Forbes Insights: The Big Bang – Is cloud the silver lining for resilience?
Forbes Insights discusses how the cloud is changing resilience in the expanding universe of digital data.
Sponsor: IBM Corporation
2015 Cost of Data Breach Study: Impact of Business Continuity Management
This research report from the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by IBM, analyzes the impact a business continuity management program can have on the financial and reputational consequences of a data breach. Read the report to learn how involving your BCM team in the up-front planning and remediation of a data breach can help reduce the incidence and costs to your enterprise.
Resiliency Testing Best Practices
Every organization must put a plan in place for recoverability after an outage, but testing your enterprise resilience without full business and IT validation is ineffective. Read the white paper to learn how to put a plan in place for full functional validation, and get details on the importance of validating resiliency in a live environment; learn why small-scale recovery “simulations” are inadequate and misleading; understand why validating resilience demands involvement from IT and the business; and get details on the checks and balances you need to maintain and validate business resilience.
The Seven Essential Practices for Effective Business Continuity Management
Making changes to your business strategy can often create new risks. If your business continuity management (BCM) plan is not part of an organization-wide, integrated program, it may not evolve to address these new risks. Understand which practices can be followed to successfully protect your organization’s business operations and reputation with a proactive, business-centric approach to BCM that highlights critical practices.
DevOps and the Cost of Downtime
DevOps is hot, and likely top of mind for you executives – bringing many technical and business benefits to LOB leaders, the C-suite and IT delivery organizations. But when you ask stakeholders to change what they’ve done successfully for years, you must monetize the benefits and ROI for them, and make the organization change real. This IDC Report highlights how communicating DevOps business value is critical to securing additional funding and accelerating the rate and course of change in an enterprise.
Scaled Agile Information Kit
Scaled agile practices deliver on the promise of scaling development methods to the enterprise through a unified approach and addressing the requirements of complex constructs and additional stakeholders of today’s organizations. Just ask Nationwide Insurance, which is leveraging scaled agile practices. Learn more about scaled agile and Nationwide’s success, and you’ll discover how to:
- Utilize a foundational framework and public knowledge base of proven lean and agile practices at enterprise scale
- Reproduce benefits achieved by four real-world companies
-Follow Nationwide’s example in slashing downtime and dramatically improving code quality in just three years
Who’s afraid of the big (data) bad wolf?
Today data volumes are exploding in every facet of our lives. Business leaders are eager to harness the power of big data but before setting out into the big data world it is important to understand that as opportunities increase ensuring that source information is trustworthy and protected becomes exponentially more difficult. This paper provides a detailed review of the best practices clients should consider before embarking on their big data integration projects.
Big data integration and Hadoop
Apache Hadoop technology is transforming the economics and dynamics of big data initiatives by supporting new processes and architectures that can help cut costs, increase revenue and create competitive advantage.
Advanced Analytics Enhances Business Intelligence: New Technology Enables Better Decision-Making
The need to process and analyze large volumes of data being generated is causing many businesses to expand the capabilities of their BI systems. Read why a next-generation BI system that utilizes multiple data sources and also offers predictive analytics can provide the needed guidance.
Nucleus Research: Analytics pays back $13.01 for every dollar spent
Read about Nucleus Research’s findings that organizations earn an average of $13.01 for every dollar spent on analytics applications such as business intelligence (BI), performance management (PM) and predictive analytics.
Analytics Discovery Unlocks Information for Business: Understanding and Using Exploratory Tools
Analytic discovery technology enables analysis of multiple data sets of various sizes and structures and is similar to data mining. Discover how analytic discovery goes beyond data mining by enabling non specialists to explore data and gain insights.
Analytics for the Mid-Market: Can You Survive And Thrive Without BI?
This report explores how midsize companies are harnessing the power of business analytics to exploit more data, equip more business users with decisions support, and ultimately deliver substantial performance improvements.
Operationalizing Voice of the Customer: How Top Performers Create Actionable Insights
IBM has again risen to the top of Hypatia Research’s leader board in this Voice of the Customer landscape update. Hypatia cites IBM for its “unrivaled” portfolio of software components, consultants and professional services.
Data Visualization: When Data Speaks Business
See why organizations are increasingly recognizing that to be competitive, they need to be data-driven, for which they need not only strong analytics and BI capabilities at all decision levels, but also an effective way to transform data into information and ensure its optimal delivery.
Redefining networks for cloud, analytics, mobile and social
This paper explores the implications of cloud, big data and analytics, mobile, social business and the evolving IT security landscape on data center and enterprise networks and the changes that organizations will need to make in order to capitalize on these technology force.