business optimization

Driven by easy-to-consume infrastructure and services, the adoption of public cloud surged in 2018. As a result, enterprises are seeking cost management solutions tools to curb waste, optimize cloud costs, and increase transparency. However, businesses must also factor the cost of licensed software into this equation, otherwise they may leave significant savings on the table. The ""Software License Management as a Critical Part of Cloud Cost Optimization"" white paper by industry analyst Enterprise Management Associates explores the consequences of not considering software license costs when deploying in the cloud and pinpoints why it occurs. Download the white paper to learn how.

Your Local Business Listings are part of the foundation of your online presence. Ensuring that all of your brick-and-mortar business locations are accurately represented on directories like Google My Business, Facebook Places, Bing Places, Apple Maps and more requires a hands-on, managed approach to local data optimization.

MANUFACTURING: AN INDUSTRY DRIVEN BY DISRUPTION A leading manufacturer today can be an also-ran next year. Disruption is the new normal. Maintain the status quo at your peril because no manufacturer is safe from: •? Innovative new products that can radically shift demand •? Falling prices that relentlessly pressure costs •? Dynamic business models where yesterday’s partner can become tomorrow’s competitor Turning disruption into your advantage requires continuous innovation and optimization, driven by data.

MANUFACTURING: AN INDUSTRY DRIVEN BY DISRUPTION A leading manufacturer today can be an also-ran next year. Disruption is the new normal. Maintain the status quo at your peril because no manufacturer is safe from: •? Innovative new products that can radically shift demand •? Falling prices that relentlessly pressure costs •? Dynamic business models where yesterday’s partner can become tomorrow’s competitor Turning disruption into your advantage requires continuous innovation and optimization, driven by data.

A Beginner's Guide to Marketing Data Analytics Marketing Data is big & highly fragmented Big data is messy. It’s scattered across platforms, it’s diverse, and in its raw form, it’s practically unusable. We know, it’s a painful truth. The fact of the matter is that having a lot of data doesn’t necessarily mean that you have the answers to your most pressing questions. Looking for the most relevant bits in your pile of big data is like looking for a needle in a haystack. But don't you worry - we are here to help. This handy e-book will give you a short overview what quality matters, why data is so important and what you need to pay attention to. Best thing is: getting this ebook is super easy. Just fill out the form to the right and voilá - your download is ready. Enjoy this read!

In this whitepaper, we take a closer look at some of the biggest challenges facing e-commerce businesses, namely understanding your data in general and, more precisely, your customer acquisition costs (CAC). It's full of inspiration, useful tips and actionable insights for you to step up your marketing game. In order to reap the fruits from your data seeds, you have to make sure you tackle these five challenges full-frontal: Knowing what data to capture Understanding customer behaviour Finding your technology solution Ensuring analysis is impartial Optimising website content - especially for your offline users

Master Your Client's Data To Build An Advertising Agency For The Future This is the first part of our ebook Strategic Playbook For Data-driven Advertising Agencies. In this instalment we cover how agency executives can benefit from their client's data to maintain a sustainable, future-proof business in times of digital transformation. Scaling your business with Marketing Intelligence Building a data strategy to stay ahead of the curve Mastering the end-to-end data management process Once you decide to master your data, you will be rewarded with deep, meaningful insights and happy long-term clients that get the most out of their data. We know it’s worth it! Signup and download the 28-page pdf-document to understand how data will secure your spot in the future advertising industry.

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

This is a digibook is a guide to empowering business transformation through greater cooperation between finance and HR.

Today every business is focused on their customers, and finding ways to better understand and serve them with differentiated digital experiences. With all of the choices available, users have become highly demanding, and quickly lose patience and trust when web and mobile app experiences are poor. Today’s digital user demands rich, engaging content that is fresh, personalized, and fast. If your websites and mobile apps can’t deliver, they’re gone. This eBook will give you insight into: Monitor how users interact with your online applications by leveraging real user data Optimize behaviors that drive the most revenue impact across user locations and devices Validate whether the optimizations resulted in desired business outcomes using real-world situations

As businesses grow more optimistic about opportunities for growth, the pressure is on for sales organizations to meet ever higher revenue targets. In a global survey on sales performance optimization by CSO Insights, 94 percent of respondents said their 2014 revenue targets were higher than last year’s. It’s no wonder that “capture new accounts,” cited by 60 percent of respondents, topped the list of objectives for 2014 in the study. At the same time, many sales reps are struggling to meet even their current quotas. And in an Aberdeen Group survey, nearly half identified insufficient revenue growth as the top pressure motivating them to pursue sales management initiatives ranging from building out the capabilities of sales teams to improving management practices and investing in technology tools.

