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Organizations realize the time is now to move to a new deployment model. Digital transformation and proliferation of devices have put IT departments in the spotlight: They must move away from being linear, traditional controllers and evolve into modern transformers that are agile, flexible, and employee centric. PC-as-a-service (PCaaS) has emerged as the go-to model for IT because of the level of automation, efficiency, and employee empowerment it offers. None of this can be accomplished without a competent business partner that underpins the new customized, deployment model. In February 2019, Dell commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate employee experience and enterprise computing. Forrester conducted an online survey with 1,186 IT leaders across the globe to understand current PC lifecycle management deployment models.

Users are on the go, working from almost anywhere and on multiple devices, reshaping the traditional work-place. We know for you as an IT leader this means more: ? devices to provision and deploy ? end points to secure ? applications to support ? systems to manage Which results in more headaches for you and less time to focus on more important, strategic initiatives. And your role has transformed too; you’re now a critical partner of the company’s leadership. You’re thinking about bringing the best experience to your users, accelerating collaboration and maximizing productivity. You’re being tasked to help the company remain innovative. With all of these added responsibilities, thinking about the more repetitive tasks like resetting user passwords and giving access to VPN should be a thing of the past. At Dell Technologies, we understand your top priority is transforming your organization for ultimate value and efficiency.

To compete in a digital economy, today’s leaders must give their teams the right skills and tools to succeed. Made for a mobile, global workforce, G Suite unlocks teams’ full potential for innovation by opening up new ways of collaborating so that people can achieve more together. When teams use G Suite, they can react at a moment’s notice, generate breakthrough ideas, and maintain a shared purpose. Read this whitepaper to find out more.

The Life Sciences industry has changed significantly over the past 10 years. With a view to developing new, more effective treatments, industry leaders are exploring new therapeutic areas and approaches like biologics and precision medicine. To address this shift, pharmaceutical and medical devices manufacturers look to connect systems, people and data - characterized by more predictive and adoptive facilities that leverage machine learning, 3D modeling, Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), digital twin, and augmented reality. This eBook explains the main challenges of manufacturing and explores 5 manufacturing experiences that disrupt the future of manufacturing in the Life Sciences industry.

Infrastructure considerations for IT leaders By 2020, deep learning will have reached a fundamentally different stage of maturity. Deployment and adoption will no longer be confined to experimentation, becoming a core part of day-to-day business operations across most fields of research and industries. Why? Because advancements in the speed and accuracy of the hardware and software that underpin deep learning workloads have made it both viable and cost-effective. Much of this added value will be generated by deep learning inference – that is, using a model to infer something about data it has never seen before. Models can be deployed in the cloud or data center, but more and more we will see them on end devices like cameras and phones. Intel predicts that there will be a shift in the ratio between cycles of inference and training from 1:1 in the early days of deep learning, to well over 5:1 by 2020¹. Intel calls this the shift to ‘inference at scale’ and, with inference also taking up

Enterprise worldwide are embracing digital strategies to modernize operations and make their offerings more compelling to customers, partners, and employees. To power these digital initiatives, enterprises are adopting te chnologies like cloud, mobile, and IoT at an impressive clip. While these technologies are necessary to propel the business forward, IT leaders are being held back by networks rooted in the past. Outdated networking infrastructure, managed with highly manual processes and fragme nted tools, is brittle, error-prone, and can’t keep up with these latest tech trends

Traditional networks can’t deliver modern experiences The IT ecosystem is changing. Today’s technology leaders must oversee a department that supports more customers, remote workers, BYOD policies, and IoT devices. They must also deliver cloud, video, collaboration, and other bandwidth-hungry apps that today’s users crave. Supporting these new technologies and the demands of modern users is crushing today’s networks. To offer the best user experience, no matter the location or device, IT leaders need a modern networking infrastructure that successfully delivers these latest technology advances.

