How To Move VMware Data Protection To The Cloud

Managing the backup and restore of virtual machines in a distributed environment is typically a convoluted process. Leveraging a cloud-native platform for these data protection workloads enables organizations to reduce the demands on IT teams as well as their budgets.

Read how VMware data protection in the cloud provides:

  • Infrastructure that is hosted completely offsite
  • Fast response times in the case of failover for disaster recovery
  • Dynamic Disaster Recovery (DR) and global workload mobility
  • Centralized global coordination and monitoring
  • Radically Lower TCO

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Webinar (ft. Forrester): Drive Business Performance by Improving Your Claims Communications

Just because you’re a regional insurer doesn’t mean that your customers have lower expectations of you when it comes to the claim experience. They expect the same kind of support and transparency from you that from your larger, well-resourced competitors deliver.

To achieve a great experience, claims professionals need to understand their customers better, how they navigate the claims journey, and the communications that will cost-effectively drive great claims experiences.

In this webinar, Forrester Research and Quadient will discuss:

  • Why insurers need to introduce the light of day into claims processes
  • The state of claim communication
  • How cloud communications can extend the customer relationship by making the claim process more transparent

Join our guest Ellen Carney, principal analyst serving ebusiness & channel strategy professionals at Forrester and Andi Dominguez, Product Marketing at Quadient, for a live webinar discussing the business impact of a great claims experience.

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Reimagining Digital Experience: Using the Cloud to Enhance Customer Communications

Customer communication management (CCM) solutions provide a powerful example of how use of advanced technology that incorporates cloud delivers capabilities that are needed today and also provides businesses that are looking to manage omnichannel requirements spanning electronic systems and high print volumes with the capacity to achieve – in the language of digital transformation – “enterprise-wide automation spanning multiple functions and modernizing of current processes & supporting infrastructure to achieve previously unattainable or unimaginable outcomes.

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Novarica Market Navigator: Document ECM/CCM Systems

This report is designed to provide an overview of the current solution provider marketplace for document management/enterprise content management (ECM) systems and document creation/customer communication management (CCM) solutions. It is also designed to assist both property/casualty and life/health/annuity insurers in drawing up their shortlists of potential providers based on vendor market position and offering details.

These reports do not render judgment, since the fit between a potential provider and an insurer will be determined by the specific situation and needs of that insurer. Novarica provides these types of advisory consultations to more than 100 insurer clients through its retained advisory services.

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Insurance and Customer Communications Management (CCM) – Give Consumers What They Want

For a long time, insurance companies were in the driver’s seat when it came to customer communications. Not anymore. A combination of rapidly expanding digital technology and changing demographics has transformed the interactive landscape and the customer engagement model.

Digital consumers are changing the rules of the game. The customer is now in control more than ever before, with numerous purchasing options, vast online research tools and multiple touch points. For many transactions, consumers increasingly prefer digital channels, which make content universally accessible by mixing media (graphics, text and video), tailoring messages (providing discounts, location or demographic information) and adding social connectivity (allowing communities or friends to build around themes and needs).

This paper will explore the significant shift in consumer communication expectations, the traditional hurdles that insurers face and how these can be overcome with a broad CCM vision based on practical, achievable business goals. The fact is that insurers have not kept pace with rapidly emerging customer needs. It is critical to be relevant and speak to the customer in their voice. If you can’t communicate with customers in the way they want, someone else will.

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Manage claims correspondence in the cloud

Quadient® Correspondence is a subscription-based SaaS solution that enables insurers to create, approve and deliver regulatory compliant, accurate and personalized claims correspondence to customers across print and digital channels, with no reliance upon IT.

Quadient Correspondence was designed and priced for insurers who want to further their transformation to digital, but don’t have the resources to invest in an end-to-end customer communications management (CCM) solution.

