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Florida Crystals concentrates SAP in hosting sweet spot

CIO Business Intelligence

That would have been an enviable situation for many of his contemporaries in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry — “Some have 20 or 30 different ERP solutions,” he says — but for Grayling, the 20% of the business still running on a legacy SAP product remained a source of discomfort, and something he wanted to change.

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IBM is using VMware Cloud Foundation to help enterprises address challenges and accelerate innovation

CIO Business Intelligence

VMware Cloud Foundation is a refreshed strategy that offers IBM and VMware clients the ability to bring multiple offerings and licenses to IBM Cloud. For example, many organizations, particularly those in highly regulated industries, run SAP workloads on premises,” Badlaney says.

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How a cloud-first enterprise application strategy boosts speed and scale for your business

CIO Business Intelligence

Cloud-first applications support a manageable OpEx cost model, metered like a utility, as opposed to requiring significant upfront capital investments in infrastructure and software licenses. This type of functionality and scale can be a game-changer for mission-critical applications such as SAP.

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Generative AI copilots: What’s hype and where to drive results

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Many other platforms, such as Coveo’s Relative Generative Answering , Quickbase AI , and LaunchDarkly’s Product Experimentation , have embedded virtual assistant capabilities but don’t brand them copilots.

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Converged endpoint management: reduce cost, complexity, and risk

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However, by consolidating onto a converged endpoint management (XEM) platform , these teams can finally serve the greater good — reducing risk and licensing costs, increasing productivity, and enhancing the end-user experience. This can also sap productivity and add operational cost, especially if teams are duplicating activities.

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Extinction Timeline: what will disappear from our lives before 2050 - Trends in the Living Networks

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Free chapters) Implementing Enterprise 2.0 m Kaya wrote:Thank you Ross for the great articl.[ more ] ABC TV interview: The future of direct selling (1) James wrote:Ross,I have followed your work fo.[ more ] Six ways technology is transforming small business (1) Greytip Online wrote:When we talk about productivity and.[

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A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds - Trends in the Living Networks

Trends in the Living Networks

» A second Second Life – new competition in virtual worlds Ross Dawson, February 20, 2007 5:02 AM US PT Hey, how come I read about this on Scobleizer first? Second Life has established itself as the de facto leader in user-created free-form virtual worlds. TD Goodcliffe believes that the space is open for the taking.