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We all know that employee engagement is important. Employees that are aligned with their goals, aware of their performance gaps, and motivated to improve, perform better. It’s stating the obvious. The big question is how to get there, and whether technology can help us do this at scale. This is where most digital motivation initiatives hit a wall. A new breed of next generation performance and feedback systems are attempting to do just that: creating and maintaining a continuous personalized conversation between employees and managers with regards to performance, development and goals. In online marketing, personalizing messages and promotional activities has been possible for some time. It is called “Marketing Automation”. Hubspot, one of the pioneers in this field, defines it thus: “software that exists with the goal of automating marketing actions. Many marketing departments have to automate repetitive tasks such as emails, social media, and other website actions. The technology of

Business users expect immediate access to data, all the time and without interruption. But reality does not always meet expectations. IT leaders must constantly perform intricate forensic work to unravel the maze of issues that impact data delivery to applications. This performance gap between the data and the application creates a bottleneck that impacts productivity and ultimately damages a business’ ability to operate effectively. We term this the “app-data gap.”

A Technology Adoption Profile based on a custom survey of 102 North American and European enterprise IT decision-makers with knowledge of their company’s performance and capacity management capabilities.

More often than not, performance and security are thought of as two separate issues that require two separate solutions. This is mainly due to the implications posed behind various performance and security products. We typically have either security solutions or performance solutions, but rarely solutions that offer both. As technology has advanced, so have our attackers, finding newer and better ways to impact both the performance and security of a site. With this in mind, it has become even more critical to come up with solutions that bridge the gap between security and performance. But how do we do that? We need to shift the focus to what we can do at the browser by leveraging various frontend techniques, such as web linking and obfuscation, versus solely relying upon the capabilities of a content delivery network (CDN) or the origin. We can take advantage of all the new and emerging frontend technologies to help provide a secure and optimal experience for users—all starting at the

This assessment is composed of a core set of comparative questions, and the option to be assessed in any of three key areas: computing economics, service delivery and business performance. After a half-decade of cost cutting and shrinking IT budgets, the compute infrastructure that powers the enterprise now is typically inefficient, slow and not optimized for business outcomes. It is better suited to the economic realities of 2010 rather than the rigors of the application workloads, delivery models & business expectations of today driven by cloud, mobility, security and big data megatrends. As a result, there is a significant gap between what businesses expect from technology and what IT can deliver.

This assessment is composed of a core set of comparative questions, and the option to be assessed in any of three key areas: computing economics, service delivery and business performance. After a half-decade of cost cutting and shrinking IT budgets, the compute infrastructure that powers the enterprise now is typically inefficient, slow and not optimized for business outcomes. It is better suited to the economic realities of 2010 rather than the rigors of the application workloads, delivery models & business expectations of today driven by cloud, mobility, security and big data megatrends. As a result, there is a significant gap between what businesses expect from technology and what IT can deliver.

Read this eBook to learn how SuccessFactors offers a full suite of talent solutions to help you: • Attract, engage, select, and hire the right talent • Get your new hires up to speed in record time • Provide continuous performance management • Reward and retain your top talent • Identify and anticipate talent gaps • Provide learning anywhere, any time • Get content as a service • Harness the power of collaboration

Read this eBook to learn how SuccessFactors offers a full suite of talent solutions to help you: • Attract, engage, select, and hire the right talent • Get your new hires up to speed in record time • Provide continuous performance management • Reward and retain your top talent • Identify and anticipate talent gaps • Provide learning anywhere, any time • Get content as a service • Harness the power of collaboration

Includes success stories from other companies running SAP who automated their O2C processes! Download now!

How is it possible that in the same environment and under the same conditions, some reps achieve outstanding results while others struggle just to make their quota? In 5 Steps to Better Sales Performance we reveal the proven methods the best sales managers rely on to close the sales performance gap between average performers and All-Stars. Download now.

Get better results by driving alignment, optimizing performance, and accelerating growth. Is your business prepared for the way we'll work in the future? To stay ahead of the competition you need a proactive, integrated approach to your entire talent management lifecycle. SuccessFactors offers a full suite of talent solutions to help you. • Attract, engage, select, and hire the right talent • Get your new hires up to speed in record time • Provide continuous performance management • Reward and retain your top talent • Identify and anticipate talent gaps • Provide learning anywhere, any time • Get content as a service • Harness the power of collaboration

VMware vCloud Director has created tremendous potential for service providers and enterprises to deliver agile and cost effective Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) through its ability to automate the self-provisioning of virtual data center service offerings by customers. Since a multitude of commodity cloud providers have appeared seemingly overnight, service providers and enterprises must harness technologies like vCloud Director to reduce the overall cost of delivering compute services. With automated self-service provisioning in place, the next wave of opportunities for cost and performance optimization lies in operations management. This document details how VMTurbo Operations Manager delivers unique business value, addressing significant gaps in VMware vCloud offerings.

