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Your week is full of deadlines. But in order to meet them, your team often loses hours to exhaustive search and file-sharing practices. Using that time for more creative concepting could make for bigger long-term gains. And Adobe has the tools to help. Adobe Creative Cloud Libraries allow your workgroups to collaborate and share projects across programs and computers—no matter their individual locations. And Adobe Stock seamlessly integrates images for direct placement into apps like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign. Download Pfeiffer Consulting’s new Adobe Stock Benchmark Reports to learn more about the efficiency and productivity gains linked to using Adobe Stock.

If your company is using cloud computing services today, it’s highly likely you are already in a hybrid cloud configuration. The key question is whether you are actively managing this reality. In January 2014, HP commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the state of enterprise hybrid cloud environments and how they are being managed. Forrester developed a hypothesis that tested the assertion that enterprise IT operations teams struggle to recognize and manage this hybrid state — a hypothesis that was proven out.

Seeking to gain a competitive advantage with increased business agility, global consulting engineering construction and operations company CDM Smith decided to transform their current network architecture, leverage a hybrid cloud model to gain access to new dynamic workloads and introduce greater global consistency. By choosing an integrated solution designed by Equinix and partner CFN Services, CDM Smith now has a flexible network model that is application-focused, scalable and cost-effective.

The client had an extensive global multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network with over 30 Gbps of bandwidth. However, the client was experiencing bandwidth growth of >30% compound annual growth rate (CAGR) and foresaw increasing demands for multi-media applications, data center to data center traffic, and cloud solution usage to support its business units and global workforce. It became crucial for the client to re-architect their current network to support growth and provide a globally consistent user experience at lower cost. With 40% of their WAN traffic being http internet traffic, they needed regional internet service provider (ISP) breakouts. The client needed a lower cost/MB high capacity WAN backbone for better application performance and cloud optimization. Their network needed to be scalable to poise them for anticipated growth and offer improved site connectivity options.

The 2017 study, The Total Economic Impact™ of Microsoft Azure IaaS, gives insight into both the costs and benefits of large-scale Azure infrastructure as a service (IaaS) implementation. This commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting analyzes the return on investment and business impact that several enterprises experienced when moving from a primarily on-premises environment to Azure. The companies interviewed come from a variety of industries and locations (global/multinational, North American, and European). In addition to a 435 percent overall return on an Azure IaaS investment*, the businesses also experienced: Reduced data center and outsourcing costs. Website scale and performance improvements. Ease of experimentation through virtualized environments. Developer and tester improvements. Download the study to learn about the potential ROI that could be realized by shifting some or all of your management and operations to Azure.

As the technology landscape grows and evolves with new devices, new software, and new platforms, keeping tabs on an organization's IT assets is a moving target. How can you gain accurate visibility of software assets to drive strategic and financial decisions that impact finance and reduce security risk? A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Flexera shows the potential return on investment for a Data Platform customer. Through their research, Forrester found that customers achieved a 302% ROI with their investment, with payback within months by benefiting from multiple use cases throughout the organization in the following areas: -Cost savings from reduction in licenses -Avoided increases in licenses from audit activities -Hardware maintenance savings -Improved productivity -Reduced effort for divestiture activities Get the full study to learn how your business can benefit from Flexera solutions.

a recent Forrester Consulting research report shows that tools creep and lack of visibility are big problem areas for companies. Additionally, the research showed that only 24 percent of companies could provision infrastructure in a matter of hours instead of days or weeks.

2016: The year in crisis provides The Economist Intelligence Unit’s assessment of sources of corporate risk in the year 2016, its evolution over the next three years, and a perspective on the role of the board of directors in managing crises.

In today’s competitive world, customers have more choices than ever before, they have less patience in meeting their needs and they are eager to share their experiences -whether good or bad. With SAP Customer Experience service solutions, organizations can give their customers the right service on the right channel, delivering an excellent customer service experience at every point in their journey. In a 2017 Total Economic Impact study, Forrester Consulting found that a composite organization, a B2B company with 10,000 employees and 100,000 calls per month, realizes the following benefits when they invest in SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer, now part of the SAP Service Cloud: ? 363% ROI ? Increased service and field representative efficiency by 40% ? Raised income from upsell by 19% ? Reduced call center operational costs by 42% Want more details? Download the Forrester study commissioned by SAP. The Total Economic Impact of SAP Hybris Cloud for Customer (now part of SAP Service Clou

This guide provides the framework to build a successful analytics foundation in your organization, and shows you how to create an effective analytics measurement program that provides actionable insights and results driven recommendations.

