Turn Up The Power

Digitizing Operations to Improve Performance, Quality, and Compliance.

These days, competition, regulation, and technology are fundamentally changing how energy and utilities businesses operate. As the stakes get higher, the pressure is on to do everything better and faster — while continuously reducing costs.

Energy and utilities leaders understand they need a digitization strategy that will see their organizations into the future and CEOs believe digital transformation will deliver sustainable cost reductions, enhance revenue growth, and support better decision ­making.

Yet, despite digital’s tremendous potential, energy and utilities organizations have been slow to adopt or fully implement digital initiatives. Meanwhile, the consequences of continuing to rely on manual processes and disparate systems negatively impact business — creating challenges with meeting goals for on ­time performance, quality, safety, and compliance.

Read Turn Up the Power: Digitizing Operations to Improve Performance, Quality, and Compliance and learn the day­today impacts of manual processes and disparate systems and how you can quickly implement custom, IT­ approved workflow apps that integrate with your systems in weeks.

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Manual Processes Amid Utility Service Providers

A Survey Report from the Utilities’ Perspective.

Utility companies and service providers are at a tipping point.

TrackVia surveyed 200 utility companies about the business risks of service providers using manual processes and the results are staggering. With time­consuming and costly data entry, reporting, and auditing, as well as the inability to quickly access accurate information to address outage and customer service issues, it’s clear service providers need to evolve.

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Immedion Maintains Always-On, Secure Data Centers with Kentik

With bad actors constantly looking for opportunities to disrupt or penetrate networks, real-time network visibility and threat alerting are imperative. That’s why regional cloud and data center provider, Immedion chose Kentik to help maintain high customer satisfaction and provide always-on, accessible, secure services.

In their search, Immedion found that on-premises solutions required data-collector platforms to be deployed at each of its seven sites, requiring significant resources to setup and manage. With Kentik’s SaaS solution, no additional resources were needed and all sites were covered. Plus, they were able to query their network data within seconds compared to the minutes or hours that other solutions required.

Read this case study and learn how Immedion achieved:

  • Real-Time Visibility and Security Across Seven Facilities
  • Significant Time and Cost Savings
  • High Commitment to Service-Level Agreements

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The State of Network Management in 2018

Businesses rely on their networks for nearly every aspect of their operations. If packets don’t move, users and customers are directly impacted and revenue doesn’t flow.

Read the results of Kentik's survey of networking industry professionals and review how organizations are addressing their network management challenges including:

  • How network professionals assessed their organizations’ readiness to tackle networking automation and advanced networking/security analytics.
  • Why user experience and data breaches are among the top network worries.
  • How the proliferation of tools for managing networks and improving cloud visibility is impacting the enterprise and which technologies are most commonly deployed.

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Five Cloud Deployment Mistakes That Will Cost You

With lack of visibility into how cloud resources are utilized, it's easy to make costly mistakes. This paper covers five network-related cloud deployment mistakes that you might not be aware of that can negate the cloud benefits you’re hoping to achieve.

Topics discussed in this whitepaper include:

  • The risks and costs associated with redundant cloud-based services.
  • The importance of avoiding “hair-pin” traffic routing scenarios when configuring cloud services.
  • How to minimize costs by minimizing unnecessary inter-region traffic.
  • Understanding the network behavior of cloud services and taking advantage of basic optimization, configuration, and compression opportunities.
  • Recommendations for reducing Internet content delivery costs.

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Cloud Architecture Best Practices: Using the Right Tools

Building a cloud application is like building a house. Without following industry best practices, everything could come tumbling down. Fortunately, Amazon established cloud architecture best practices, the AWS Well-Architected Framework.

This paper outlines their principles, "Five Pillars", best practices for cloud and further extends the Framework to networking — a critical part of cloud architecture.

This white paper will:

  • Outline the AWS Well-Architected Framework: Principles,“Five Pillars,” and best practices.
  • Inform how the Framework applies to networking — a critical part of cloud architecture.
  • Highlight how Kentik can help effectively implement these best practices.

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The Construction Industry and Regroup

Jobs in the construction industry include several occupations ranked among the most dangerous in the world. In this current tight employment market, the industry is hard-pressed for both employees and time. It is under extreme pressure to build its soaring skyscrapers, buildings and housing developments on time and on budget — and to keep its workforce informed and safe from harm simultaneously.

