Downtime happens and often at the worst time possible. Organizations experiencing downtime face direct and indirect costs from the loss of critical systems. This whitepaper discusses a Globalscape survey of 283 IT professionals and end users revealing the frequency of unplanned downtime, the effects on organizations, including...
Published: Jul 31, 2014
As a company that works with real world software application development and operations team practitioners at every level on an everyday basis, CA Technologies understands that this ‘new term’ DevOps needs clarification, analysis and examination.
In a programme we have called CA DevOps Perspectives, we...
Published: Aug 14, 2014
Virtualisation has without doubt enabled IT organizations to obtain maximum efficiency from their physical hardware, but virtualisation has also increased the complexity these organisations have to manage, and that includes data protection…
Published: Jan 29, 2014
Creating a workplace culture where employees feel safe and respected means designing and implementing a prevention program that adapts to emerging issues.
Published: Nov 19, 2013
Over the past 15 years, we’ve seen generations of service management platforms come and go—but many critical limitations persist. Consequently, IT organizations, and the businesses they serve, suffer from a lack of agility, poor service levels and high costs.
This paper offers a look at the obstacles of...
Published: Aug 01, 2014
Decision Making at the Best Run A&E Firms
Every CFO employs some level of business intelligence (BI). Success requires constantly evaluating the business: monitoring performance, leveraging a feedback loop, making adjustments as things change, and measuring the results. How do you do that?
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Published: Aug 19, 2013
Front-page headlines have increased awareness but network and application security remain moving targets. Threats continue to advance quickly in both number and complexity, causing enterprises to seek new, more advanced solutions for safeguarding customer data, intellectual property, financial assets, and their all-important...
Published: Sep 03, 2014
The first challenge for most business is in defining where CRM sits within the organisation, who has control or responsibility and which theories underpin the approach.
The second challenge is to separate out the methodology and processes before identifying the technology that can be deployed to make those systems...
Published: Mar 01, 2015
With increased consumer empowerment, global supply chains, aging infrastructure, raw material price volatility, stricter compliance standards, and an aging workforce, organizations must reduce operational costs in order to remain competitive. All too often, however, organizations lack not only visibility into their assets’...
Published: Nov 08, 2013
Workforce management technology encompasses all the activities needed to maintain a productive workforce. It addresses a critical business requirement by aligning HR activities to organizational business goals.
The objective is to provide strategic insight into the strength of the workforce, to determine where change...
Published: Feb 28, 2014
Sephora launched their Beauty Board experience on their website, Sephora.com, built leveraging Thismoment’s platform. It’s a bold move by a bold and innovative company, who is early to the realization that user generated content (UGC) has value beyond the casual entertainment of looking at selfies for the sheer...
Published: Oct 08, 2014
Today’s CFOs are under pressure to control costs, meet expanding reporting and compliance requirements and support corporate growth initiatives (capital investment, foreign expansion, mergers and acquisitions, etc.).
To meet all of these requirements, CFOs should consider the “Last Mile of Finance”...
Published: Oct 24, 2013
This white paper demonstrates that the business upside to B2B e-commerce is fundamental: an effective B2B e-commerce platform allows companies to sell more at a lower cost and transform sales efficiency.
Published: Sep 16, 2013
When you’ve been in business since 1937, change doesn’t always come easy. For one of the country’s oldest producers of pancake and waffle flour the decision to upgrade their backup technology didn’t happen overnight.
However, one of New Carbon’s stated corporate values is “Accountability:...
Published: Aug 14, 2014