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5 Barriers to Cloud Modernisation

Compare The Cloud

Despite the widespread embrace of cloud technology, tangible benefits often remain frustratingly out of reach for many businesses and enterprises today. The finish line — where IT scaling, maintenance and innovation are made easier — is fully visible, but the legs running towards it feel like they’re moving in place. Why? What’s holding companies back from modernised systems that simplify mobility and remote work, that offer a foundation for business continuity regardless of global disruption?

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Increase partner marketing ROI with hyper-targeted ABM accounts lists

PartnerTap

Account-based marketing (ABM) has made a big impact on enterprise marketing programs and pipeline generation over the past few years because of its ability to hone in on and accelerate deals with best-fit, high-value accounts. With ABM, select accounts are treated like individual markets, with tailored interactions and content at every step of their journey.

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The perfect time to invest in cloud technologies

Compare The Cloud

Back in 2021, VC firm Andreessen Horowitz’s captivating think piece, “The cost of cloud: a trillion-dollar paradox,” ignited a firestorm of discussions surrounding the control (or loss of) businesses have over their costs when entrusting their operations to cloud providers. The bars and cafes in every tech hub around the world from San Jose to Singapore were buzzing as industry professionals pondered this intriguing paradox.

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Hello from the other side: CSL

Stellar Partnerships

What does a corporate partner want? It’s the million-dollar question. To make your life easier we’ve recently been hosting chats with people from the corporate side of the table so you can hear from the horse’s mouth (so to speak) what’s important to them. This week we’re sharing the insights from Patrick at CSL. CSL is a global biotech company and one of Australia’s biggest success stories, with profits of over $2.2bln last year.

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Maximize Productivity and Simplify IT Management with Conversational AI

ChatGPT has dominated boardroom conversations for months now. From drafting a stock trading program, to creating a SQL query to model data, there are practically no limits to the applications of the AI language model assistant. At ManageEngine, we have been working on our own AI-assistant, Zia. Zia is a fully-trained analytics assistant that can perform a range of functions such as creating and adding reports to dashboards, providing conversational support to data analysis, insight discovery, bu

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Embracing the Elegance of Audio Calls

Peter Simoons

I’ve been coaching and having conversations over Zoom since 2015. I remember that during those first few years of this transition to digital methods, people were hesitant to turn on their video and many preferred audio-only meetings. The lockdown periods of the pandemic changed that completely! Since then, video calls seem to have become the norm for communication.

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From Quantity to Quality: Improving Your Idea-Generation Process

Hype

Day in and day out, we’re all coming up with ideas at work and home as we go about routine tasks or during meetings and problem-solving sessions. There’s often a tendency to think that more ideas mean better results. But, typically, this isn’t the case. A focus on generating more, rather than better-quality, ideas might lead to slower decision-making and lower motivation to be creative.

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Preventive maintenance vs. predictive maintenance

IBM Business Partners

Your maintenance strategy may not be the first thing that springs to mind when thinking about the bottom line. Yet, given that machinery, equipment and systems keep businesses running, maintenance strategies have a major role to play. Without due care and attention, things break—regardless of whether that’s a transformer in an electricity grid, an axle bearing on a train or a refrigerator in a restaurant.

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Gartner Forecasts Strong Government Opportunities for MSPs

Channel Insider

Recent Gartner research forecasts that, with about one-third of Australian government spending to be dedicated to IT services, MSPs have a strong year of opportunity ahead in the sector. Overall spending will reach AUD$17 billion in 2023 , which is an 8.4% increase from the previous year. This is slower than the increase in spending in 2022 (9.4 %) but higher than the global growth in government spending (7.6% to US$589.8 billion).

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Reimagining economic growth in Africa: Turning diversity into opportunity

McKinsey & Company

Africa’s economy downshifted over the last decade, yet half of its people live in countries that have thrived on the continent. Africa has the human capital and natural resources to accelerate productivity and reimagine its economic growth, which is, more than ever, vital for the welfare of the world.

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How to Leverage Intent Data for Better Outcomes

Speaker: Susan Spencer, Principal of Spencer Communications

Intent signal data can go a long way toward shortening sales cycles and closing more deals. The challenge is deciding which is the best type of intent data to help your company meet its sales and marketing goals. In this webinar, Susan Spencer, fractional CMO and principal of Spencer Communications, will unpack the differences between contact-level and company-level intent signals.

