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Did you ever consider all of the examples of machine learning in your personal life? Google’s page ranking system, photo tagging on Facebook, and customized product recommendations from Amazon are all driven by machine learning under the hood. How do these same techniques improve productivity for your business? Search is the new data and content curation. Improved relevance translates to faster search results and better business outcomes across the line. Download the Five-Minute Guide to Machine Learning to find out how self-learning technologies drive increasingly relevant answers and better context for cognitive search.

The arrival of 3rd party data is changing the landscape of online targeting. There is an influx of companies offering these services. But, what works with your business model? How do you evaluate the options? THE QUESTIONS YOU NEED TO KNOW AND WHY: • Is there high fidelity data? • Is the provided data stable? • Is your partner built to last? • Does your partner use a transparent methodology? Download our guide to evaluating data providers and find out the importance and relevance of these terms and conditions.

Michael Parrish Dudell, bestselling author and one of the nation’s leading Millennial voices, explains why now, more than ever, is the time for businesses to anticipate the rapidly evolving expectations of the new workforce or face the very real threat of irrelevance. Read the brief to get the facts on the huge impact Millennials are making in the workplace: • Within the next three years, Millennials will make up the majority of the workforce • By 2025, they will comprise a whopping 75% of workers • In the last five years, 87 percent of Millennials took on management roles—up 75% from the five years prior

There's an old saying in information security: "We want our network to be like an M&M, with a hard crunchy outside and a soft chewy center." For today's digital business, this perimeter-based security model is ineffective against malicious insiders and targeted attacks. Security and risk (S&R) pros must eliminate the soft chewy center and make security ubiquitous throughout the digital business ecosystem — not just at the perimeter. In 2009, we developed a new information security model, called the Zero Trust Model, which has gained widespread acceptance and adoption. This report explains the vision and key concepts of the model. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.

Michael Parrish Dudell, bestselling author and one of nation’s leading Millennial voices, explains why now, more than ever, is the time for businesses to anticipate the rapidly evolving expectations of the new workforce or face the very real threat of irrelevance. Read the brief to get the facts on the huge impact Millennials will and are making in the workplace: Within the next three years, Millennials will make up the majority of the workforce By 2025, they will comprise a whopping 75% of workers In the last five years, 87 percent of Millennials took on management roles—up 75% from the five years prior

Digital transformation brings risks and opportunities for internal audit and risk functions. Are you ready to help the business stay safe in an increasingly challenging technology environment? Watch this webinar to understand: • the unique risks from artificial intelligence • the relevance of AI technologies for internal audit and risk functions • what an effective risk and control framework looks like for AI risks • key actions internal audit and risk functions should consider now.

Since the term “omni-channel” was first coined by the Harvard Business Review in 2011, some marketing technology vendors claimed that they could provide businesses with this holy grail of brand ubiquity. Unfortunately, most of these early claims were false starts where vendors over-promised and under-delivered. The good news is that a select number of solutions have caught up with all the promises and can now turn them into action. In this guide, we explain why the conversation around omni-channel marketing has changed and how you can transform your marketing strategy to leverage this new, powerful technology. We’ll give you a heads up on the roadblocks you’ll encounter on your journey to achieving omni-channel relevance and the benefits you’ll gain once you reach your destination. No highfalutin jargon, no talking in circles and no nonsense. Just practical advice on how to create a superb customer experience.

