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Restoring connections: How telecommunications providers can reboot the customer experience IBM has more than 22,000 experts working in the Telecommunications industry, delivering solutions to more than 200 major communications service providers globally. IBM’s telecommunications capabilities are backed by a global network of telecom solution labs, research labs and innovation centers to support its offerings in the area of analytics, cloud, mobility, network optimization, digital transformation and global integration. IBM continues to invest significantly in key acquisitions to add expertise and capabilities that enable its clients in the telecommunications space.

This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria for constructing an online collaboration service and where they stand in relation to each other. Forrester chose to evaluate the overall strategies of these providers across criteria like global footprint, service-level agreements, mobile support, enterprise readiness, and more. This report and associated Excel model highlight the key criteria CIOs and their staffs should evaluate when looking at prospective providers of online collaboration services. Download now to learn more!

This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria for constructing an online collaboration service and where they stand in relation to each other. Forrester chose to evaluate the overall strategies of these providers across criteria like global footprint, service-level agreements, mobile support, enterprise readiness, and more. This report and associated Excel model highlight the key criteria CIOs and their staffs should evaluate when looking at prospective providers of online collaboration services. Download now to learn more!

When a global transportation logistics provider wanted to improve support for its global network of branch offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia, it used performance analytics to monitor and analyze the organization’s support processes. Not only did performance analytics dramatically increase visibility—allowing the company to move from monthly reports to on-demand performance dashboards—it also uncovered major process bottlenecks. In one case, resolving a single bottleneck increased efficiency by 17%, making support far more responsive while saving hundreds of hours of effort. Discover how ServiceNow Performance Analytics can benefit your business by downloading this white paper.

Teamwork: In today’s workplace, it’s the new normal. Organizations of nearly all sizes and industries find that activating high-performance teams can deliver dramatic results. These teams, unlike those of the recent past, prominently include people from outside the organization, such as contractors, suppliers, and consultants as well as colleagues in disparate locations. Read this Harvard Business Review study to learn how your organization can respond to todays collaboration challenges: Integrating workers who might be telecommuting or working flexible hours. Reacting to new business drivers such as speed to market, mobility, and globalization. Present collaboration tools that fall short on supporting the depth, pace, and style of teamwork now required to remain competitive.

Do you want to increase visibility across your global business, reduce risk, and boost sales performance? Find out how a Sales Operations Center of Excellence can help you achieve all this and more: • Lower costs by standardizing processes. • Gain more control over operational performance. • Create standards for collecting, storing, and managing data. • Identify which factors determine harmonization, and how it can benefit your entity. • Ensure global compliance through enterprise standards. • Provide expertise and support to boost sales performance across all business units. Get your free copy now!

Forrester conducted an in-depth interview of Epicor Software Corporation (“Epicor”) about their investment in ServiceNow for transforming their global support system. With ServiceNow, Epicor has consolidated over 15 CRM-based support systems and 50 customer portals into single global support platform for their 20,000 customers worldwide. Download this whitepaper to learn more of what Epicor has achieved.

Most large companies have already made investments in tools that make video webcasting possible. Video is the most vibrant and intimate medium that executives can use to convey information to large, far-flung internal audiences. Video helps keep employees on the same page about company branding, strategic direction, and externally-facing stories and messaging. It facilitates the transparency and authenticity that today’s employees demand. CEOs of large, global corporations are frequently the catalyst for enterprise live streaming because they know they can use it to make a powerful and personal connection with tens of thousands of remote employees—efficiently and cost-effectively. They support using technology to foster communication and transparency, leading to a more engaged, productive workforce. They recognize the power of video. And they see how engaged, satisfied employees can collectively strengthen their company’s competitive advantage and enhance their bottom line. If your CEO

MicroStrategy, a global innovator of mobile solutions, recently surveyed 500 U.S. organizations on the use of tablet computers to support sales activities across a large, diverse group of industries. The survey results suggested many companies are facing significant hurdles to sales enablement related to the limitations of their internal sales systems, which are largely not equipped for enabling sales processes out of the office. Find out how innovative companies are enabling their sales reps to be 10X more effective with mobile sales enablement apps.