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Governance in the Age of Technological Innovation

INSEAD Knowledge

Today’s boards can no longer afford to solely prioritise shareholders and maintain an inward-focused approach to business. Instead, they need to consider stakeholders and the wider ecosystem that gives rise to complexities, challenges and also opportunities, said Sonia Tatar, executive director of the INSEAD Corporate Governance Centre (ICGC) at the recent INSEAD Directors Forum.

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How AI can streamline procurement and supply chains

Compare The Cloud

The AI revolution is underway, with more and more businesses starting to adopt new technologies – including within the procurement function. A recent survey found high-performing Chief Procurement Officers are x18 times more likely to have fully deployed AI/cognitive capabilities. While 63 percent of procurement organisations have increased system automation using intelligent technology.

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IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch End of Life and pricing changes

IBM Business Partners

As part of our partnership with Elastic , IBM is announcing the release of a new version of IBM Cloud Databases for Elasticsearch. We are excited to bring you an enhanced offering of our enterprise-ready, fully managed Elasticsearch. Our partnership with Elastic means that we will be able to offer more, richer functionality and world-class levels of support.

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Generative AI hits the Main Stage at Forrester’s B2B Summit NAM

Mindmatrix

This week, Mindmatrix is attending the Forrester B2B Summit in North America. It’s an event that’s focused on accelerating revenue through marketing, sales, and product development. As a researcher, I’ve been excited for this event because most of the sessions are steeped in research, my life’s passion. The keynote started out with Forrester CEO – George Colony.

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The B2B Sales Leader's Guide for Any Economic Environment

When economic headwinds pick up, sales leaders are the first to sound the alarm — and chart a new course. Longer sales cycles, larger buying committees, increased price pressure, and smaller teams can quickly combine to reduce your margin for error and increase the urgency to find a solution. To thrive in a challenging environment, sales teams need a rock-solid grasp of the fundamentals and the biggest force-multipliers they can get their hands on.

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Getting a read on the state of organizations

McKinsey & Company

A new McKinsey report reveals how organizations are faring in a post-COVID-19 world. Here, two of its coauthors offer suggestions for managing through the uncertainty.

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How to Get Stakeholder Buy-In for a Toolchain Integration Platform

Planview Blog

Change is never easy, and that holds particularly true with the tools people are accustomed to using in their day-to-day work. Even if that change is an upgraded all-in-one platform that can eliminate redundancies, integrate multiple tools, and solve persistent pain points. So how can you convince stakeholders to take a leap of faith and commit to switching platforms?

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Why a ‘cloud strategy’ alone can’t stave off your competition

Compare The Cloud

For businesses to grow in the digital economy, they need to be smart. They not only need to optimise their workflow to increase efficiency and speed of production so that they can deliver competitive products to market faster, but they also need to ensure the quality and performance of digital products throughout their lifecycle, wherever their customers go.

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Connected products at the edge

IBM Business Partners

There are many overlapping business usage scenarios involving both the disciplines of the Internet of Things (IoT) and edge computing. But there is one very practical and promising use case that has been commonly deployed without many people thinking about it: connected products. This use case involves devices and equipment embedded with sensors, software and connectivity that exchange data with other products, operators or environments in real-time.

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Sales Kickoff Beyond the Meeting: How to Plan & Execute a Successful SKO

Speaker: Gerhard Gschwandtner, CEO, Selling Power | Beverlie Heyman, Director of Sales Enablement, Bigtincan | Jared Hibbs, Sr. Sales Enablement Manager, Bigtincan

Sales kickoff (SKO) meetings are a critical time for sales enablement and management teams to drive learning and motivation that (they hope) will last the whole year. Unfortunately, those same meetings can also become long, tedious, repetitive days that cause reps to tune out and turn off. Over the past few years, sales kickoffs have looked very different.

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Time to Level up 5G and Core?

Frost & Sullivan

Crossing the three-year mark of commercial 5G roll-out, the telecom industry has witnessed rapid 5G deployments globally. Several 5G enabled innovative applications and services have helped telecom operators achieve the business success it had promised. In terms of adoption, by 2022, the number of global 5G users exceeded 1 billion, whereas gigabit broadband users reached 100 million, and a staggering 20,000 industry applications were put into use. 5G has truly transformed every industry digital

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Is your workplace ready for flexible work? A survey offers clues

McKinsey & Company

Flexible work can deliver both better employee engagement and real estate savings. Here’s how tenants and investors can prepare.

