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This guide is designed to help you find quick wins in your zero trust journey and continue making progress toward zero trust security. By studying enterprises with mature implementations of zero trust, we found:

• Zero trust progress is possible regardless of organization size or IT infrastructure complexity.
• Organizations with high zero trust maturity are twice as likely to achieve business resilience.

The core components of a successful construction project are time, money, and quality. Although mistakes can occur on construction sites, a new culture and practice of zero defects should take hold. This approach to safety has led to a greater awareness of risk and a purposeful focus on identifying and resolving the most frequent causes of accidents and fatalities. This playbook will demonstrate how to get started and why committing to zero defects will have wider positive effects on stakeholders, productivity, and financial success.

Here are a few of the most common mistakes that cause defects:

• Ineffective quality control
• Inadequate documentation
• Flaws in the scope of work and more

IT decision makers know that an extended detection and response (XDR) strategy is a necessity in 2023, but only 47% can accurately identify what XDR truly means. In this report by Wakefield Research, IT decision makers share their current and future plans to implement an XDR strategy, their perceptions of the value of XDR and required capabilities, and obstacles to adoption. Download the report to:

• See if your organization is ahead or behind the curve on XDR adoption.
• Understand what it takes to derive full value from XDR–and what’s holding some organizations back.
• Learn what components and data sources are crucial for XDR success. 

Companies in traditional industries often think remote work only works in the tech industry—but the research tells a different story. 

Upwork’s report, Not Just Tech: Remote Freelancing Across Industries, shows how companies in traditional industries like manufacturing, mining, utilities, and more are tapping into the remote workforce to give their in-house teams the control that comes from the freedom to scale. 

In this report, you’ll see:

• On average, 23% of workers across all “traditional industries” were remote as of January 2021.
• 37% of jobs in “non-tech industries” in the U.S. could be done by remote freelancers—that’s 25.7 million jobs.
• In 2020, Upwork’s top non-tech clients increased spending on Upwork by 44%

Learning leaders are challenged to effectively build and retain an agile workforce with different skill sets as environments and requirements constantly evolve. While delivering business-critical learning and information to their staff, organizations must adapt to changing work environments and policies. Finally, corporate leaders must assess the effectiveness of their personnel training and obtain insight into crucial compliance requirements.

Key benefits of Workday Learning include-

• Engage learners with a personal and contextual experience
• Empower learning administrators at the scale
• Unlock business agility and insight

Download to know more…

How workday will help you:

• Workday provides a meaningful integrated experience
• Workday can manage the complexity of your business-- Over the last 3 years, Workday Learning has placed as a “Strategic Challenger” on the Fosway 9-Grid for Learning.
• Our products deliver a clear vision with customers at the center

Workday brings finance, HR, and supply chain into a single agile system, so your organization can adapt to the ever-changing healthcare industry. Watch this quick demo to see how you can streamline operations, transform your care continuum, and more.

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As a dedicated and innovative leader in the Chromebook space, Acer has carefully engineered its breadth of Chromebook Enterprise devices to meet the needs of businesses large and small.

• Diverse portfolio of Chromebook Enterprise devices engineered for all businesses

• Powered by the latest Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm Processors with LTE options

• Built for the cloud with full connectivity and enhanced video and audio

IT Outsourcing: The Best Recession Defense

IT service management helps you prepare for economic headwinds by cutting costs, streamlining operations, and maximizing efficiency.

Read on to find out how outsourcing your managed IT services can help you:

• Tap into precisely the resources and infrastructure you need, when you need them
• Mitigate staffing challenges and free up your employees for mission-critical tasks
• Defend your business against even advanced threats with managed cybersecurity
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Hybrid cloud is a complex topic, We know you may have questions about how to get started on your hybrid cloud journey but it's need to be started because companies need purpose-built protection to address the shifting nature of threats that go along with cloud modernization. When considering SaaS-delivered data management to help achieve your digital transformation goals -while mitigating the risks of data sprawl – here are some critical building blocks to help you succeed:

• Stay SaaS protected
• Think hybrid first
• Start planning tomorrow’s migrations today and more

Download this document and learn more

Today, more than 58 percent of millennials want their companies to provide them with job-related learning opportunities. And everyone, whether Gen Xers, baby boomers, or millennials, wants learning that is customized to their specific requirements. However, there is a disconnect between traditional, mandatory learning and the learning enablement expected by today's workforce. Read the eBook to find out how you can transform learning in your workplace.

