Epicor launches its Global Growth Index to monitor business growth performance in manufacturing Globally, manufacturing business growth has increased by 3.7 percent (to 103.7 index points)[i]despite the fact that half of manufacturers admit they have grown under challenging circumstances. This is one of the key findings of the annual Global Growth Index, launched today by Epicor Software Corporation, a global provider of industry-specific enterprise softwareto promote business growth. The Growth Index is designed to measure the state of business growth worldwide, by tracking the performance of manufacturing businesses in 14 territories. Taking last year’s results as a base figure (100), … Continue reading Despite Challenging Times, Global Business Growth is on the Rise, Finds Epicor

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Transformation with Digital Automation

May 15, 2018 Business & Lifestyle Publishing

Mark Ackerman – Regional Director, MESAT & EE More and more organizations’ today focus on ‘creating a digital workplace’ with increased investments in AI, cloud, IoT, Machine Learning, Mobile and Social technology, among key drivers for the company’s growth. The drive to get digitisedis fuelled by globally recognized brands in the aviation, banking & finance, transport and Oil & Gas sectors taking the lead to get transformed by automation, intuitive consumer experiences, machine learning and an increased use of connected devices. Today, enterprises are looking to ‘consumerize’ the user experience and improve employee productivity and efficiency. This is done by … Continue reading Transformation with Digital Automation

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Red Hat’s New Mission: Making IT’s Four Footprints Immaterial

May 14, 2018 Business & Lifestyle Publishing

By: Paul Cormier, president, Products and Technologies, Red Hat For the past several years, Red Hat has emphasized the interplay of IT’s four footprints, from physical servers and virtual machines to private and public clouds. A single environment is unlikely to scale and adapt to meet the needs of the modern enterprise, from competitive dynamics to evolving customer demands. Hybrid cloud, where workloads and resources span these deployment options, is now a critical component for digital transformation, as is consistency. CIOs need to know that their applications and services will respond consistently in a certain way, every time, everywhere. This … Continue reading Red Hat’s New Mission: Making IT’s Four Footprints Immaterial

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Infoblox Research Finds Explosion of Personal and IoT Devices on Enterprise Networks Introduces Immense Security Risk

May 14, 2018 Business & Lifestyle Publishing

Infoblox Inc., the network control company that provides Actionable Network Intelligence, today announced new research that exposes the significant threat posed by shadow devices on enterprise networks. The report titled “What’s lurking on your network: Exposing the threat of shadow devices” found that enterprise networks across the US, UK and Germany have thousands of shadow personal devices – such as laptops, kindles and mobile phones – and Internet of Things (IoT) devices – such as digital assistants and smart kitchen appliances – connecting to their network. Over a third of companies in the US, UK and Germany (35 percent) reported … Continue reading Infoblox Research Finds Explosion of Personal and IoT Devices on Enterprise Networks Introduces Immense Security Risk