Forrester Consulting conducted a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of SAP S/4HANA on their organizations. To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with this investment, Forrester interviewed several customers with experience using SAP S/4HANA. Read the study to learn how Forrester concluded that SAP S/4HANA provides an ROI of 349%.

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Je besser die Daten, desto besser die Künstliche Intelligenz Sie möchten Ihre Kunden und deren Verhalten besser verstehen? Ihnen eine maßgeschneiderte Customer Experience bieten? Oder neue Geschäftsfelder identifizieren? Es ist vielleicht nicht immer offensichtlich: Aber die Grundlage jeder gut funktionierenden KI sind Daten. In unserem Leitfaden zeigen wir Ihnen in sechs Schritten, wie Sie Ihre Daten auf innovative Weise organisieren. So schaffen Sie eine optimale Grundlage, um künftig das Beste aus künstlicher Intelligenz, Cognitive Computing und maschinellem Lernen herausholen zu können.

Business applications have become the battleground for customer loyalty. To compete, IT organizations are under pressure to deliver applications faster and with higher quality. Continuous Delivery (CD) of code offers a solution. CD may be paired with DevOps, Agile and other methodologies. However, QA and testing can be an obstacle to CD’s rapid development and deployment of high quality code. Testers and developers must engage in Continuous Testing, continuously testing software for performance, quality and user experience as it’s being developed. Continuous Testing is not a push button process, though. It requires a comprehensive approach. This paper outlines the common challenges to Continuous Testing and highlights results from real users who have used technology to get to succeed with the Continuous Testing process.

With the application economy in full swing, more organizations are turning to Continuous Testing and DevOps development practices in order to quickly roll out applications that reflect the ever-changing needs of tech-savvy, experience-driven consumers. Rigorous data they need, in the right formats. This forces teams to postpone their testing until the next sprint. As a result, organizations like yours are increasingly looking for ways to overcome the challenges of poor quality data and slow, manual data provisioning. They are also concerned about compliance and data privacy when using sensitive information for testing. CA Test Data Manager can help you mitigate all these concerns, so you’re positioned to achieve real cost savings.

DevOps ist nicht mehr topaktuell. Auch Continuous Delivery oder sogar das „Shift-Left“-Paradigma ist nicht mehr als innovativ zu bezeichnen. Dieses White Paper zeigt auf, wie Sie DevOps-Tools und -Verfahren kundenorientiert einsetzen können, um einen geschäftlichen Nutzen zu erzielen. Dabei wird auf die aktuellen Herausforderungen für Unternehmen eingegangen, wenn sie versuchen, durch DevOps-Innovationen mehr als nur technische Vorteile zu realisieren. Zudem werden die Lücken aufgezeigt, die die Unternehmen in den Continuous Delivery-Ketten schließen müssen, um erfolgreich zu sein. Schließlich befasst sich dieses White Paper auch damit, wie die Themen Anwendereinbindung und Customer Experience in allen Phasen der Bereitstellungspipeline als wichtige Überlegung einbezogen werden.

DevOps non è più una metodologia all'avanguardia, né lo sono la continuous delivery o l'approccio shift-left. Queste prassi e principi sono stati ormai adottati dalle aziende, almeno in una certa misura e, anche se in molti casi la transizione è risultata incompleta, praticamente tutte le aziende conoscono e si sforzano di implementare i workflow e le strutture organizzative DevOps. Questo white paper spiega come utilizzare gli strumenti e le prassi DevOps in un'ottica incentrata sul cliente allo scopo di creare valore di business. Illustra le sfide che la maggior parte delle aziende deve affrontare per estendere le innovazioni DevOps al di là dell'ambito tecnico, identifica le lacune da colmare all'interno delle catene di continuous delivery per superare tali sfide e spiega come mettere il coinvolgimento degli utenti e la customer experience al centro di tutte le fasi della pipeline di delivery.

CA Privileged Access Manager protects an organization’s business and empowers its people. The solution protects critical accounts and endpoints while providing a seamless user experience. CA commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and objectively examine the potential return on investment (ROI) and enterprises may realize by deploying its Privileged Access Manager solution. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of the CA Privileged Access Manager solution on their organizations.

