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The road to SAP HANA
6 incremental steps on your way to SAP HANA can deliver impressive benefits now while helping you prepare for a full SAP HANA implementation. How can you modernize and deliver on-demand services while keeping your existing SAP...
The Total Economic Impact Of Pure Storage Evergreen Storage Subscriptions
In late 2016, Pure Storage commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact (TEI) study to examine the potential return on investment (ROI) organizations may realize by taking advantage of Pure Storage Everg...
Six Best Practices for Modernizing Financial Services IT
Financial services organizations around the world are modernizing IT to drive top-line growth and streamline compliance burdens. From multinational brokerage houses to local branch banks, digital transformation initiatives are ...
Reducing current product costs - A guide to optimising efficiency in product development
Many large engineering organisations are failing to optimise their product designs, which can result in inefficiency and delays during the product development process. Manufacturers are missing valuable opportunities to drive o...
The anatomy of product cost - A guide to controlling cost through real-time visibility
Lack of visibility to cost drivers and potential manufacturability issues during the design phase can seriously hinder new product introduction. Design changes to the product in terms of geometry and material, along with other ...
Staying on track - A guide to managing costs and optimising Time-To-Market
Time is money – especially when it comes to delivering products to market. This means engineering and manufacturing teams operate under constant pressure to ensure that new product introduction process runs on schedule. Design ...
Predicting the future - A guide to identifying design issues in advance
Freezing the design of a product too early in the phase-gate development cycle can stifle innovation and hinder opportunities to deliver products with greater value. That’s why design engineers need faster and more flexible way...
Best of both worlds: Can enterprises achieve both scalability and control when it comes to cloud?
Very little data is available on how effectively enterprises are managing private cloud deployments in the real world. Are they doing so efficiently, or are they facing challenges in areas such as performance, TCO and capacity?...
Aligning GDPR Requirements with Today’s Hybrid Cloud Realities
The enactment of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) represents a significant milestone for virtually every international business. Under the standard, organizations will need to comply with an extens...
Introduction to the Active Everywhere Database
For almost half a century, the relational database management system (RDBMS) has been the dominant model for database management. However, today's business needs are forcing data management into new use cases, such as managing ...