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The Top 7 Day 2 DevOps Challenges

Now that the concept of DevOps has been around for more than a decade, the natural question for many is, “What now?” As DevOps evolves, engineering leaders face demands way beyond CI/CD automation. This eBook explores the industry’s top challenges, and ways to solve them, including:

the top DevOps challenges post-CI/CD implementation.
what challenges pose the greatest risk.
how to harvest opportunity from your DevOps pain points.
which factors are creating difﬁcult-to-detect bottlenecks.
how to make your DevOps operations more productive.

Value Stream Management and Value Stream Mapping – A complementary approach to delivering greater value through software

The emergence of Value Stream Management (VSM) as a concept applicable to software delivery signaled a change in the winds for traditional enterprises in a tech-driven world. Finally, “non-tech” organizations have a practice available that is focussed on extracting more business value from IT.

While the two “VSMs” are different concepts, they are not mutually exclusive. In fact, they’re complementary. To understand how both practices work, we need to define what they are and what they can do.

You can get IAM right

In an ideal world, we’d have the budget and time we need to get things done. And tomorrow would be predictable. But that’s simply not the case, especially in the IT universe.

As you well know, the world of identity and access management (IAM) is one of constant change, shrinking deadlines, minuscule budgets, overtaxed staff and unmerciful regulations. Unfortunately, the approach most organizations take to IAM involves piecing together ‘half solutions,’ in the hope that tomorrow’s solutions will address real-world needs.

Azure Calculator | Zerto

Move Workloads to the Cloud and Reduce Costs! Considering a move to Azure? Use this simple tool to find out how much you can save on storage costs by mobilizing your applications to the cloud with Zerto on Azure!

Disaster Recovery 101

Confused about RTOs and RPOs? Fuzzy about failover and failback? Wondering about the advantages of continuous data protection over snapshots? Well, you are in the right place.

The Disaster Recovery 101 guide will help you learn about DR from the ground up and assist you in making informed decisions when implementing your DR strategy, enabling you to build a resilient IT infrastructure.

How to Prepare Contact Account Data For ABM

Among B2B communities, 2017 brought upon several new concepts, trends and technologies...But perhaps none captured more attention than the re-emergence of account-based marketing as a viable growth strategy.

Download ZoomInfo's latest eBook to step-by-step guide for optimizing account & contact data to support an account-based marketing strategies, including:

Data-driven approach to account selection.
Understanding the importance of contact data.
Best practices to managing contact & account data.

How to Overcome the Pain Points of Your CRM

It’s no secret Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems support sales operations and leadership. It’s also no secret that field reps, whether Account Executives or Sales Development Representatives, despise CRMs.

Not only does it take too much time to document activities and handle administrative tasks, but the entire system is predicated on keeping up with customer and prospect data. And make no mistake: if fueled by dirty data, your CRM becomes another obstacle hindering your team's success.

Leveraging research and commentary from industry analysts, this eBook explores how to utilize data quality solutions to empower your entire sales organization – from leadership and operations to those on the frontlines in the field – and avoid the time suck that is CRM maintenance, while also optimizing its intended use case as the tool companies call the “single source of truth” for customer lifecycle management.

G2 Marketing Intelligence

Accounts buy, but it’s the people – stakeholders, decision makers & influencers – who decide. Marketing Intelligence empowers B2B sales ops to identify high-value accounts which match an organization’s Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) based on firmographic, technographic and real-time buying signals.

So, which vendors help organizations capitalize on these insights?

Access your complimentary report of the G2 Crowd Grid® for Marketing Account Intelligence - a visual display which showcases the marketplace rankings based on benchmarks for both market trend analysis and product comparison from actual sales and marketing professionals!

3 Mistakes Organizations Make While Developing ABM Programs

Ensure account-based marketing success.

So, you’re thinking about implementing ABM?

NEWSFLASH: Account-based marketing is back and more popular than ever! Despite rampant success stories, far too often, we see sales and marketing teams fall into common traps that derail programs before campaigns even kick-off.

Download ZoomInfo’s latest eBook to learn how to avoid the following critical errors associated with ABM strategies:

Poor account selection processes.
Inadequate contact inventory within universe.
Wasteful technology & services spending.

Cold Calling Tips & Tricks

The objective of a cold call is neither to convince, nor is it to sell. The goal is to establish communication and schedule a follow up meeting. However, the road to success is often lined with obstacles, from gatekeepers and voicemails, to inefficient and tedious prospecting endeavors.

ZoomInfo designed this e-Book with the intent to help you maximize your cold calling success. Sure, it can be painful at times, but when using the right tools and tactics, cold calling is still an effective way to generate quality leads.

Download ZoomInfo’s latest eBook for a number of cold calling tips & tricks to help you increase your connect rate and generate more leads to fuel your funnel.

The Impact of Direct Dials on Sales Productivity

Why improving your call to connect rate is the key to beating sales goals.

Often, the sales reps who fail to hit the phones hard, are the ones wondering how they missed their quota. That said, while hitting the phones, not all sales outreach is created equal. Consider the following:

It takes 22 minutes to connect using switchboard numbers, but with direct dials it only takes 5 minutes.
When dialing a direct dial phone number at the director level, your SDR is 46% more likely to connect.
On top of that, when dialing a direct dial number at the VP level, your SDR is 147% more likely to connect.

Buyers Checklist How To Evaluate a B2B Contact Data Provider

With so much upside, leveraging B2B sales intelligence vendors to support sales goals is a no brainer...

But far too often organizations fail to properly evaluate vendors during the selection process. The result? Headaches and sunk costs.

Download ZoomInfo’s checklist to learn how to evaluate:

A prospective vendor's data quality & inventory.
Must-have, essential key features vs. bells & whistles.
Integrations that ensure the solution fits into your sales process and workflows.

Discover The Keys To A Modern Digital Platform

It’s what you do — a dynamic activity that people expect to accomplish anywhere, anytime, on any device. Supporting today’s workforce requires a digital platform that empowers productivity and ensures security and management at scale everywhere: on site, on the road, or in the cloud.

Citrix and Cisco solutions work together to help you transform the way you work, realize the multicloud promise, and innovate with confidence. Modern, flexible, and automated networking, combined with next-generation security, allows IT leaders to focus on innovative, business critical strategy.

In this eBook, you’ll learn how to accelerate realization of a modern digital platform for your business and gain access to resources and information that will help you on your journey.

Cisco and Citrix Together: Transforming the Way You Work

Increased mobility has changed the business landscape. As more workers use additional devices from a multitude of locations, connectivity to business data has become difficult to sustain and costly to scale. This increase in devices, device types, and locations also adds a higher level of business risk. To meet the increase in business needs while reducing the level of risks, businesses have expanded or migrated their workloads into the public cloud. However, customers have quickly learned some of the limitations presented by embracing a public cloud solution.

Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Amazing things happen when two industry leaders combine their talents into one integrated solution. Together, Citrix ADC and Cisco ACI solve a data center’s most pressing infrastructure and network management problems by providing a solution that integrates L4-L7 load balancing, alleviates overhead and sprawl, scales as demand fluctuates, and ensures future compatibility in competitive business environments. All the while providing industry-unique, application-focused visibility and the essential security analytics you require. Together, Citrix and Cisco deliver a secure, agile, and scalable environment backed by the quality, reputation, and support of industry standards Citrix ADC and Cisco ACI.