The Forrester Consulting report provides a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact and benefits of investing in a prevention based cybersecurity strategy with Cylance.

Forrester examined multiple Click to Call deployments in order to quantify ROI, determine conversion rates and understand the impact on customer experience across channels.  Read the analyst perspective and see how eStara Click to Call can change your business.

Providing exceptional service to more than 1,000 clients and wooing thousands of prospects was a costly endeavor for Business Fitness, a consulting firm specializing in business efficiency. The company desperately needed a cost-effective tool to help it educate, nurture and convert leads to happy customers without racking up frequent flyer miles.

Read this report to learn how you can benefit from implementing better advertising analytics for your company.

Polycom and Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying Polycom voice solutions for Microsoft Lync. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of Polycom voice solutions for Microsoft Lync within their organizations.

Respond to customer feedback faster Organizations are demanding greater flexibility from the software they use. Yet, most line-of-business applications are built on top of rigid commercial databases that make them difficult and expensive to deploy. By building applications on top of Amazon Aurora, a cost-effective database solution from Amazon Web Services (AWS), independent software vendors (ISVs) can get away from commercial databases and the hassles they create for end customers. In this webinar, AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner Onica will show you how to leverage Amazon Aurora to make it easier for customers to operate your software, in turn increasing sales. You will also learn how to leverage the breadth and depth of AWS services to improve developer productivity and become more responsive to customer feedback as a result.

Modernize your applications quickly Many organizations are finding their legacy technology to be inadequate due to its rigidity and high costs. In search of more flexible and cost-effective solutions, many are turning to the cloud. Most Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), however, still build their solutions on commercial databases that are expensive and time-consuming for their customers to deploy and maintain. This is a significant undertaking that can hinder adoption. To address these challenges head on, ISVs can modernize their applications on Amazon Aurora, a database offering from AWS that combines the reliability and performance of commercial databases with the cost-effectiveness and flexibility of open source solutions. In this webinar, you will learn how Virtusa, an AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner, can accelerate your application modernization journey and help you grow your business. PTNR_ipc-database-migration-icon_245×155_Mar-2019.png View the webin

In partnership with Forrester Consulting, Bold360 surveyed 468 businesses across industries with the goal of defining a Customer Engagement maturity model that can serve as a blueprint for those organizations considering how to evolve.

In this paper, Frank Dravis, Six Factors Consulting, discusses how even with the finest marketing organizations, the success of marketing ultimately comes down to the data.

The goal of this article will be to contribute to the emerging dialog on the subject of business value by extrapolating from BI lessons learned and from DecisionPath Consultings experience working with Fortune 1000 customers and Government agencies.

The list of initiatives that are data-enabled-indeed, data-intensive-vary from company to company, from industry to industry. But the common denominator is an increasing awareness that these and other programs can't succeed without clean, meaningful, and available information. In this white paper, Baseline Consulting's Jill Dyché discusses how the data conversation is changing from philosophical questioning to hard-core tactics, from "What do we need?" to "Where do we start?" It covers the most common reasons for data governance failure, as well as the components of data governance that will inform the right strategy and give companies a means of determining where and how to begin their data governance journeys.

IBM has a unique position in the marketplace, with cognitive platforms and services, industry-specific offerings and expert consulting to support electronics companies. To understand how the electronics industry is applying cognitive computing to manufacturing, the IBM Institute for Business Value surveyed 140 electronics executives around the world and across all industry subsectors. We found that a core group of early adopters has kicked off a new generation of production success with cognitive manufacturing and show greater returns on investment (ROI) with increased productivity. Our analysis answers some important questions.

How IBM can help As one of the world’s leading research organizations, and one of the world’s top contributors to open source projects, IBM is committed to fostering the collaborative effort required to transform how people, governments and businesses transact and interact. IBM provides clients the blockchain technology fabric, consulting and systems integration capabilities to design and rapidly adopt distributed ledgers, digital identity and blockchain solutions. IBM helps clients leverage the global scale, business domain expertise and deep cloud integration experience required for the application of these technologies. Learn more at ibm.com/blockchain. The IBM Global Electronics practice uniquely combines IBM and partner services, hardware, software and research into integrated solutions that can help you deliver innovation, create differentiated customer experiences and optimize your global operations. Please visit ibm.com/electronics