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Growth is definitely on the agenda for manufacturers, along with avoiding the pitfalls of rapid growth. This was clear in a global survey recently undertaken on behalf of Epicor Software Corporation (Epicor) by MORAR Consulting. Our research identified key factors that growing manufacturers cited as essential to their success, along with risks that manufacturers believe could threaten growth for unprepared businesses.
The Epicor “Profitable Growth in Action” eZine features seven manufacturers and the factors they consider critical to their success. Get the eZine to learn how you can help boost your company’s potential for profitable growth.

Are you thinking about moving your contact center to the cloud but have concerns about performance, availability and security? Download our whitepaper to learn how to get the reliability you need from your cloud contact center software.
In this whitepaper you will learn:
The key benefits of cloud contact centres
Three key perceived risks
Which tests should be performed to ensure availability
How to select a cloud vendor that you can depend on

As the cloud continues to be adopted for a wide range of applications and data, it is critical to mitigate risks, increase visibility and implement control over all cloud offerings through an integrated security solution. To learn more, download this infographic.

As the cloud continues to be adopted for a wide range of applications and data, it is critical to mitigate risks, increase visibility and implement control over all cloud offerings through an integrated security solution. To learn more, download this infographic.

Windows 10 is the best Windows yet, and at Microsoft, we are excited to deliver innovative Windows 10 experiences across a wide variety of world-class devices. Get the most out of Windows 10 with innovative hardware form factors that boost user productivity while reducing security risks—delivering more value at every price point. Download this buyer's guide to discover which Windows 10 Pro devices are right for your business.

Mobility is exploding. Workers and businesses fully expect to work anywhere, any time, from any device. Riding right alongside this growth is the amount of data created and consumed on mobile devices. While this presents organizations with an attractive means of empowering flexibility and productivity, the security risks are real and daunting.

While most business is digital, most organizations still rely on paper for the “last foot” of the process: the sign-off. Continued reliance on paper-based signatures is fraught with risks, including impeding productivity, reducing visibility, hampering compliance?and diminishing the customer experience. Electronic signatures (e-signatures), which are easily implemented from the cloud, help speed up the sales process by reducing errors and bottlenecks, while also ensuring greater security and mobility.

Complexity, globalization and digitalization are just some of the elements at play in the risk landscape—and data is becoming a core part of understanding and navigating risk.
How do modern finance leaders view, navigate and manage enterprise risk with data? Dun & Bradstreet surveyed global finance leaders across industries and business types. Here are the top trends that emerged from the study:
1. The Enterprise Risk & Strategy Disconnect—Finance leaders are using data and managing risk programs, but over 65% of finance leaders say there’s missing link between risk and strategy.
2. The Risks of the Use and Misuse of Data—Up to 50% of the data used to manage modern risk is disconnected. Only 15% of leaders are confident about the quality of their data.
3. Risky Relationships—Only 20% of finance leaders say the data they use to manage risk is fully integrated and shared.
Download the study to learn how finance leaders are approaching data and enterprise risk management

Today's savviest enterprises are leveraging BYOD as a tool to drive mobile accessibility, increase IT oversight, and enable employees to complete business tasks anytime, anywhere, on any device. Considering the risks, there must be a strategy for managing and securing these BYOD devices. BYOD programs provide users with a secure, IT-approved method for accessing corporate resources from their personal devices. This white paper outlines the basic measures business leaders and IT professionals are taking to turn their BYOD programs into major productivity gains.

Today's savviest enterprises are leveraging BYOD as a tool to drive mobile accessibility, increase IT oversight, and enable employees to complete business tasks anytime, anywhere, on any device. Considering the risks, there must be a strategy for managing and securing these BYOD devices. BYOD programs provide users with a secure, IT-approved method for accessing corporate resources from their personal devices. This white paper outlines the basic measures business leaders and IT professionals are taking to turn their BYOD programs into major productivity gains.

Today's savviest enterprises are leveraging BYOD as a tool to drive mobile accessibility, increase IT oversight, and enable employees to complete business tasks anytime, anywhere, on any device. Considering the risks, there must be a strategy for managing and securing these BYOD devices. BYOD programs provide users with a secure, IT-approved method for accessing corporate resources from their personal devices. This white paper outlines the basic measures business leaders and IT professionals are taking to turn their BYOD programs into major productivity gains.

The network has never been as critical to the healthcare sector as it is today. Electronic health records, Wi-Fi-connected medical devices, and clinician smart phones are among a plethora of healthcare technologies that depend on a stable network.
The consistent development of this infrastructure is key for the healthcare sector to continue its successes in creating new possibilities for management, patient and family experience, and patient outcomes.
Extreme Networks posed key questions to Nolan Greene, a senior research analyst with IDC’s Network Infrastructure group, who highlights the critical issues healthcare IT professionals must consider when building a network that maintains industry needs.
Download this report to learn about:
• Why having a modern healthcare infrastructure is so important
• The major challenges IoT brings to healthcare networks
• How IEC 80001 is impacting compliance
• Trends that confront a network IT professional in healthcare
• Risks Healthcare IT must eli

Business leaders are increasingly looking to IT to deliver a mobile workspace that allows employees to access corporate data, applications, and communication resources on their devices of choice. But making the most of the opportunity while minimizing risks can be complex and overwhelming for many IT teams. Therefore, it makes more sense than ever for IT leaders to consider virtual client computing (VCC), also commonly referred to as virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solutions.