The eBook is jam-packed with information and offers advice on:

• The importance of a learning culture
• Making the business case for learning
• Ways to address multiple generations and learning styles and more…

How workday will help you:

• Workday provides a meaningful integrated experience
• Workday can manage the complexity of your business-- Over the last 3 years, Workday Learning has placed as a “Strategic Challenger” on the Fosway 9-Grid for Learning.
• Our products deliver a clear vision with customers at the center

Successfully planning for the unexpected

Are you able to adapt to rapid change?

With the significant disruption to both lives and businesses across the world, we are currently living through a period of uncertainty.

So how do you plan for the unexpected? Finance is fast becoming the driver of decision making, and it needs to be able to deliver fast and accurate interlinked scenarios.

In this eBook, we look at how organisations can plan for the unexpected by rapidly adapting to changing market conditions using scenario analysis and what if’s.

As part of their digital transformation, businesses want to move their operations away from paper-based systems. But despite ongoing digitization, many organizations still work with paper for many key activities like client and employee onboarding, and accounts payable.  According to AIIM research, 56% of organizations are looking to automate their manual processes. However, not all businesses know how to fully transition to a paperless environment.  

As you start to digitally transform your organization, do you find addressing legacy paper records challenging and cost-prohibitive? If so, you're at the right place. According to AIIM research, one of organizations' top information management challenges is managing information throughout its lifecycle. And it all starts with knowing what should be digitized, stored, or defensibly destroyed.

In part 1 of this two-part digital transformation series, we discuss how to:

This on-demand webinar includes insights, use case examples, and a brief demo on how to achieve your digital transformation goals.

This technical brief explains how you can have the best of both worlds: the reliability of Oracle and the scalability and flexibility of Microsoft Azure. It explores three ways to use SharePlex by Quest to integrate your Oracle data with Azure technologies.

SharePlex replicates your data in near real-time, making it available for use in Azure SQL Database, Azure Event Hubs, and Synapse Analytics.

With SharePlex, you can easily leverage your existing Oracle data with Azure, without having to migrate. You can gain new insights and analytics capabilities while keeping your data secure and safe.

CHALLENGE

Ultraflex needed a CRM system that was simple and intuitive to use, yet powerful enough to provide automated marketing workflows and customer support functionality.

SOLUTION

The company partneredwith the their MSP and Net at Work to deploy Microsoft Dynamics 365 CRM, including add-on solutions for marketing automation and integration with Sage 100.

IMPACT

• Automated workflows save 500 staff hours every year

• New insight into sales funnel allows Ultraflex to hone sales strategies and convert more leads

• Metrics surrounding prospects allow company to segment its database and target marketing communication

• Web form integration with Dynamics 365 CRM and Sage 100 eliminate manual steps and duplicate data entry 

Visibility means more than just tools that provide insight into one part of your environment. In this use case, hear how the Ulta team found a way to detect, investigate, and respond to threats and performance degradations across their entire network, from on-premises data centers to store locations, and increasingly into Google Cloud workloads by using ExtraHop Reveal(x). You’ll learn:

• How to unify visibility across work streams as well as security and network teams;
• How to reduce false positive alerts for more efficient security operations;
• How to accelerate migration of production work streams to Google Cloud. 

The medical device manufacturing sector in the US is expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 5%. This rate of expansion creates potential as well as problems for enterprises working in the world's largest MDM market, where demand for innovative medical devices is increasing. Medical device makers are dealing with new laws as well as the need to constantly lower costs, expand into new areas, and scale their end-to-end companies as they fill market gaps.

