Cloud-first, mobile-first organizations are seeing huge benefits from taking a more distributed approach to IT. Business units are given more freedom to evaluate and select SaaS applications that will enable efficiency and growth. Users are given more freedom to use the devices that make them the most productive.
When this trend started, most IT organizations were able to implement some basic, manual processes to administer and govern IT in this best-of-breed distributed environment. However, as the number of touchpoints increases, IT needs to automate to keep pace.
This paper goes into more detail on the top 5 reasons to automate identity lifecycle and identity administration and build a solid foundation for future cloud-first, mobile-first IT.
With the exploding adoption of software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, enterprise IT is fundamentally changing. While on-demand services provide tremendous ROI, they also introduce new challenges that must be overcome to truly capitalize on their potential. Identity management problems such as controlling who is granted access to which applications and data and how to control access to these applications leveraging on premise directories such as Active Directory, have become increasingly important. Single Sign-On and provisioning solutions that are optimized for the cloud are necessary to help address these challenges. This whitepaper presents the eight biggest identity and access management (IAM) challenges associated with adopting and deploying cloud and SaaS applications, and discusses best practices for addressing each of them.
The security perimeter once familiar to the enterprise has become incredibly fragmented. Data and applications reside everywhere: on the network, endpoints and in the cloud. The cloud, in particular, is seeing huge growth with enterprises adopting these environments at a rapid pace. According to Gartner, 55 percent of large enterprises will successfully implement an all-in cloud SaaS strategy by 2025.1 Combined with an increasingly mobile and global workforce, and more importantly, increasingly distributed SaaS cloud environments, organizations are now faced with securing a multitude of applications, users, devices and networks – all hosting sensitive data that is critical to business growth, reputation and customer trust.
** White Paper Published By: Forrester Consulting **
This commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Oracle reports key findings from a survey of 250 eCommerce decision makers on the shift in the marketplace from on-premises commerce infrastructures to modern SaaS solutions. Read this report to learn:
- Top considerations when choosing an eCommerce SaaS platform
- The factors most critical to a successful SaaS implementation
- Benchmarks on eCommerce processes
- Which practices distinguish high performers from all others"
With a powerful, modern cloud commerce solution, e-commerce sites don’t need to sacrifice functionality, customization, or site experience to gain agility. Download this whitepaper to learn four key considerations to keep in mind when evaluating SaaS commerce solutions to achieve agility without compromise.
Many companies that sell online direct to consumers are evaluating whether they can better achieve their revenue and growth goals by either shifting their e-commerce infrastructure to the cloud, or by migrating to a more flexible and scalable SaaS solution that doesn't limit their growth. But what are some of the key considerations as you evaluate your options? Download this whitepaper to learn the 3 keys to igniting your business growth as you consider SaaS commerce solutions.
Forrester predicts that by 2019, SaaS commerce investment will account for nearly three-quarters of the market spending on ecommerce software. In this white paper, you'll learn the 6 key questions to ask your vendor before you select a SaaS e-commerce solution.
** White Paper Published By: Forrester Research, Inc. **
According to the July 2015 Forrester Research, Inc. report entitled "Brief: Oracle Commerce Gets the Cloud Treatment," nearly 73% of online retailers have already or plan to make a full or partial shift to using SaaS-based commerce technologies within two years.
The examples that follow illustrate some of the actual challenges that legacy ERP solutions cannot meet. The examples are placed within 5 broad categories of benefits that NetSuite OneWorld customers realised after deploying the cloud-based solution.
1. Standardising business processes and data
2. Omnichannel on a common platform
3. Multiple brands on a common platform
4. Rapid and easy global expansion
5. Managing multicurrency, international business
To learn more about how SaaS is helping companies gain competitive advantage as opposed to simply reducing costs, we segmented survey respondents into three groups:
• Pacesetters, who have the highest level of SaaS adoption and are gaining competitive advantage through their broad efforts
• Challengers, who have adopted SaaS more narrowly but are gaining competitive advantage through the SaaS deployments they do have
• Chasers, who have been slower to adopt SaaS and gain competitive advantage through its use
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This e-book will help you learn how to build a great software as a service (SaaS) business. It will show you how partnering with Salesforce gives you an unparalleled advantage in the marketplace to build, market, sell, and grow faster.
Cloud-based solutions are revolutionizing the way that enterprises conduct business. These web-based versions of common business tools, like analytics or document management tools, retain most or all of the functionality of their desktop versions and provide significant access, customization, and utility to end users. More organizations are ditching on-premises solutions and adopting cloud-based tools, also known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), "hosted," or "on-demand" solutions. The are becoming invaluable assets in today's agile and mobile workforce.
Every year, record levels of money are spent on new IT security technology yet major breaches and compromises are more
prevalent than ever. The concept of “layered security” in which an organization supports a wide variety of security technologies in order to discourage attackers doesn’t seem to be working. It’s time to rethink IT security not just the technology, but the way it’s approached from a strategic, architectural perspective.
SaaS applications continue to provide a tremendous value to end users with easy setup and collaboration capabilities that are changing the way organizations do business. The concern over the loss of data leaving the corporate network and opening the network to external threats through unknown collaborators has caused many organizations to take a "wait and see" approach to SaaS. Microsoft® Office 365™ changes all that.
A new survey commissioned by Palo Alto Networks and
conducted by Enterprise Strategy Group explores why enterprise
IT leaders are embracing CASB products, where they are using
them, and what capabilities are most important to them.
To learn more about how SaaS is helping companies gain competitive advantage as opposed to simply reducing costs, we segmented survey respondents into three groups:
• Pacesetters, who have the highest level of SaaS adoption and are gaining competitive advantage through their broad efforts
• Challengers, who have adopted SaaS more narrowly but are gaining competitive advantage through the SaaS deployments they do have
• Chasers, who have been slower to adopt SaaS and gain competitive advantage through its use
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The all-encompassing data center is a thing of the past. Modern data environments are distributed and include remote and branch offices, mobile devices, and
the Internet of Things (IoT) as well as cloud solutions such as infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS).
There’s more critical data to back up than ever before. Plus, data silos and fragmented management mean poor visibility, which can make it difficult to comply
with regional data residency and security rules as well as service-level agreements (SLAs).
On-premises data protection has not kept pace. According to a survey by Fujitsu, 45% of IT managers said they had lost data or productivity related to data
protection inefficiency within the last year.1
Often, this is because on-premises backups are cumbersome and do not always happen on time.
If your company provides subscription based online services or softwareas-a-service (SaaS), your business success depends upon improving two key metrics: customer acquisition and customer retention. At Vindicia, our in-depth experience in handling more than 240 million accounts that have transacted over $21 billion for our clients enables us to provide unique insights into how well companies performs relative to industry standards. Such business insights can help your company improve your online services business, potentially leading to millions in incremental revenue through increased acquisition and retention numbers.
SaaS has fundamentally changed security requirements. We used to just go into work, and everything—corporate applications, sensitive customer data, employee health records, etc.—was within the “safe” four walls of the corporate network behind a firewall.
Now employees work remotely and use mobile devices, including unmanaged, personal devices. They access SaaS apps that live in the cloud without any sort of firewall that IT can use to monitor and manage access. Prominent examples include Salesforce.com, Google Apps, Office 365, Box, and many others.
As employees use these SaaS apps, they are creating proprietary company data, often confidential in nature, that exists outside the control of IT, creating new challenges for security teams.
In this new world, IT needs to track sensitive corporate data in third-party SaaS apps, and ensure that only the right people have the right level of access to it. In this whitepaper, we’ll explain ten steps on how to do that