The third edition of the Mobile Security and Risk Review is a must read and provides IT security leaders with timely information about the mobile threat landscape and the emerging risks facing their organizations. The report also includes a list of the most popular business apps, Apple VPP and DEP adoption metrics, top blacklisted mobile apps and information about healthcare and financial services industries.

To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with implementation of SAP Business Objects Analytics solutions, Forrester interviewed four organizations with multiple years of experience using these analytics solutions from SAP across one or more of the following key analytics areas: planning, business intelligence, and predictive analytics. A composite, or representative, organization was developed to provide the conclusions of this cost and benefit analysis.

To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with implementation of SAP BusinessObjects Analytics solutions, Forrester interviewed four organizations with multiple years of experience using these analytics solutions from SAP across one or more of the following key analytics areas: planning, business intelligence, and predictive analytics. A composite, or representative, organization was developed to report cost and benefit findings

Organizations that work with the personal data of European Union residents need to overhaul business processes to avoid the risks of violating the General Data Protection Regulation, which takes effect in May 2018. Penalties for non-compliance could cost your organization upwards of €20 million or 4% of total annual worldwide revenue, whichever is higher.
Mimecast provides numerous ways to help simplify GDPR compliance. Learn how Mimecast Targeted Threat Protection helps ward against impersonation attacks, weaponized attachments, and malicious URLs – offering a comprehensive front-line defense for the personal data entrusted to you when it is attacked via the email vector.

Ponemon Institute is pleased to present the results of Uncovering the Risks of SAP Cyber Breaches sponsored by Onapsis. The purpose of this study is to understand the threat of an SAP cyber breach and how companies are managing the risk of information theft, modification of data and disruption of business processes.

The scope and value that modern IT service delivery provides a business is increasing dramatically, according to a new research reportfrom Enterprise Management Associates (EMA).
And yet in some organizations legacy ITSM systems contribute significantly to reduced credibility for IT departments who fail to integrate with and support important business concerns. This lack of modern IT service delivery creates multiple issues for the enterprise, including:
Increasing divergence of IT and business performance
Rising costs due to service delivery complexity
Inability to measure and protect a business from potential risks
Informed by extensive research and two compelling deployment narratives, this report examines what EMA calls “next-generation ITSM” and its contributions toward optimizing changing IT and business requirements. EMA contrasts these advances with the risks of staying with legacy ITSM models and then evaluates and itemizes the risks of “doing nothing” by allowing legacy ITS

Replacing your legacy ITSM suite doesn’t have to be scary. So why hasn’t every company migrated to a modern ITSM platform? This eBook explores the best practices for a simpler migration to overcome the fear of legacy suite change, including:
How choosing the right partner can smooth the transition
Best practices for a phased approach to legacy migration
A first-hand look at how one company migrated successfully
Read the eBook for more on the risks of inaction and rewards of ITSM modernization.

Cisco commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realize by deploying the Cisco Data Virtualization solution. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of investing in the Cisco Data Virtualization solution for their organizations.
To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with Cisco Data Virtualization, Forrester gathered data through interviews with customers who had multiple years’ experience using the solution. All organizations used Cisco Data Virtualization as a single data virtualization integration platform to query and access data across their network. This includes accessing data that resides on the cloud and on-premises across various sources and systems.

To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with Cisco TrustSec, Forrester interviewed two companies. Company A is an organization that provides senior housing for over 22,000 residents in the US. This organization used Cisco TrustSec to provide highly secure segmented mobile network services to its residents. Company B is an international packaging and paper group company experiencing rapid growth. It used Cisco TrustSec as an innovative solution to quickly integrate the infrastructure of new acquisitions into its own and standardize security architecture across its wide area network (WAN) globally. While the case study will talk about the experiences of these two companies, the financial analysis focuses on the impact that Cisco TrustSec had on one organization.

To better understand the benefits, costs, and risks associated with Cisco TrustSec, Forrester interviewed two companies. Company A is an organization that provides senior housing for over 22,000 residents in the US. This organization used Cisco TrustSec to provide highly secure segmented mobile network services to its residents. Company B is an international packaging and paper group company experiencing rapid growth. It used Cisco TrustSec as an innovative solution to quickly integrate the infrastructure of new acquisitions into its own and standardize security architecture across its wide area network (WAN) globally. While the case study will talk about the experiences of these two companies, the financial analysis focuses on the impact that Cisco TrustSec had on one organization.

As we continue to move forward into an age of big data, optimization, and shared information through the capabilities of better networking technologies, opportunities have never been greater for using technology to improve the way the government interacts with constituents. However, increasing dependence on web and network services also makes government a tempting target for hackers. Distributed Denial of Service attacks, data breaches, leaks, the risks can be enormous. Recent events have shown us that now more than ever, government servers are getting victimized by well-funded teams of foreign hackers, possibly funded by their government.