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Whilst businesses of all kinds are utilizing data analytics, many are still only using it to make simple changes that lead to a set of rigid processes. Whereas the more customer-focused organizations are realizing that to deliver exceptional experiences, they need to be able to react to customer data in real-time and predict what might happen next. And that means going beyond simple analytics. Read our whitepaper to discover what analyst firm Forrester has identified as the Enterprise Insight Platform, technology designed to enable companies to transform into truly data-driven businesses.

Despite being knowledgeable about their industry and experienced in running their organizations, the majority of business users lack expertise in analytics and visualization techniques—but that doesn't stop them from wanting to have a go. But making tools easier and more widely accessible is only part of the answer. A better approach is to work both sides of the gap. To make tools that can empower business users to discover and unlock value in their data—and that extend capabilities for experts, so they can share the analytics workload, improve efficiency, and focus on higher level work.

Digital transformation has pioneered an ever-evolving landscape in the omnichannel retail experience. To efficiently meet consumer demands, retailers consider a fully immersive omnichannel customer experience as integral to their engagement strategy. With increasingly varied technologies such as NFC-based payments, digital signage with rich-media experiences, wireless technologies and IoT technologies—present great opportunities and complexities. New technologies are often being rolled out without a centrally managed approach leading to siloed solution landscape, making deployment difficult. Uncover the path to simplify and automate, where the Reliant Platform delivered performance, scalability, reliability, security, and inter-operability Reliant needs for retail applications.

Today’s tech savvy consumers are continually driving organizations to deliver a modernized shopping experience. To achieve this, retailers are pushing the edge on developing non-traditional ways in delivering sales messages. One of the best ways to engage shoppers with an in-store digital presence is through modern adaptive signages. Modern signages enable two-way interaction between customers and businesses, tapping onto cutting-edge technologies such as sensors and analytics to respond to customer behavior—helping retailers customize content on the fly. Find out how Giada Technology leveraged on Intel® processors to power up their cloud terminals to pre-process signage, sensor, and mobile data to efficiently exchange information with the cloud. Retailers are better positioned to present contextual promotions to the shoppers, delivering benefits of lesser wait-time and increased customer satisfaction.

In September 2017, Akamai commissioned Forrester Consulting to examine how companies approach digital experience and digital security. A survey of over 350 IT executives around the world found that: ? Customer trust is at an all-time low and it’s hurting growth ? Executives are aware that customer trust is becoming critical to success ? Companies struggle to balance security with digital experience ? Failure to deliver on security impacts brand reputation, customer trust, and revenues This report, Drop A Pin At The Intersection Of Digital Experience And Security, shares insights into these findings and what sets top digital businesses apart.

Can chatbots provide a great customer experience? Watch how top brands automate social customer service practices. You'll learn how to enhance agent workflows and use AI to better connect with the people you care about most.

Initiatives that provide a digital customer experience or digitise existing processes merely scratch the surface. To unleash the true potential of digital, you need to reimagine your business model. Download this report to find out: • ten key technologies that will change business forever • why strategy beats technology in the race to transform • where business leaders think the key changes happen • the three categories of innovation that will drive digital business models of the future.

Experience IBM Watson Order Optimizer How can retailers efficiently leverage inventory from one channel to serve another without breaking the bank? See how IBM Watson Order Optimizer helps Fulfillment, Operations, and Inventory: Gain a holistic view of omni-channel operations across different functional areas Optimize in real-time against multiple, competing business objectives Utilize inventory at its most profitable price point Make better fulfillment decisions with cognitive insights

IBM Planning Analytics, powered by IBM TM1, is the fast, flexible, planning solution that helps you align financial plans with corporate objectives linked to operational tactics and market events. In this quick, 10- minute guided demo, you’ll get hands-on experience with IBM Planning Analytics by building a revenue plan. You’ll play the role of a financial planner and learn how to: • Create a revenue plan in IBM Planning Analytics Workspace • Adjust the plan by increasing sales by 20% through an online channel • Review the impact of your changes on net profit

