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In Q4, 2009, ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES (EMA) analysts worked with ASG to research how executives in IT and within the lines of business use dashboards to gain holistic insights into IT services as they impact business outcomes.

Astaro now ensures that the network is running smoothly and the entire organization has become more productive through content filtering.

How can your business support new identity-defined workspaces across a variety of users — retail store associates checking inventory on a PC and a smartphone, hospital clinicians entering test results into a mobile workstation and an iPad, or financial advisors placing trades from Android devices and laptops? The answer is the digital workspace.

This Enterprise Management Associates® (EMA™) research summary, sponsored by Riverbed®, highlights some of the key findings of EMA’s landmark report, “Network Management Megatrends 2016: Managing Networks in the Era of the Internet of Things, Hybrid Cloud, and Advanced Network Analytics.” It examines several major areas of change and evolution affecting network management. These “megatrends” include hybrid cloud networking, the Internet of Things (IoT), advanced network analytics, network management outsourcing, and network management tool consolidation.

This white paper describes findings from the first major survey of information governance practices at healthcare organizations.

Learn how Dickinson + Associates is using SAP S/4HANA Professional Services Cloud—including the entire suite of accounting, financials, and procurement—to gain better visibility into their business. For the first time, the company has real time tracking of project profitability, as well as better visibility into resource scheduling. 

SAP S/4HANA Retail for merchandise management is at the core of a comprehensive suite of retail offerings designed to help retailers meet the demands of a digital economy. It supports retail core processes end to end, starting with master data down to point-of-sales (POS) connectivity. It allows insights into operational retail data, empowering users with contextual, real time information for faster and better decision making. Processes can easily be extended to connect to business networks to form a digital ecosystem and collaboratively drive business model improvements. Equipped with a simple and intuitive user experience, the solution offers better support for headquarters users as well as store associates to drive compelling customer experiences.

Mobile retail applications empower associates with store operations data, merchandising, and logistics.

Mobile retail applications empower associates with store operations data, merchandising, and logistics.

Read Enterprise Management Associates’ 2013 Private Cloud Platforms Radar Report to see how EMA evaluated BMC’s cloud management solutions. You’ll gain comprehensive analysis of the platform’s “Solution Impact,” including features, architecture, and integration, as well as “Resource Efficiency,” or time, effort, and cost. The report also evaluates vendors’ overall performance, strengths, and limitations.

Download this case study to learn how Allscripts Professional solutions have enabled Pulmonary Associates of Richmond to meet Meaningful Use, earning incentives of $714,000.

The OCR conducts HIPAA audits of covered entities and their business associates and subcontractors. If HIPAA violations are discovered during these audits, the OCR will implement significant penalties. Additionally, since OCR is posting the details of every breach affecting 500 or more individuals on a public website1 , the organizations involved have become susceptible to class-action lawsuits.

Asheville Anesthesia Associates faced a growing accounts receivable file and a payment collection process that was too slow. Learn how they used RealMed (now known as Availity Revenue Cycle Management) to reduce time-to-payment by 75 percent, and reduce their average days in A/R by 62.5 percent.

Radiological Associates of Long Island implemented Universal Viewer to give radiologists PACS reading tools and advanced features across the enterprise and anywhere Internet access is available.

In Forrester’s 40-criteria evaluation of omnichannel order management (OMS) vendors, we identified the nine most significant software providers in the category — Aptos, IBM, Jagged Peak, Kibo, Manhattan Associates, NetSuite, Oracle, Radial, and SAP Hybris — and researched, analyzed, and scored each. This report details our findings about how well each vendor fulfills our criteria and where each stands in relation to one another to help eBusiness professionals select the right partner for their omnichannel order management needs.

This White Paper discusses end-to-end application performance management in the context of the impact to the business. It then highlights CA’s application quality and performance manage­ment solutions for both Web and mainframe applications, with particular focus on the integration of CA Wily with AQM Solutions’ TRILOGexpert APCTM for TriTuneTM with Performance Desktop.  It concludes with the Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) perspective on the market in general, and on the CA solution in particular.

How can your business support new identity-defined workspaces across a variety of users — retail store associates checking inventory on a PC and a smartphone, hospital clinicians entering test results into a mobile workstation and an iPad, or financial advisors placing trades from Android devices and laptops? The answer is the digital workspace.

In collaboration with Enterprise Management Associates (EMA), AppDynamics has conducted a survey of application management professionals and managers to determine exactly what IT organizations want and need from APM providers. Here are some key findings from the research: • Only 30% of companies currently have application-specific solutions to monitor apps • 50% or fewer of the tools companies have purchased are actively being used to monitor apps • 27% of application-related problems are detected by monitoring tools • A “unified monitoring platform” is the top choice in a feature of an APM solution Download the full report to review the findings and understand the key challenges and “must haves” associated with APM solutions voiced by IT professionals themselves.

Maintaining a smooth, user-friendly, and even fun talent acquisition process is imperative to aligning a retailers employer brand with a positive corporate public identity. Find out how savvy retailers are balancing cutting-edge technologies with the basics to juggle three key talent initiatives: quickly hiring seasonal talent, engaging and retaining younger and older associates alike, and expanding their presence into new locations.

Until recently, Manhattan Associates had used a traditional secondary storage solution to manage its large and rapidly expanding data footprint of ~1PB. Designed for traditional workflows, the company’s IT team realized it had become cost prohibitive to add features to their existing environment to support their VM level backups. Like most traditional storage options, the existing solution did not scale-out linearly, and complicated the environment by creating silos. With Cohesity’s scale-out architecture, the team was able to start small and grow their Cohesity environment on the go, yet keep it unified and simple. See how Manhanttan Associates achieved operational efficiency and lowered their TCO by supporting VM data protection, supporting native integration with the public cloud and providing simple converged solution for data protection, target storage and files. Get the case study.

This ENTERPRISE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATES® (EMA™) white paper introduces the Service Catalog and Service Portfolio Management processes and discusses the selection criteria for Service Catalog and Service Portfolio software solutions.Learn more today!

Despite increasingly complex data center environments, IT is expected to provide business owners with faster service, higher reliability, and greater agility than ever before – all within a tight budget. It is impossible to meet these goals with manual IT processes. However, EMA research shows that IT Process Automation (ITPA) helps achieve these goals, delivering annual savings of $500,000 on staff costs alone, and 64 hours of additional uptime per year – plus improved resource utilization, security and compliance, problem response times, and agility.

One of the most dramatic innovations in the infrastructure management marketplace in the last five years is the rise of Network Change and Configuration Management (NCCM) as a strategic requirement. This white paper will focus on the strong values that NCCM can bring to reliability, risk and cost management, as well as some of its powerful operational and lifecycle asset values. This report will also introduce the CA SPECTRUM Network Configuration Manager as a distinctive leadership offering.

Infrastructure Performance Management (IPM) applies to operations quality. Implemented well, IPM frees you from constant firefighting and can transform your role from tactical first responder to strategic business enabler. Applying good IPM technology and processes can deliver a number of benefits to your career as well as to your organization. This report introduces IPM, offers tips for successful IPM implementation, and explores how IPM can benefit your enterprise as well as your career.

Forrester evaluated leading Data Center Automation (DCA) solutions across approximately 80 criteria. CA was named as a leader in this Wave evaluation. The report states: “Recently, CA introduced its Data Center Automation Manager, which is part of its dynamic and virtual systems management solution and is directed at the automation of the data center.