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Thrill customers and empower employees with omni-channel, socially-infused digital experiences to drive better business outcomes IBM Customer Experience Suite features rich, integrated capabilities for managing web content, rich-media assets, real-time social communications, robust customer self-service capabilities, business analytics and mobile device delivery IBM Employee Experience Suite enables employees to easily find and share relevant information across multiple platforms, diverse geographies with multiple languages, and within the context of business applications

62% of employees say they don’t see changes occur from feedback they give during performance reviews. Performance reviews help companies and managers evaluate an individual’s performance, but what they don’t do is help employees improve and grow. Why? Performance reviews must go beyond talk of achievements and shortcomings and take steps to offer opportunities and solutions for employees. In this quick, two-page guide, you’ll learn about: • Why performance reviews need a follow-up development plan • Give employees greater career satisfaction by understanding their career path • The power of specific and actionable goals in performance reviews • How data can help you set employees up for success • Why learning and development is necessary to transform your workforce Get your copy and learn how to leave your employees empowered.

The role of IT is changing from a traditional focus on cost-efficient enablement to a more strategic contribution. Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), while important, is being surpassed by a growing focus on automation and orchestration that is needed to fulfill enterprise demands for security, agility, and innovation. The cloud-grade enterprise network – spanning the campus, data center, and branch – must be able to respond to rapid changes in business, growing reliance on hybrid cloud architectures, and the needs of users and customers. This IP Networking Comparison Guide examines the four key areas driving enterprise network priorities and looks at key factors within each. This document will give you a clear perspective on how the various options stack up on the most important features and capabilities necessary to meet your transformation needs.

The role of IT is fundamentally changing from a cost-efficient enablement technology to a more strategic element of the enterprise. For companies born before the digital era, IT is a key player on their path to digital transformation; for more recent businesses designed with technology at their core, IT represents a foundational pillar on top of which everything else is built. With this shifting role, IT’s decades-long emphasis on TCO is being eclipsed by a new-found focus on security and automation. Whether it’s the continuous risks posed by a dynamic threat landscape, the threat of digital disruption, or an inability to keep pace with the latest trends, virtually every enterprise needs to be more agile. And, with the continued evolution of compute, storage, and applications, networks have been exposed as a bottleneck to change.

It’s time to rethink the role of primary care in your health benefit strategy. Employers have invested in countless initiatives to reduce spending and improve employee health outcomes. While these programs have varying degrees of success, employers are looking for new solutions that can have substantial long-term impact. Done the right way, primary care is uniquely positioned to be one of the strongest long-term solutions for employers. The proof is in the numbers: when patients have better access to primary care, the total cost of care is reduced by 4 to 5%. Our comprehensive eBook will show you how to lower health costs and improve employee health outcomes. The guide covers: The current healthcare landscape’s impact on employers The five key attributes of high performance primary care How to make a business case for prioritizing primary care Questions to ask when evaluating vendors

Part 2 in our Partnering with Certainty Webinar Series, "Customer Demands at the Edge." In our last webinar, we discussed how trends & technologies like IoT and its many applications have helped drive an Always On, Always Connected mentality that has completely evolved customer experience standards. These demands are driving a need for resiliency in local edge environments, meaning compute & storage capacity is now coming back on premise for many applications – especially in industries like Healthcare, Retail, Finance, and Education. In other words, this highly distributed access layer is now becoming a compute layer – one that is mission-critical to delivering a flawless (or at least acceptable) customer experience. These environments are often make-shift wiring closets (janitor’s closets, back rooms, etc.) with no dedicated IT staff per each location. More than ever before, Healthcare, Retail, Finance, and Education customers are turning to solution providers to be that “dedicated IT staff” to find and fix problems before they start, so that the customer (or patient, or student) experience they’re working to provide remains a good one. APC by Schneider Electric has: Connected Products making it easy to remotely monitor your customers’ environments Including our NEW Smart-UPS with APC SmartConnect – the industry’s first cloud-connected UPS! A Managed Service Program to help you develop & monetize power as a managed service Fill out your information and click "Register" to watch part 2 of our Partnering with Certainty Webinar Series, “Customer Demands at the Edge: Fix My Problem Before it Starts.” This webinar originally aired on October 19th, 2017.

