With the rapid rise of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), many different solutions have emerged with varying levels of features and innovation. As an IT decision-maker, you have to evaluate what HCI solution makes sense for your organisation. In this whitepaper, we make that process easier by outlining the three vital requirements you must have now in order to maximise the value of your HCI. With a little help, your next HCI investment will increase agility, reduce complexity and support your next generation IT environment. Please enter your details to access the whitepaper.

Multi-Cloud, hybrid strategies add complexity Nearly 60% of businesses say they're moving toward hybrid IT enviornments that integrate on-premises systems and public cloud resources and enable workloads to be pleaced according to performance, security and dependency requirements. Identifying the best execution venue is a key cloud hurdle.

Robots play a key role in achieving manufacturing efficiencies and reducing labor intensive operations across diverse industries. Traditional machine vision has its limitations, however—typically, it can only conduct defect detection and classification based on fixed rules and work in fixed environments. To add on, the complexity of robotic system design poses challenges for many manufacturers to identify and integrate subsystems from multiple vendors. The future of robot and machine solutions is a production environment where devices, machines, robots, and sensors are interoperable. Find out how NexCOBOT integrates AI-driven vision capabilities into robotics to improve quality and accuracy over traditional machine vision—as well as providing an open and modular solution for users to develop a robot control system that best fits their particular application requirements.

In the midst of an overwhelming amount of disruption taking place in the retail banking industry, a clear path to success has emerged. Banks that want to continue to gain and retain loyal customers must make it easier to bank with them. According to a survey that included 760 different banks and credit unions, the most important priority for 2017 and beyond is the removal of friction from the customer journey.1 To clarify, today’s customer journey includes both the customer experience at local branch locations as well as their experience while interacting with websites, mobile apps, smart watches, and anything else that is connected to the Internet. The battleground for customers has shifted to the digital world, and retail banks must adapt quickly as crafty Fintech startups and tech giants like Amazon, Apple, and Google continue to push the limits of what is possible with technology. If digital channels aren’t approached correctly, they can add complexity to the customer experience in

DevOps allows teams to effectively build, test, release, and respond to your software. But creating an agile, data-driven culture is easier said than done. Developer and devops teams struggle with lack of visibility into application monitoring tools and systems, accelerated time-to-market pressure, and increased complexity throughout the devops lifecycle process. As a Splunk customer, how are you using your machine data platform to adopt DevOps and optimize your application delivery pipeline? Download your copy of Driving DevOps Success With Data to learn: How machine data can optimize your application delivery The four key capabilities DevOps teams must have to optimize speed and customer satisfaction Sample metrics to measure your DevOps processes against

The data deluge problem isn’t just about the amount of internal, operational data being stored, but also the level of granularity available. The finance and HR teams of many institutions still operate on outdated systems that are only able to store aggregate data with complex details summarized. While these systems may be sufficient for the purpose of financial reporting, they’re unable to keep up with the level of complexity needed to drive business decisions.

The digital age has created a new level of complexity for businesses around the globe. Is having an intelligent ERP a critical component in digital transformation? Digital transformation is fundamentally altering the way enterprises utilise their enterprise resources planning systems. Find out how Intelligent ERP is the key to mastering the complexity of the digital age.

Enterprise analytics is quickly evolving into a democratized capability where anyone can access and act on all available information, often in real-time employing advanced techniques. But the complex, dynamic and urgent nature of modern data analytics demands a new approach to data integration. This paper proposes that DataOps, the application of DevOps practices to data analytics, is the best way to overcome these challenges to create an iterative build-operate process for data movement. Read this white paper to: Understand how modern data analytics create data integration challenges due to architectural complexity, operational blindness and data drift. Learn how DevOps pillars of automation and monitoring can create higher developer productivity, operational efficiency and business confidence in data. See specific examples of DataOps functionality being applied to data integration across modern architectures.

