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Digital Transformation: Insight into Getting it Right, is new research commissioned by Avaya and undertaken by IDC. The Infobrief contains key insights from over 1,300 enterprises and consumers to help brands plan and improve digital transformation, specifically through the modernisation of business communications infrastructure. Because business communications technology is at the heart of digital transformation.

This IDC MarketScape includes vendors that create and sell software in the client virtualization space, with a focus on centralized virtual desktops, distributed virtual desktops, and virtual user session (VUS) software. Vendors that only offer user state virtualization and/or software products that support virtual client computing deployments but not one of the aforementioned products will not be included in the IDC MarketScape graphic or profiles. This is because these types of solutions address a specific or niche need in the market but do not, by themselves, provide a complete software solution that an end customer can purchase on a standalone basis or in addition to a Microsoft Server version.

IDC believes that software-defined storage (SDS) continues to transform IT deployment and consumption of storage resources. For enterprises, SDS is really an on-ramp to deploying a hybrid cloud — one that allows a metered on-demand consumption of private and public cloud resources. Deploying SDS therefore is not a question of "if" but a question of "when."

This IDC white paper considers the concept of desktop virtualization, specifically as made available by VMware's VDI and ACE. The document also considers the benefits and limitations of these technologies as well as the best use cases for each, exemplified through user case studies.

Enterprises invest in packaged applications, development systems, testing, services oriented architectures, middleware and analytics to align process automation with business cycles. When IT is successful in this alignment, cycles accelerate and we see improvements in business flexibility that we now take for granted.

What are the top strategies to expand visibility of all business operations? How can you reduce your time-to-value? If you're looking for a better, timelier way to respond to the changing conditions and events that impact your business, register for Your Business Moves Faster When You're at the Controls.

IDC believes that the end-user experience in current implementations of VoIP can be improved in a manner that is simple yet clearly demonstrates the value and superiority of IP-based communications.

This IDC report discusses the clear benefits of cloud computing?and how to best obtain next-generation performance, flexibility, and savings with key technology and process considerations.

By 2025, the total amount of data produced will grow to 175 zettabytes, according to IDC’s Data Age 2025 Report. How will enterprises evolve over the next year to manage and make the most of this unprecedented growth? Download 10 Enterprise Analytics Trends to Watch in 2019 to learn how leading organizations will win with embedded and augmented analytics, HyperIntelligence, collaboration, enterprise AI strategies, and more. This eBook details the transformational technologies data-driven organizations will need to leverage to get and stay ahead in 2019 and beyond, with contributions from thought leaders, including: Mike Gualtieri of Forrester Research Ray Wang and Doug Henschen of Constellation Research Mark Smith and David Menninger of Ventana Research Chandana Gopal of IDC Ronald van Loon, and more. Is your organization ready for the data-driven future? Read 10 Enterprise Analytics Trends to Watch in 2019 today to find out.

This whitepaper looks into IDC recently named deep learning, as one of the most important drivers of growth in the high-performance computing space.

This IDC Insight explores the emerging category of solutions that offer access to business content (folders, files, documents, etc.) on mobile devices.

ERP Must-Haves for Finance: Leave behind cumbersome reporting, spreadsheets, and data that offers zero insights. IDC MarketScape has put together a guide to help you find the best finance and accounting applications. Read an excerpt of the report to learn today’s must-have ERP capabilities and why the IDC MarketScape positioned Workday in the Leaders category.

"Looking for an agile and scalable ERP system but don’t know where to start? IDC MarketScape is a comprehensive guide specifically for midsize companies. Read an excerpt from the report to learn the capabilities your midsize company should expect from cloud-enabled ERP applications. https://www.workday.com/en-us/forms/reports/idc-me-landscape.dl.html "

In today's economy, businesses need to be always-on. In this webcast featuring guest speaker IDC Research Vice President, Mary Johnson Turner, we'll uncover how 2012's biggest trends are impacting Application Performance Management (APM).

Oracle Financial Services and Insurance Forum: Highlighting Relationship-Based Pricing and Billing

Oracle Financial Services and Insurance Forum: Highlighting Relationship-Based Pricing and Billing

Organizations expect their IT departments to deliver a SAN storage infrastructure that can support faster rollout of applications and services, continuous and fast access to data in key applications, and efficient scale to address corporate data growth without comparable growth in IT expenses. This IDC white paper reviews the key SAN storage features required to meet such challenges and the NetApp SAN storage portfolio offerings that best address your needs.

Organizations today are increasingly information-driven, requiring them to create, organize, and store more data every day. To handle the conversion of “data to information”, you need an agile and scalable infrastructure which will provide the backbone to run multiple business-critical workloads simultaneously. This IDC white paper examines the need for the NetApp FAS8080EX hardware-optimized platform to help organizations transform into data-driven entities, adopt newer technologies, and invest in business-critical applications to stay ahead of their competition.

This case study focuses on the implementation of single sign-on at The John Hopkins Hospital which streamlined provider access to applications.

This IDC Health Insights white paper, sponsored by Imprivata, presents key findings of interviews with three healthcare IT executives at Atlantic Health System, Carolinas Pathology Group, and Beaufort Memorial Hospital regarding the deployment of Imprivata Cortext, a secure communications platform. Consistent findings across the three healthcare organizations are as follows: ease of use leads to quick clinician adoption, there is broad application of secure communication across various hospital workflows, and instant communication can save time for care team members and can improve collaboration. Read this report to learn more about how these organizations streamlined clinical workflows such as patient admission notifications, specialist referrals, pathology consultations and code team activations.

This IDC white paper discusses some of the strategic benefits and advantages associated with a migration to a cloud-based collaboration offering as well as the challenges that CIOs and decision makers face when making such a move. It describes key decision criteria and the thought process behind a move to the cloud for collaboration and provides an example of Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution (HCS) as a market-leading solution.

Improving the customer experience is a strategic imperative for most organizations today, but delivering an engaging experience across the growing number of digital customer touch points can be a daunting challenge. Organizations must deliver responsive experiences that “play well” on smartphones, PCs, and tablets. They must publish content to installed app experiences on mobile and other connected devices, to social channels, and to email campaigns. They must manage global sites in different languages, localize the experience for different markets, and — increasingly — personalize the experience for different customer personas or segments. A modern digital experience management platform is essential for any organization hoping to make digital experience delivery a core competency. IDC interviewed organizations using Adobe Experience Manager Sites (AEM Sites) to understand the impact of the platform on their ability to create, manage, and deliver digital experiences. Study participants

Changing your business processes can often be a daunting task. If what you’ve done in the past has always worked, why won’t it continue to work? This can be a dangerous line of thinking, as emerging technologies are constantly providing new ways for you to operate and grow your business. Digital transformation is the process of integrating these new technologies to maximize productivity, efficiency, and value. This white paper and webcast from IDC—made available by Epicor—explores why more and more manufacturers are upgrading their enterprise resource planning (ERP) software and utilizing digital technologies in their products and processes. Download the white paper and webcast to learn more about how digital transformation can benefit your organization.

The Cray® CS300-LC™ liquid-cooled cluster supercomputer combines system performance and power savings, allowing users to reduce capital expense and operating costs. The Trend Toward Liquid Cooling Recent IDC surveys of the worldwide high performance computing (HPC) market consistently show that cooling today's larger, denser HPC systems has become a top challenge for datacenter managers. The surveys reveal a notable trend toward liquid cooling systems, and warm water cooling has emerged as an effective alternative to chilled liquid cooling.

Download the IDC Analyst Connection report to learn how to address your challenges around: infrastructure costs, data placement, and data analytics.