Ovum – IBM Cognos Analytics – A bridge across the analytic chasm

What's new in IBM Cognos Analytics? - In October 2015, IBM announced a significant redesign of the user experience (UX) of its flagship business intelligence (BI) solution, IBM Cognos BI, based on self-service design principles. The new solution, called IBM Cognos Analytics, promises to bridge the divide between ad hoc, exploratory analytics and IT-driven traditional BI.

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Workload Automation: Accelerate Digital Services Delivery

Managing Hadoop batch processing may consume a significant portion of application developers’ time and effort, which drives up application development times and costs. This paper from BMC discusses the obstacles IT organizations face in developing and managing Hadoop jobs and workflows and how a workload automation solution can remove these barriers.
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EMA Radar™ for Workload Automation (WLA)

Hybrid cloud, DevOps, big data and digitalization are driving a need for more sophisticated workload automation, which underpins the consistent delivery of traditional and cutting edge workloads. Modern workloads require more sophistication; data is collected from a greater variety of sources, and the success or failure of job streams can be directly exposed to both business users and customers. Significant enhancements in workload automation (WLA) tools have been added in recent years to address these trends. This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) RADAR report identifies the thirteen leading WLA platforms and empirically compares and grades them against a broad range of measurements to determine overall product strengths and cost efficiencies.
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Nucleus ROI Study

A large telecommunications company deployed BMC Control-M to provide greater stability that would support automation in its billing department. Nucleus found that with high levels of success in automating billing processes, the team was able to further leverage BMC Control-M in additional departments to support new capabilities, providing benefits including increased employee productivity and the avoidance of new hires.
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Nucleus ROI Study

A large telecommunications company deployed BMC Control-M to provide greater stability that would support automation in its billing department. Nucleus found that with high levels of success in automating billing processes, the team was able to further leverage BMC Control-M in additional departments to support new capabilities, providing benefits including increased employee productivity and the avoidance of new hires.
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EMA Radar Summary

Hybrid cloud, DevOps, big data and digitalization are driving a need for more sophisticated workload automation, which underpins the consistent delivery of traditional and cutting edge workloads. Modern workloads require more sophistication; data is collected from a greater variety of sources, and the success or failure of job streams can be directly exposed to both business users and customers. Significant enhancements in workload automation (WLA) tools have been added in recent years to address these trends. This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) RADAR report identifies the thirteen leading WLA platforms and empirically compares and grades them against a broad range of measurements to determine overall product strengths and cost efficiencies.
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IT Service Brokering for Dummies

Your business users want an easy to access, intuitive way to use the services IT provides. Discover how an IT service broker model can help you deliver a great experience for users and increase productivity for your business.

This ebook presents everything you need to know, including:

  • Trends and concepts redefining today’s IT
  • What to look for in an enterprise IT service brokering solution
  • Next-level methods for reducing costs and increasing productivity

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EMA Radar Summary

Hybrid cloud, DevOps, big data and digitalization are driving a need for more sophisticated workload automation, which underpins the consistent delivery of traditional and cutting edge workloads. Modern workloads require more sophistication; data is collected from a greater variety of sources, and the success or failure of job streams can be directly exposed to both business users and customers. Significant enhancements in workload automation (WLA) tools have been added in recent years to address these trends. This Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) RADAR report identifies the thirteen leading WLA platforms and empirically compares and grades them against a broad range of measurements to determine overall product strengths and cost efficiencies.
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How to Avoid the Five Most-Common IT Automation Pitfalls

Infrastructure and operations leaders have identified five common pitfalls in automation initiatives that should be avoided and can be averted through the use of some common best practices. Look beyond tools to overcome these pitfalls and to avoid derailing your I&O automation initiatives.
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5 Key Initiatives to Wow Your Workforce With Your Service Desk

Each interaction between your employees and your service desk affects the reputation of the entire IT and operations teams. In this report, Forrester analysts Elinor Klavens and Eveline Oehrlich explore how choosing the right automation solution can:
  • Radically improve "moments of truth"
  • Keep your workforce productive
  • Reduce costs and increase employee satisfaction
Plus, find out 5 tips on how you can own your service destiny today!

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Deep Learning – The Next Evolution in Programming

Even if you haven’t recognized it, you’ve benefited from deep learning. Deep learning is an advancement essential to cognitive computing, as it partners computers with humans to help businesses automate labor-intensive processes. This progressive approach allows for a more advanced interpretation of data, and the effects are astounding. With the growth of the Internet and the shift to online business, enterprises worldwide struggle everyday to make sense of the staggering amount of unstructured data. Deep learning offers a solution.
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