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"Extracting value from data is central to the digital transformation required for businesses to succeed in the decades to come. Buried in data are insights that reveals what your customers need and how they want to receive it, how sales, manufacturing, distribution, and other aspects of business operations are functioning, what risks are arising to threaten the business, and more. That insight empowers your businesses to reach new customers, develop and deliver new products, to operate more efficiently and more effectively, and even to develop new business models. "

Download this paper to learn the top strategies leading executives are using to take full advantage of the insight they receive from their business intelligence (BI) systems - and turn that insight into a competitive weapon.

Though technology disruption in the media and entertainment industry have caused a strong shift towards digital businesses, linear TV broadcasting still holds a majority revenue share for broadcasters and that is not going to change anytime soon. Broadcasters can in fact leverage some of these disruptive technology advancements to know more about their ecosystem, especially their consumers, and leverage those deeper insights to deliver more value to their consumers and advertisers. Realizing the potential risks and opportunities, media companies are making heavy investments towards enabling higher value for TV consumers and advertisers in an attempt to sustain, at minimum, their traditional TV broadcasting business. The first of the top three investments made by the media firms should be on data and analytics to understand more about TV consumers’ content preferences and viewing patterns.

Visier People is the leading people analytics and workforce planning solution – a cloud-based people strategy platform that provides answers to hundreds of pre-built, best practice questions, across a range of HR and business topics. Offering unmatched people insights, Visier People also enables continuous, collaborative, data-driven workforce planning.

Do you know what your employees are doing on your network? Do you know about the latest ransomware attack your security team is battling? How about your business partners? Are they secure? With all of these questions swirling around in your head, it’s hard to feel secure about network security. But there is one thing that could help: a solid plan. Perhaps you’re aware that your organization should have a formal incident response plan. Or maybe you already have one. But are you completely clear on all the components that should make up such a plan? Or what to do when things go wrong? Or how to get help when you need it? Over the next few pages, we’ll provide you with some insight to help you build and strengthen your organization’s incident response plan.

Making sense of your data is one of the greatest challenges facing business today. Imagine a world where innovation and time-to-value are accelerated by AI and automation. Hitachi Vantara works at every point along the data value chain from analytics and insight, through intelligent governance to efficient, agile storage. Download this e-book to find out how to turn the business-enabling capital of the digital era into sustainable value.

Manufacturers are looking for ways to optimize their factory floor and machinery processes to reach their full production potential. Whether it is because of equipment issues or the personnel running the machines, the average OEE machine is running at 60%. With Visual Factories’ plug-and-play cloud-based solution, factory management get enhanced visibility into their manufacturing processes, helping to identify operational inefficiencies and to increase their OEE. Real-time reports for middle management deliver root cause analysis that will increase machine efficiency. Top management use the business insights for maximizing profits and reducing costs. The solution is quick and easy to install and can be set up by on-site maintenance staff. Visual Factories' solution is compatible with any type of production machine in any market segment and has been deployed at metal working and medical tooling plants in the aerospace, automotive and medical industries around the world. Customers incl

While it is easy for marketers to be distracted by the power of data and technology, a new report reminds us what really drives business decisions: feelings. A new study conducted by the Financial Times Commercial Insight Group and gyro asked more than 300 FT readers across the globe to express what feelings are crucial for creating successful business relationships.

Self-insured employers are mining their health and benefits data to save costs and provide quality care for employees. Data is driving business decisions, but how do you get from millions of rows of data to a consumable graph to taking action? In this white paper, we’ll delve into data analytics best practices that help self-insured employers find actionable insights in their benefits data. • Which data sources will help you ensure you’re measuring the right thing at the right time • How to ensure data variety and choose key metrics • An example of a successful predictive analysis using benefits data

Siloed data sources, duplicate entries, data breach risk—how can you scale data quality for ingestion and transformation at big data volumes? Data and analytics capabilities are firmly at the top of CEOs’ investment priorities. Whether you need to make the case for data quality to your c-level or you are responsible for implementing it, the Definitive Guide to Data Quality can help. Download the Definitive Guide to learn how to: Stop bad data before it enters your system Create systems and workflow to manage clean data ingestion and transformation at scale Make the case for the right data quality tools for business insight

Current methods for accessing complex, distributed information delay decisions and, even worse, provide incomplete insight. This paper details the impact of Unified Information Access (UIA) in improving the agility of information-driven business processes by bridging information silos to unite content and data in one index to power solutions and applications that offer more complete insight.