"Enterprise worldwide are embracing digital strategies to modernize operations and make their offerings more compelling to customers, partners, and employees. To power these digital initiatives, enterprises are adopting te chnologies like cloud, mobile, and IoT at an impressive clip. While these technologies are necessary to propel the business forward, IT leaders are being held back by networks rooted in the past. Outdated networking infrastructure, managed with highly manual processes and fragme nted tools, is brittle, error-prone, and can’t keep up with these latest tech trends"

Traditional networks can’t deliver modern experiences. The IT ecosystem is changing. Today’s technology leaders must oversee a department that supports more customers, remote workers, BYOD policies, and IoT devices. They must also deliver cloud, video, collaboration, and other bandwidth-hungry apps that today’s users crave. Supporting these new technologies and the demands of modern users is crushing today’s networks. To offer the best user experience, no matter the location or device, IT leaders need a modern networking infrastructure that successfully delivers these latest technology advances.

Customers are pushing companies to keep up with the innovation of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. With the lines blurring between B2B and B2C, companies need to re-evaluate their service strategies to adjust to a new type of customer and their elevated expectations. In-person service is a new competitive differentiator. Service leaders see opportunity to elevate their business and customer engagements through the mobile workforce, and are investing accordingly. This research brief provides a snapshot of the state of mobile service, and what sets high-performing teams apart from their competition when it comes to moving from vision to reality.

"This Forrester Wave report provides an analysis of 12 most significant Database-as-a-service (DBaaS) providers. These vendors were evaluated against 27 criteria, grouped into three categories: Current Offering, Strategy, and Market Presence. Read the report and find out how each provider measures up in their market as Leaders, Strong Performers and Contenders. "

A security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) platform is a valuable tool for organizations who have made appropriate investments in their security operations processes. This recent research from Gartner looks at the necessary preparations that security leaders need to make so that the deployment of a SOAR solution will improve the efficiency of their incident response and security operations teams.

According to the latest research from Gartner, SOAR solutions are gaining visibility and real-world use driven by early adoption to improve security operations centers (SOCs). The first market guide from Gartner to cover the SOAR solution market provides analysis and direction on the current state of the SOAR market, as well as recommendations and key findings to help security and risk management leaders evaluate how a SOAR solution can improve their ability to prioritize security operations activities, formalize triage and incident response, and automate response.

IBM has been named a Leader in Gartner's Magic Quadrant for Data & Analytics Services. According to the report, by 2022, 90% of corporate strategies are expected to view information as a critical enterprise asset, and analytics as an essential competency. Data and analytics service providers can help leaders accelerate and transform their ability to deliver data-driven insights and innovation solutions to businesses. Get complimentary access to Gartner's latest Magic Quadrant report for Data & Analytics Service Providers.

'Just 50% of organizations embarking on a digital transformation journey report execution of their strategy as very or completely successful. Download the Forrester study to learn what the leaders are doing and get a roadmap to winning at digital transformation.

'Expedite your journey to innovation and modernization by joining us for an introduction to the IBM Garage. IBM Garage brings designers, developers and solution architects together with your business and IT stakeholders to quickly create and scale new ideas that can dramatically affect your business. By focusing on outcomes first, IBM Garage’s new way of working guides your solutions from idea to delivery fast, applies advanced technologies with a purpose and de-risks innovation to achieve real business value. In this webinar, we will describe the IBM Garage co-creation approach and share perspectives from leaders in design, development and building to scale. We will conclude with Q&A.

With companies and executives being held accountable for incidents in the workplace, the issue of workers’ health and safety has become a persistent concern for organizations around the world. And with varying standards across borders, confusion about what companies need to do is rampant. This need for an international consensus standard on workplace health and safety prompted the proposal of ISO 45001 in 2013. The standard, passed in March 2018, now serves as the international guide on occupational health and safety (OH&S) and outlines relevant methods and benchmarks. With insight from expert leadership, this whitepaper gives you the complete guide on how to work with the new standard. You'll learn: • Why ISO 45001 matters and its impact upon your business • The benefits and pathway to becoming certified • Important considerations for the contractor selection process

Turn strategy into sales with Salesforce. When growth stalls, business leaders look to grow by: Increasing new products Conducting M&A Creating new routes to market Entering new regions Learn how sales executives can navigate strategic growth initiatives and find a path to profitability.

