Expand Your Team’s Collaborative Potential With Microsoft and Zscaler
For enterprises seeking to thrive in today’s shapeshifting working environment, enhancing productivity and collaborative workflows means strengthening their cloud-based application delivery with a direct internet connection.
Unfortunately, many organizations continue to rely on traditional network architectures, which simply weren’t designed for the collaborative needs of today’s workers. But as a hybrid workforce evolves to encompass both on-premises and remote teams, modern, SaaS-powered collaboration is the new reality—and the Microsoft 365 suite of collaborative tools is leading the charge.
Explore Zscaler’s leading solution for meeting Microsoft’s connectivity recommendations, and equip your business with the power to:
- Identify and differentiate Microsoft Office 365 traffic.
- Egress network connections locally.
- Avoid network hairpins.
- Bypass inspection proxies.
In a new e-book, Maximizing Your Microsoft 365 Investment: Enhancing Security and Accelerating Productivity with Zscaler, you’ll learn how optimizing your internet connections can overcome the challenges of a disparate workforce, with enhanced productivity, improved collaboration, and lower operating costs.
Head-to-Head: Monolith vs. Microservices
Wednesday, June 23 at 2pm ET
The pace of technology innovation has dramatically accelerated and IT can no longer postpone the modernization of legacy systems. Modernizing legacy applications is an iterative process—one that doesn’t have to involve a start-from-scratch approach.
Decoupling is one of the approaches companies can take to create flexibility without ripping out the entire legacy portfolio. By refactoring systems into microservices, companies can take advantage of the scale, reusability, and flexibility of cloud-native apps.
Join our upcoming Tech Talk to learn more about how you can use OutSystems to leverage microservices and to modernize your IT portfolio in a progressive approach. Some of the topics we’ll cover include:
- What functions should be broken out of a monolithic application and how granular your microservices should be
- How to realize the scalability and flexibility from modernizing to the cloud
- Best practices to define a modular and future-ready architecture
5 Reasons to Automate Sales And Use Tax Compliance
Ensure Peak Performance In The New Business Environment
Monthly sales and use tax compliance can be a massive burden for your finance department. If you’re looking for ways to control costs and make smart investments, automating these processes in-house using tax compliance technology — or outsourcing them — can deliver measurable business benefits like:
- Reducing audit risk
- Boosting staff value and ROI
- Cutting costs
- Improving governance and controls
- Enhancing scalability
The Future of Tax is in The Cloud
The cloud computing market is booming, with Gartner projecting the industry to exceed $331 billion by 2022.1 That’s no surprise considering the benefits include cutting cost s, improving data quality, increasing security, and ensuring reliability.
Check out these stats, based on a survey of IT professionals, to learn why your organization should upgrade its tax applications or migrate them to the cloud.
Companies that migrate their tax applications to the cloud accelerate digital transformation and experience many benefits:
- Improved data management
- Increased process automation
- Faster access to new functionality/li>
- Enhanced security
- Decreased costs
- Easier implementation
Migrating Your Tax Processes to the Cloud
How Digital Transformation Simplifies the Complex Sales Tax Function
Rapidly evolving technologies and the rise of ecommerce were already changing the face and form of commerce. Now, world events, particularly the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, are causing major upheaval in the economy, forcing companies to re-evaluate their business processes. Across industries and sectors—from retail to industrial, B2B and B2C—efforts toward leveraging automation and data exchange are accelerating with digital transformation initiatives that integrate digital technology into all areas of a business.
For the mid-size and large organization, the mandate to automate is crucial for doing business in order to keep pace with competitors, enterprise and technological innovation and global growth.
Enterprise Automation With a DevOps Methodology
Practical steps and best practices for automation implementation
Applying modern automation to your enterprise application environment helps your business better serve your customers—so you can be successful in the digital economy. This high-level enterprise automation checklist can help you transition to a more automated, efficient environment.
- Start small
- Spread awareness
- Automate your tools
- Fail early, fail fast
- Adopt agile methodologies
- Refine your DevOps toolchain
Transformation Takes Practice
Deliver with increased speed and innovation using open ways of working
It is a question asked time and again by business leaders: Why are so many digital transformation efforts failing?
In this e-book, we’ll explore how open transformation— the process of probing, sensing, and responding in a collaborative, continuous cycle of discovery and delivery— leads to more meaningful outcomes in software development, product innovation, and more.
Container Adoption Journey
Facing a competitive landscape
As organizations shift to cloud-native development, they’re realizing the need to change their approach to software development.
They need a solution that combines microservices architectures, workflow and pipeline automation, open hybrid cloud platforms, and a team organization that focuses on better supporting customer needs and providing self-service capabilities.
