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The Internet of Things (IoT) unleashes valuable business insights through data that’s gathered at every level of a retail organization. With IoT and data analytics, retailers now have the capability to gather insight into customer behavior, offer more personalized experiences, achieve better inventory accuracy, create greater supply chain efficiencies, and so much more. But with data comes great risk. A recent report by security firm Thales and 451 Research found that 43 percent of retailers have experienced a data breach in the past year, with a third reporting more than one breach.1 Intel® technology-based gateways and Asavie, a provider of next-gen enterprise mobility management and IoT connectivity solutions, offer a security connectivity solution that minimizes the effort and cost to businesses to ensure safety from cybersecurity attacks. In addition, the Intel/Asavie IoT solution provides retailers with a solid basis to build their smart, connected projects:

Baiada, an Australia company which provides premium quality poultry products throughout the country, deploys Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management to help its business streamline three business software systems into one, delivering improved flexibility and functionality, and enabling Baiada to provide a better overall product in the marketplace.

Factory Direct Fencing, Austraila’s largest family-owned manufacturer and distributor of fencing products, deploys Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management to handle multi-warehouse management, radio frequency scanning and component manufacturing functionality. Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management not only streamlines its processes and reduces duplication of data entry, it also ensures more reliable reporting and automates its key business processes.

Guru Labels, a specialist label printing company, deploys Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management to replace a variety of stand-alone systems with a single, integrated solution that could bring together data from Guru Labels’ manufacturing, inventory, purchasing, finance, CRM an sales systems. It enables the business to improve job scheduling, reduce costs, retain margins and provide rapid responses to quotes that ultimately leads to high customer satisfaction rates.

Sherwood International, a specialist in providing customised in-bound supply chain solutions into Africa, has implemented the Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management solution business management solution to boost efficiencies in its operations and gain better visibility into its business. It has also been able to streamline finances and improve operational controls.

Sage, the market leader in cloud business management launched an independent study by Forrester that has revealed the significant savings made by business in three major industries after they implemented Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management. The research found that as well as receiving significant ROI within a short amount of time, businesses found savings in labour, inventory levels, and improved productivity resulting in thousands of hours saved globally.

Globalisation, increasing competition, the constant need to expand revenue bases while cutting costs are among the many changes significantly impacting modern businesses. Are you trying to gain faster insight into business data from multiple sources and devices? Are you trying to recover agility, responsiveness and reduce overhead costs? Get the whitepaper and discover what’s the right enterprise management solution for you to remain competitive.

Data overload have burdened practically every largescale enterprise today. It’s vital for competitive enterprise not only to find solutions that will deliver the right data at the right time, but also be confident that the data they are looking at is governed and trusted. Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management enables businesses to gain real-time access to data and make critical business decisions; achieve a better ROI while reducing IT overhead; automate data integration and deliver a 360-degree view of the businesses; mitigate data security risks and comply with legal regulations. Download this whitepaper and discover how to overcome some common challenges of information overload to increase your business insight and visibility.

Forward-looking enterprises are deciding to replace their legacy systems with more modern enterprise management solutions that provide a better way to manage the entire business, at a lower cost and on a global scale. Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management solution is changing how enterprises compete and grow, by delivering faster, simpler and flexible enterprise management, at a fraction of the cost and complexity of typical enterprise ERP systems. Break free from the constraints of traditional ERP solutions and discover how Sage Business Cloud Enterprise Management can accelerate your business.

In Forrester’s 40-criteria evaluation of omnichannel order management (OMS) vendors, we identified the nine most significant software providers in the category — Aptos, IBM, Jagged Peak, Kibo, Manhattan Associates, NetSuite, Oracle, Radial, and SAP Hybris — and researched, analyzed, and scored each. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where each stands in relation to one another to help eBusiness professionals select the right partner for their omnichannel order management needs.

With nearly 80% of businesses experiencing four or more disruptions to their site each month, Aberdeen Group recently conducted a study to get to the root of today's internet performance challenges. Read the findings and discover how companies: Improve resolution times resulting from web outages - 65% of companies experience an hour or more to repair an internet related outage Increase customer satisfaction by 30% - A consistent, reliable and fast web experience is your key to happy, loyal customers Protect revenue - 60% of businesses record a minute of downtime resulting in a $1,000 loss in revenue Are your online services and sites built for resiliency or destined for the headlines? Get the report to find out how leading organizations are bucking the stats and implementing Internet Performance Management (IPM ) tools to boost time to resolution and improve site performance.

The digital transformation that organizations are striving for today requires a mindset of "no limits" in terms of securely exposing critical business assets for internal and external consumption. In order to be an agile, digital business, enterprises need to seamlessly connect across hybrid environments, applications, data and processes, keeping a keen eye on an open cloud strategy. They also need a secure integration framework to provide controlled access, a single dashboard providing performance insights, and easy access to digital assets for your developers. This webcast will explore all of these areas in depth, to support your enterprise's quest to become a next-generation digital business.

In this paper, you’ll explore how business analytics can form the foundation for a proactive threat management strategy. - See examples of how different types of organizations are applying analytics. - Learn practical steps you can take to combat threat and fraud in your own organization.

