Retailers competing in the high-pressure world of ecommerce have many challenges. Not only do you need to provide an interesting and compelling shopping experience, you also need to make that experience fast and reliable. But this doesn't need to be difficult - check out our best practices guide that includes: Getting started with performance testing The common challenges faced by online retailers Testing checklist Top ecommerce business metrics Who should be on your testing team The different types of performance tests Testing in production vs. in the lab Security and performance testing

Retailers competing in the high-pressure world of ecommerce have many challenges. Not only do you need to provide an interesting and compelling shopping experience, you also need to make that experience fast and reliable. But this doesn't need to be difficult - check out our best practices guide that includes: Getting started with performance testing The common challenges faced by online retailers Testing checklist Top ecommerce business metrics Who should be on your testing team The different types of performance tests Testing in production vs. in the lab Security and performance testing

It doesn’t matter whether you’re new to Oracle Retail, have an active implementation project that is running or have an existing deployment in production. The same issue applies: You are making a significant investment in the technology and need to develop a reliable and efficient batch schedule. If you’re new to Oracle Retail, you are no doubt embarking on a major project to improve your competitive position in the retail market. With that in mind, your goals will be to shrink the time-to-market for your retail implementation, lower the reliability risks associated with in-house developed solutions and improve the visibility and control of retail business processes. In this eBook you will discover a series of recommendations for operating a fail-safe and efficient Oracle Retail operational environment. You will also understand how automation enables you to streamline the execution of your Oracle Retail batch operations and increase the day-to-day efficiency of your operations teams.

Challenge Some SAP systems can take up to 10 days to complete a SAP system copy. That’s 10 days of unproductive time. Why? SAP does not provide the necessary tools out-of-the-box to automate and handle the process efficiently. This means you must use highly skilled SAP BASIS staff to manage the process. Manual steps, along with hundreds of configuration settings, can take days to complete—and like many organizations, you have also experienced too many delays, causing non-production systems to be unavailable, which stalls development, testing and training activities. Opportunity So you’ve concluded your SAP system copy process is hindering innovation and productivity. You’re considering automating the process to ensure system copies are available for all environments on time, every time. Benefits What are the key capabilities you actually need to address SAP system copy inefficiency once and for all?

Challenge It is not uncommon for SAP system copies, including any post-editing, to take several days to complete. Meanwhile, testing, development and training activities come to a standstill, and the large number of manual tasks in the entire process ties up highly skilled SAP BASIS staff. Opportunity Enterprises are looking to automation as a way to accelerate SAP system copies and free up staff. However, this is only one part of the problem: What further complicates the system copy process is the need to safeguard sensitive data and manage huge data volumes while also ensuring that the data used in non-production systems adequately reflects the data in production systems so the quality of development, testing and training activities is not compromised. Benefits This white paper explains how a considerable portion of the SAP system copy process can be automated using the CA Automic Automated System Copy for SAP solution and SNP T-Bone, helping enterprises become more agile.

A DBA’s life is full of surprises – some more pleasant than others. As a DBA you’re pretty much “on it” 24-7-365: putting out fires, checking alerts, training people, keeping test databases in sync with production, debugging, and praying your developers are writing halfway decent code. If you’re swinging over to the NoSQL side (the “dark” side?), or considering it, then you’ll want to read this white paper, The DBA’s Guide to NoSQL. It’s essentially a NoSQL bible, sans orders from God -- or Darth Vader.

Built on a production-certified version of Apache Spark™ and with integrated search and graph capabilities, DSE Analytics provides highly available, production-ready analytics that enables enterprises to securely build instantly responsive, contextual, always-on applications and generate ad-hoc reports. Read this white paper to learn about the specific features and capabilities of DSE Analytics, and why DSE Analytics is designed for the Right-Now Enterprise.

Watch this free 1-hour On-Demand Webinar from GigaOm Research to learn what’s involved in building AI that makes all your people more productive.

Intel's factories rely on thousands of PCs for manufacturing automation; keeping these PCs up and running can prevent expensive downtime. To manage these systems, Intel IT is using the Intel vPro platform's hardware- based feature, Intel Active Management Technology (Intel AMT), to help reduce production downtime caused by PC incidents by 87.5 percent.

Industrial enterprises around the world are retooling their factories with advanced technologies to boost manufacturing flexibility and speed, achieving new levels of overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), supply chain responsiveness, and customer satisfaction in the process. This renaissance reflects very real pressures industry players face today. For years, traditional factories have been operating at a disadvantage, impeded by production environments that are “disconnected”—at the very least strictly gated—to corporate business systems, to supply chains, and to customers and partners.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is flooding today’s industrial sector with data. Information is streaming in from many sources — equipment on production lines, sensors at customer facilities, sales data, and much more. Harvesting insights means filtering out the noise to arrive at actionable intelligence. This report shows how to craft a strategy to gain a competitive edge. It explains how to evaluate IIoT solutions, including what to look for in end-to-end analytics solutions. Finally, it shows how SAS has combined its analytics expertise with Intel’s leadership in IIoT information architecture to create solutions that turn raw data into valuable insights.

