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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.

The ways in which the Internet supports our everyday lives have become richer, more engaging, and more mobile. This innovation is driven by the visionaries, designers, developers, and managers of the web experiences that users consume every day. By exploring new ways to solve challenges and improve products and services that enrich our lives, developers and business owners have stretched the Internet to support use cases for which it was never designed. In order to succeed, modern web experiences must seem simple to end-users, even though most ultimately require complex design and technology to deliver.

In the past two years, businesses’ desire to understand and connect with the mobile user has grown and expanded throughout nearly every vertical market. We created this project as a way to understand the mindset, demographics, and behaviors that drive mobile engagement so that we can advise businesses on how to do it right – and how to avoid doing it wrong. This research report is based on a global study of more than 5,800 mobile device owners, and as such, is the most comprehensive primary research report ever done on mobile engagement.

business owners and entrepreneurs create their businesses for a number of reasons: to grow an idea, build and inspire a team, make a difference.

Business owners and entrepreneurs create their businesses for a number of reasons: to grow an idea, build and inspire a team, make a difference. And all too quickly, those business owners can face the other side of running a business: paying employees, negotiating the best benefits for your teams, keeping up with myriad government regulations. Workplaces are getting even more complicated - for good reasons. Teams have more flexibility to work remotely. And the gig economy is exploding; in fact, about a third of the U.S. workforce works on something other than a full-time basis.

Some hardware components are simply easier to manage than others. Investing in highly manageable infrastructure can help IT support changing business needs while improving productivity and reducing total cost of ownership. Here’s why to consider FX.

This white paper discusses the benefits of researching the total cost of ownership for a UC system and how businesses can lower their total cost of ownership (TCO) by selecting a simple yet sophisticated solution.

A key finding of this research is that most companies have a great opportunity to improve their business performance by taking a more integrated approach to managing their digital media mix.

Don’t let your web infrastructure limit the growth of your online business. Consider Red Hat Enterprise Linux – the ideal platform for transaction-intensive environments. Red Hat Enterprise Linux offers reliability, scalability, and predictable total cost of ownership – as well as a continuous stream of technical improvements – to keep you at the leading edge.

Clients, especially those with a high net worth, are increasingly demanding guidance for all of their financial needs from a single source. A multidiscipline practice enables you to provide them with complete wealth management solutions, resulting in higher rates of client satisfaction, retention and referral. Learn how to exploit social media opportunities, build a strategy that's right for you, design online profiles that match your goals and much more.

As line-of-business owners (LOBs) seek to initiate the SaaS model, it becomes critical to consider these concerns to assure productivity. This white paper from BlueCoat identifies the key concerns that IT must address to assure access and performance for Internet-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

As line-of-business owners (LOBs) seek to initiate the SaaS model, it becomes critical to consider these concerns to assure productivity. This white paper from BlueCoat identifies the key concerns that IT must address to assure access and performance for Internet-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications.

Large gaps and loss of productivity challenge the value, agility and cost of IT across the globe. “Exploring Business and IT Friction: Myths and Realities,” outlines key issues that cause friction between business users and IT, such as: • Gaps in customer satisfaction and the perceived value of services • Inadequate IT support, which decreases productivity and revenue • Lack of communication and ownership in how business users and IT work together to identify service levels and technology needs See what 900 business and IT professionals had to say and get recommendations for change.

By optimizing their on-premises IT environments and moving processes and workloads to the cloud, businesses can reduce time-to-market, increase agility, and minimize total cost of ownership. Oracle’s Linux and Virtualization offerings are designed to help you easily optimize your current on-premises environment, and offer a clear path to cloud—so you can migrate your workloads when the time is right.

Citrix solution brief explains the key considerations and employee, IT and organizational benefits derived from a BYO program.

This American Express® guide helps you streamline FX payments. Includes FX payment provider profile, how to simplify payments, and insightful FAQ.

What this case study reveals is that, with the right leadership, it is possible to turn a company around and make it far more responsive and relevant to its customers, and as a result deliver growth and profits. The upshot of D+M's cultural and business transformation has been a return to growth and profitability. The entire enterprise has played its part, which is why the annual Chairman's Award has recognized individuals who have lived the winning cultural values and achieved excellence in performance. Winners have included factory workers and services people. The firm also continues to innovate with HEOS WMS capabilities extending to the other brands. Customer experience continues to be an area of deep cross-functional focus, and feedback from customers provides a clear indication that the customer experience throughout their buying and ownership journeys is rated highly.

Many small businesses rely on owners and other employees to take on HR responsibilities in addition to their “day jobs,” a role we call the ad hoc HR manager (aHRM). Although a common practice, using an aHRM can present unforeseen risks. Read the complete guide to risky ad hoc HR management to find out more.

From payroll to HR, having misconceptions about how you run your business may cost you. Get the facts with these business myths, busted.

Small business owners juggle revenue growth, talent management, and employee benefits. Learn how to face growth challenges head-on.

In this whitepaper, ADP provides valuable insight into the past, present and future status of the economic market with regard to the specific concerns of midsized business owners today versus four years ago.

In this whitepaper, ADP provides valuable insight into the past, present and future status of the economic market with regard to the specific concerns of midsized business owners today versus four years ago.

An uncertain business world still calls for reductions in total cost of ownership. Yet, today's IT manager must also focus on expanding efficiencies and enhancing optimization. Fortunately, server virtualization can assist in each of these areas.

One of the biggest challenges IT ops teams face is the lack of visibility across its infrastructure — physical, virtual and in the cloud. Making things even more complex, any infrastructure monitoring solution needs to not only meet the IT team’s needs, but also the needs of other stakeholders including line of business (LOB) owners and application developers. For companies already using a monitoring platform like Splunk, monitoring blindspots arise from the need to prioritize across multiple departments. This report outlines a four-step approach for an effective IT operations monitoring (ITOM) strategy. Download this report to learn: How to reduce monitoring blind spots when creating an ITOM strategy How to address ITOM requirements across IT and non-IT groups Distinct layers across ITOM Potential functionality gaps with domain-specific products

In our experience as franchise marketers, Local Ad Fund dollars provide a solid foundation for paid search campaigns that drive consistent, high quality-low cost, leads. However many franchisees and local business owners could be doing more to support established corporate search marketing campaigns, ultimately capturing the maximum search interest for their services within their markets, driving increased local revenue.