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As the volume and variety of data grows, companies are finding it’s very challenging to
analyze information thoroughly enough and fast enough to make the most efficient use of
the available raw data. Organizations that need to quickly derive actionable information
from their Big Data are turning to appliances and other in-memory technologies to
speed processing and analysis. This video talks about the advantages of using these
technologies. The technologies offer order of magnitude or better improvements in
analysis time.
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Microsoft Office 365 is a suite of cloud-based collaboration tools that includes Office, Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync videoconferencing. It’s familiar to users and requires no up-front infrastructure costs. Learn more about the components of Microsoft Office 365 and how your business can get started today.
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Processes, architecture and strategy are all important factors in helping to drive adoption of social tools in an organization. Crisp, says TD Bank takes it a step further by using an internal adoption program, where internal employees volunteer ideas and then take an organization-wide vote. This vote, she says not only amplifies its importance in the organization, but allows these ideas to get before upper level management, where they are likely to get put into action and implemented. Crisp also discusses challenges in change management and dives into the issues and risks her organization, as a financial services organization, has pinpointed in regards to social media.
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The new generation of employees entering the workforce is super social, and according to Horan, also blurs the line between what’s appropriate in the workplace with what is acceptable in their personal social lives. Horan believes is it important for companies to employ social tools, but she also believes responsibility lies with the company’s CIO to ensure the proper social business guidelines are in place. She says these proper guidelines will lead to the effective use of social media within the enterprise. Horan also discusses internal challenges she has overcome at IBM and how she handles change management once deployment of these social tools has taken place.
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There’s no doubt, businesses today must become social businesses, not only to exist in today’s landscape, but to thrive. And in order to so, may companies are turning to social technologies, such as IBM Connections, to help their employees communicate better across silos, increase productivity and improve collaboration. In this video, eWEEK editor, Alison Diana sits down with Suzanne Livingston, Senior Product Manager of Social Software at IBM. Livingston says IBM Connections first started as a research product she began as an intern back in 2003. She discusses how the technology has evolved and the benefits your company can reap by using social software.
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Companies today are being forced to evolve with the times. All companies whether big or small are dealing with the bring your own device (BYOD) dilemma, as employees prefer to use their own devices, whether an Apple iPhone, Blackberry, Android or Windows phone, while on the job and using corporate applications. Becoming a social business is also at the forefront as social media sites have become crucial in a creating and molding a company’s image, determining their customer service reviews and also leading to increased productivity among internal employees. In this eWEEK video, editor, Alison Diana sits down with Kevin Cavanaugh, VP of Business and Technical Strategy at IBM, to discuss how companies can integrate both social and mobile strategies to reach their optimal potential.
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To be successful in today’s business world, companies must become social businesses. Making the transformation to a social business can yield three key business benefits. First, it can deepen customer relationships. Second, becoming a social business can drive operational efficiencies. And third, a social business can optimize its workforce to better compete in today’s rapidly changing world market. Unfortunately, becoming a social business requires more than just rolling out social tools to employees and customers. There needs to be a philosophical change in the way a business operates.
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Consumers have a wide range of choices when they’re shopping. They can interact with a single retailer in a physical store or online via computer, smartphone, or tablet. Each of these experiences requires different technologies, yet must be supported by integrated analytics. This video will take a look at how businesses such as Home Depot, Best Buy, Lucky Brand Jeans, and Urban Outfitters are using cross-channel commerce to boost sales across mobile platforms.
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While China gets most of the attention, African economies are growing at some of the fastest rates in the world. Today, the continent is poised to transform the global economic landscape. Across Africa, mobile technology is becoming a cornerstone for industries like healthcare and agriculture. And for millions of people, it is making banking accessible for the first time. Africa’s use of mobile, particularly mobile commerce has leapfrogged what is available in developed regions of the world. Given the lack of constraints imposed by working with an existing infrastructure, many experts expect similar significant gains with the adoption of cloud computing and social media.
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Healthcare is ideal for workload-optimized systems, because they can help provide faster access to personalized medicine-resulting in improved patient care. In 2012, vendors will continue to develop cloud databases and supercomputers-such as IBM Watson-to store and process large volumes of "big data" collected via EHR and genomic data stores. Healthcare providers must also grapple with storing vast amounts of images and data for years, and workload optimization paradigms can help deliver solutions to meet these challenges.
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Faced with the prospect of having to do more with less, IT departments are eyeing the benefits of moving to a virtualization and private clouds. And while virtualization and cloud technology offer many similar benefits, the true differentiator with cloud is automation. Automation is so important, it should be the number one reason any company moves to a cloud infrastructure. The reason: A smart cloud infrastructure would automate many tasks that IT has needed to perform before new services could be available in the past. Such tasks would include building new virtual machine images and deploying these images.
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In March, IBM plans to reveal the names of the newest members of the Smarter Cities Challenge. The three-year initiative, under which IBM will award $50 million-worth of technology and services to 100 municipalities, is designed to help cities address some of the critical issues they face. Many of these projects focus on a common theme surrounding the collection, sharing, analysis, and acting upon data by urban interactions and transactions; IBM provides the technical and business skills to help cities create innovative and cost-effective strategies to address these challenges.
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Security is often cited as a primary cause for concern when considering cloud deployments. To overcome these concerns, companies moving to public cloud services might look to some emerging standards for help. FedRAMP establishes a baseline of security requirements for government contractors interested in providing the federal government with cloud services. NIST has developed a roadmap and a reference document about cloud architecture covering interoperability and security. Providers who work with the federal government will need to beef up their security offerings to comply with these initiatives. Businesses that use these same providers will reap the benefits of this enhanced security.
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When it comes to selecting the computers to power their data centers, IT professionals have a plethora of options. By choosing workload optimized systems, organizations can reap the most from their IT budgets—and see 80 percent or even 100 percent utilization rates, according to a report by Clabby Analytics. The trick is to buy the hardware best-suited to your workloads. This video will look at the cost and performance benefits that workload-optimized systems can deliver to organizations.
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Nick Halsey, CMO and EVP of corporate development at SugarCRM, discusses how companies, including midsize businesses, can become more responsive to customer requests and feedback by tapping the power of mobile devices and social CRM. The cloud has made social CRM more affordable for smaller businesses, and a partnership with IBM has enabled SugarCRM to deliver more offerings to clients of all sizes.
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