Applications underpin today’s cloud and digital transformation initiatives. As a result, it’s imperative for modern IT organizations to implement a holistic, expert approach to managing applications for maximum performance and optimal business execution. Read this insights paper from ESG and Riverbed to discover: How performance management expertise drives critical business outcomes. Why mature organizations are better equipped to embrace DevOps and other modern IT practices. What tools, factors, and behaviors correlate to expert performance management practices.

There's a need for better language learning, and a strong case for it. 87% of business executives say their business relies on more than one critical languages. Those that invest in learning outperform the market by more than 45%. Learn how improvements in your language programs provide tangible business returns.

The global beauty company provides an exhilarating example of the power of context-driven commerce. When customers can rely on brands to achieve the outcomes that are important to them, brand owners can shift their focus from nonstop customer acquisition to long-term customer engagement. The Sitecore Experience Platform and the underlying Sitecore Experience Database are foundation technologies for IT organizations wanting to implement context-driven commerce environments that function elegantly today and into the future. Sitecore puts an end to digital retailers’ obsession with cart abandonment, replacing it with opportunities to delight customers with personal, meaningful commerce offers.

The Connected Customer is an individual who is intimately connected to the data, outcomes, decisions, and staff associated with any relationship to an organization. This intensely personal connection is not just a matter of the most recent transaction, but represents a combination of connected data, connected analytics, and collaborative decisions associated with improving the customer’s relationship with the organization over time. In this report, Blue Hill explores the key traits associated with supporting the Connected Customer through the Internet of Things, and provides guidance on why the Internet of Things will be essential across the general business landscape.

The enterprise world is changing faster than ever. To compete, it is now necessary to do business at an almost unprecedented size and scale. In order to achieve this scale, winning companies are establishing digital platforms that extend their organizational boundaries. But what is the right way to build these platforms? Read this whitepaper to discover: Why establishing a digital platform is important for today's hyper-competitive business environment How to build a digital platform by creating and integrating APIs Case studies of how organizations built digital platforms and the successful outcomes they experienced

As organizations develop next-generation applications for the digital era, many are using cognitive computing ushered in by IBM Watson® technology. Cognitive applications can learn and react to customer preferences, and then use that information to support capabilities such as confidence-weighted outcomes with data transparency, systematic learning and natural language processing.

62% of employees say they don’t see changes occur from feedback they give during performance reviews. Performance reviews help companies and managers evaluate an individual’s performance, but what they don’t do is help employees improve and grow. Why? Performance reviews must go beyond talk of achievements and shortcomings and take steps to offer opportunities and solutions for employees. In this quick, two-page guide, you’ll learn about: • Why performance reviews need a follow-up development plan • Give employees greater career satisfaction by understanding their career path • The power of specific and actionable goals in performance reviews • How data can help you set employees up for success • Why learning and development is necessary to transform your workforce Get your copy and learn how to leave your employees empowered.

Once upon a time, several generations ago (in technology years), IT departments were internal departments, focused on maintaining infrastructure and services within the company. Some companies may have had external-facing services, particularly web services, but this was still generally a narrow and restricted area. IT wasn’t a revenue-generating or strategic department; it was a supporting environment viewed as a cost center. One of the outcomes of an infrastructure-focused environment is that developers lost a sense of what their code was doing. Release cycles were long, and changes were slow. A developer would work on something and throw the code into testing or operations, and it would be released months later. Because of that long lead time, engineers lost the joy of being a developer—of creating something and seeing it work in real life. One of the great, powerful changes with digital transformation and related cultural and technology changes like DevOps is that it reintroduce

More so than ever before, agility matters. A shifting competitive landscape along with heightened customer demands, technological transformations, digital disruptions and a host of other trends, combine to create distinct challenges for business operations executives. Achieving and maintaining a competitive edge in this climate requires an advanced framework for pivoting whenever needed—with minimal cost, maximum efficiency and optimal outcomes. The question for every enterprise in the current environment: Do we have the required agility to drive decision-making capabilities that will continuously sharpen our competitive edge?

Delivering the best possible care to every patient is a complex, interconnected process that involves every department in a healthcare facility. From the moment a patient enters a facility, a wide range of activities must be performed by many different employees from different functional areas — in a timely and efficient way—to ensure the best possible outcome, including performing tests, collecting specimens, administering medications and delivering treatments. Each one of these activities must be coordinated and documented as part of an overall care plan. But the first step is making sure clinicians are treating the right patient—in the right way—every time. Zebra’s white paper explores the critical impact positive patient identification (PPID) has on patient safety throughout the administrative, diagnostic and treatment phases of a patient’s stay. The paper also explores how PPID can improve staff efficiency and help healthcare organizations meet the needs of changing patient dem

As organizations develop next-generation applications for the digital era, many are using cognitive computing ushered in by IBM Watson® technology. Cognitive applications can learn and react to customer preferences, and then use that information to support capabilities such as confidence-weighted outcomes with data transparency, systematic learning and natural language processing. To make the most of these next-generation applications, you need a next-generation database. It must handle a massive volume of data while delivering high performance to support real-time analytics. At the same time, it must provide data availability for demanding applications, scalability for growth and flexibility for responding to changes.

