The bar for success is rising in higher education.  University leaders and IT administrators are aware of the compelling benefits of digital transformation overall—and artificial intelligence (AI) in particular. AI can amplify human capabilities by using machine learning, or deep learning, to convert the fast-growing and plentiful sources of data about all aspects of a university into actionable insights that drive better decisions. But when planning a transformational strategy, these leaders must prioritize operational continuity. It’s critical to protect the everyday activities of learning, research, and administration that rely on the IT infrastructure to consistently deliver data to its applications.

Do you know your people as well as you know your customers? Your people’s expectations and the way they work is changing. Employees are more diverse, mobile and technologically-savvy than ever before. HR processes are changing from focusing on transactions to knowing and engaging people. Just as sales and marketing teams use data to develop actionable and informed insights about their customers, you need to do the same in HR to know your people. Everything, from attracting and keeping the best talent, to creating better workplace experiences and increasing employee engagement and productivity, depends on smarter decisions. These in turn rely on more actionable insights. These are only possible through accurate HR data and analytics. They are vital to address the people challenges you face, so you can make smarter decisions. Discover in this guide how to improve visibility of your workforce with data-driven and actionable insights. Ultimately, it will help you know your people

Customers began to approach hosting provider SysEleven about running containers and using container orchestration. To offer their customers the highest quality services for which they are known, they sought an easy to use container orchestra- tion solution. SysEleven chose to partner with Loodse to create MetaKube, a white label of Loodse’s Kubermatic Container Engine, giving their customers Kubernetes clusters in one click. Simon Pearce, MetaKube Team Lead and Systems Architect at SysEleven, explains why they chose Kubermatic to run Kubernetes in their data centers.

In this case study, large health systems implement IBM Watson Health to surface improvement opportunities. Using this tool, they were able to cut costs, reduce patients’ length of stay, acquire actionable data, address number of readmissions and improve management of COPD and sepsis.

Read this checklist report, with results based on the Eckerson Group’s survey and the Business Application Research Center (BARC), on how companies using the cloud for data warehousing and BI has increased by nearly 50%. BI teams must address multiple issues including data delivery, security, portability and more before moving to the cloud for its infinite scalability and elasticity. Read this report to understand all 7 seven considerations – what, how and why they impact the decision to move to the cloud.

How can enterprises overcome the issues that come with traditional data warehousing? Despite the business value that data warehouses can deliver, too often they fall short of expectations. They take too long to deliver, cost too much to build and maintain, and cannot keep pace with changing business requirements. If this all rings a bell, check out Attunity’s knowledge brief on data warehouse automation with Attunity Compose. The solution automates the design, build, and deployment of data warehouses, data marts and data hubs, enabling more agile and responsive operation. The automation reduces time-consuming manual coding, and error-prone repetitive tasks. Read the knowledge brief to learn more about your options.

As organizations increasingly strive to become model-driven, they recognize the necessity of a data science platform. According to a recent survey report “Key Factors on the Journey to Become Model-Driven”, 86% of model-driven companies differentiate themselves by using a data science platform. And yet the question of whether to build or buy still remains. This paper presents a framework to facilitate the decision process, and considers the four-year projection of total costs for both approaches in a sample scenario. Read this whitepaper to understand three major factors in your decision process: Total cost of ownership - Internal build costs often run into the tens of millions Opportunity costs - Distraction from your core competency Risk factors - Missed deadlines and delayed time to market

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

Over the past few years, improvements in mobile devices, Wi-Fi, and cloud computing have made mobile point of sale (POS) solutions e ective and a ordable for businesses of all sizes. Tablets have emerged as the most popular platform for mobile POS solutions, and you may have already heard the buzz about them. There’s a reason for all the hullaballoo. In addition to integrating payments and making retail transactions more e cient than using a traditional electronic cash register (ECR), tablet POS solutions can provide robust management data. A tablet POS solution makes sense for many retailers, particularly if you’re looking to: • replace an ECR or want to have a mobile POS in place on opening day • unlock new pro t-making and cost-saving opportunities • expand your business • keep pace with ever-changing customer expectations Figuring out which tablet POS solution is the best for your business may seem like a huge challenge. But don’t worry. Taking the right approach, by using too

Data is a truly inexhaustible resource for an organization. It creates endless possibilities to make data do more. As a technology partner of hundreds of organizations around the world, Infosys helps clients navigate the journey from their current state to the next. Facilitating clients’ transition into data-native enterprises is a crucial part. To understand how companies are using data analytics today and their expectations in a world of endless possibilities with data, we recently commissioned an independent survey of 1,062 senior executives from organizations with annual revenues exceeding US$ 1 billion, in the United States, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The respondents were from business and technology roles, who were decision makers, program managers and external consultants; represented 12 industries, grouped into seven industry clusters, such as, consumer goods, retail and logistics, energy and utilities, financial services and insurance, healthcare and life sciences, h

Cost savings, storage, ease of updates. The allure of the cloud is hard to ignore, with some reports citing over 90% of organizations using cloud services in some manner. But all the benefits of the cloud disappear if you can't keep your data and users safe. In a perimeter-less world, it's identity that becomes the heart of security. Join us to discover why modern security starts with identity first and how identity can help overcome cloud frustrations. We would like to keep you in our database in order to send you product, service, and event announcements from Okta, and to share your information with certain service providers and partners, as described in detail here You may unsubscribe from Okta’s mailing list at any time, by following this process. Additional details about Okta’s privacy practices are available in our Privacy policy.

The automotive leasing and financing industry is facing its most competitive times. Market disruptors are moving quickly, leveraging technology to provide polished and high-value customer experiences to lure business away from more traditional lenders. However, the use of smart technology and automated credit decisioning can enable auto lenders to make accurate lending decisions and gain a competitive edge. Learn how you can: • Issue accurate and immediate credit financing decisions at the point of sale • Reduce delinquencies and credit losses • Grow your lending portfolio • Create winning offers using data and analytics • Speed up credit decisions to prospects and stay competitive • Use smart analytics to enhance the customer service experience Download the case study round up Digital Transformation for Automotive Finance to learn how you can transform your business.

While your competitors sit back, download this free paper to learn how to cut costs, boost profits, build loyalty, and solve a myriad of day-to-day business challenges.

The average computer room today has cooling capacity that is nearly four times the IT heat load. Using data from 45 sites reviewed by Upsite Technologies, this white paper will show how you can calculate, benchmark, interpret, and benefit from a simple and practical metric called the Cooling Capacity Factor (CCF). Calculating the CCF is the quickest and easiest way to determine cooling infrastructure utilization and potential gains to be realized by AFM improvements.

A 14-page whitepaper on how to achieve lower material costs and optimized inventory using Material Master Data Management

Learn how CIOs can set up a system infrastructure for their business to get the best out of Big Data. Explore what the SAP HANA platform can do, how it integrates with Hadoop and related technologies, and the opportunities it offers to simplify your system landscape and significantly reduce cost of ownership.

"Principled Technologies executed four typical deployment and management scenarios using both HPE Synergy and Cisco UCS. They found that HPE Synergy saved 71.5 minutes and 86 steps, and used four fewer tools compared to Cisco UCS. In a hypothetical 200-node datacenter, that’s a total of 9 work weeks, or just over 2 months’ time savings on routine tasks."

Culture has become one of the most important business topics of 2016. CEOs and HR leaders now recognize that culture drives people's behavior, innovation, and customer service: 82 percent of survey respondents believe that "culture is a potential competitive advantage." Knowing that leadership behavior and reward systems directly impact organizational performance, customer service, employee engagement, and retention, leading companies are using data and behavioral information to manage and influence their culture.

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.