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Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Today’s job market is one of the most competitive in history. The unemployment rate in the U.S. has hit an historic low of 3.7%—the lowest rate in 50 years. At the same time, however, hiring is on the upswing: in 2017, LinkedIn predicted that hiring volume would increase by 58% nationwide. For companies, this means that they have to do more to retain talent. Making sure the employee journey is smooth and enjoyable from Day 1 is crucial: whether you’re organizing a company-wide fun run or conducting annual performance reviews, you want ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; This is a guest post written by Fab Capodicasa, CEO of Hoosh Marketing When the job market swings in favor of employees, it can make finding and recruiting talent more difficult on companies. That’s what’s happened recently in the United States, where unemployment is historically low and hiring volume is extremely high. As a result, it’s no surprise companies are looking for every advantage they can leverage to quickly and efficiently find the right candidate — including turning to AI phone screeners to automate the initial vetting of candidates. Unfortunately, it seems that job candidates don’t appreciate being vetted by a computer. But I ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; It can be challenging for hyper-growth companies that are constantly moving forward to take a quick moment, hit the pause button, and acknowledge one of the key contributions to their success. That’s why we felt it was important to bring together our key consulting solutions partners for one incredible day of inspiration, education, and product feedback. We’re hoping the inaugural Workato Partner Summit will be the first of many in the years to come. “Our partners are our force multiplier for us to grow and scale as a company,” says Vijay Tella, ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Rachel Grate; This is a guest post by Rachel Grate, content strategist at Eventbrite Technology is changing the landscape for every type of company today, in every area of business. Events are no exception. Online event registration was just the start. Now, technology can both make your event creation process way easier and make the experience for attendees better in countless ways. But with so many emerging technologies, it can hard to know which will shape the future of business events — and which are a trend that will be gone by next year. At ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; Since its founding in 2009, Nutanix has become one of the fastest growing infrastructure and enterprise cloud companies in the world, with nearly 4,000 employees and a range of impressive customers including Toyota, the United States Army, and AT&T. But with such hypergrowth comes the challenges of having a large internal app ecosystem, empowering employees to work as efficiently and intelligently as they can, and making processes and workflows have less friction.   One of those processes was automating and optimizing the request for provisioning virtual machines (VM) through its own Nutanix ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Companies that want to win in the future of work know they need to architect how they do business around a combination of artificial intelligence, data, the cloud, and intelligent automation. According to a Harvard Business Review survey, in fact, 60% of respondents say the future of their organization depends on the successful implementation of machine learning. One reason for the popularity of cognitive technology is that even in 2019, with a decade of digital transformation in the rearview, many business-critical processes remain manual and labor- or skill-intensive. While automation is growing ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; This piece is part of our Digital Change Agents Series – Bay Area branch. In February of 2018, Netgear announced it was spinning of its Arlo division of connected security cameras into its own business. At the end of the process there would be two publicly traded independent companies completely independent from each other. While Netgear was a multinational, mature networking company built for profitability, the four-year-old Arlo was built for growth. And those two different organizational realities presented very unique challenges for Sridevi Pasumarthi, Arlo’s Director of Enterprise Applications and one ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; The confines of the traditional 9-5 office job have gradually, and then suddenly, been eroded by employees wanting more flexible schedules and having technology that allows them to work wherever and whenever they please. Distributed and remote work isn’t just on the rise. It’s here and here to stay. A 2017 Gallup poll indicated that 43% of employed Americans said they spent at least some time working remotely in 2017, a substantial increase over the 9% who said they worked remotely in 1995. The benefits, however, are clear: research has shown that ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; Marketing teams move fast and want to be self-sufficient. If they need to create a landing page, for example, there are numerous tools that let them do it without waiting on a developer and designer. This speed and self-sufficiency is both a blessing and a curse. It leaves the marketing department with hundreds of disparate apps potentially leading to incomplete, outdated, or duplicate data across these systems. Worse yet, they could lose out on true insights into the customer or prospect journey. This slide is a great visual representation of MarTech’s explosive ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Earlier this month, Lord and Taylor’s iconic flagship store on Fifth Avenue officially ended its reign as a retail palace. Faced with $1B in debt, Hudson’s Bay Company, the department store’s parent organization sold off the property. The new owners? WeWork. It’s an all-too-familiar tale, one that many devotees of traditional brick-and-mortar retail would tell as a tragedy: unable—or unwilling—to adapt, legacy stores are forced to cut back their operations. The death knell of traditional retail is upon us. Simultaneously, online retailers keep growing. Ironically, many are strategically pivoting toward traditional brick-and-mortar ... Read More