The synergy between predictive analytics and decision optimization is critical to good decision making. Predictive analytics offers insights into likely future scenarios, and decision optimization prescribes best-action recommendations for how to respond to those scenarios given your business goals, business dynamics, and potential tradeoffs or consequences. Together, predictive analytics and decision optimization provide organizations with the ability to turn insight into action—and action into positive outcomes. In this white paper, you’ll gain a better understanding of: The difference between predictive and prescriptive analytics How predictive and prescriptive actions complement one another to help you achieve optimized business decisions IBM’s approach to creating a powerful end-to-end decision management system

Every day, torrents of data inundate IT organizations and overwhelm the business managers who must sift through it all to glean insights that help them grow revenues and optimize profits. Yet, after investing hundreds of millions of dollars into new enterprise resource planning (ERP), customer relationship management (CRM), master data management systems (MDM), business intelligence (BI) data warehousing systems or big data environments, many companies are still plagued with disconnected, “dysfunctional” data—a massive, expensive sprawl of disparate silos and unconnected, redundant systems that fail to deliver the desired single view of the business. To meet the business imperative for enterprise integration and stay competitive, companies must manage the increasing variety, volume and velocity of new data pouring into their systems from an ever-expanding number of sources. They need to bring all their corporate data together, deliver it to end users as quickly as possible to maximize

To compete in today’s fast-paced business climate, enterprises need accurate and frequent sales and customer reports to make real-time operational decisions about pricing, merchandising and inventory management. They also require greater agility to respond to business events as they happen, and more visibility into business activities so information and systems are optimized for peak efficiency and performance. By making use of data capture and business intelligence to integrate and apply data across the enterprise, organizations can capitalize on emerging opportunities and build a competitive advantage. The IBM® data replication portfolio is designed to address these issues through a highly flexible one-stop shop for high-volume, robust, secure information replication across heterogeneous data stores. The portfolio leverages real-time data replication to support high availability, database migration, application consolidation, dynamic warehousing, master data management (MDM), service

It’s all too easy for CIOs and technology management to build a strategy around any new technology area that is focused on delivering lower technology costs and greater operational efficiency. However, to get your cloud strategy right, you have to learn to move away from measuring the success of change against technology management care-abouts and focus on the priorities of the business. Forrester’s Business Technographics® surveys show a stark disconnect between technology management’s and the business’ desired outcomes from cloud computing; embracing the shift to cloud services means driving and measuring its success against metrics defined by the business before those of IT. This report outlines the strategic plan of Forrester’s solution for CIOs working on cloud computing. This report is designed to help you onboard the business to your cloud strategy.

Organizations today aren’t just single entities—they are networks of partners, vendors, and third parties. While interconnected networks are critical for success in most businesses, they also leave data more vulnerable to exposure from bad actors. Because of this, vendor risk management (VRM) is a critical business practice.

According to Mary Johnston Turner, Research Vice President at IDC; "Breaking down technology specific management as well as data silos also facilitates faster infrastructure and application rollouts, reduces human errors, and improves overall business agility.Cloud based management, monitoring and analytics help to improve collaboration between IT operations and developer teams by stabilizing service levels and monitoring usage to support accurate charge back." 

Maintain visibility and control, regardless of device or OS. The consumerisation of enterprise information technology is one of the most significant security concerns today. Gartner's Analyst Ken Delaney explains the impact of consumerisation on enterprise IT.

Answers to Your Mobile Device Data Protection Questions. The IT landscape is changing quickly, Get expert advice on developing a strategy and learn how your organization can manage security on employee-owned mobile devices.

Econsultancy’s 2017 Digital Trends report, published in association with Adobe, is based on a global survey of more than 14,000 digital marketing and ecommerce professionals across EMEA, North American and Asia Pacific markets.

Optimizely helps companies better understand and serve their customers. Every touchpoint with a customer is an opportunity to win that customer’s heart, make them great, and make them better. By experimenting everywhere, businesses have a powerful strategy for reorienting towards their customer as the true north, striving to iterate quickly, make improvements, and deliver customer experiences that are delightful and fuel growth. Optimizely enables you to experiment everywhere—both across the organization and across every interaction you have with a customer. In a company that experiments everywhere, everyone from Marketing to Product Management, Design, Engineering, and the C-Suite can inform their decisions with experiments that engage customers for their reactions.

Markets constantly test organizations with shifting customer expectations and competitors seeking to provide better value at a lower cost. This tension is the catalyst that continually pushes organizations to search for ways to improve their services, improve the speed which they deliver value to their customers, enable employees to get more done with less administrative overhead, and most importantly, to constantly grow by generating more revenue. This is the basis of BPM, to be able to identify and capture processes in an organization to create repeatable, measureable and consistent execution of goals to drive their business forward.

Cloud adoption, mobility, social media and the consumerization of IT are transforming many business activities for enterprise employees, partners and customers and eliminating the traditional network perimeter. Organizations have to change how they manage security and user identities if they want to keep their data and applications secure. Read this eBook to discover how a centralized identity and access management service can help you create a new identity perimeter.