible per-user pricing model, which allows them to quickly scale the number of UC users up or down as business needs dictate.