In Q4, 2009, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES (EMA) analysts worked with ASG to research how executives in IT and within the lines of business use dashboards to gain holistic insights into IT services as they impact business outcomes.

AP Data You Should Leverage Positively impact your organization What's in the research report? Access to accurate, real-time data is more important than ever in today’s fast-paced business world — particularly in a department as important as AP. But what data should you be analyzing to improve performance and make the biggest impact? This research report details KPIs that provide valuable insights to stakeholders and key executives, based on three categories: • Operational: track overall efficiency • Financial: impact the bottom line • Supplier: related to suppliers

Unlock the benefits of Ethernet – An Expert Q&A Guide provided by Spectrum Enterprise. Find out how technology experts are using reliable Ethernet solutions to boost business performance. Get actionable insights from experts and learn how switching to a high-performance Ethernet solution from Spectrum Enterprise can deliver security and reliability across your network and IT infrastructure.

Learn how ERP software addresses the real-world challenges companies face as they look to grow in today’s global economy. Take the virtual tour and see how your business can: • Reach new markets, expand product lines and grow your business with deep Industry and country specific functionality • Drive improved customer experience and accelerate the digital transformation of your business • Expand collaboration within your company and throughout your supply chain with social and commerce solutions • Respond quickly to changing demands with configurable real-time mobile capabilities Please view the virtual tour below for more information about Epicor ERP version 10. The tour will acquaint you with Epicor ERP and offer insight on how Epicor inspires growth for leading business around the globe.

The Future of Customer Experience: Five Essential Trends is part of a series examining life and business in the 21st Century. SAP Center for Business Insight worked with more than a dozen industry experts to answer these and other questions, uncovering five trends that will determine the customer experience over the next decade. This report examines each of these trends and offers recommendations for how brands should respond now to prepare.

The competitive advantages and value of BDA are now widely acknowledged and have led to the shifting of focus at many firms from “if and when” to “where and how.” With BDA applications requiring more from IT infrastructures and lines of business demanding higher-quality insights in less time, choosing the right infrastructure platform for Big Data applications represents a core component of maximizing value. This IDC study considered the experiences of firms using Cisco UCS as an infrastructure platform for their BDA applications. The study found that Cisco UCS contributed to the strong value the firms are achieving with their business operations through scalability, performance, time to market, and cost effectiveness. As a result, these firms directly attributed business benefits to the manner in which Cisco UCS is deployed in the infrastructure.

From its conception, this special edition has had a simple goal: to help SAP customers better understand SAP HANA and determine how they can best leverage this transformative technology in their organization. Accordingly, we reached out to a variety of experts and authorities across the SAP ecosystem to provide a true 360-degree perspective on SAP HANA.

Download this whitepaper to learn the results of this latest exploration of the emerging world of in-memory database technologies.

This TDWI Checklist Report presents requirements for analytic DBMSs with a focus on their use with big data. Along the way, the report also defines the many techniques and tool types involved. The requirements checklist and definitions can assist users who are currently evaluating analytic databases and/or developing strategies for big data analytics.

For years, experienced data warehousing (DW) consultants and analysts have advocated the need for a well thought-out architecture for designing and implementing large-scale DW environments. Since the creation of these DW architectures, there have been many technological advances making implementation faster, more scalable and better performing. This whitepaper explores these new advances and discusses how they have affected the development of DW environments.

New data sources are fueling innovation while stretching the limitations of traditional data management strategies and structures. Data warehouses are giving way to purpose built platforms more capable of meeting the real-time needs of a more demanding end user and the opportunities presented by Big Data. Significant strategy shifts are under way to transform traditional data ecosystems by creating a unified view of the data terrain necessary to support Big Data and real-time needs of innovative enterprises companies.

Big data and personal data are converging to shape the internet’s most surprising consumer products. they’ll predict your needs and store your memories—if you let them. Download this report to learn more.

This white paper discusses the issues involved in the traditional practice of deploying transactional and analytic applications on separate platforms using separate databases. It analyzes the results from a user survey, conducted on SAP's behalf by IDC, that explores these issues.

The technology market is giving significant attention to Big Data and analytics as a way to provide insight for decision making support; but how far along is the adoption of these technologies across manufacturing organizations? During a February 2013 survey of over 100 manufacturers we examined behaviors of organizations that measure effective decision making as part of their enterprise performance management efforts. This Analyst Insight paper reveals the results of this survey.