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If you’re in IT Ops today, you’re feeling the heat from all sides: the spotlight on your ability to digitally transform, the pressure to prevent outages, and the stress of having to do it all without more resources.

The last two years have required more of IT Ops than ever before and revealed where teams are lacking. You can run excellent operations in one sector of IT Ops, but without all areas running equal levels of maturity, you won’t avoid long and crippling outages.

So, what can you do? The first place to start is by evaluating your IT Ops maturity. Download our manual, A practical guide to IT Ops maturity to learn:

• What the five phases of IT Ops maturity are
• Which KPIs you should use to assess IT Ops maturity
• How to use the maturity model in your environment

You can use this guide as your framework for creating a plan to evolve your IT Ops maturity process. With you in the lead of a more mature IT Ops team, your organization will drive more revenue and achieve its growth goals.

Remote work, a seemingly foreign concept until Covid, has been around for over 50 years. Once thought to be an unproductive working format, today it has become increasingly the norm. Employees are now weighing the pros and cons of working in the office and how it will affect their work-life balance. And employers are getting more savvy about how to use remote work options as a tool to increase productivity, while reducing overhead costs.

As with any growth in one area, there is impact in others. This boom in remote work, while offering a gateway to a more balanced lifestyle, also opens the door to potential security and IT challenges. In this whitepaper, discover how companies are overcoming these new issues with TeamViewer Remote Access and Remote Management software.

• Centralized device management
• Secure connections
• Scalable growth

For technology, media and entertainment, and telecommunications companies, 88% of customers say the experience is as important as its products for services — the highest its ever been.

Knowing your customer is the first step in delivering a great experience. MuleSoft connects data from disparate systems across marketing, sales, support, and more to provide a single view of your customer — creating customer interactions that lock-in loyalty for your organization.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how to:

• Deliver a seamless customer experience and achieve success now with API-led integration
• Get customer insights 29% faster and boost productivity
• Create a 360-degree view of your customer with MuleSoft

Presented by:

Cindy Chang, MuleSoft Global Marketing, Salesforce
Omar Warraky, MuleSoft - Lead Solution Engineer, Salesforce
Pavan Thotireddy, Director - MuleSoft Integration Platform, AT&T

Mecalac utilizes Siemens Digital Industries Software’s solution to create first time right prototype

The Paris city council adopted the Territorial Air Energy Plan in 2018 to reduce pollution, protect its citizens’ health and fight climate change. Through this plan, Paris hopes to be a carbon neutral city by 2050, and before then expects to be diesel free by 2024 and rid of gasoline engines by 2030.

Cognizant of these ambitions, the Mecalac Group (Mecalac) has designed and built machinery to align with the city’s clean air desires, with the Mecalac e12, an innovative, fully electric wheeled excavator, representing the company’s shining jewel in that initiative. Unveiled at the INTERMAT 2018 trade show, the Mecalac e12 earned the event’s Energy Transition Award, which recognizes technological and environmental performance.

About the report

We conducted an online survey during June and July 2022 with participants from the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. We used a rigorous, multi-level screening process to ensure that only suitable candidates participated in the survey.

Respondents are all senior IT leaders, which are defined as those who hold a departmental or intermediate managerial position or above within the IT function.

All respondents work at an enterprise organization in the public or private sector with at least 1,000 employees.

Prisma Cloud provides the automation and centralized visibility necessary to effectively address multi-cloud security challenges alongwith a centralized view for security teams to monitor the security and compliance posture of your entire environment and provides threat detection based on anomalous activities and impact, it helps your team understand the severity of each threat and take action accordingly.

Download and discover more...

• The Unique Challenges of Multi-Cloud CSPM
•  Mastering Multi-Cloud CSPM: Four Key Features
•  The Limitations of Cloud Vendor Tools

The Problem

The rise in remote/hybrid workforces have created unforeseen challenges across organizations but specifically for IT Security Teams.