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Quadient® Inspire and Guidewire InsuranceSuite™

Many organizations have separate tools, teams and third parties dedicated to designing and creating content for mobile, web, and print communications. This results in duplication of efforts, inconsistency and compliance risk. Inspire enables you to create timely, contextual, personalized and accurate communications for all channels from one intuitive interface. This eliminates the need for multiple siloed teams, reduces risk and ensures a seamless customer experience.

Our technology is fully integrated with Guidewire InsuranceSuite™. It also integrates with your existing legacy IT systems and offers flexible implementation options including on premise, hybrid and cloud applications. Inspire makes it easy to leverage existing templates, archived content, and data from your core systems to create highly personalized, timely and accurate communications across all channels.

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SD-WAN 101: What it is, what it does and why you need to know now

Windstream’s solution utilizes software-defined networking (SD-WAN) to strategically route traffic over a combination of private and public access types to reach multiple locations. This is where customers keep control over their network from one specific location, which will cut down management.

Benefits of Windstream SD-WAN are:

  • Data security
  • Increased Efficiency
  • Simplified Network Management
  • Scalability

Download Windstream's whitepaper to read more about what SD-WAN and what it can provide for your company.

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5 Practical Tips for Implementing SD-WAN

While SD-WAN offers dramatic improvements in performance, reliability and ROI, adopting it can be a complex process.

Download now to unveil the 5 recommendations from Forrester that can help you start and stay on the right path.

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So Many Ways to WAN

One of the most critical components to the success of any growth-oriented enterprise is its wide area network (WAN), which is essential to delivering an exemplary customer and employee experience across all locations.

Download this whitepaper from Windstream Enterprise to look at the various types of WANs in use today and how wide area networking is evolving to support new applications and better performance now and in the future.

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Prepping for the Oncoming Wave of SD-WANS

For IT leadership, there are two important questions:

  1. How can SD-WANs help solve the performance issues of increasingly high-bandwidth applications without the typical costly infrastructure upgrades associated with traditional WANs?
  2. Can SD-WANs offer greater visibility into the network so IT can provide the seamless bandwidth needed in today’s demanding hybrid environment?

Download this whitepaper from Windstream Enterprise to see if your company prepped for the wave.

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Will Your Network Enable Your Business Transformation?

Cloud-based applications, mobile and virtualized workforces have created stress on enterprises that operate large private networks. Today's enterprise needs dynamic, low cost, reliable and secure links to the cloud. Which means traditional MPLS-based connectivity between locations, data centers and cloud providers no longer meets customer expectations

Download this infographic from Windstream Enterprise to see if your company can do better.

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Should you opt for a Cisco Enterprise Agreement to manage your software

Cisco is changing the way organizations procure and manage Cisco software through a new licensing model: the Cisco Enterprise Agreement (Cisco EA).

Choosing a Cisco EA provides simplicity, flexibility and cost savings. That's because it consolidates all your maintenance contracts and licenses in a single contract and offers license portability, upfront savings, on-demand deployment capabilities and more. You can also receive vouchers for services to optimize deployments and drive end-user adoption.

There are many benefits, so we've boiled it all down to give you the most important highlights.

What difference could a Cisco EA make to your business?

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Buyer’s Guide – Cisco Enterprise Agreements

You maybe aware that Cisco has introduced a new solution to manage license agreements: the Cisco Enterprise Agreement (Cisco EA).

This simple agreement model offers a number of benefits for procuring and managing your Cisco software suite (network,collaboration and security):

  • Get upfront savings and protected pricing for 3 to 5 years;
  • Consolidate all your maintenance contracts and licenses in a single contract;
  • Easily manage and deploy licenses through one simple portal;
  • Access free services to optimize deployments and enable adoption through Softchoice's Cisco Lifecycle Advisor program.

We have created a comprehensive a Buyer's Guide to provide more details on the advantages of a Cisco Enterprise Agreement.

Learn how the program works in 6 easy steps and get ready for the next level of Cisco licensing.

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