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In its fifth year, the goal of the OutSystems State of Application Development Report is to provide a comprehensive analysis of the challenges, priorities, and innovations faced by IT teams around the globe in this age of digital transformation. This analysis is based on the responses to a survey conducted in March 2018. More than 3,500 IT professionals from over 116 countries took part. Respondents worked in all kinds of industry, and in this concise summary of the report, we focus on specific findings related to the manufacturing sector. The need for digital transformation dominates business strategy today, and there are two obvious consequences for IT. Firstly, the demand for application development (app dev) is at an all-time high. Secondly, speed and agility are more important than ever before. This backdrop informed the themes we wanted to explore in this year’s survey, which set out to answer five critical questions: How are the app dev priorities of organizations adjusting

Financial planning and analysis is evolving to support digital business initiatives. Application leaders supporting finance transformation must focus on new ways of managing financial performance by enabling broader integration with operational plans and actionable performance reporting. Download this complimentary Gartner report and discover how.

o The growing video surveillance market is driving demand for advanced video analysis technologies. Businesses and organizations from all vertical sectors are looking to leverage the benefits of enhanced detection accuracy and flexibility provided by deep learning to solve their security, safety, and operations challenges. Discover how Agent Vi’s innoVi* leverages cutting-edge deep learning technology to transform the hundreds, or even thousands, of cameras deployed across a city into smart video devices, contributing to the city’s ability to improve security, safety, and incident response citywide.

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Operational readiness depends on rich location data. When managing logistics and tracking high-value assets, there is no room for error and our new data-driven world demands richer, smarter advanced mapping and navigation services. The 2018 Counterpoint Research Location Ecosystems Update compared 16 location platform vendors—including Google, TomTom and Mapbox—and it named HERE the “undisputed leader” in location based services. Counterpoint recognized HERE for its integrated analytical capability and commitment to open partnerships, allowing for custom operational requirements and a truly mobile location intelligence platform. See how HERE provides the industry leading tools and expertise to process that data—streamlining the logistics supply chain, boosting responsiveness, and guaranteeing mission success.

Keeping the lights on in a manufacturing environment remains top priority for industrial companies. All too often, factories are in a reactive mode, relying on manual inspections that risk downtime because they don’t usually reveal actionable problem data. Find out how the Nexcom Predictive Diagnostic Maintenance (PDM) system enables uninterrupted production during outages by monitoring each unit in the Diesel Uninterrupted Power Supplies (DUPS) system noninvasively. • Using vibration analysis, the system can detect 85% of power supply problems before they do damage or cause failure • Information processing for machine diagnostics is done at the edge, providing real-time alerts on potential issues with ample of lead time for managers to rectify • Graphic user interface offers visual representation and analysis of historical and trending data that is easily consumable

By making use of the right technology, transportation and logistics (T&L) companies can reinvent their industry with superior customer service, increased revenues, and reduced costs. This whitepaper looks at the obstacles facing the T&L industry and examines how fleet planning and trip analysis software businesses can help by enabling faster and smarter data-driven decision-making. As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE can help T&L companies improve fleet management.

In a recent study, IDC analyzed the business value and benefits of supporting network operations with Forcepoint NGFW solutions. The research included interviews with eight organizations relying upon Forcepoint’s NGFW to connect and protect their networks and business operations. IDC created a model based upon their analysis to identify the costs and real benefits of deploying Forcepoint NGFW. The highlights of this analytical model are captured in their Business Value Snapshot; and the complete results are available for download now in the IDC Quantifying the Operational and Security Results of Switching to Forcepoint NGFW Whitepaper. Download the Snapshot now Download the IDC Whitepaper now to learn how the eight organizations surveyed realized improved efficiency, availability and security with Forcepoint NGFW, as well as a return of cost in only seven months and an average 5-year ROI of 510%.

When it comes to choosing an NGFW, it pays to listen to the experts. That's why we're excited to announce that NSS Labs, the leading independent third-party assessment provider for network security products, has awarded Forcepoint NGFW its highest rating for the sixth consecutive time. Download the report to view the full test results and analysis.

Read this expert analysis from SMB Group to learn how using a single system across finance, HR and payroll can make all the difference for your organisation. You can also get some guidance on how to choose the solution that's the best fit for your organisation.

A range of application security tools was developed to support the efforts to secure the enterprise from the threat posed by insecure applications. But in the ever-changing landscape of application security, how does an organization choose the right set of tools to mitigate the risks their applications pose to their environment? Equally important, how, when, and by whom are these tools used most effectively?

Today, when you make decisions about information technology (IT) security priorities, you must often strike a careful balance between business risk, impact, and likelihood of incidents, and the costs of prevention or cleanup. Historically, the most well-understood variable in this equation was the methods that hackers used to disrupt or invade the system.