The banking industry has been talking about improving the customer experience with customer-centric banking for a long time. From a recent study of French retail banks, neobanks and online banks are winning the customer experience battle. To retain customers, traditional banks will need to improve their overall customer experience, a key priority as reported in DBR Research’s Digital Banking Report 2018. All three of the top trends for 2018 are related to improving the overall customer experience. Failing to address these key trends will hurt laggards. Just because you have a digital presence doesn't mean your work is done, it just means that you need to continue to innovate to attract and retain your customer base. But what makes for a successful banking customer journey? Read this solution brief to learn the five pillars of success for the banking customer journey.

Today’s consumers are more informed, diverse, demanding and well-connected than ever before. With nearly unrestricted access to shopping resources used for discovery, comparison, and purchase, consumers are able to shop at will, often independent of branded retailer guidance. This rise of consumer independence can be attributed to the emergence of technological advancements favoring consumer empowerment; however, the repeated failures of brands to proactively offer personalized, high-value shopping experiences at scale is a significant contributing factor of consumer exodus. This has fostered an inclination among shoppers to become self-reliant in their pursuit of purchases, effectively shutting out promotional outreach from brands. Many brands continue to fall out of touch with their customers because they’ve lost sight of their customers’ true needs. Customer centricity has long been the foundation for modern marketing, but the brands which fail at creating deeply personalized market

Since the term “omni-channel” was first coined by the Harvard Business Review in 2011, some marketing technology vendors claimed that they could provide businesses with this holy grail of brand ubiquity. Unfortunately, most of these early claims were false starts where vendors over-promised and under-delivered. The good news is that a select number of solutions have caught up with all the promises and can now turn them into action. In this guide, we explain why the conversation around omni-channel marketing has changed and how you can transform your marketing strategy to leverage this new, powerful technology. We’ll give you a heads up on the roadblocks you’ll encounter on your journey to achieving omni-channel relevance and the benefits you’ll gain once you reach your destination. No highfalutin jargon, no talking in circles and no nonsense. Just practical advice on how to create a superb customer experience.

Information on artificial intelligence (AI) is flooding the market, media and social channels. Without doubt, it’s certainly a topic worth the attention. But, it can be difficult to sift through market hype and grandiose promises to understand exactly how AI can be applied in practical and reliable solutions. Like most technological advances, incorporating new technology into business processes requires significant leadership and effective direction that all stakeholders can easily understand. Great leaders become great by balancing strategy with tactics, future vision with current reality and strengths with weaknesses – all with the goal of accomplishing a clearly defined objective. Great leaders also understand that people are the most valuable resources within their organization. To drive and inspire their success, you must optimize strengths while recognizing inherent weaknesses. Many of our daily human experiences and interactions involve machines or devices of some sort. Technolo

For 20 years running, SAS has landed a coveted spot on Fortune’s 100 Best Companies to Work For list. Our HR department plays a critical role in keeping current employees engaged and productive as well as anticipating and preparing for future workforce needs. How? One reason is our use of data and analytics to drive HR decision making. It would be easy to assume other companies see the value of analytics; however, a Deloitte survey found 75 percent of HR leaders rate analytics as a priority, yet only 8 percent say their HR organization has a strong analytics capability. I had the pleasure of meeting David Harcourt, Associate Manager of Employee Insights at Yum! Brands when he spoke at the Analytics Experience 2016 conference in Las Vegas. His session, “HR Analytics from Scratch: 8 Lessons Learned in the First Year,” provided valuable insight into what it takes to build HR analytic competency from scratch. His mission is to share with others what he wishes he’d known when he started bui

Digital transformation is a reality for marketers that is wrapped in both opportunities and headaches. Marketers understand the choices and expectations that their customers now have, and they are up for the challenge. But marketers also have many obstacles to overcome to deliver the consistently good, timely and engaging customer experience, across devices, that customers demand. The good news is that the marketing technology industry is rapidly evolving to address these challenges. And in the same way that consumers have an abundance of choices, marketers also have many options when it comes to choosing partners to help. But where to start, and how to choose the right partners?