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SharePoint Best Practices 2013

SharePoint is a valuable collaboration tool. But your organization could be vulnerable if you don't take the right steps. There’s no silver bullet for securing SharePoint because each deployment is unique. However, there are 10 best practices that everyone should follow when using this collaboration tool.

Equinix’s Ad-IX ecosystem grows – why it matters to the enterprise

Equinix introduced the concept of the Ad-IX ecosystem for video advertising in April in hopes of finding the next launchpad that would help grow low-latency interconnect and colocation services. The company is reporting back six months later that it is, indeed, growing a valuable ecosystem of video advertising participants – 85 ad-tech companies that are counted as part of the Equinix customer base are part of Ad-IX.

Improving Collaboration by Adding Social Capabilities to Email

This paper looks at why email remains the primary mode of communication in business today and the fact that more and more organizations are looking at social software and other real-time communication methods to add to the email experience. Analyst firm IDC expects that organizations will use software, such as Notes and Domino 9x Social Edition which seamlessly combines email with social capabilities both on-premises and in the cloud, to complement existing tools and address the business need of getting the right data to/from the right people at the right time for the foreseeable future. Share this paper with your clients.

Applying social business: The repeatable patterns that improve business processes and provide return

A shift of power in commercial relationships from producers and sellers to buyers has changed marketplace and leadership thinking toward greater collaboration with customers, partners and employees. Fortunately, new capabilities in technology and business practices can help organizations adapt and harness these marketplace dynamics. Read this white paper for more information about seven examples of repeatable approaches for using social business practices and capabilities to impact your business, to create competitive advantage and to gain identifiable and measurable ROI.

The Keys to Securing Data in a Collaborative Workplace

Losing data is costly. According to the Ponemon Institute, the average data breach costs US organizations an estimated $200 per record, or $5.4 million total per breach. And apparently these breaches are equally likely to be from criminal attack as from employee or contractor negligence. It makes sense then that surveys point to data loss via unsecured file sync and share solutions as one of IT’s biggest concerns. IT professionals have spent years learning how to protect their organizations from hackers, but how do you ward off both external and internal threats when employees are seeking ways to collaborate more and more?

Design Matters! Enabling better collaboration

Collaborative design management helps you address complexity both at the team level and at the individual developer level. It enables integration of Architecture, Design and Development disciplines with the rest of the life cycle and supports the ALM imperatives. It provides advanced Architecture, Design and Construction capabilities to help organizations be more productive delivering applications leveraging the latest in emerging run-times, technologies and standards.

Integrate Rational ALM applications with SAP Solution Manager

IBM Application Lifecycle Management, powered by Jazz, delivers the IBM vision for a collaborative Application Lifecycle Management process. The IBM Application Lifecycle Management platform can now also be integrated with SAP Solution Manager to enhance quality throughout enterprise applications lifecycle for SAP and heterogeneous projects. In the Technical White Paper you will understand how SAP Solution Manager is integrated with IBM ALM.

Design Matters! Enabling better collaboration

Collaborative design management helps you address complexity both at the team level and at the individual developer level. It enables integration of Architecture, Design and Development disciplines with the rest of the lifecycle and supports the ALM imperatives. Read the white paper to learn the details. Design and Construction capabilities to help organizations be more productive delivering applications leveraging the latest in emerging runtimes, technologies and standards.

The changing role of the developer: Intergrate, collaborate, optimize or become irrelevant

A new, exciting reality exists in which software is the driver of innovation and you as developers are critical to your organization and to the way in which business value is delivered. To thrive, you will need to embrace three key themes; integrate, collaborate and optimize; or be left behind.

IBM Business Process Manager

Simplified graphical design tools-make it easier for every team member, including nontechnical users, to collaborate on process design and analysis. Download this whitepaper and learn how to: Increase efficiency, Increase collaboration and Visibility into process performance.

Gaining and Executing a Smarter Understanding of Customers

This article discusses the urgent need for firms to successfully engage with customers, including handling issues such as social media and mobility, and at accomplishing this goal with smarter IBM collaboration and CRM solutions. It points to results IBM has achieved.

Integrative CRM Enhances Midsize Business Agility and Performance

There is a fundamental shift in CRM today from simply being customer focused or customer-centric to proactively being customer-activated. Clients in today's consumer economy desire to be treated as individuals with very specific and highly personalized needs and they want their voices to be heard and acted upon.

IBM SmartCloud™ Engage Security

SmartCloud Engage is an integrated suite of collaboration tools that combine your business social network with web conferencing and collaboration capabilities, like file storing and sharing, instant messaging and activity management. SmartCloud Engage provides essential collaboration services, leveraging IBM's unique position as a world-renowned security leader and trusted partner. Security is a competitive differentiator for SmartCloud Engage. SmartCloud Engage business-ready security is based on a deep understanding of security and privacy best practices in IBM. Our security controls provide privacy and controlled authorization to sensitive information while enabling business operations. Engage protects our customers' information through governance, tools, technology, techniques, and personnel.

Sharing Simplified: Consolidating Multiple File Sharing Technologies

Employees need to share content with colleagues throughout the organization and, increasingly, with others not directly employed by their company. However, traditional ECM technologies make it hard to share content within a single business and, in many cases, impossible to do between organizations. Ideally, multiple file sharing technologies would be consolidated into a single solution with the following characteristics: intuitive, accessible, comprehensive, connectable, embeddable, secure, scalable, reliable, and affordable. Box meets and exceeds these criteria.

Power to the People – Identify and Empower Your Mobile Workforce

One-in-two mobile owners in the US owns a smartphone, and many more own tablets. As most of these same consumers adapt their personal lifestyle to be "mobile first", they expect their employers to be there to meet them. Taking this on seems daunting, as IT has less ability to enforce a single standard than ever before. Not taking action, however, and ignoring this trend risks exposing corporate data to public clouds with no visibility on the part of IT. Enforcing a single standard will do a lot to serve all users partially, but none particularly well.