Disaster recovery (DR) planning has a reputation for being difficult and time consuming. Setting up alternate processing sites, procuring hardware, establishing data replication, and failover testing have been incredibly expensive undertakings. To top it all off, the need for 24x7x365 business application availability threatens to make disaster recovery planning an exercise in futility.

"Traditional offices and meeting rooms are giving way to open team and mobile spaces, as well as huddle rooms, all of which present challenges for effective collaboration in geographically distributed organizations. Polycom can help you transform the way you and your teams work and compete more effectively with intuitive collaboration tools that fit with the way your teams work, not the other way around. The Polycom 2018 Buyers Guide will help you understand how to apply team collaboration technology to meeting spaces of all sizes.

A majority of businesses have adopted digital platforms across multiple channels and in many cases successfully utilised them to drive efficiency and profitability. Technology, and the data that often underpins it, has become an extremely valuable asset for businesses of all sizes. The way that companies do business has also changed and technology has played a key role in this, customers now expect instant gratification and a service model that suits their specific needs. This paper will analyse the cause and effect of companies implementing digital transformation strategies and understand the role of cloud technologies within this. It will also explore some of the wider aspects of business transformation and the journey’s businesses take to implement innovative technologies.

Documents are an integral component to the successful operation of an organization. Whether in hardcopy or digital form, they enable the communication, transaction, and recording of business-critical information. To ensure documents are used effectively, organizations are encouraged to continually evaluate and improve surrounding workflows. This may involve automating elements of document creation, securing the transfer and storage of information, and/or simplifying the retrieval of records and the data contained within. These types of enhancements can save time, money, and frustration. This white paper will discuss top trends and requirements in the optimization of document-related business processes as well as general technology infrastructures for document management. It will also address how some office technology vendors have reacted to these trends to guide their design and development of products, solutions, and services.

The proliferation of business unit cloud use is primarily motivated by digital transformation's need for innovation and agility in big data and real-time analytics, rather than cost optimization, which causes overspending. CIOs should use three moves to gain business influence and optimize costs.

Improved availability of data and new technologies that use it are disrupting our lives, influencing the way we interact with other, and the way we gather and consume information to make decisions. Businesses too are living in a time of continuous technological upheaval. The application of key technologies such as Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence and Optimization, are fundamentally changing the manner in which businesses make decisions. This paper is your first step in understanding: • how you can leverage and operationalize analytics in your everyday business processes • improve customer relationships • grow revenue in an increasingly competitive world

Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) isn’t just about aligning supply and demand. Ultimately, businesses across all industries need to synchronize plans across all functions to strike the right balance between demand, resources and other constraints. Companies are realizing that their use of analytics to help improve decision making needs to evolve beyond just reporting to include machine learning and optimization. Download our latest Q&A now with published author and supply chain expert Mike Watson, and learn how virtually any S&OP decision can benefit from advanced analytics and automation. You’ll get practical advice to help build a strawman, so you can move forward quickly – before your competitors! Read this Executive Brief to know the Top 7 Questions to ask before deploying your Sales and Operations planning.

Whether your company wants to grow by optimizing your current business model or transforming to introduce new revenue sources, you’re likely exploring a variety of digital tools designed to enhance and expand the organization. Leaders rely on CIOs and IT directors to recommend digital strategies and outline the benefits and challenges they can expect from new digital tools. For many businesses, the first step toward growth is deciding how ambitious their digital strategy should be in order to compete and succeed in today’s manufacturing market. Technology leaders can help drive the company’s digital ambition by: • Considering whether the business can support full digital transformation or more moderate optimization • Observing digital trends across the industry and adjacent industries • Evaluating your competitive position as it relates to your digital strategies Learn more about how your company can determine its digital business ambition by downloading this research report from Gart

Insurance companies are intensely data and document driven. Learn how intelligent document capture solutions can help all types of insurance offerings improve customer service, process claims faster and create streamlined, efficient and profitable business practices.

Many organizations consider optimization only for their largest or most challenging business problems, often utilizing a small number of Operations Research professionals. But in our age of Big Data, market globalization and increased competition, many organizations are successfully making the case that optimization can be applied to a wider variety of business and operational decisions, and be developed by a new group of users — the organization’s business analysts. With a proven track record of results demonstrating that organizations can increase profitability with business analysts applying optimization to many types of business problems, FICO’s proven development methodology is giving organizations the confidence to extend optimization practices across their enterprises.