Analytics and Business Intelligence: Achieving User-Driven Results

Businesses are wallowing in data from an increasing number of sources – both internal and external. However, turning data into actionable information becomes harder as both IT and business users try to keep up with the data deluge.

This Battlecard looks at the evolution in analytics and business intelligence solutions today, especially the bifurcation into Traditional BI vs. Exploratory Analytics, why BOTH are important, and lists three key factors that users – both business and IT – must consider when evaluating a BI solution.

Key points will include:

  • How User Experience Matters
  • BI and Hybrid IT: Cloud, On-Premises and Both
  • Supporting Self-Service: The Data Scientist in the Software

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Hyperconverged Infrastructure for Dummies

In this small book, Scott D. Lowe discusses the trends that are leading modern IT to hyperconverged infrastructure. He also discusses both the technical and business benefits that come from implementing a data center based on hyperconverged infrastructure.
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Day In The Life of an IT Manager

This eBook is designed to help forward-looking IT Managers envision a different way of working —where simplicity replaces complexity. We’ll look at what makes managing today’s IT environments so challenging—increasing complexity, poor visibility and constraints on budgets and space. Then we’ll help you visualize a new way of working that greatly simplifies the challenges of managing data, infrastructure and operations. Imagine way of working in which you have the time to really help your company improve the way it does business, and save you money.
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State of Hyperconvergence EMEA (Report)

ActualTech Media surveyed over 500 technology professionals and members of organizational management in order to gauge people’s understanding of hyperconvergence, as well as how the market is adopting such solutions. We also sought to understand how well expectations are meeting reality when it comes to hyperconverged infrastructure.
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The 3 D’s of DevOps: Develop, Deploy and Deliver – DELIVER

Uptime isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. With recent IDC research demonstrating the average cost of a critical application failure at between $500K and $1M, the need to keep downtime at bay is clear. Unfortunately, the average number of deployments is expected to double over the next two years putting additional pressure on keeping application running.

This Battlecard looks at how DevOps-led project not only accelerate delivery and deployment, but also can have a positive, serious impact on application quality and uptime. It demonstrates how IBM DevOps tools enhance security and compliance, and what businesses should do today to eliminate downtime as part of a continuous application delivery process.
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The 3 D’s of DevOps: Develop, Deploy and Deliver – DELIVER

Uptime isn’t everything; it’s the only thing. With recent IDC research demonstrating the average cost of a critical application failure at between $500K and $1M, the need to keep downtime at bay is clear. Unfortunately, the average number of deployments is expected to double over the next two years putting additional pressure on keeping application running.

This Battlecard looks at how DevOps-led project not only accelerate delivery and deployment, but also can have a positive, serious impact on application quality and uptime. It demonstrates how IBM DevOps tools enhance security and compliance, and what businesses should do today to eliminate downtime as part of a continuous application delivery process.
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The 3 D’s of DevOps: Develop, Deploy and Deliver – DEPLOY

In our “There’s an app for that” economy, the need to develop and deploy new code rapidly can be a real competitive differentiator. As businesses adopt agile and DevOps strategies, what can they do to accelerate the speed of deploying new apps?

This Battlecard provides buyers with the information on how IBM UrbanCode helps speed deployment of applications in DevOps environments and thus drives deployment costs down. Organizations have seen development cycle increases ranging from 15% to 75%, delivering increased productivity, time-to-market savings and reduction in the risk of failed deployments thanks to standardization, increased transparency into the release process. 
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The 3 D’s of DevOps: Develop, Deploy and Deliver – DEPLOY

In our “There’s an app for that” economy, the need to develop and deploy new code rapidly can be a real competitive differentiator. As businesses adopt agile and DevOps strategies, what can they do to accelerate the speed of deploying new apps?

This Battlecard provides buyers with the information on how IBM UrbanCode helps speed deployment of applications in DevOps environments and thus drives deployment costs down. Organizations have seen development cycle increases ranging from 15% to 75%, delivering increased productivity, time-to-market savings and reduction in the risk of failed deployments thanks to standardization, increased transparency into the release process. 
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The 3 D’s of DevOps: Develop, Deploy and Deliver – DEVELOP

In today’s increasingly mobile environments, business users require new apps – or new features for existing apps – at an accelerated pace. Not only are there more projects, users demand new code is up and running faster than ever.

This Battlecard presents the key information about the ways IBM BlueMix enables enterprises of all sizes to accelerate the development process by eliminating overhead previously required to spin up development environments. The resulting faster time to value delivers real bottom-line benefits.
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The 3 D’s of DevOps: Develop, Deploy and Deliver – DEVELOP

In today’s increasingly mobile environments, business users require new apps – or new features for existing apps – at an accelerated pace. Not only are there more projects, users demand new code is up and running faster than ever.

This Battlecard presents the key information about the ways IBM BlueMix enables enterprises of all sizes to accelerate the development process by eliminating overhead previously required to spin up development environments. The resulting faster time to value delivers real bottom-line benefits.
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Explore the Benefits of Switching to Perceptive Document Filters

Content extraction and file format conversion are key behind-the-scenes capabilities for many enterprise and personal software solutions. These capabilities, though, are not core competencies for most independent software vendors (ISVs), developers, or cloud solution providers. Rather than investing heavily in time and resources to build their own tools, it often makes better business sense to partner with a best-in-class content extraction and file format conversion provider.

Lexmark Enterprise Software is both a preferred and proven enterprise choice. Many factors contribute to the choice of a best-in-class OEM software technology provider. These factors typically include technical capabilities, reliability and performance, as well as business considerations, such as licensing terms and vendor responsiveness.

Switching providers is a serious matter that requires a business case based on benefits and costs. This document explains why Perceptive Document Filters is a preferred file conversion and extraction technology provider, maps evaluation and implementation steps, and provides justification for the decision to upgrade from either a current provider, or from a do-it-yourself approach—to Perceptive Document Filters.

Learn here how your software product can benefit from Document Filters and why IBM, Cisco and EMC choose Document Filters.
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The Value of IT Automation, Featuring Research from Gartner

At Puppet, we’ve been looking at the state of DevOps practices for several years and helping organizations achieve higher levels of efficiency.

We’ve learned a lot about the impact of DevOps at varying stages of IT automation maturity.

As DevOps has moved from theory to implementation for more organizations, a host of DevOps myths have blocked adoption in many organizations.

This publication debunks these myths so your organization can automate, innovate, and get ahead.

Download this publication, featuring research from Gartner, to discover:
  • Why DevOps is applicable to legacy environments, traditional enterprises and hierarchical organizations.
  • Practices that underpin DevOps, from version control to automated testing to infrastructure as code.
  • How companies like Walmart, Staples, Ambit Energy and Infusionsoft have embraced DevOps and IT automation.
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Get Started with DevOps: A Guide for IT Managers

If you’re managing an IT team, you may be turning to DevOps as the path to faster delivery of software.

DevOps can help your team become more efficient — and your organization more competitive — but you’ll need to be able to communicate to your team why things are changing, and how their usual working practices are likely to alter.

Download this guide to explore:
  • How to align DevOps with your organization’s goals.
  • What change might look like — for operations, development and the organization at large.
  • Why security is a great icebreaker.
  • The importance of focusing on the team over individual DevOps specialists.
  • How to embrace agile ways of working, along with infrastructure as code, code review, continuous integration and unit testing.
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