operations management

In 2017, Arriva’s UK operations underwent a major IT transformation project to centralize its IT department and 13-strong service desk team. Arriva launched an RFP to find a single solution that could replace its disparate tools and fully unite the separate IT services departments. Three vendors were involved in the tender, but Alan found that Cherwell immediately stood out as the right choice and chose its IT Service Management solution.

A forward-looking CMDB does more than keep an organization's IT operations running. It draws clear connections between IT components and business services, which is the core of Business Service Management (BSM). But even more critical than the CMDB's ability to support business as it is now, is the question of how well it will drive business innovation in the future.

Cisco has recently unveiled its new intent-based networking strategy, called "The Network. Intuitive." The goal of intent-based networking is to allow greater levels of automation, security integration, and centralized manageability within a software subscription orientation. Intent-based networking is underpinned by Software-Defined Access (SDA), Cisco's automation engine built upon the company's Digital Network Architecture (DNA), which automates network segmentation, policy enforcement, and troubleshooting. Other core components of the announcement include a refresh of Cisco Catalyst switches, a new licensing model for infrastructure, and an all-in-one management console called DNA Center.

The start of a new chapter of your business, whether you're moving upmarket or adding products and features, is a great time to scale your customer service operations in a smart way. We know customers prefer self service, via a knowledge base, if one is available. A Gartner report estimates that CIOs can reduce customer support costs by 25% or more when proper knowledge management discipline is in place. If you've been on the sidelines waiting to take the self-serv ice leap, this white paper will prove that you and your agents already partake in the activities needed to offer great self-service,every single day.

As enterprises steer toward the future, they find themselves constrained by a variety of obstacles to embracing new IT operating models.

As enterprises steer toward the future, they find themselves constrained by a variety of obstacles to embracing new IT operating models.

The start of a new chapter of your business, whether you're moving upmarket or adding products and features, is a great time to scale your customer service operations in a smart way. We know customers prefer self-service, via a knowledge base, if one is available. A Gartner report estimates that CIOs can reduce customer support costs by 25% or more when proper knowledge management discipline is in place. If you've been on the sidelines waiting to take the self-service leap, this white paper will prove that you and your agents already partake in the activities needed to offer great self-service, every single day.

Around-the-clock global operations, data growth, and server virtualization all together can complicate protection and recovery strategies. They affect when and how often you can perform backups, increase the time required to back up, and ultimately affect your ability to successfully restore. These challenges can force lower standards for recovery objectives, such as reducing the frequency of backup jobs or protecting fewer applications, both of which can introduce risk. High-speed snapshot technologies and application integration can go a long way toward meeting these needs, and they have quickly become essential elements of a complete protection strategy. But snapshot copies have often been managed separately from traditional backup processes. Features like cataloging for search and retrieval as well as tape creation usually require separate management and do not fully leverage snapshot capabilities. To eliminate complexity and accelerate protection and recovery, you need a solution

The demands on IT today are staggering. Most organizations depend on their data to drive everything from product development and sales to communications, operations, and innovation. As a result, IT departments are charged with finding a way to bring new applications online quickly, accommodate massive data growth and complex data analysis, and make data available 24 hours a day, around the world, on any device. The traditional way to deliver data services is with separate infrastructure silos for various applications, processes, and locations, resulting in continually escalating costs for infrastructure and management. These infrastructure silos make it difficult to respond quickly to business opportunities and threats, cause productivity-hindering delays when you need to scale, and drive up operational costs.

Organizations are constantly turning to IT solutions to streamline their operations and processes and gain efficiencies. Business Process Management solutions is one area gaining traction inside enterprises as they look to making their workflow more effective and more capable to an ever changing business environment. According to Gartner, BPM-platform-based case management frameworks are configurable "apps" meant to help solution architects accelerate the delivery of unique and flexible case management solutions. Gartner evaluated 11 providers in this growing market segment including Pegasystems. Download this Gartner Magic Quadrant analysis for BPM platform-based case management frameworks and gain a better understanding of the solutions offered by each BPM vendor.