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Regroup For Construction

Regroup Mass Notification offers cost effective solutions that help you overcome communication challenges, while at the same time reducing overall costs. Keep your mobile workforce safe and informed with Regroups' simple, cost effective solution for critical and non critical mass communication.

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Banking on Automation for a Better Back Office

Financial institutions are counting on banking operations to help transform them into the bank of the future. But, most bank back offices still have between 300 and 800 back-office processes to manage and monitor -- hampering their progress and making data breakdowns are inevitable. As a result, banks can’t bring new offerings to market quickly, and still deliver disjointed experiences that leave consumers unfulfilled.

It’s time for a better way to approach back office automation.

Download Banking on Automation for a Better Back Office and learn how digitizing your back office processes with a workflow platform allows you to:

  • Automate data collection to reduce errors and standardize your data.
  • Digitize work flows to speed up end-to-end processing.
  • Reduce operating expenses and improve the cost-basis of consumer offerings.

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How Utilities and Related Services Can Use Technology to Improve Operations and Save Money

Generally speaking, the utility industry has been somewhat sluggish in its application of technology to streamline operations and productivity. However, this attitude has been shifting in recent years as companies are becoming more attuned to the significance of meeting customer expectations. In this Playbook, you will learn:

  • Why many utilities are using mobile automated workflow tools to improve processes and save money.
  • About how one Monterey, Calif.-based company experienced explosive growth after adopting custom-built mobile technology.
  • The latest statistics and real-world examples related to how digital tools are helping utilities reap an array of benefits.
  • How one single-source provider in the energy sector recently reduced its number of employee safety incidents thanks to the implementation of digital technologies.

If your company would like to learn more about digitizing operations, download our new playbook today.

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Driving Risk out of Construction

Transforming Your Business With An Operational Workflow Platform In the construction business, you’re under enormous pressure to run on-time and on-budget with the utmost focus on safety and quality. At the end of the day, your most important skill is to catch hidden risks before they become real problems with real impacts to the business.

Unfortunately, antiquated paper and spreadsheet processes keep risks hidden and you stymied. To resolve this, leading construction firms like yours are embracing operational workflow platforms to better manage and streamline their work, data, and processes, while decreasing their costs.

Read Driving Risk Out of Construction and learn how you can uncover and quickly act upon hidden risks caused by manual processes and disparate systems in order to reduce safety incidents and improve on-time delivery and quality.

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Connecting the Lifecycle of Construction

HOW OPEN APIS FOSTER INNOVATION, BUILD BRAND AWARENESS, AND MAKE YOUR CUSTOMERS HAPPIER.

There is a myth that construction has been slow to adopt technology. The truth is that technology has been slow to provide solutions for AEC. But an open API approach to the industry has the power to change that.

Download our free eBook, “Connecting the Lifecycle of Construction,” and learn how open APIs can:

  • Allow for a culture of greater productivity and faster innovation
  • Bring success across the AEC ecosystem (and specifically your business)
  • Eliminate issues like double entry, data silos, and rework
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Construction Softwares Next Big Thing

Construction Software's Next Big Thing: The Platform

Download our free eBook to find out more about:

  • How APIs are expanding the current technology ecosystem
  • The challenges presented by unintegrated software solutions and how this affects organizations as a whole
  • How clients, field staff, and executives benefit from PaaS and APIs
  • Tips for choosing a platform solution to fit your needs
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A New Frontier: Construction OS

In the 1980s, paper was the dominant medium of exchanging information–project teams specifically, would have to physically hand over reports or drawings or send them in the mail.

Technology advanced and we moved on to fax machines and, eventually, computers and the Internet where we could share information from our mobile devices and store data in the cloud.

But technology is NOW advancing faster than ever and the construction industry is ready.

THAT’S WHERE CONSTRUCTION OS COMES IN.

Download our free eBook to find out exactly what an OS is, how it’s different than what you’ve been using, and how your business can use an OS to get ahead (by leaps and bounds) of the competition.

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Construction Software Buyers Guide

Choosing a construction software solution is an important decision. Not only is it a significant investment in terms of cost, time, and resources, the solution you choose will have an enormous impact on the daily activities of your construction teams. Therefore, it's vital to conduct the proper research and enter the process with the right information and questions in hand to help you select the best software for your teams.

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