For the second year, MicroStrategy has surveyed business intelligence and analytics decision makers from around the world about the current state of their organization’s analytics initiatives and their plans for the future. Respondents were asked about benefits realized, challenges to success, priorities, and investments—and most importantly, if current initiatives to create and deliver on a data-driven culture and business were moving forward. As in the previous year’s survey, respondents had no doubt about the importance of data and analytics when it came to digital transformation (see figure 1). Yet, this year’s analysis uncovered that, as the reality of 2020 and a new decade of accelerated innovation set in, a smaller set of leaders were confident in their progress to date.

For the second year, MicroStrategy has surveyed business intelligence and analytics decision makers from around the world about the current state of their organization’s analytics initiatives and their plans for the future. Respondents were asked about benefits realized, challenges to success, priorities, and investments—and most importantly, if current initiatives to create and deliver on a data-driven culture and business were moving forward. As in the previous year’s survey, respondents had no doubt about the importance of data and analytics when it came to digital transformation. Yet, this year’s analysis uncovered that, as the reality of 2020 and a new decade of accelerated innovation set in, a smaller set of leaders were confident in their progress to date.

To keep up with the growing needs of students, faculty and staff, higher ed IT departments must deliver a modern and seamless digital experience—often despite significant budget and staffing hurdles. In this peer report, IT leaders at four different universities share how they’re using Cherwell’s IT service management (ITSM) solution to tackle common challenges and create extraordinary results in three key areas: efficiency, campus-wide user experience and enterprise-level innovation. What they’ve accomplished is only the start: • Halving customization and configuration time while boosting user satisfaction • Improving service delivery and enabling campus-wide collaboration • Helping departments beyond IT to pursue their own automation initiatives By replacing legacy systems, automating manual workflows, enabling self-help and much more, IT pros are making radically new realities possible with a streamlined and customizable approach to ITSM. Download the report to read their stor

Airbus is a leading aerospace and defense company that uses AppZen to audit every dollar of spend. Hear why Airbus finance leaders Richard Masci, Head of Financial System Services for Airbus Americas, and Waqas Aman, Financial Systems & Compliance Manager for Airbus Americas, depend on AppZen.

Cloud migration is consistently one of the top priorities of technology leaders across the world today, but many are overwhelmed by trying to plan their cloud migration, struggling to prioritize workloads and unsure of the cost implications. Download this white paper to discover the 5 key steps for cloud migration based on the best practices of today’s most successful IT leaders: - Baseline TCO resources (cloud, on-premises, hybrid) - Map current on-premises resources to cloud offerings - Evaluate and prioritize migration strategy - Calculate migration costs - Define success metrics

"Ready to communicate IT cost and value in terms your business unit partners understand? The Apptio TBM Unified Model® (ATUM®) standardizes the financial information necessary for IT leaders to manage their technology business. Use this poster as a resource to: • Establish better alignment between IT, Finance, and other business units by using common language around IT costs • Confidently manage the business of IT with the backing of peer-derived best practices • Understand 10 essential metrics you should track to communicate the business value of IT "

The digital tools powering today’s modern businesses make work faster, easier, and more accurate. But there’s still one tool that many companies have yet to adopt – the electronic signature. See how electronic signatures equal big benefits for everyone in your organization. • Business leaders say that improving document processes could yield 23% reduction in business/compliance risk • Research shows a potential 30% reduction in cost and 36% increase in revenue. • 45% of business leaders say departmental productivity would increase • 72% agree that improving document processes would increase customer satisfaction and/or increase brand value.