Tag: Business

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; Cloud storage has been at the core of business for years, serving as a way for smaller teams to share and collaborate in the office and around the globe. The best cloud storage for teams makes sharing and collaborating easy, and in this guide, we’re going to count down our top five picks.  Key Takeaways: Each of the services below are built to make working with your team easy, from Huddle’s real-time document management tools to pCloud’s dense user control. Out of all our picks, though, Egnyte Connect stands out. Although other services may beat ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Jennifer Clemente; What defines those organizations leading their peers in cloud and AI adoption — and how have their steadfast journeys contributed toward ROI and digital transformation?  That was the focus of Oxford Economics and IBM’s research, which surveyed 6,000 senior IT executives world-wide from May through August 2020. The report entitled “Driving digital transformation – Exploring the impact of a unified data and AI strategy,” can be accessed here. The survey called out 13.5%, 809 respondents, as “Cloud and AI Unifiers” for meeting specific criteria for leading cloud and AI adoption: They must ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Kevin Wei; With the publication of Gartner’s 2020 Magic Quadrant (MQ) for Data Integration Tools, the IBM data integration team is thrilled to once again be recognized as a Leader. This affirms our strength in the space, as we continue to deliver a world class data integration experience. Gartner has stated that the future is rich for the data integration space, as the market is supported by strong levels of market growth and adoption — and we at IBM agree. Organization leaders acknowledge that they need a range of data delivery capabilities and must ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Keri Olson; As business conditions remain uncertain in 2021, modern organizations must thoughtfully consider how they will adapt. Unpredictable events like the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated economic turbulence have reshaped business landscapes in a way that underscores the importance for organizations to build plans that will withstand all types of disruption. In reality, many organizations were caught flat footed by the COVID-19 pandemic. With economic and regulatory environments changing overnight, many organizations did not have the processes or technologies in place to respond quickly enough to survive. In a world defined by such ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Christie Schneider; Businesses across all industries understand the importance of streamlining and automating reporting, analytics, and scorecarding, in order to make the right decisions faster. However, the reporting process is typically manual, and leaves analysts one step behind. They are usually left to keep up with the collection of historical data, instead of focusing on how to optimize their business based on real-time data. More likely than not, organizations are using inflexible, legacy reporting technology solutions, such as spreadsheets and basic visualization tools. Therefore, tasks that should be easy, such as monthly reports, often ... Read More

Feed: Journey to AI Blog; Author: Carmen-Gabriela Stefanita; The Distribution Sector faces inherent challenges around delivering timely value, asset management, supply chain operations, customer segmentation and how to make use of the immense amounts of data interwoven throughout.   The economic environment experienced in 2020 magnified these challenges and introduced new customer experience demands that can only be met through hyper-personalization. Companies continually look to optimize operations while also focusing on the needs of each customer. The future of distribution requires overcoming complexity in your business, including: Overwhelming data. Large sets of data are coming in at an unprecedented rate and ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: Nicholas Burden. By Nicholas Burden, Senior Technical Evangelist at TensorIoT As COVID-19 has swept across the globe, it has radically challenged businesses in every industry. TensorIoT has responded to these events by innovating to provide companies with powerful tools to drive success under extreme circumstances. To help safeguard workplaces from the pandemic, TensorIoT developed SafetyVisor, a suite of machine learning (ML) tools that can operate independently or in tandem with existing business infrastructure to monitor safety gear usage (like masks) and social distancing. SafetyVisor’s computer vision models are designed to work with your ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: George Harot. By George Harot, Product Marketing Director, Documentum – OpenTextBy Alex Dubovik, Global Technology Lead, Business Applications – AWS Large organizations are grappling with increasing volumes and variety of information. Managing the lifecycle of structured data and unstructured content, while simultaneously providing efficient access to it, has never been more challenging. Increased regulations, evolving content types, and new ways of working can make the task seem overwhelming. Information—from official company records like invoices and employment contracts to the ad-hoc, collaborative content used to engage customers and foster product innovation—fuels almost every business ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Fred Wurden. By Fred Wurden, General Manager, AWS Enterprise Engineering (Windows, VMware, RedHat, SAP, Benchmarking) AWS R5b.8xlarge delivers better performance at lower cost than Azure E64_32s_v4 for a SQL Server workload In this blog, we will review a recent benchmark that Principled Technologies published on 2/25. The benchmark found that an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R5b.8xlarge instance delivered better performance for a SQL Server workload at a lower cost when directly tested against an Azure E64_32s_v4 VM. Behind the study: Understanding how SQL Server performed better, for a lower cost with an AWS ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. We are excited to introduce the new AWS High Performance Computing (HPC) Competency featuring AWS Partners with deep technical expertise and proven customer success. These trusted AWS Partners provide technology offerings in areas such as high performance engineering simulation solvers, HPC workload management, high throughput computing, and foundational HPC technology. To help customers run the most compute-intensive workloads across industry verticals, Amazon Web Services (AWS) delivers an integrated suite of services that provide everything needed to quickly and easily build and manage HPC clusters in the cloud. These workloads span the ... Read More