Gartner: Becoming Masters of Data and Analytics: Data and Analytics Predictions

To stay competitive in an increasingly digital world, businesses must become masters of data. By 2020, more than seven billion people & companies, and at least 35 million devices, will be wired to the web. Success now depends on not only keeping up with fast paced digital innovation, but also harnessing the continual data explosion it creates; and this will mean a sizeable shift in the way companies handle their insights.

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Forrester: Customer Data Maturity Powers the Modern Enterprise

With the growing importance of customer insights in organizations, the role of analytics to extract insight from customer data and embed it back into organizational processes is at the forefront of business transformation. This increased profile has elevated the customer insights role from data geeks feeding the marketing funnel to critical change agents and strategic business partners. It has also made it crucial for companies to have a coherent and consistently executed customer data strategy. In order to seize the opportunity presented by this shift in data’s role, companies must plot a deliberate strategic course — beginning with a clear-eyed assessment of their current capabilities and needs.

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Forging Effective Security with Password Enforcement

You hear about it all the time. Compromised passwords are sold on the dark web, granting criminals access to businesses' most sensitive applications and data. However, 90% of businesses support users who utilize the same password for multiple accounts.

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Automate Password Policy Enforcement & NIST Password Guidelines

Organizations are now adopting tools to enable real-time password policy enforcement with daily password auditing and automated remediation to improve security without increasing IT workload.

With these tools, they can implement compromised password detection, a custom password dictionary, fuzzy matching with common character substitutions, and continuous daily checks of passwords. They can also easily and quickly adopt NIST password requirements and eliminate vulnerable passwords in Active Directory.

Learn more about how automation for password policy enforcement and NIST password guidelines can help your organization.

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Eliminating The Burden Of Periodic Password Reset

The most debated topic in the NIST password standards is the guideline to end the policy of password expiration. These forced monthly, quarterly, or periodic password resets are a frustration for many employees, and they are proven to increase IT help desk costs.

Organizations need to secure applications and systems, but employee password reuse across different applications remains a problem. So what can organizations do to protect Active Directory?

They can adopt password filtering for weak, similar, and compromised passwords. Read this article to understand how.

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Explore Adaptiva’s Enterprise Endpoint Security Survey Results Today

This report shares findings from the Adaptiva 2019 Enterprise Endpoint Security Survey. The survey investigates cybersecurity priorities and challenges in the IT environment. It focuses on securing Microsoft Windows endpoint devices in business.

Over 200 professionals participated in the annual survey, now in its fourth year. Almost all respondents come from IT (98%), with 40% coming from enterprises with 10,000 or more Windows endpoint devices. Participants come from IT security as well as operations. The executive branch is represented, with 7% in CIO or CSO roles.

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Metrics That Matter for Quality Manufacturing

Metrics reign supreme in manufacturing, which means any new technology must be evaluated on its ability to drive measurable, scalable impact to your production operations, product quality and site performance.

MasterControl has been helping companies ensure product quality and compliance for over 20 years — but often those metrics are about mitigating long-term risk versus driving real-time operational gains. That is until now. The new MasterControl Manufacturing Excellence solution delivers the next generation of digital production records to drive immediate improvement to plant operations and product quality.

In this white paper, you will learn how improve operations by achieving right the first time and accelerating reviews, optimize resource utilization, and measure the impact of digitization.

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Metrics That Matter for Quality Manufacturing

Metrics reign supreme in manufacturing, which means any new technology must be evaluated on its ability to drive measurable, scalable impact to your production operations, product quality and site performance.

MasterControl has been helping companies ensure product quality and compliance for over 20 years — but often those metrics are about mitigating long-term risk versus driving real-time operational gains. That is until now. The new MasterControl Manufacturing Excellence solution delivers the next generation of digital production records to drive immediate improvement to plant operations and product quality.

In this white paper, you will learn how improve operations by achieving right the first time and accelerating reviews, optimize resource utilization, and measure the impact of digitization.

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Architecting for Change: Embracing a Platform Approach

Chances are you wouldn’t buy a fax machine, install landlines and order checks.

Embracing digital is now so instinctive, you would digitize and automate everything. You would invest in cloud-based technology that was easy to use, connect and scale.

In this paper, you will learn the importance of an agile and modern technology foundation, how to take the right risks versus follow the right rules, and the cost of inaction and non-modernized technology ecosystems.

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Architecting for Change: Embracing a Platform Approach

Chances are you wouldn’t buy a fax machine, install landlines and order checks.

Embracing digital is now so instinctive, you would digitize and automate everything. You would invest in cloud-based technology that was easy to use, connect and scale.

In this paper, you will learn the importance of an agile and modern technology foundation, how to take the right risks versus follow the right rules, and the cost of inaction and non-modernized technology ecosystems.

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The ultimate cheatsheet for executing rolling IT Forecasts

What are the 12 most important questions to answer to develop a rolling forecast strategy? Find out. Download the Rolling IT Forecasts cheat sheet to learn:

  • 5 reasons rolling forecasts fail
  • 5 steps to establish a rolling forecast cadence
  • How to accurately forecast future IT spend in minutes

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Hiding in Plain Sight: How to fund innovation using money you already have

CIOs are under constant pressure to deliver innovation and efficiency, and at a lower cost to boot. Fortunately, when it comes to enterprise IT spend, chances are the necessary resources to drive improvements are already there, hidden in budget padding. All you need are the right tools to identify and exploit them.

Download this brief to:

  • Understand your budget-to-actual variances and what causes them
  • Learn how to course-correct towards freeing up fettered funds for growing your business

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Apptio TBM Unified Model (ATUM): The standard cost model for IT

Ready to communicate IT cost and value in terms your business unit partners understand?

The Apptio TBM Unified Model® (ATUM®) standardizes the financial information necessary for IT leaders to manage their technology business.

Use this poster as a resource to:

  • Establish better alignment between IT, Finance, and other business units by using common language around IT costs
  • Confidently manage the business of IT with the backing of peer-derived best practices
  • Understand 10 essential metrics you should track to communicate the business value of IT

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How to prepare for your cloud migration

Cloud migration is consistently one of the top priorities of technology leaders across the world today, but many are overwhelmed by trying to plan their cloud migration, struggling to prioritize workloads and unsure of the cost implications..

Download this white paper to discover the 5 key steps for cloud migration based on the best practices of today’s most successful IT leaders:

  • Baseline TCO resources (cloud, on-premises, hybrid)
  • Map current on-premises resources to cloud offerings
  • Evaluate and prioritize migration strategy
  • Calculate migration costs
  • Define success metrics

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Showback & Chargeback: Optimize Technology Costs by Shaping Demand

This eBook outlines how organizations can leverage showback and chargeback to impact IT costs—to improve awareness and accountability, and to shape demand and consumption.

Follow the guiding principles outlined in this eBook so you can:

  • Eliminate labor-intensive manual billing
  • Get rid of high-level, indefensible IT allocations
  • Put an end to the notion that IT is free
  • Reduce frustration by business leaders about their IT costs

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