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SWOT Assessment: Flexera Software, FlexNet Manager Suite for Enterprises 2014

In today's economic climate, there is significant pressure on CIOs to control costs and reduce risks while finding ways to fund new business initiatives. Software is a strategic asset that is typically under-managed in most organizations. It should therefore be a priority for CIOs to find ways to automate and optimize software asset management in order to uncover cost savings and minimize license liability risk.

Four Steps to Protect Businesses from the Effects of Downtime

Downtime happens and often at the worst time possible. Organizations experiencing downtime face direct and indirect costs from the loss of critical systems. This whitepaper discusses a Globalscape survey of 283 IT professionals and end users revealing the frequency of unplanned downtime, the effects on organizations, including average costs, and what IT administrators can do to minimize core system failure.

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Brightcove Exact-Target

Salesforce ExactTarget Marketing Cloud, a digital marketing company, adopted Brightcove’s Video Cloud to manage the development and publication of video content to its Web site through a custom video portal to increase user engagement and increase the amount of time users spend learning about the brand. Nucleus found that using Brightcove enabled ExactTarget Marketing Cloud to better leverage its online video presence to increase its engagement with users and more effectively manage its digital brand.

Why Everyone Needs to Own Customer Experience in the Application Economy

The viability of your brand largely rests on the quality of your customers’ experience with your applications—often the most important experiences they’ll have when doing business with you. Successful CIOs and technology leaders will know how to deliver the application experience users expect by taking ownership of the application experience, obtaining key performance information needed to share—or democratize—that data with all relevant teams and business leaders. These technology leaders recognize that great performance is driven when all teams understand what they need to know to act.

GeoTrust Enterprise Security Center A New Way to Buy and Easily Manage SSL Certificates

The business and security benefits of GeoTrust Enterprise Security Center IT departments face a range of issues—some obvious, some more subtle—when dealing with SSL certificates. These issues can have serious business and security consequences. GeoTrust Enterprise Security Center was designed with customer input to address these problems.

SSL 101: A Guide to Fundamental Web Site Security

As use of the Internet has grown, the Web has also become more popular with scammers, identity thieves, and other cybercriminals. Given the number of people who experience or have heard about phishing and other Web-based scams, many Internet users don't feel comfortable sharing their personal details online. Fortunately, there is secure sockets layer (SSL) technology, a standard solution for protecting sensitive information online. But there's more to SSL than just basic safety. Read this guide to learn about what SSL does, how it works, and how it can help build credibility online.

Choosing the Right Security Solution

The online world can be a scary place as the integration of the Internet into everyone’s lives has also brought with it an ever-increasing trend towards malicious activity. Consumers are understandably concerned. This angst leads to diminished trust in e-commerce and sub-optimal results for online businesses. Consumers and businesses, alike, need protection from online security threats in order to thrive on the Internet and take full advantage of the many benefits of e-commerce.

COO Study: Gearing up for growth

COOs responsibilities are expanding beyond cost saving and efficiency to include a growing role in raising revenues. By transforming processes, they're providing customers more relevant experiences. Center for Applied Insights talked to COOs across industries to find out more

Smarter Process in the age of the customer

The IBM Smarter Process approach helps you to increase customer loyalty and engagement. Gain visibility and the ability to quickly change operational systems with intelligent automation. Increase efficiencies and lower costs.

Mobile-enabled Smarter Process: Patterns for achieving mobile success for organizations

The impact of mobile technologies on the world is reminiscent of the changes brought about by the industrial revolution and the e-business revolution. Mobile provides professionals at organizations the ability to interact with more people, more often than ever before. But while individuals have embraced mobile; many businesses find it difficult to incorporate mobile solutions into their organization to drive value. Leaders at organizations are quickly learning that creating a few new slick applications does not guarantee success in the digital economy. Mobile business is about reorganizing your enterprise around mobile technologies and reinventing your business processes to fundamentally change how your organization operates.

Strategic BPM in the Cloud

Optimize your business processes in the cloud with a next generation BPM strategy — an intelligent Business Platform (iBP) that implements an on demand, “service as you need it” model. Take advantage of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for pure technology, including processing, storage, networks and other fundamental computing virtual resources, with payment based on usage. Develop and manage business processes using the BPM Platform as a Service (BPMaaS), providing the BPMS tools supported by cloud services. Work with live business processes used by customers, suppliers, employees and trading partners, using Business Processes as a Service (BPaaS).

The top five signs you need DevOps.

The DevOps methodology unites software development (Dev) and production and operations (Ops) into a single, integrated, and continuous process.While Dev focuses on innovation and speed, the mandate to Ops is about stability, control, and predictability. Left to themselves, Dev and Ops struggle to talk to each other, much less collaborate. Is the ongoing battle between Development and Operations holding you back? Here are five signs you may need to bring them together with DevOps.

Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery

This paper, "Workload Automation – From Application Development to Digital Service Delivery," describes how a workload automation solution can eliminate the manual processes developers now use to define batch workflows and communicate them to schedulers.By extending the use of workload automation to developers, organizations can implement applications faster, slash costs, and increase service quality.

Integrating Big Data into Business Processes and Enterprise Systems

In the paper, “Integrate Big Data into Your Business Processes and Enterprise Systems” you’ll learn how to drive maximum value with an enterprise approach to Big Data. Topics discussed include:

• How to ensure that your Big Data projects will drive clearly defined business value
• The operational challenges each Big Data initiative must address
• The importance of using an enterprise approach for Hadoop batch processing

Achieving Business Agility Through An Agile Data Center

A common trait across successful businesses is their ability to efficiently adapt to the latest trends and processes that have positive impacts to business performance and revenue growth. Here technology trends play a key role in enabling greater business agility. IT organizations can be an innovative adopter of new technologies that quicken the route to market and drive greater market demand for end-user product.