This Magic Quadrant examines the global market for customer service and support applications designed to enable customer service and support agents to engage customers through their preferred communication channel. Learn how Zendesk can fit the needs of your Customer Support team.

Global adoption of the cloud is accelerating at a dizzying rate each year with businesses of all sizes realizing the cost-saving, flexibility, and scalability benefits of migrating and running applications in the cloud. In a 2016 survey*, F5 found that 67 percent of the respondents identified themselves as “Cloud First,” and three cloud models—private, public, and SaaS—dominated the top five IT strategic trends. As pressure to move applications to cloud and hybrid environments intensifies, IT teams must grapple with sometimes significant migration challenges. Though each migration is different, there are several common considerations to keep in mind to help you on your own cloud journey. This guide provides a blueprint to help you think through many of the long-term impacts of your migration options and establish a strong foundation for your cloud migration strategy. The end result should be a migration strategy that leaves you in a position to support your technology as your business

In our increasingly global economy, it’s no surprise that more and more businesses are taking their contact centers global. This trend may be driven by several factors including entry into new markets and the consequent need to support customers and prospects in multiple regions or an acquisition that suddenly opens new geographies for business. This paper explores how a cloud contact center solution can help address key challenges of deploying a global contact center.

To support these principles, Anaplan was deliberately crafted as a highly distributed global company that allows for significant resiliency against threats and disasters. All functions within Anaplan are geographically distributed across the globe, reducing risks associated with regional events. The U.S. offices host most of the sales, marketing, and support activities. Staff in the U.K. and Singapore offices provide regional coverage, in addition to backup support.

Les fonctions marketing et informatique font plus que jamais la paire. Aujourd'hui, l'agilité des entreprises se mesure à l'aune de la flexibilité opérationnelle de leurs outils marketing. Pour découvrir les possibilités ouvertes par les nouvelles technologies dans le domaine du marketing, lisez notre « Guide des technologies marketing ». Au sommaire : Les technologies du paysage marketing actuel Les nouveautés de l'automatisation marketing Le rôle de vos contenus et des réseaux sociaux dans votre stratégie globale Oracle is a global technology company who provide a range of services, including the Oracle, the ‘industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud’ which lowers costs and reduces IT complexity. They also offer IT security service, database, Java services, Enterprise Management, consulting and support services and more. Oracle have more than 420,000 customers worldwide and are widely revered throughout the computing industry. All information that you supply is pro

Eine effektive Zusammenarbeit zwischen Marketing und IT ist wichtiger denn je und hängt zunehmend von der Flexibilität der Marketingtools ab. Hierbei spielt die Technologie eine zentrale Rolle. Unsere ‚Anleitung zum Aufbau Ihrer Marketingtechnologie‘ verrät, wie Sie Ihre Marketingstrategie mit der richtigen Technologie optimieren:: • Gewinnen Sie neue Perspektiven zum Einsatz von Technologie im Marketingbereich • Informieren Sie sich über neue Entwicklungen zur Automatisierung im Marketingbereich • Integrieren Sie Content und soziale Netzwerke in Ihre Gesamtstrategie Oracle is a global technology company who provide a range of services, including the Oracle, the ‘industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud’ which lowers costs and reduces IT complexity. They also offer IT security service, database, Java services, Enterprise Management, consulting and support services and more. Oracle have more than 420,000 customers worldwide and are widely revered throughout the computi

Effective collaboration between marketing and IT continues to be crucially important. As we enter an era where our business agility will be defined by the flexibility of operation of our marketing tools, technology in marketing is a key focus. Read ‘The guide to building your marketing technology stack’ to learn more about how technology can enhance every area of marketing: • Rediscover the technology in marketing landscape • Explore the latest in marketing automation • See how content and social fit into your overall strategy Oracle is a global technology company who provide a range of services, including the Oracle, the ‘industry’s broadest and most integrated public cloud’ which lowers costs and reduces IT complexity. They also offer IT security service, database, Java services, Enterprise Management, consulting and support services and more. Oracle have more than 420,000 customers worldwide and are widely revered throughout the computing industry.