Whether your organization is going all in on cloud or they have a more conservative approach, the undeniable reality is that workloads are moving to the cloud at warp speed. And with many IT leaders concerned that the complexity of the network hampers their organization's ability to migrate apps to the cloud, it's up to you to transform the network to meet the new demands. Read this e-book to learn how a unified app-delivery strategy can help you: -Increase IT efficiency -Reduce security risks -Free IT staff to focus on more strategic initiatives

For many organizations, managing and delivering the knowledge contained within documents is difficult or impossible due to technological disparity. Conventional approaches to knowledge management work within the constraints of disparate platforms, applications, and output devices, and fail to address technological disparity.

Microsoft Exchange Server has been a crucial technological breakthrough in advanced corporate communication systems. Companies who utilize an enterprise-class email server like Exchange believe that email is mission critical, and value the productivity it enables. But an in-house migration to Exchange 2007 from an earlier version of Exchange or another email program will not be an easy task. Complexity, time and cost issues loom large over the IT department and are causing IT directors to search for an alternative solution.

According to Forrester, traditional approaches to endpoint security have become outdated and less effective as cyberthreats have increased in both number and complexity. To battle the ever-increasing threats, security professionals are now turning to new endpoint security technologies to either augment or replace their failing antimalware solutions. Below are the key trends in endpoint security, and the strategies that companies are using to address them.

Messaging middleware can help enterprises meet requirements of complexity, speed, reliability, and security to connect the digital world.

Going with a single-vendor collaboration platform is an easy call, right? Employees can communicate and share more easily, and your IT team only has to deal with implementation from one vendor, not dozens. But, in case you’re still pondering, here are five reasons a collaboration suite makes sense: Saved time and increased productivity Lower costs and less complexity End-to-end security compliance Scaling at your pace Control over the back end Download the Better Together eBook for complete details.

Going with a single-vendor collaboration platform is an easy call, right? Employees can communicate and share more easily, and your IT team only has to deal with implementation from one vendor, not dozens. Still pondering? Here are five reasons it makes sense: Saved time and increased productivity Lower costs and less complexity End-to-end security compliance Scaling at your pace Control over the back end Download the eBook for complete details.

Going with a single-vendor collaboration platform is an easy call, right? Employees can communicate clearly, information is shared easily, and processes are streamlined. When improving collaboration in your enterprise, here are five core areas to focus on: Saving time and increasing productivity Lowering costs and complexity Ensuring end-to-end security compliance Scaling at your own pace Having administrative control In this free eBook, learn how a single-vendor platform helps you achieve these goals.

ealthcare workers understand the complexity of fighting infections better than most. As medications are developed, germs evolve and become resistant to those medications. Over time, germs become incredibly complex and difficult to treat as they continue to evolve and adapt. Unfortunately, computer viruses seem to be following a similar pattern—and the healthcare industry is struggling to catch up.

All of these elements of growing connectivity have the potential to significantly increase productivity, streamline operations and enhance service levels to citizens and stakeholders. But these benefits are only one side of the story. The added complexity of the new eGovernment environment also creates many new challenges, as government agencies search for effective ways to secure and control access to the rapidly growing number and variety of gateways to their ecosystems.

This whitepaper shows how SAP S/4HANA helps enterprises to run simple in a digital economy.

This survey shows how SAP S/4HANA was designed to break the limitations of the past by simplifying IT with massive simplification and innovation.

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.

BitSight relied on a key piece of software for business. As the number of software users grew, the complexity of deploying, managing, and maintaining a VPN infrastructure became a big, ongoing headache for IT. Read the case study to see how Akamai helped BitSight solve their access issues.

Companies are increasingly using outside contractors and suppliers stay competitive, which means granting third-parties access to applications via VPN or VDI. This reliance causes increased complexity and burden on the Enterprise team while also creating additional security risk, as third-party access creates additional points of entry to an organization’s network. Read this solution brief to learn about a new painless, secure approach to remote access.

Read the 7 reasons why appliances can improve your NetBackup infrastructure.

Organizations need a new way to manage this complexity and uncertainty in an environment where expectations for results are rising, not falling. Download this asset to learn how Business Spend Management (BSM) empowers both centralized and decentralized corporate functions with: - Fully scalable processes that increase user adoption and ease of use - Capital efficiency to maximize savings and process efficiency - Business agility to adapt to changing conditions such as acquisitions, growth, etc. - And much more! Download this complimentary report to learn all the ways BSM powers your business success!