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How to identify your 5-star prospects

Remarkable Partnerships

How to identify your 5-star prospects Written by Jonathan Andrews. This is a blog about what works. When Learning with Parents identified their 5-star prospects, IG Group was top of their list. Within two years they secured a three-year partnership worth £750k. When you want to build corporate partnerships, it seems logical that you need a long prospect list.

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iStyle.id and impact.com Join Forces to Enhance Affiliate and Influencer Marketing Capabilities in Indonesia

Impact

June 06, 2023 — iStyle.id, a prominent Korean product e-commerce platform in Indonesia, today announced its partnership with impact.com, the world’s leading partnership management platform. The collaboration is poised to significantly accelerate iStyle.id’s influencer and affiliate marketing program, boosting awareness and sales to their thriving online shopping platform.

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5 Essential Virtual Selling Practices Every Company Must Have by 2023

Speaker: Erika Bzdel - Vice President of Sales and Craig Simons - Director of Marketing

Virtual sales success requires new ways of thinking. Sales managers, trainers, sales enablement managers, and sales reps across all industries must adjust to this digital transformation. That doesn’t mean, however, that you can transfer the old ways of doing business to the new blended selling environment. You need to implement essential virtual selling processes or you will get left behind.

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WebSphere Application Server support

IBM Business Partners

IBM continues to be committed to supporting your journey with the WebSphere platform. There is no planned end-of-support date for WebSphere 8.5.5 and 9.0.5. IBM intends on supporting these WebSphere releases beyond Oracle’s stated extended support date for Java 8. For more details, see the WebSphere Application Server traditional Lifecycle. The post WebSphere Application Server support appeared first on IBM Blog.

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IQVIA Recognized by Frost & Sullivan for Its Innovative and Superior Healthcare Solutions

Frost & Sullivan

San Antonio, TX — June 6, 2023 — Frost & Sullivan recently researched the quality management systems (QMS) market for the life sciences industry and, based on its findings, recognizes IQVIA with the 2023 North American Enabling Technology Leadership Award. IQVIA is one of the most innovative providers of advanced analytics, technology solutions, and clinical research services to the healthcare industry.

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Growing a global tech unicorn: Five key insights from Infobip

McKinsey & Company

The CEO and cofounder of Infobip shares how the company has used small, mission-based teams and a positive growth mindset to capture high-yield, low-cost tech markets.

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Culture Clash: Are You Making this Costly Acquisition Mistake?

PSMJ Resources Blog

Cultural fit is quite possibly the most critical driver of merger and acquisition success for architecture, engineering, and construction (A/E/C) firms…but it can also be the hardest element to measure in advance, while you still have time to rethink the deal. To get ideas for making M&A transactions work better for both parties, we sat down with Mike Matthews, P.E., FACEC.

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How to Measure the ROI of IT Operations

IT is viewed as a cost center by organizations. In troubling economic times, this puts intense pressure on IT to demonstrate value for IT investments. Register for this webinar to learn how to quantify the intrinsic benefits of IT using analytics.

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Will Generative AI Revolutionize MSP Security?

Channel Insider

Generative AI’s potential to create new content such as audio, code, and text can democratize security, empowering users of varying skill levels to generate solutions for their unique use cases. CrowdStrike’s Charlotte AI is a new application of this concept in cybersecurity. “CrowdStrike has pioneered the use of artificial intelligence in cybersecurity to identify adversary behavior and combat sophisticated attacks to stop breaches,” said CrowdStrike president Michael Sentonas

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SRG Technology drives global software services with IBM Cloud VPC under the hood

IBM Business Partners

Headquartered in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, SRG Technology LLC. (SRGT) is a software development company supporting the education, healthcare and travel industries. Their team creates data systems that deliver the right data in real time to customers around the globe. Whether those customers are medical offices and hospitals, schools or school districts, government agencies, or individual small businesses, SRGT addresses a wide spectrum of software services and technology needs with round-the-cloc

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DNAnexus® Applauded by Frost & Sullivan for Supporting Better Clinical Decision-making and More Effective Therapies

Frost & Sullivan

SAN ANTONIO, TX. – June 6, 2023 – Frost & Sullivan’s recent analysis of the precision medicine informatics industry led to it awarding DNAnexus as the 2023 Global Company of the Year. DNAnexus is the leading provider of secure, scalable, and intuitive data analysis software and bioinformatics applications for life sciences organizations and healthcare communities.