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When your business doesn’t provide adequate digital collaboration tools, your employees are likely to use their own – potentially compromising security. Read this informative whitepaper for three ways to improve employee collaboration while ensuring compliance with security policies: Why a consolidated approach to file sharing can boost security and productivity How business-wide adoption of enterprise-level tools aids workplace mobility What time-consuming tasks can be automated to improve efficiency and security

Are you avoiding the speed bumps that threaten to derail your estimates? The construction business is competitive. Your ability to produce complete and accurate estimates can mean the difference between winning projects—or losing them. If you do win the project, your estimate becomes even more critical. Even a single error has the potential to kill your profit margin. While construction always carries some risk, your estimating process doesn’t need to. In this free eBook, you’ll learn specific strategies to: Minimize costly errors before they destroy your profit margin Retain the knowledge of your top estimators, even if they leave Produce accurate estimates quickly and efficiently Uncover the top three mistakes estimators make—and get the strategies you need to avoid them. Grab your FREE eBook now.

Are you avoiding the speed bumps that threaten to derail your estimates? The construction business is competitive. Your ability to produce complete and accurate estimates can mean the difference between winning projects—or losing them. If you do win the project, your estimate becomes even more critical. Even a single error has the potential to kill your profit margin. While construction always carries some risk, your estimating process doesn’t need to. In this free eBook, you’ll learn specific strategies to: • Minimize costly errors before they destroy your profit margin • Retain the knowledge of your top estimators, even if they leave • Produce accurate estimates quickly and efficiently Uncover the top three mistakes estimators make—and get the strategies you need to avoid them. Grab your FREE eBook now.

The goal of usability testing, simply put, is to make sure that a user can complete the tasks they are expected to complete. Usability testing doesn’t test whether or not the functions of the application, website or connected device work correctly, but rather that a user intuitively understands how to perform these tasks — and how easy or difficult it was to do so. With usability testing, “close enough” won’t cut it. A product may have a superior architecture, a great set of features, good performance, scalability and a number of other positive attributes. However, all of this effort is wasted if the user experience is inadequate. An application, website or connected device that is not user-friendly is just as bad as a buggy version and can lead to diminished revenue, product abandonment or a total failure. An application with poor usability can also negatively affect a brand

Five false assumptions about SD-WAN By now, almost everyone knows something about software-defined-wide-area networking (SD-WAN). SD-WAN is getting a lot of buzz over its MPLS counterpart, but every innovation in tech comes with certain misconceptions—it’s just part of the territory. Can SD-WAN take the place of internet? SD-WAN doesn’t require on-premises hardware, right? Outside of cost, is it really better than MPLS? Read “Secure Enterprise SD-WAN Myths” for answers to these questions and more, clarity around SD-WAN’s advantages and limitations, and how Forcepoint can help you implement secure SD-WAN for your distributed enterprise. And yes—SD-WAN really is better than MPLS.

Your company is only as agile, connected and secure as its networks are. But making changes to your networks can feel risky, since improving security often means harming connectivity and vice versa. Even still, if your networking approach is inconsistent or labor intensive, it’s probably time for a change. Modernizing the Distributed Enterprise Network investigates how Forcepoint NGFW is changing the status quo and enabling digital transformation efforts: Enterprise-grade SD-WAN connectivity. Deploy and operate connections between more than 1,000 sites from a single console Security. Top-rated security that doesn’t impede performance and reliability Ease of Deployment and Operation. Built specifically for true, centralized manageability, even at enterprise scale Future-Proof Agility and Flexibility. Adapts to different environments seamlessly Read Modernizing the Distributed Enterprise Network and take the first step toward true network efficiency.

Senior leaders realise the stakes of not addressing digital transformation. PWC suggests that CEOs who aren’t prioritising digital are either changing their minds or being phased out. If you compare PWC’s 2007 Digital IQ report to 2016’s, you’ll see that the number of executives who said their CEO was a champion for digital has more than doubled from 33% to 68%. Digital transformation doesn’t have to be intimidating or complicated. If you take it in stages and work with an experienced partner, it can be a straightforward journey. At this stage, it’s all about transforming how people work.

Culture is the most important factor in any organization’s success or failure. If your culture doesn’t align with and support your strategy, your strategy will fail. Be a culture architect: Take 10 steps to proactively support your business strategy.

As digital as we are, paper will not go away. Few companies have optimized their print marketing like they have optimized their online marketing. The printing industry is a giant $800bn per year (SmithersPira: The Future of Global Printing to 2018), and as a marketer we know it’s challenging to track the ROI of printed material. Commissioning a print run could require specialist knowledge, but it doesn’t need to. You may not realize the multiple factors built into your print marketing spend, and errors can be painful. Mistakes incur extra cost, delays, and potential dips in quality, harming your brand. Gelato shares some tips for smart printing.

This book is written for readers who have varying levels of familiarity with ODM. It doesn’t focus on any particular vendor’s offering; instead, it talks about the features of ODM as a model for managing operational decision-making.