Combine the “new normal” with ever evolving cyberattacks that continue to grow in sophistication and a shortage of talent that has the required skillset, the job of securing organizational infrastructures has grown in complexity. And the data is telling the same story.

According to the Fortinet 2022 Cybersecurity Skills Gap Report, a staggering 80 percent of organizations suffered one or more breaches that they could attribute to a lack of cybersecurity skills and/or awareness. Moreso, 60 percent struggle to recruit top talent and 52 percent struggle to retain it.1 This is especially troubling for channel partners who not only need to maintain their own infrastructures but those of their clients who entrust them with their data and security.

Luckily, with decades of experience and first-hand knowledge, Exclusive Networks knows what it takes to combat the everchanging cybersecurity landscape. To add to their arsenal, Exclusive Networks is now the first US distributor to become a Fortinet Authorized Training Center. They can train employees and certify IT professionals using Fortinet’s Security Training and their NSE Certifications.

Outages can make or break an organization. With the rate of incidents and their complexity climbing, outages are almost unavoidable for organizations, regardless of size. Statistics surrounding these outages have been at a standstill for years, but BigPanda decided to do something about that. BigPanda retained Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) to conduct research into outages, and their results were eye-opening for the industry as a whole.

EMA surveyed 300 global managers, directors, VPs and executives from a variety of industries to gain a more complete picture of the consequences of outages. These findings further prove the value of AIOps in the face of incidents and outages.

To receive your complimentary copy of our ebook courtesy of BigPanda, simply register here.

A perfect storm of mandates, needs and money is having a big effect on state, local and federal document workflows. These factors coincide with a renewed focus on going digital, according to a new survey of 602 senior digital and technology executives conducted by Forbes Insights in association with Adobe and Microsoft. Fifty of those respondents worked in government, either in the United States or Europe. Given where governments started before the pandemic and where many ended up, it makes sense that 90% of government CIOs said they plan to increase their budgets for digital workflow solutions in the coming year. In addition, 62% said they are reevaluating their workflows and internal processes to achieve higher operating excellence.

This report will explore how government IT is changing how it looks at document workflows and internal processes.

Win klanten bij elk contactmoment met Commerce Cloud. Met onze toonaangevende ecommerceoplossing in de cloud bied je je klanten snel op elk kanaal en elk apparaat een gepersonaliseerde ervaring.

• Bied elke klant een persoonlijke shopping journey
• Stroomlijn taken en innoveer voortdurend
• Bereik klanten altijd en overal op hun mobiele apparaat
• Inspireer klanten met aantrekkelijke artikelen en aanbiedingen
• Zorg dat je offline en online shopomgevingen naadloos in elkaar overgaan
• Verkort je time-to-market en verover in recordtijd nieuwe markten

According to an Anchore 2022 Software Supply Chain report, after Log4 Shell was revealed publicly, the percentage of companies reporting they were significantly or moderately affected by a supply chain attack jumped significantly. This incident has driven companies to spend a significant amount of their time and resources on patching the vulnerabilities in their Java ecosystems.

A step-by-step checklist for companies to ensure a smooth migration of Legacy ETLs to Azure Data Factory

Azure Data Factory is a cloud based ETL and data integration service that allows users to copy, transform, publish, and monitor data. Our industry-leading migration products provide end-to-end migration. automation for enterprises looking to migrate to leading cloud targets This Checklist will provide you with the highlights and considerations when moving legacy ETLs to ADF.

This document explains the phases...

• ASSESSMENT
• ETL MIGRATION
• ACCEPTANCE TESTING

La salud mental en el trabajo juega un papel cada vez más importante en el espacio laboral actual. La incertidumbre en la que nos encontramos estos tiempos, debido a factores externos y de los cambios que afectan al entorno laboral, pueden derivar en que muchos empleados sientan ansiedad y presiones añadidas. Es por ello que las empresas deberían adoptar medidas proactivas para dotar a sus plantillas de recursos con los que fomentar su resiliencia ante estos cambios y reforzar su salud (mental).