Want a better performing team? Of course you do. In business, you rely on the successful performance of teams, but performance reviews only look at the strengths and weaknesses of individuals. How do you bridge the gap? If you want a better performing team, then review them as just that…a team. When you do you can: • See the whole team picture • Drive better team performance • Determine how individual contributions drive team success

Want a better performing team? Of course you do. In business, you rely on the successful performance of teams, but performance reviews only look at the strengths and weaknesses of individuals. How do you bridge the gap?

Formal performance-management (PM) methodologies and solutions can give organizations the discipline to prosper during difficult economic times while providing the flexibility to pursue opportunities as they arise. Read this paper and see how you can close the gap between Strategy and Execution.

Don't try to fit a square peg into a round hole by using infrastructure performance tools that are not equipped to monitor and measure true end user experience in VDI environments. Join EMA Research Director Julie Craig and Aternity President & CEO Trevor Matz to learn how to close the VDI end user experience visibility gap.

When driving any major change within an organization, strategy and execution are intrinsic to a project’s success. Nevertheless, closing the gap between strategy and execution remains a challenge for many organizations, as explored in a recent Process Excellence Network report: “Shift Business Excellence Into High Gear: Drive Strategic Performance Through Process Excellence.” Companies tend to focus more on execution than strategy for quick results, instead of taking the time needed to understand the parts that make up the whole, so the right execution plan can be put in place to deliver the best outcomes. A large part of closing this gap is understanding that business operations don’t fit neatly within the traditional organizational hierarchy. Business processes are often messy, collaborative efforts that span people, departments and systems, making them difficult to manage within a hierarchical structure. Business process management (BPM) helps by redefining an organization accordin

HR is critical to a business' success. It's about find the best people at the lowest cost possible and the best possible performance. This new study conducted by HR.com explores what's working for organizations today and the biggest gaps to fill.

Companies running ERPs/business systems already have an edge — yet critical gaps still exist. Learn how end-to-end automation of the order-to-cash (O2C) cycle can drive success.

Being responsible for one-third of a business’ success already puts HR in a critical role. But it’s not just about finding the best people—it’s about finding the best people, at the lowest cost, with the lowest possible attrition and the best possible performance. And it’s about guiding your executive team to the right decisions using the language they understand best: numbers. Talent management—covering everything from recruiting and compensation to ongoing education and retention—has traditionally been managed in silos, with a series of disparate systems and disconnected processes and reports. In today’s data-driven world, CEOs demand more. This new study conducted by HR.com explores what’s working for organizations today and the biggest gaps to fill.

Being responsible for one-third of a business’ success already puts HR in a critical role. But it’s not just about finding the best people—it’s about finding the best people, at the lowest cost, with the lowest possible attrition and the best possible performance. And it’s about guiding your executive team to the right decisions using the language they understand best: numbers. Talent management—covering everything from recruiting and compensation to ongoing education and retention—has traditionally been managed in silos, with a series of disparate systems and disconnected processes and reports. In today’s data-driven world, CEOs demand more. This new study conducted by HR.com explores what’s working for organizations today and the biggest gaps to fill.

Enterprises have been using Cascade® products from Riverbed Technology for many years to discover, monitor and troubleshoot their physical network and application infrastructure. Cascade network performance management (NPM) solution offers a rich set of functionality to understand network and application performance in the context of end-user experience, and to uncover problems in an organization’s physical infrastructure. With enterprises aggressively embracing virtualization, this sea change has brought new visibility gaps in IT infrastructure.

New cloud-based Internet performance management (IPM) services are changing the way organizations monitor, control and optimize their online infrastructures. They fill the gap APM and NPM tools leave behind by providing valuable insights into the dynamics of the Internet so you can make better informed network planning and partnering decisions. The results, you deliver a consistent and reliable customer experience, protecting your brand and your revenue.

Advanced analytics tools can help SMB retailers trim expenses while simultaneously improving shopper/associate engagement. Armed with big data insight into the performance of individual associates and stores small- and mid-size retailers can close the gap on the industry’s biggest players. Download this Retail IQ report and discover how retailers both big and small can benefit from cutting-edge insight into the performance of their workforce to better schedule, plan and assign tasks.