At Concur, we receive a lot of questions about the best way to audit expense claims. Often the approaches to audit vary greatly by industry and company culture. It doesn’t have to be confusing. In this report, we hope to provide a clear perspective that can help every business identify ways to improve their audit process.

Looking for a smarter approach to workforce planning? With robotics and artificial intelligence transforming the workplace, analysing supply and demand over 3–5 years doesn’t make sense. HR leaders need to find a more flexible approach to workforce shaping. Read this report to discover: • the key trends that will shape the future workforce • what early movers into intelligent automation can teach us • what’s involved in agile workforce shaping • how to use our 5C Framework to navigate the changes ahead.

More than 75% of business leaders say their current ERP system doesn’t meet their requirements, let alone future plans. To enable today’s data-driven organization, the very foundation from which you are operating needs to be re-established; it needs to be “modernized”. To help you navigate your own journey to modernization, we’ve crafted this handbook series to share the knowledge gained working with many thousands of companies using both legacy and modern ERP systems.

Data migration strikes dread in the hearts of IT admins everywhere. It’s expensive, time-consuming, and often results in data loss. As the amount of enterprise data on laptops increases, the time and burden it takes to manage the continuous tech refresh process increases as well. But it doesn’t have to.

What if you could simplify and standardize all your systems? What if you could make the most of what you have, while moving to a trusted and secure platform that gives you the ability to innovate like never before? With Red Hat you can… IT must keep up with the demands of business, but still lead the way to innovation that fuels growth. Eliminate excessive complexity and inefficiency in your datacenter—without leaving behind existing investment. Standardizing on Red Hat doesn't mean ripping and replacing. It means having a well-managed platform AND freeing up resources to innovate with greater efficiency, security, stability, and minimal overhead.

Providing better products at a better price isn’t always enough to attract and retain customers. The only way to truly stand out is to provide outstanding customer service. But, simply answering a customer’s phone call on the first ring or resolving an issue doesn’t qualify as outstanding customer service anymore.

Research teams can spend nearly a decade looking for new biological targets. Then years more creating and testing new molecules that offer improved ways to fight the world’s viruses, bacteria and diseases. These processes are usually long and and require an immense amount of computing power. However, it doesn’t need to be this difficult. Download this case study to see how high performance cloud computing can accelerate pharmaceutical breakthroughs while still retaining a simplistic structure that is cost-effective to scale computer resources.

Culture is the most important factor in any organization’s success or failure. If your culture doesn’t align with and support your strategy, your strategy will fail. Be a culture architect: Take 10 steps to proactively support your business strategy.

Read more to learn how K2’s lowcode business process application platform has helped companies across all industries transform their business in record time.

Replacing your legacy ITSM suite doesn’t have to be scary. So why hasn’t every company migrated to a modern ITSM platform? This eBook explores the best practices for a simpler migration to overcome the fear of legacy suite change, including: How choosing the right partner can smooth the transition Best practices for a phased approach to legacy migration A first-hand look at how one company migrated successfully Read the eBook for more on the risks of inaction and rewards of ITSM modernization.

Many companies that sell online direct to consumers are evaluating whether they can better achieve their revenue and growth goals by either shifting their e-commerce infrastructure to the cloud, or by migrating to a more flexible and scalable SaaS solution that doesn't limit their growth. But what are some of the key considerations as you evaluate your options? Download this whitepaper to learn the 3 keys to igniting your business growth as you consider SaaS commerce solutions.

Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances can appear complicated, but finding a solution that best suits your company doesn't mean becoming an expert yourself; you just need to know how to approach Reserved Instances and where they can make the biggest impact. This free guide delivers a collection of proven best practices to help you successfully manage Amazon EC2 Reserved Instances. The benefits include: -A breakdown of reservation types and offerings, including Convertible Reserved Instances -How to calculate the payback period -How to modify and exchange existing reservations to match cloud usage over time -How to maximize savings with automated RI management and optimization

Most organizations use public cloud to reduce costs, but end up spending way more than they expected. Google Cloud Platform is growing at a staggering rate for the business benefits and its rich features around Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Containers. However, it’s important to keep a tab on your spend while maximizing your cloud benefits. Reducing spend in GCP doesn’t need to be a process of trial and error -- there are proven ways to save money in your GCP environment without negatively impacting desired outcomes. Read this eBook to learn the 8 different ways to reduce your spend, including: -Terminating Zombie Assets -Deleting Unattached Persistent Disk -Rightsizing Compute Engine VMs Download to learn and practice these techniques to reduce spend in GCP.

Every year, record levels of money are spent on new IT security technology yet major breaches and compromises are more prevalent than ever. The concept of “layered security” in which an organization supports a wide variety of security technologies in order to discourage attackers doesn’t seem to be working. It’s time to rethink IT security not just the technology, but the way it’s approached from a strategic, architectural perspective.

It's all well enough for an organization to collect every slice of data it can reach, but having more data doesn't mean you'll automatically get better insights. First, you have to figure out what you want from your data you have to find its value.