En este ebook se puede encontrar información sobre los motivos por los cuales las empresas deberían centrarse más en la salud mental en el lugar de trabajo y en particular, en identificar los factores que influyen sobre el bienestar de sus trabajadores. Un documento muy completo en el que también ofrecemos siete consejos prácticos sobre cómo mejorar la salud mental de tus empleados a largo plazo.

Enterprising cybercriminals don’t have to work very hard to gain access to your network and all the valuable information stored inside it. That’s because employee accounts are so easy to hack. Once the bad actors have access, a full corporate account takeover (CATO) is just a few clicks away.

Read this e-Book to discover the four ways to safeguard your organization with a robust password policy.

Recent technological developments take interoperability between programs to a level that was unheard of back when Excel was in its prime.  It may be time, therefore, for your company to usher in a new generation of software and show Excel the door as the ultimate promise of PaaS is that all relevant data—no matter how specialised it is or how it’s formatted—will flow from program to program, wherever it’s needed.

This document explains reasons why Excel and Construction don’t mix...

• It’s Not As Easy As It Looks
• Garbage In, Garbage Out
• They’re Not Built for the Era of Collaboration and more

If you work in ITOps, you know that alert noise can make or break your day. Maintaining visibility and insight into every aspect of your department is essential for success. Yet, often, those same insights that help so much can result in an abundance of unactionable alerts that reduce efficiency.

This volume of alerts can bog down any team, but what can be done to regain efficiency and reclaim control of IT operations? A great place to start is our white paper on how to classify, enrich and achieve high-quality alerts.

Download our white paper, Cutting through alert noise with high-quality alerts, to learn:

• How to assess and manage alert quality
• The benefits of enrichment
• How to measure and report on alert quality

This white paper is an excellent guide on how to obtain high-quality alerts to help boost your ITOps team’s progress. With more high-quality alerts, your team can be more proactive, efficient and effective, resulting in more sustainable growth for your organization.

Modern IT environments generate a flood of noise. This noise slows down IT Ops’ ability to detect problems—ultimately leading to outages. AIOps platforms cut through this noise, helping operators answer the fundamental question behind preventing these outages: What changed?

IT Ops teams experience thousands of changes—to infrastructure, code, apps and systems, and other elements of the IT environment—every week, all with the potential to impact the customer experience. A comprehensive AIOps strategy should be a central part of every organization’s operational resiliency effort. Without it, enterprises must manually sift through all the changes across a number of different tools just to identify the change that caused the outage. This takes time—and every second of downtime impacts not only customers but also the business at large.

Download the Intellyx white paper to discover why AIOps has become the primary tool for eliminating and preventing outages—and how BigPanda’s AIOps Event Correlation and Automation platform helps enable digital transformation success.

Do you need a hybrid education space that enables active learning and collaboration? Get the most out of technology with adaptive learning environments from SMARTdesks®.

Download this case study on an active learning furniture project for Texas A&M University and learn how to:

• Create a flexible floor plan with modular furniture
• Benefit from raised access floor panels for custom power outlet configurations
• Employ multi-use work surfaces to facilitate technology and traditional pen-to-paper workflows
• Design multi-use workspaces for students, faculty, and university staff
• Bring training environments to life in libraries and common areas

Labor shortages and skills gaps aren’t going away. Download this whitepaper to learn how agility, internal mobility, and data consolidation will help organizations hire and retain top talent despite market obstacles.

What's inside

In 2023, Talent Acquisition and Talent Management teams are tasked with doing more with less. To help, we’re sharing the 3 key trends that will shape the state of hiring, retaining, and growing talent for the year. Fill out the form to get your free whitepaper that reveals:

• The need for greater agility, including only 10% of organizations saying they're highly agile
• How internal mobility is being used to overcome skills gaps and to increase retention
• The emergence of talent intelligence and data consolidation for better, faster talent decisions