Enterprise Applications

The greatest challenge of the big data revolution is making sense of all the information generated by today's vast digital economy. It's well enough for an organization to collect every slice of data it can reach, but how does it extract value from this massive volume of information?

Between the Internet of Things, customer experience and loyalty programs, social network monitoring, connected enterprise systems and other information sources, today's organizations have access to more data than they ever had before-and frankly, more than they may know what to do with. The challenge is to not just understand that data, but actualize it and use it to recognize real business value. This ebook will walk you through a sample scenario with Albert, a data scientist who wants to put text analytics to work by using the Word2vec algorithm and other data science tools.

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications. Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

By next year over half of all US companies will formally support BYOD, bringing on the challenge of securing data and applications on devices that may often be in the hands malicious users, or worse – teenagers looking to win a game of Pokémon Go with mom’s work iPhone. And, thanks to the consumerization of IT, mobile users increasingly expect the same smooth user experience with business applications that is provided by popular games and consumer applications. Fortunately, increased mobility and the bring your own device explosion don’t always add up to increased security challenges and UI/UX struggles. This Tech Byte series will look at the most important considerations when planning a mobile strategy – from application development platform to security and governance to user interface guidelines, and present best practices that businesses of all kinds can use to help ensure a successful shift towards a mobile-first enterprise.

Adopting Identity as a Service (IDaaS), also known as Cloud IAM, can reduce your IT costs, but how do you convince your organization to take the leap? Use this TCO guide to compare the cost of on-premises and cloud-based IAM, such as IBM Cloud Identity Service. Then, calculate your three-year cost savings to truly "wow" your team.

Choosing a vendor for Cloud IAM is not a trivial task. One vendor may meet your needs today, but can it scale up to solve your challenges tomorrow? By answering five easy questions, you can get a fresh look at your options-and share the findings with the rest of your team.

Pfizer completed a proof-of-concept of a 5TB SAP Business Warehouse application on an Oracle system to evaluate a move to SAP HANA. This 5TB scale-up system was created on the IBM Power Systems platform under the direction of SAP and IBM. This webinar will explain SAP's road map for SAP HANA on Power architecture and Pfizer's rationale and lessons learned during this exciting project. Pfizer has now moved from development into production and will share the results from this recent experiment.

Discover the advantages of desktop and application virtualization with the VDI Starter Kit.

Digital Transformation. Agile applications. Open source software. Join IDC analyst Al Gillen as he presents IDC's view of what they mean for applications, infrastructure - and customers.

Listen to videos with WIRED Editor Jim Daily and technology experts from The Linux Foundation, Canonical/Ubuntu, SUSE, The Met Office and IBM as they discuss how the latest hybrid cloud infrastructure technology and the best of Linux and open source can yield business innovation and growth.

Attend this webinar to hear IBM Linux experts Donna Dillenberger, Angel Diaz and Steven Dickens discuss how to get from open source project to enterprise-grade Linux with IBM LinuxOne.

Big data analytics offer organizations an unprecedented opportunity to derive new business insights and drive smarter decisions. The outcome of any big data analytics project, however, is only as good as the quality of the data being used. Although organizations may have their structured data under fairly good control, this is often not the case with the unstructured content that accounts for the vast majority of enterprise information. Good information governance is essential to the success of big data analytics projects. Good information governance also pays big dividends by reducing the costs and risks associated with the management of unstructured information. This paper explores the link between good information governance and the outcomes of big data analytics projects and takes a look at IBM's StoredIQ solution.

This paper from Osterman Research, explores the origins of the "information problem" many organizations are now facing and presents a detailed discussion of how to calculate your current information costs as well as how to calculate the ROI of an information governance program.

The worldwide growth rate of digital data is staggering. If you're a CIO or a data center administrator, data growth statistics aren't just big numbers, they are a big problem -- for your company. Email messages, social media and blog posts, text and instant messages, photos, video and audio, machine-generated data, and transactional detail are on track to overwhelm your storage capacity. Read this paper for practical advice and smarter solutions for managing the information in your organization and getting back to a position of mastery over your data. Get this valuable resource now.

This eBook takes you on a journey to outthink content chaos and discover how your industry can gain real value from your business content. Read how industry leaders are reflecting on the important challenges they face, and how they are finding innovative ways to collaborate and extract value from all forms of content to outpace those obstacles. Learn how cognitive and cloud-based Enterprise Content Management, or ECM, can help you protect your content while gaining a competitive advantage from it, improving business performance and ROI.

IBM is a leader in the 21 criteria ranking by Forrester of 14 dynamic case management vendors . This report helps enterprises select the best providers to meet their needs through a detailed methodology. Contained in the report is information on what enables a vendor to excel as well as potential pitfalls. Learn about: - The criteria to rank vendors by Forrester - What vendors possess to enter the leader ranking Get the report to learn how IBM is a leader.

Informative infographic featuring case management and data capture solutions to put the customer experience first.

Read this article to understand how Box can revolutionize the way your marketing team creates campaigns in just five ways: 1. Complete projects, fast 2. Work with outside contractors and agencies, securely 3. Access files here, there and everywhere 4. Equip sales team with winning tools 5. Distribute campaign content easily

Meet Liz, a Director of Marketing, and journey with her as she looks for innovative ways to brainstorm and share content with both her internal teams and external agency partners. Liz discovers Box, a simple cloud-based content and file sharing solution that improves collaborative control.

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Forrester Consulting study that explores the hypothesis that modern businesses require enterprise content management (ECM) platforms that can offer faster deployment capabilities and operational flexibility in order to meet their shifting business objectives.

This ebook takes you on a journey to discover a cloud-based content management solution that provides greater visibility and collaborative control over business content. Meet Mike, an IT Solutions Executive, looking for an innovative way to collaborate that's secure, easy to use, immediate and accessible -- all while meeting strict governance policies.

See how you can turn data into actionable insights with predictive analytics. Take our brief assessment to learn which analytical capabilities will enable you to find the greatest value in your data and make confident, accurate business decisions.

SPSS and open source seamlessly complement each other. With open source, IBM makes it easy to build your own extensions, adding new functionality to existing products. Coding is not required for the use of extensions. IBM offers an extensive library of already developed extensions that can be downloaded and used immediately. Join IBM's open source community and instantly boost your predictive analytics.

Download and learn to: - Apply the power of APIs to business challenges - Define the product nature of modern APIs - Manage which APIs to provide or consume - Build an effective API technology platform