CRITICAL CHANNELS OF CHOICE

Research can be funny. It can point to big trends and changes, making a single point feel disruptive and potentially cataclysmic. A study reported in numerous retail trade publications noted that some 70 percent of Millennials purchased a product via social media. Everyone start your engines... social is the Millennial channel of choice. Or is it? According to Pew Research, 44 percent of Facebook users under 30 have deleted their accounts and apps. So which is it? Are they social... or not? In the same way that it is increasingly difficul ...more

Forrester - Hybrid Cloud Automation Accelerates Digital Transformation

Hybrid cloud implementation is maturing: Enterprises plan to migrate increasingly sensitive workloads in the coming year.Security and compliance are still challenging: Nearly 90% of respondents cite managing security best practices, vulnerability management, and compliance as challenging. ...more

Forrester- The Key To Enterprise Hybrid Multicloud Strategy - The Webinar

Forrester surveyed 350 IT decision makers to understand how they are developing and implementing their IT infrastructure strategies. Find out what they had to say in our webinar, The Key to an Effective Hybrid Multicloud Strategy. ...more

It’s time to modernize

Application modernization is part of the broader effort to prepare as the organization responds to changing business needs. It's a critically important topic because today we have to move fast in order to continuously enhance the digital customers experience. Download the whitepaper. Let IBM guide you! ...more

Building Cloud-Native Applications in a Hybrid Multicloud World

IDC research has found that environments for application delivery are becoming more complex and the growing variety of environments and platforms to help streamline service delivery can increase that complexity. Using DevSecOps methodologies including cloud-native application development in multicloud environments can enable your organization to generate competitive advantages by putting tools into the hands of users faster, enabling more informed and timelier decisions. Understand the research and learn more. Download IDC’s latest res ...more

Enterprise applications and managed cloud services (269 CIOs share their views)

If you’re like most IT leaders, you might find yourself in the middle of a digital transformation as you seek to use cloud for workloads like development, testing or application deployments. But cloud initiatives can sometimes be hindered by the complexities of business-critical applications like SAP and Oracle. Concerns about data migration, security, data sovereignty or simply gaining support from other lines of business can make it difficult to transform your business with cloud. If these challenges sound familiar, you’re not alone. ...more

Unlocking the value of your move to S/4HANA

Smart Talks is back: IBM Services' roundtable webinar series dedicated to bringing together tech experts and leaders to discuss major trends in business and technology. In the latest Smart Talk, we are joined by experts in enterprise digital transformation to discuss how to migrate to SAP S/4HANA. We tackle everything from building a value proposition to gaining executive alignment to how to pay for it, and more. After watching this webinar, you will understand what you need to do to begin your enterprise transformation today, and how IBM Servi ...more

Move, manage, and run SAP apps in the cloud

The pace of business is skyrocketing. Data ingestion rates are growing exponentially. Expanding your footprint in third-party data centers and increased CAPEX for additional hardware and staffing are time-consuming and expensive. Moving your SAP applications to IBM Cloud can improve your company’s agility and speed up time-to-market, increase competitiveness, and allow you to better serve your lines of business. If you’re looking to bring the benefits of cloud to your SAP workloads, you’re in luck. Both SAP HANA and SAP NetWeaver workload ...more

Accelerate Digital Transformation With Enterprise Apps on the Cloud

Many enterprises began their cloud journeys by migrating customer-facing applications and adopting cloud-native applications. This approach makes sense since the first workloads moved to the cloud were those that could more easily be deployed. However, these applications are only a fraction of the total run by enterprises. In fact, only 20 percent of all workloads have moved to the cloud. Complete digital transformation requires organizations to enter the second phase of cloud adoption—enabling and integrating cloud-native front-office and back ...more