Meet the demands of your highest-volume POS lanes with Zebra MP7000 next generation multi-plane 1D/2D imager. The MP7000 is loaded with features that take scanning performance and simplicity to the next level, enabling faster-than-ever checkout in cashier-manned and self-checkout lanes, improving cashier productivity, POS throughput and the shopper experience. A smart investment, the MP7000 offers an unmatched industry-best total cost of ownership (TCO) by delivering maximum uptime and minimum power consumption in an easy-to-service design with fewer parts and components. And with Zebra's complimentary powerful management applications, you can remotely manage all of your MP7000s, no matter where they are located.

A 2017 study examining the impact of app performance on consumer behavior and business outcomes

A 2017 study examining the impact of app performance on consumer behavior and business outcomes

Join leading industry experts from Fujitsu, Salesforce and a special guest from Canon, as they share their expert insights on the future of Digital Enterprise and how manufacturing companies can accelerate their digital transformation journey. During this interactive discussion, they will: • Reveal how to identify and prioritize your critical issues; • Show how Canon Information & Imaging Solutions, is driving growth through an innovative outcome-based service model; • Demo a real-life digital transformation story; • Show how to see more, act fast, optimize, anticipate and power innovates your way to success. This webinar also features Fujitsu's unique digital transformation approach to help you understand where you are in your digital transformation journey and the actions you can take to accelerate it. Watch for this amazing webinar and a link will be sent to you via email.

As consumers, we’re all having more experiences that seem almost magical: You’re in a mall when suddenly your smartphone beeps. It’s an offer for 20% off a pair of shoes you’ve been looking at online — from the store you just walked past! As business people, we know it’s not magic, but rather analytics powering these outstanding customer experiences. Analytics have evolved to the point where they answer an expanding range of useful questions. But understanding the different types of analytics – descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive - and how to use them in your business can be challenging. Download the eBook to learn about the least understood – yet most powerful – tool in the analytic arsenal. Prescriptive analytics enable you to estimate and compare the likely outcomes of any number of actions, and choose the very best action to advance business objectives. Getting there isn’t as difficult as you think. Start your journey. Download the eBook today.

IT executives are in one of the most dynamic, challenging business environments of all time. The business expects speed; the IT function strives to keep up while pursuing innovation and efficiency. Many CIOs recognize that cloud is a possible solution to achieving both but they are uncertain about the best way to get there. Whether your company seeks to modernize IT, fuel innovation or accelerate growth, you’ll find that by identifying the most appropriate cloud journey for your organization, you can determine the best potential entry points to cloud migration as well as identify, prepare and prevent possible roadblocks. And, you’ll discover how the right cloud platform and partner can enable your success by leveraging different layers of the cloud to reach your desired business outcomes—and ultimately achieve true business transformation.

To keep up with sweeping global economic and societal changes, public services organizations are undergoing significant technology-driven transformation. Aging populations, rapid urbanization, political instability, concerns about sustainability and resiliency, and changing worker and resident expectations are driving public services organizations to radically improve operations and service delivery. At the core of this transformation is the ability to collect and process vast amounts of data to help to improve outcomes and services. One way to generate this data is through the Internet of Things (IoT) — which IDC defines as a network of networks of uniquely identifiable endpoints or “things” that communicate without human interaction using IP connectivity. The IoT is a transformational technology that can reshape the public sector, enabling improved outcomes and new services such as remote patient monitoring, advanced traffic solutions and predictive policing.

The digital transformation (DX) of industries is well under way — a transformation that is enabled by the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT allows organizations to reinvent existing industry processes, augment how they engage with their customers, and accelerate the speed at which they deliver their products and services. This white paper looks at how these digital strategies facilitated by the IoT are reshaping those industry segments that are both asset rich and focused on services rather than products. The paper then explores IoT scenarios that hold great promise and how companies are approaching investment to optimize business outcomes.