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QAD turns cost centers into profit centers with IBM Cloud
Cloud has been an important part of our strategy at QAD for well over a decade. In fact, among the established global manufacturing enterprise resource planning (ERP) and supply chain software providers, QAD was one of the first to offer cloud-based solutions, starting with QAD Supplier Portal in 2003 and then ERP in 2007. Despite […]
How a hybrid workforce can save up to 20 hours a month
How productive would your company employees be if they could save two hours a day on regular tasks? With the growth and evolution of today’s digital economy, companies face the challenge of managing increasingly complex business processes that involve massive amounts of data. This has also led to repetitive work, like requiring employees to manually […]
The path to modernizing mission-critical applications
In a world where business disruption is the rule and not the exception, enterprises need IT environments that are designed to yield real innovation by enabling continuous, iterative development. Flexible, agile platforms allow organizations to develop new business models and deliver product innovation and deployment, as well as enable employee productivity and customer engagement. Cloud […]
Cloud in 2020: The year of edge, automation and industry-specific clouds
It was a banner year for cloud computing in2019. The area that gained the most ground was hybrid multicloud, which emerged as the favored strategy of enterprises looking for a flexible and efficient way to move their workloads to the cloud while reducing costs, boosting productivity and avoiding vendor lock-in. Those advantages are so significant […]
Multicloud management: Why visibility, security and automation matter to CIOs
As a C-level or line of business executive, there’s a lot that can keep you up at night. While it’s critical that you invest in new technology to keep up with your competition, you don’t want to risk a gap in security or lose out on your current investments — whether it’s your technology, your […]
SteelHouse cuts application deployment time in half with IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service
People who are shopping, researching, or doing anything at all online don’t want to be held up by a website that takes a long time to load. And, ads are one of the most common reasons for poor website performance. SteelHouse uses the IBM Cloud to ensure a good user experience, which for the advertising […]
Cloud modernization: Cultural and workplace adoption
Genuine digital transformation requires cloud modernization strategies that involve and affect people, processes and technology. In part one of this two-part series, I focused on cloud-based technologies that enable organizations to modernize infrastructures, platforms and applications. This time around, I’ll examine the people aspect of cloud modernization and include some thoughts on process. I’ll cover: […]
Improve business performance with better cloud container monitoring
Today’s hybrid multicloud reality can be a double-edged sword. While the transformation can increase speed, scale and flexibility, it can also limit your view of performance and security within containers. In fact, an IBM and McKinsey research report notes that 67 percent of those surveyed consider management consistency a priority concern. Imagine transferring materials to […]
5 key elements for a successful cloud migration
As organizations continue to increase their cloud investment to drive business forward, cloud adoption has become integral to IT optimization. Cloud migration allows businesses to be more agile, improve inefficiencies and provide better customer experiences. Today, the need for stability and flexibility has never been more necessary. An optimized IT infrastructure is different for each […]
Expedite innovation by design with IBM Garage
Disruption across all industries has made rapid innovation an existential imperative. IBM Garage is a consultancy within IBM that co-creates with clients across industries to enable them on a new way of working and delivering innovative solutions rapidly. By integrating design throughout the solution lifecycle, IBM Garage drives a laser focus on defining and delivering […]
Cloud modernization: A holistic approach
Digital transformation can be empowering at an organizational scale. It can help transform the customer experience, power innovation, increase agility and flexibility, reduce operating costs and drive data-based decision-making. But outdated IT infrastructures and applications too often can stand in the way. Genuine digital transformation — in which enterprises take full advantage of digital technologies […]
IBM Cloud news: Latest enhancements and client wins in regulated industries
IBM shared news of numerous enhancements to its IBM Cloud and AI portfolio this week, reports EnterpriseAI. The new capabilities announced make it easier for businesses to scale AI across clouds. The innovations are designed to help organizations overcome barriers to AI and can be run across any cloud with the IBM Cloud Pak for […]