Virtually every business-oriented conversation Wikibon has with senior IT leaders includes a discussion of digital transformation. The relevance to this research is the increasing interdependency between organizations and the data they use, create, access, share and store. Digital means data and lots of it; and this data must be protected. The data requirements facing organizations today as a direct result of digital initiatives are unprecedented and require new approaches for protecting and enabling recovery for high value data assets. Governments around the world are trying to keep pace with the digital tsunami and new/evolving regulations will further pressure data protection and recovery requirements. For example, the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) states that organizations must take appropriate measures to ensure the ability to restore personal data “in a timely manner in the event of a physical or technical incident.” Beginning in May of 2018, penalties for non-co

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Preparing for the 2020 workforce is critical to business strategy, growth, and performance. To understand the challenges and opportunities, Oxford Economics and SAP surveyed over 2,700 executives and more than 2,700 employees in 27 countries during the second quarter of 2014. We found that many companies lack the structure, strategy, culture, solutions and resources to manage employees effectively. To succeed, they must address the role and relevance of people strategy; changing demographics and evolving definitions of work; leadership ability and cultivation; employee wants and needs; and talent development.

The digital age has driven a rapid transformation of the IT role. No longer an order-taker, IT must now become a game-changer for the organization, according to new research gyro conducted addressing the perceptions, expectations and future priorities of IT. For IT to become a true change agent and business consultant, it must embrace its “human side” and show its relevance to business operations’ and leaders’ success. For many IT groups, this requires a change in culture and an updated mindset about the department’s ultimate purpose and focus, along with improvements in interdepartmental communication.

As the pace of innovation accelerates, many companies find it challenging for their IT to support the changing needs of the business. To maintain relevance and drive growth, companies must innovate – and need flexible, agile technology to support them. The pressure is on IT to lower cost, and at the same time support growth. This white paper explores the challenges facing IT and how to evolve an IT architecture to support the modern business, and presents new strategies to modernize IT.

This paper explores the challenges organizations have today in implementing a data governance program via an actual business case. It highlights SAS technology that can help you solve many of those challenges.

This report examines how data visualization can help organizations unleash the full value of information, and outlines key considerations to guide the solution evaluation process.

Managing expectations before, during and after the adoption of visualization software is crucial. Users should know what the rollout process will look like and how it will take place, and have clear goals for using the tool. Make sure that the desired outcome isn’t just look-and-feel. Creating beautiful charts and graphs is not a substitute for practical business decisions.

This paper explores ways to qualify data control and measures to support the governance program. It will examine how data management practitioners can define metrics that are relevant.

This paper will consider the relevance of measurement and monitoring – defining inspection routines, inserting them into the end-to-end application processing, and reporting the results.

Jill Dyche and SpectraDynamo explains the importance of understanding how to manage data and issues regarding data categorization, retrieval and quality.

As digital workplace initiatives grow, it is vital to examine their impact through a financial business case to obtain funding, structure stakeholder dialogue and secure commitment. Here, we describe how IT leaders can create a convincing business case with a strong link to business benefits. Key Challenges: ¦ It is difficult for IT leaders to quantify the financial returns associated with digital workplace initiatives, as they often fail to recognize the broad and indirect benefits. ¦ Treating digital workplace initiatives as infrastructure rollouts obscures their business relevance and distances business stakeholders, whose commitment is vital for success. ¦ Business and finance executives are more likely to take seriously a digital workplace initiative with a credible financial impact assessment.

There's an old saying in information security: "We want our network to be like an M&M, with a hard crunchy outside and a soft chewy center." For today's digital business, this perimeter-based security model is ineffective against malicious insiders and targeted attacks. Security and risk (S&R) pros must eliminate the soft chewy center and make security ubiquitous throughout the digital business ecosystem — not just at the perimeter. In 2009, we developed a new information security model, called the Zero Trust Model, which has gained widespread acceptance and adoption. This report explains the vision and key concepts of the model. This is an update of a previously published report; Forrester reviews and updates it periodically for continued relevance and accuracy.

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The digital age has driven a rapid transformation of the IT role. No longer an order-taker, IT must now become a game-changer for the organization, according to new research gyro conducted addressing the perceptions, expectations and future priorities of IT. For IT to become a true change agent and business consultant, it must embrace its “human side” and show its relevance to business operations’ and leaders’ success. For many IT groups, this requires a change in culture and an updated mindset about the department’s ultimate purpose and focus, along with improvements in interdepartmental communication.