Your Master Data Management (MDM) program is likely to use a mature, highly tuned, relational database (RDBMS). It makes sense to keep your master data within the relational database considering that’s where most of your data is too. But what if the data relationships need to be managed as well? This whitepaper discusses: * How
‘Graph analysis is possibly the single most effective competitive differentiator for organizations pursuing data-driven operations and decisions after the design of data capture.’ – Gartner Research Sustainable competitive advantage comes from the knowledge of relationships in your data. A relationship (or ‘graph’) based database stores, manages, analyses and uses data within the context of connections
There are many ways to take advantage of the rich set of collaboration tools provided by Microsoft Skype for Business (formerly Lync). IT leaders should consider a cap-and-grow strategy where investment dollars in legacy systems are capped and the financial and IT resources are reallocated to grow Skype for Business.
Skype for Business (formerly Lync) Enterprise Voice and Skype for Business Video can improve worker productivity and streamline business processes, while lowering the overall total cost of communications. Skype for Business Enterprise Voice and video enables the following benefits.
Unified communications (UC) has been a market in the making for well over a decade, as companies look to improve corporate collaboration. UC—the concept of streamlining phone, email, chat, video and content collaboration—has become a corporate objective for reducing the cost and complexity of communications and increasing employee productivity. What began more than 10 years
In an era when virtualisation and cloud computing have taken many aspects of business to new levels of efficiency, printing remains one of the most frustrating and time-consuming elements of a large enterprise’s IT infrastructure. Complex, inefficient networks comprising multiple servers and printers can waste the time of employees and IT staff.
Is the future of computing in the cloud? Increasingly, it appears headed in that direction – and for good reason. Cloud computing presents numerous cost, agility, and operational advantages that are undeniably compelling. In fact, in a vast majority of enterprise data centers, cloud-like architectures are quickly taking root. Companies are virtualizing their resources and
A hybrid infrastructure—bringing together on-premises and cloud capabilities—is a strategy many enterprises are embracing in order to maximize the flexibility and performance they need from their IT operations. Here are ten things to think about as you consider a hybrid strategy for your organization.
What is Colocation? From the days of the first big mainframes, computers have required specialized facilities. But as computers have gotten smaller, the challenges of housing them have actually grown larger. Ever since the advent of servers, the Internet and ecommerce in the 1980s and ‘90s, technology managers have wrestled with the logistical challenges of
In today’s era of distributed enterprises, the average national or international organization relies on a complex network that involves hundreds of regional locations, each connected to headquarters via a local Internet connection. Local online access lets retail chains such as restaurants and stores, process sales and payment transactions, and let branches such as banks and