Discover how the supply chain is undergoing tremendous change; once a complicated, siloed bundle of functions ranging from manufacturing to production and delivery, the supply chain is now extended to reflect the importance of networks to the modern business. Learn how these networks connect businesses to customers.

© 2018 Carbonite, Inc. All rights reserved. Case study Diamond Foods’ Diamond of California® nuts are household staples for shoppers across the U.S. But constantly filling grocery store shelves with snacks requires intricate supply chain management that relies on critical business data, including complex spreadsheets and enterprise resource planning files, to keep production and deliveries on schedule. “If our critical servers go down or we lose important data on employee laptops, it has a direct impact on our bottom line,” says Kentrell Davis, Senior Client Support Services Analyst at Diamond Foods.

Ensures IT can drive success in the future AEW Energie can now be confident that it has the IT to support new developments. With energy demands increasing and authorities applying pressure for cleaner energy production, companies such as AEW Energie continue to look for ways to solve those challenges. AEW Energie now has a reliable and efficient IT infrastructure that helps support innovation in the firm’s efforts to find the right solutions and meet the needs of multiple stakeholders.

The media and entertainment industry was valued at $1.81 trillion in 2016, and is expected to reach $2.14 trillion by 2020. Activities within this industry have grown over the last couple of years, and now range from creating content for movies, TV and games, to delivering that content. This is increasingly performed via on-demand data networks rather than traditional over-the-air broadcasting, watched over high resolution displays that enhance the overall viewing experience of the user, and even the latter is being delivered from the same storage repositories. Media production is also now prevalent in areas not traditionally associated with this activity, such as training, museums, and education.

High-profile data breaches continue to make headlines as organizations struggle to manage information security in the face of rapidly changing applications, data centers, and the cloud. Against this backdrop, data masking has emerged as one of the most effective ways to protect sensitive test data from insider and outsider threats alike. While masking is now the de facto standard for protecting non-production data, implementing it alongside virtual data technologies has elevated its effectiveness even further.

Today's test data management (TDM) solutions force teams to work with compromised data sets, and push testing to too late in the software development lifecycle. The end result is rework, delayed releases, and costly bugs that cripple production systems. Furthermore, prevailing approaches to test data management - including subsetting, synthetic data, shared environments, and standalone masking--represent flawed solutions that fail across one or more key dimensions.

The UK’s world class reputation for advanced engineering and manufacturing is underpinned by the thousands of vital companies supplying our sectors with materials, components, production machinery and equipment, testing equipment, and power generation equipment.

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Using Zebra's Technologies, supermarket chain Wegmans was able to increase their production rate and improve their read rate. Read this case study to find out more about Wegmans and what Zebra can do for you!

IT organizations are on the brink of a new wave of desktop transformation, with Windows 7 operating system (OS) migrations a critical stop on the journey. These OS migrations are extremely complex and pose real risks in terms of end user downtime, business interruptions, and increased costs. IT needs to ensure migration projects go quickly and smoothly, and that the resulting user environment becomes easier to access and manage.

For many companies the appeal of the public cloud is very real. For tech startups, the cloud may be their only option, since many don’t have the capital or expertise to build and operate the IT systems their businesses need. Existing companies with established data centers are also looking at public clouds, to increase IT agility while limiting risk. The idea of building-out their production capacity while possibly reducing the costs attached to that infrastructure can be attractive. For most companies the cloud isn’t an “either-or” decision, but an operating model to be evaluated along with on-site infrastructure. And like most infrastructure decisions the question of cost is certainly a consideration. In this report we’ll explore that question, comparing the cost of an on-site hyperconverged solution with a comparable set up in the cloud. The on-site infrastructure is a Dell EMC VxRailTM hyperconverged appliance cluster and the cloud solution is Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Quality matters, but despite advances made in video streaming technology, delivering great quality live video over the Internet is still not easy. There are challenges with predicting the scale and potential audience location; challenges with managing complex encoder and origin technology; challenges of delivering video securely and reliably over the Internet; and challenges of protecting live streams. Add to that the range of devices, the complexity of live event production, and the demand for HD and 4K image quality and you get a scenario that is more complicated than ever before.

Is your organization ready to take the plunge into in-house video production? The benefits can be substantial, but making the move requires some preparation. The IT infrastructure you use for enterprise applications might not be able to meet the rigorous requirements of video production. And you might not want video production teams to use resources from your existing infrastructure, since doing so could affect the performance of other applications. Whether you’re just getting started with in-house video or ramping up production, consider these five best practices for building an IT environment optimized for video work. The right approach to IT is essential for developing efficient collaborative workflows and maximizing the value of your video content.

Retailers competing in the high-pressure world of ecommerce have many challenges. Not only do you need to provide an interesting and compelling shopping experience, you also need to make that experience fast and reliable. But this doesn't need to be difficult - check out our best practices guide that includes: Getting started with performance testing The common challenges faced by online retailers Testing checklist Top ecommerce business metrics Who should be on your testing team The different types of performance tests Testing in production vs. in the lab Security and performance testing