Container platforms are a fast-growing category of enterprise software, offering powerful technology to accelerate the development and delivery of applications. While containers help developers package applications for consistent deployment, they also provide a framework and common language that links development and operations teams.
Adopt Cloud-Native Development
Adapt to a digital, cloud-native world
Cloud-native application development can help you compete in a digital world. By adapting your technology, processes, and organization, you can rapidly innovate and deliver high-value offerings to your customers. Cloud-native development also aligns cloud technology with business needs and development processes to improve software production and delivery life cycles for both new and existing applications.
Open platforms, tools, and ways of working can help you derive even more value, speed, and agility from your applications and cloud platforms. Open source communities advance technology at a rapid pace and promote interoperability, allowing you to deploy modern tools and platforms that evolve with you over time. Open ways of working encourage inclusivity, collaboration, and transparency, allowing every staff member to contribute and bring new ideas forward.
You can also deliver more value to customers and gain many benefits for your organization.
IT-focused outcomes include:
- Faster application updates
- Rapid application deployment
- Quicker fault recovery
- Improved accuracy
Business-focused outcomes include:
- Faster time to market for new features and services
- Improved product and service quality
- Lower operational and capital costs
- Increased relevance and competitiveness
2021 State of the CDP
This report surveyed 300 marketers in the US across 5 major industries with the goal of developing a better understanding of the current and future state of CDPs.
The findings revealed why CDPs were central to solving the challenges of 2020, including reduced budgets, new data privacy legislation, sudden digital acceleration due to COVID-19, as well as pending third-party cookie loss.
Get this research report to discover:
- Why CDPs have become vital to marketing success
- 6 ways marketers are adapting to change with a CDP
- How to find a CDP that makes integration easy
- 3 important factors to help you quantify CDP ROI
- Why data privacy and compliance continue to be a top priority
2021 State of the CDP
This report surveyed 300 marketers in the US across 5 major industries with the goal of developing a better understanding of the current and future state of CDPs.
The findings revealed why CDPs were central to solving the challenges of 2020, including reduced budgets, new data privacy legislation, sudden digital acceleration due to COVID-19, as well as pending third-party cookie loss.
Get this research report to discover:
- Why CDPs have become vital to marketing success
- 6 ways marketers are adapting to change with a CDP
- How to find a CDP that makes integration easy
- 3 important factors to help you quantify CDP ROI
- Why data privacy and compliance continue to be a top priority
2021 State of the CDP
This report surveyed 300 marketers in the US across 5 major industries with the goal of developing a better understanding of the current and future state of CDPs.
The findings revealed why CDPs were central to solving the challenges of 2020, including reduced budgets, new data privacy legislation, sudden digital acceleration due to COVID-19, as well as pending third-party cookie loss.
Get this research report to discover:
- Why CDPs have become vital to marketing success
- 6 ways marketers are adapting to change with a CDP
- How to find a CDP that makes integration easy
- 3 important factors to help you quantify CDP ROI
- Why data privacy and compliance continue to be a top priority
A Guide to Choosing the Right AP Automation Tools
How much time does your accounting team spend entering invoice data and chasing approvals each month?
Manual accounting tasks are time-consuming and tedious, and they can lead to costly errors and fraudulent activity.
Automation tools can help tackle these challenges and allow your AP team to focus on more valuable tasks.
Download this free white paper to learn:
- The different types of automation tools available
- How implementing AP software can reduce invoice processing costs by up to 80%
- Why you need a full 360° solution that manages POs, invoices, expenses and payments
Solving Your Top AP Challenges in 2021
79% of accountants say manual processes are their biggest challenge. From data entry to chasing approvals, managing AP can be time-consuming and costly.
Download this white paper to learn:
- Top challenges of managing POs, invoices, payments and expenses and how to solve them
- Steps to mitigate risks such as duplicate payments
- Solutions for managing AP from home
- How to reduce the cost of invoice processing by more than 80%
Decision Maker’s Guide to Enterprise Linux
Expert Analysis on Key Enterprise Linux Distributions
For better or worse, committing to an enterprise Linux distribution has a long-lasting and far-reaching impact on organizations. That means companies need to make the right decision the first time if they want to meet and exceed their business goals.
In our Decision Maker's Guide to Enterprise Linux, we break down 20 of the top paid and free enterprise Linux distributions and discuss the key points decision makers need to consider before they commit.
Understand the Enterprise Linux LandscapeWhen you download the Decision Maker's Guide to Enterprise Linux, you get instant access to timely and in-depth analysis on enterprise Linux distributions -- ranging from stalwarts like CentOS and RHEL, to emerging distributions like Rocky Linux. For each distribution, we provide an expert assessment of:
- Build stability
- Ecosystem maturity
- Security update frequency
- Suitability for cloud, CI/CD, and embedded systems
- Viability for use at enterprise scale
- And more