Launched in 2015, SAP S/4HANA represents a major step forward in enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. However, with this change, SAP is ending support for SAP ERP in 2025, requiring existing customers to upgrade to S/4HANA.
The energy and utilities industries are undergoing a dramatic shift driven by rising stakeholder and customer expectations, increasing economic and political uncertainty, and emerging new technologies. Stakeholders demand greater transparency into the supply chain to optimize operations and cut costs. Customers demand easier access to their data as well as digital channels to increase engagement with their energy and utilities providers. Geopolitical activity, coupled with changing governmental policy, drives unparalleled industry uncertainty. Moreover, advancements in technology, such as IoT and renewable energy sources, are opening up new business opportunities, while at the same time increasing competition. Business leadership must prepare their organizations to adapt and evolve with the industry.
Financial institutions today operate between three distinct worlds: the front-office, middle-office, and back-office. While each office is a vital part of the organization, the amount of investments for each could not be more unbalanced. The front-office receives a significant amount of resources, and understandably so, as financial institutions aim to keep up with consumer expectations and compete with fintech companies. Unfortunately, it means the middle- and back-office fall lower and lower on the priority list, leaving the IT team struggling with limited resources, staff, and budget.
Modern cyberattacks are not limited to just network intrusion from the outside. Internal threat actors can often be found at the center of sophisticated attacks.
In today’s digital world, consumers conduct much of their personal lives through taps, clicks, and finger swipes. But they do not find that same freedom and ease in the agent-assisted experiences they have when doing business with brands. Instead, consumers struggle through a series of disconnected experiences and painfully long calls that leave them frustrated and less trusting of brands.
The current tools organizations are using today for visual engagement just don't cut it. Purpose-built visual engagement technology, like co-browsing and camera sharing, is expected to help remove these pain points.
Rescue by LogMeIn commissioned Forrester Consulting to survey CX professionals to dig into the issue. The bottom line: Adopting the right visual engagement technology is critical for brands focused on increasing customer trust and decreasing customer effort as their top CX goals. Learn more about what they found.
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Today’s enterprises demand remote tech support that’s quick, easy and effective. And yet a surprising number of solutions are still slow, cumbersome and incomplete – and organizations that use them are losing time, loyalty and money.
With WANdisco's LiveData approach to big data migration to the cloud, there is no application downtime during migration and no data inconsistencies, even when data sets are under active change.
This whitepaper will explore an effective, automated approach to cloud, on-premises and multi-vendor Hadoop migrations.
How will you adjust your cybersecurity spending in 2020 in response to market conditions? Discover ways to spend smarter. Our new SANS 2020 survey identifies current trends, leading drivers and top disruptors cited by cybersecurity professionals as main factors in how they plan for effective cybersecurity investments.
Did you know you can avoid network overload by filtering out low-risk traffic, sending only the right application traffic to the right tool? EMA recommends network operations teams modernize their approach with full application visibility. Stop ignoring the application layer. Use application-aware network packet brokers to deliver optimal network performance.
Network continuity is critical during times of unprecedented change. This step-by-step guide from ZK Research provides a more efficient and secure network using a next-generation network packet broker. Justify your need for a visibility solution that monitors and secures your network infrastructure while also providing cost savings.
Today’s digital manufacturing ecosystem is undergoing another landmark transformation. While factory floors are more connected than ever, there’s a challenge to real-time insights and next-gen CI: data. Most companies are collecting mass amounts of data but lack system-wide visibility. This means lack of usable insights. With Sight Machine on Microsoft Azure, you get essential line of sight, and system-side view, into the inner workings of your factory and its data output. Unlock and scale the next generation of CI today.
Let’s say everything in your business relied on an unorganized paper filing system. Cabinets after cabinets of folders lined the walls and stretched up the ceiling, so much so that it not only became difficult for anyone to find anything, but they were forced to work around the mess. It sounds cumbersome and inefficient, right? Like the sort of thing that would be a huge detriment to your business’s growth.
When a business has a custom software solution designed for it— whether it is a completely new system or an integrated design—the implementation of the system is usually not the final step of the software development lifecycle.
We’ll discuss what factors you should be considering when comparing custom software and premade solutions. You should have already completed a gap analysis of your business processes in Part 3: Analysing Software Features and Creating a Comparison Chart. Now we should be able to decide whether there is a pre-made solution that fits your specific needs, or if custom software provides the flexibility and unique features your business requires.
One of the fastest growing segments of the Identity and Access Management (IAM) market is the cloud segment. Increasingly, companies are choosing to move at least part of their security infrastructure to cloud-based solutions. Even if you still run critical IAM service on-prem, there’s a great chance you manage and integrate with cloud applications.