Building resilience into manufacturing in a disruptive world

Manufacturing operations are continually grappling with the uncertainties and rapid changes across the business landscape—factors and events well beyond their control. This has been true for years and is now even more acute with a pandemic causing wild swings in supply and demand.

Smart application of the latest technology can help operations anticipate and adapt with more agility, but many manufacturers have been slow to fully embrace digital transformation, still relying on familiar but inefficient devices such as analog clipboards. The right partners can provide manufacturing operations with:

  • Insights, technologies, and innovative solutions to help digitally transform more quickly with less risk and an increase in return on digital investments.
  • Integrated and standard ways of working for sustainable operational excellence.
  • Online services that help build and sustain capability and empower people.
  • Off-the-shelf use cases that have been tried and tested.
  • Point solutions to address critical shop-floor challenges.
  • Practical applications of digital technologies focused on creating immediate value.

Read the e-book Greater Resilience and Higher Performance for Manufacturers: Accelerating Digital Transformation with EY Smart Factory to see how having the right partners can give you the operational resilience to thrive in today’s disruptive business environment.

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12 Hidden Costs and Hurdles to Managing AWS Infrastructure

Cloud adoption is booming. Gartner estimates that spending on cloud services grew 6 percent in 2020 to a total market value of $257.9 billion. While there are several large public cloud players, Amazon Web Services (AWS) remains the largest, with 45 percent of the market share for Infrastructure-as-a-Service, and more than 1 million active users.

But, even with an estimated 91 percent of organizations now using a public cloud, many lack the bandwidth, internal resources, and expertise to properly manage their infrastructure. Aspects like monitoring, proactive improvements, and cost optimization typically require substantial legwork that may occupy engineers and pull them away from core business initiatives.

Without the right resources and expertise, managing your own AWS infrastructure can lead to:

  • Costly outages due to hard-to-use monitoring tools.
  • Never achieving a proactive approach.
  • Overpaying for cloud services.

In this Ebook, we will review 12 hidden costs and hurdles to managing AWS infrastructure on your own, and how working with a managed cloud service provider like Mission can help leverage AWS to accelerate your business.

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10 Best Practices For Reducing Spend In AWS

Amazon Web Services (AWS) forever changed the world of IT when it entered the market in 2006 offering services for pennies on the dollar. While its prices have come down significantly over the years, many companies learned the hard way that moving to the public cloud didn’t always achieve the cost savings they expected.

In fact, organizations have frequently noticed public cloud bills two to three times higher than expectations. This doesn’t mean that moving to the public cloud is a mistake. The public cloud provides huge benefits in agility, responsiveness, simplified operation, and improved innovation but the reality of the cloud is that costs steadily rise over time, and without clear insight into what drives your spend, strategic cost reduction is impossible.

In this book, you will learn the 10 best practices for reducing spend in AWS, so you can start optimizing your cloud for spend and performance today.

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Joy of Data: Powerful Use Cases for Customer Data

Hey, all you Marketing, Analytics and Data Chefs! Welcome to The Joy of Data, a new kind of cookbook!

This ebook is full of delightful data recipes that showcase what ingredients go into baking solid customer loyalty and retention programs, whipping up powerful and personalized messaging, cooking up sophisticated advertising strategies and rolling them all up with predictive insights to create joyful experiences for your customers (what a joyful mouthful)!

Let’s roll up our sleeves, tie on our digital aprons and get our tech stack utensils organized to start cooking up some experience goodness together.

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Joy of Data: Powerful Use Cases for Customer Data

Hey, all you Marketing, Analytics and Data Chefs! Welcome to The Joy of Data, a new kind of cookbook!

This ebook is full of delightful data recipes that showcase what ingredients go into baking solid customer loyalty and retention programs, whipping up powerful and personalized messaging, cooking up sophisticated advertising strategies and rolling them all up with predictive insights to create joyful experiences for your customers (what a joyful mouthful)!

Let’s roll up our sleeves, tie on our digital aprons and get our tech stack utensils organized to start cooking up some experience goodness together.

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Joy of Data: Powerful Use Cases for Customer Data

Hey, all you Marketing, Analytics and Data Chefs! Welcome to The Joy of Data, a new kind of cookbook!

This ebook is full of delightful data recipes that showcase what ingredients go into baking solid customer loyalty and retention programs, whipping up powerful and personalized messaging, cooking up sophisticated advertising strategies and rolling them all up with predictive insights to create joyful experiences for your customers (what a joyful mouthful)!

Let’s roll up our sleeves, tie on our digital aprons and get our tech stack utensils organized to start cooking up some experience goodness together.

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Joy of Data: Powerful Use Cases for Customer Data

Hey, all you Marketing, Analytics and Data Chefs! Welcome to The Joy of Data, a new kind of cookbook!

This ebook is full of delightful data recipes that showcase what ingredients go into baking solid customer loyalty and retention programs, whipping up powerful and personalized messaging, cooking up sophisticated advertising strategies and rolling them all up with predictive insights to create joyful experiences for your customers (what a joyful mouthful)!

Let’s roll up our sleeves, tie on our digital aprons and get our tech stack utensils organized to start cooking up some experience goodness together.

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Managing your Kubernetes clusters for dummies – DBCBA5

This ebook provides an introductory overview to Kubernetes clusters, trends in modern cloud computing, the challenges of managing Kubernetes clusters, and best practices for addressing those challenges. An integrated solution such as Red Hat® Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes can help your organization centralize management from end to end while retaining a security- and compliance-focus.

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B2B Customer Support Software – The Journey from Discovery to Onboarding and Beyond

Customer service organizations must rethink their cultures, staffing practices, and measures of success to best support the new workforce. That's according to the Forrester report on 2020 customer service megatrends. Doing so will take a reimagination of your current strategy and the way you measure success. On the customer's terms, not yours.

This is particularly important when it comes to B2B (business-to-business) customer support, where the customer is a more complex entity. They are also high value than B2C (business-to-consumer) customer. Which means that if your customer support falls short, the cost of losing that customer has a much higher negative impact to your organization.

This eBook provides a step-by-step guide to:

  • Understanding why now is the time to change your B2B customer support software.
  • How to choose the right B2B customer support software solution for your business.
  • Ensuring a successful implementation process.
  • Knowing what to expect after onboarding.
  • Tools and resources that empower B2B customer support teams to get the most benefit out of their software solution.

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Modernizing with SQL Server on Linux for a Cloud Native World

Microsoft SQL Server enables developers and organizations to successfully harness the power of data in their preferred language and environment, including Linux for on premises, cloud and edge scenarios, as well as container deployments.

With SUSE, you have access to all the same enterprise-grade security features found in SQL Server on Windows with no compromises, available with cloud options like Pay-As-You-Go and Bring-Your-Own-Subscription and container-type deployments leveraging the SUSE Containers-as-a-Service offering.

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