While mainframes have dominated computing across industries for several decades, the need for speed and However, modernizing these systems is every enterprise’s nightmare, considering the complexities and high costs involved, besides the fear of business disruption. The need for a trusted partner has never been more. A leading global brokerage firm was looking to simplify and speed up the mainframe systems powering their trading platforms that supported billions of transactions each day. See how Infosys helped and the five key takeaways from the project.

The role of IT has grown dramatically over the last 5 years, from that of an aggregator or dispenser of information and technology to key strategic partner, business process enabler, and revenue driver. This is due in large part to continuous advancement, seamless integrations and innovations in IT processes and tools.

Staples’ information systems play a critical role in delivering on their brand promise 'that was easy.' As part of a recent strategic imperative, Staples recently embarked on a major modernization of its systems architecture and supporting processes. The goal was to ensure IT’s systems could scale with the company’s continued global expansion without sacrificing the quality of the brand experience. One critical target for modernization was Staples’ enterprise job scheduling processes and systems. After researching the top software providers in this space, Staples selected Tidal Software to support its efforts to centralize and streamline automated batch processing.

Providing healthcare is a global, multi-level proposition that transcends single providers. The stakeholders in Cerner’s world are not only clinicians, hospitals, and medical device partners but another whole world of consultants, researchers, and industry experts. Cerner leverages Jive Social Business Software to address a number of their key social business imperatives, including accelerating innovation and providing community-based support. They put Jive to work not only to make their own business operations more productive but to connect priorities and people outside of Cerner to solve broad healthcare issues for the greater good.

At its Build conference in May, Microsoft took the wraps off Cosmos DB, the new incarnation of its existing cloud-based Azure DocumentDB NoSQL database. With a nod to the dramatic, Microsoft terms Cosmos DB as its biggest database bet since SQL Server; it is positioning it as its flagship cloud database, suited for use cases ranging from security and fraud detection, to IoT (consumer and industrial), personalization, e-commerce, gaming, social networks, chats, messaging, bots, oil and gas recovery and refining, and smart utility grids. Cosmos DB is a good example of how cloud platform providers are rethinking databases for scalable, elastic environments and commodity infrastructure. The platform that is most comparable is Google Cloud Spanner, but each of these databases is engineered for different purposes: Cosmos DB as a globally distributed operational database and Spanner as a globally distributed SQL-supporting OLTP database. The highlights of Cosmos DB include its flexibility in

Real uses prove that Red Hat Enterprise Linux has lower costs than Microsoft Windows Server 2008, improving as you scale up. It offers more efficient management costs and better flexibility and is the most tested, secure OS backed by global support.

TransUnion, a leading global risk and information solutions provider, used mainframe computers to support its global business. To improve IT performance and costs, the company launched an initiative, Project Spark, to migrate all of its applications and systems to a Red Hat® operating environment. With the new infrastructure—based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux®, Red Hat JBoss® Middleware, and other Red Hat products—TransUnion achieved faster time to market, greater competitive advantage, improved employee satisfaction, and significant operating cost savings.

Major retailers and mass merchandisers are turning up the pressure on their trading partners and even other retailers to implement Global Data Synchronization (GDS) within their organizations. These advocates see GDS and participation in the Global Data Synchronization Network (GDSN) as the best path to improving the timeliness and accuracy of their supply chains, particularly once these efforts are broadly supported across the retail supply chain landscape.

Unsanctioned apps have become the norm, even in large enterprises with tight IT oversight. But when it comes to IT communication solutions, which frequently involve sensitive data, you simply cannot compromise. Read The 2015 IT Communications Buyers Guide and learn why you cannot afford to settle for a non-proven IT communications solution. This report details exactly what to look for, and also look out for, in an enterprise-grade vendor. Dive deep into topics such as: • Security and compliance • Enterprise specific capabilities • What constitutes a real mobile solution • Selecting a trustworthy partner • Breadth and depth of integrations • Global support • And much more...