Stay ahead of the evolving threats. Organized crime is driving the rapid growth and sophisticated evolution of advanced threats that put entire website ecosystems at risk, and no organization is safe. The stealthy nature of these threats gives cybercriminals the time to go deeper into website environments, very often with severe consequences. The longer the time before detection and resolution, the more damage is inflicted. The risk and size of fines, lawsuits, reparation costs, damaged reputation, loss of operations, loss of sales, and loss of customers pile up higher and higher. The complexity of website security management and lack of visibility across website ecosystems is further impacted by the fact that it is nearly impossible to know how and where to allocate resources. Website security must be evolved in line with these growing threats and challenges.

"When apps run efficiently, employees are more likely to use them.” The promise of unified communications (UC) is that it is supposed to increase efficiencies and make internal operations more seamless. But that only happens when it’s working properly. According to Robin Gareiss, president and founder of Nemertes Research, “Companies devote 33% more IT staff to managing IP telephony and 31% more to UC when they don’t use monitoring tools. The tools are instrumental to identifying, isolating, and resolving performance issues—and preventing them from happening again. When apps run efficiently, employees are more likely to use them.” That’s one reason 36% more people actually use UC in large companies that use monitoring tools. Join Robin Gareiss, president and founder, Nemertes Research and David Roberts, director of product management, Riverbed, as they explore the different approaches to monitoring UC—network probes vs endpoint telemetry—and why taking a combined approach helps you

"Visibility into the live mix of network and application activity being hosted and delivered by the IT infrastructure has always is a 'must-have' for many aspects of IT planning and operations. But the greatest value and impact is achieved when those two viewpoints are blended together into one unified view. This paper reviews the primary challenges that IT teams face in establishing unified visibility, the key requirements that management solutions must meet to address those challenges, and examines a Riverbed solution that has been specifically designed to offer a path to success."

Looking to streamline processes across development, test, and operations teams with more efficient Test Data Management (TDM)? Don't let antiquated technology and complex processes stand in the way of fast access to high-quality test data. Next-generation TDM transforms how businesses deploy testing environments and the way teams work within them, providing both greater flexibility and increased efficiency.

This paper by CA outlines the challenges experienced on a daily basis in the IT department

This paper outlines the benefits of CA Unified Infrastructure Management and how it can have a positive impact on your business

This white paper examines why unified IT monitoring is an important enabling technology for both enterprises and management service providers, including both the organizational and strategic impacts as well as the business case surrounding it. It goes further to examine CA Unified Infrastructure Management as an example of unified IT monitoring, and reviews three case studies where the solution has been deployed for active use in a unified manner.

This paper explains how CA Unified Infrastructure Management can have an important impact on your business.

This info-graph explains the challenges and potential problems caused by the monitoring of multiple tools and devices and provides a complete unified visualization to help provide you with a single view in one architecture.

This white paper examines why unified IT monitoring is an important enabling technology for both enterprises and management service providers.

Find out what characteristics you should take into account when selecting Sales and Operations Technology and how Infor10 Sales & Operations Planning respond to those needs today.

The ExtraHop Discovery Edition is a free virtual appliance will help you to discover the performance of your applications across the network, web, VDI, database, and storage tiers. Get yours today!

In this Forrester report: How the infrastructure/operations (I&O) role changes in a hybrid cloud world. How they accelerate the cloud application delivery life cycle to exceed business expectations of cloud & which management capabilities must be mastered to take on the role of hybrid cloud manager.

IT infrastructure is the backbone of today's modern business. Find out how Vblock System implementations sped deployments, simplified operations, improved business-support agility, saved money, and freed staff to launch new applications, extend services, and improve user/customer satisfaction.

See why Gartner's 2015 Magic Quadrant recognizes ServiceNow as a leader for the second year in a row. Each year Gartner assesses the viability and competitive strength of vendors in the IT service support management (ITSSM) space. This valuable report helps users determine which solutions best fit their needs, based on the tool capabilities, the integration with IT Operations Management solutions and more than a dozen other factors. For the 2nd year in a row, ServiceNow is recognized as a Leader in this Gartner Magic Quadrant. Check out what makes us different. Get the full, complimentary report to: • Receive an assessment of key vendors • Get a snapshot of the overall market overview • Learn why ServiceNow remains a leader