The Business Case for Data Protection, conducted by Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Ounce Labs, is the first study to determine what senior executives think about the value proposition of corporate data protection efforts within their organizations. In times of shrinking budgets, it is important for those individuals charged with managing a data protection program to understand how key decision makers in organizations perceive the importance of safeguarding sensitive and confidential information.

Stories from the front lines of Incident Response in 2018 and insights that matter for 2019 Threat actors are continuously adopting new means to achieve their objectives. Drawn from real-life client engagements, the annual CrowdStrike Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook 2018 provides valuable insights into ever-evolving attacker tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). The CrowdStrike Cyber Intrusion Services Casebook, 2018 provides expert, real-world analysis and practical guidance that can further your organization’s progress toward that goal. It also describes the strategies the CrowdStrike Services team used to quickly investigate, identify and effectively remove dangerous threats from victims’ networks. Download the Cyber Intrusion Casebook to learn: • The emerging trends observed in attack behaviors, including the tactics threat actors use to gain entry and maintain a foothold in targeted environments • Key takeaways — based on the CrowdStrike Services team’s extensive experience

With more data to analyze than ever before, companies are finding new ways to quickly find meaning in their data with artificial intelligence (AI). Natural Language Generation (NLG) technologies deployed on Amazon Web Services (AWS) can enable organizations to free their employees from manual data analysis and interpretation tasks. NLG transforms data into easy-to-understand, data-driven narratives with context and relevance.

Trupanion, a Seattle-based medical insurance provider for cats and dogs, needed to find data insights quickly. With only 1% of pet owners insured, the process of evaluating a claim to approve or deny payment was manual and time-consuming. Building accurate predictive models for decision-making required manpower, time, and technology that the small company simply did not have. DataRobot Cloud, built on AWS, helped Trupanion create an automated method for building data models using machine learning that reduced the time required to process claims from minutes to seconds. Join our webinar to hear how Trupanion transformed itself into an AI-driven organization, with robust data analysis and data science project prototyping that empowered the company to make better decisions and optimize business processes in less time and at a reduced cost. Join our webinar to learn: Why you don’t need to be an expert in data science to create accurate predictive models. How you can build and deploy pr

A benchmark report to provide IT decision makers with a fair comparison of two of the most popular application server products on the market today.

UNSPSC enables preference item management, better spend analysis, supply standardization and information control. Whether you are deliberating on the need for a common product and classification standard for your company, or are an advanced UNSPSC adopter, we hope that "Adopting UNSPSC" will answer some of your questions and perhaps help you in some way to improve your purchasing and supply management processes.

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Quickly see differences between brands like Avaya, Mitel, Cisco, ShoreTel, 8x8, Panasonic, etc and compare over 94 phone systems by 52 brands for small to big business. Our latest Spring 2010 edition of the chart also compares PBX and Business VoIP systems side by side so you can make an educated comparison of your options. This analysis is prepared in an easy to use Excel spreadsheet so you can edit and add information to suit your analysis and presentation needs.

To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with implementation of SAP Business Objects Analytics solutions, Forrester interviewed four organizations with multiple years of experience using these analytics solutions from SAP across one or more of the following key analytics areas: planning, business intelligence, and predictive analytics. A composite, or representative, organization was developed to provide the conclusions of this cost and benefit analysis.

The SAP HANA platform provides a powerful unified foundation for storing, processing, and analyzing structured and unstructured data. It funs on a single, in-memory database, eliminating data redundancy and speeding up the time for information research and analysis.

To improve safety and mobility across its 5,600km road network, the City of Toronto forged a partnered with HERE Technologies for the provision of traffic, incident, and historical traffic data. Access to this data allows the city authority to see exactly what’s happening on its roads and more easily and affectively run studies on improvement projects. This case study details how HERE Technologies enabled the City of Toronto’s transportation team to: Work smarter with comprehensive network coverage and accurate data to aid analysis Examine the impact of city projects without significant forward planning or expenditure Ensure travel volume models used to drive decision making are calibrated to represent real-world truths

The operation of your organization depends, at least in part, on its data. You can avoid fines and remediation costs, protect your organization’s reputation and employee morale, and maintain business continuity by building a capability to detect and respond to incidents effectively. The simplicity of the incident response process can be misleading. We recommend tabletop exercises as an important step in pressure-testing your program.

Gartner’s Critical Capabilities for Human Capital Management (HCM) evaluates solutions in the context of specific, important use cases and provides a comparative analysis. SAP SuccessFactors received highest use case scores for Core HR+Talent HCM Suites for Larger Global Org and European HQ’d Midmarket HCM Suite.