
Joining Performance & Learning
Employee management tools that are paper-driven and spreadsheet-oriented are no longer viable workforce development strategies. The modern worker wants performance evaluations to be goal-oriented and feedback-focused, with learning opportunities that are self-driven and personalized to their own career aspirations. Combining Performance with Learning helps employees and managers create meaningful career-building plans that lead to bottom line growth.

Tech WP: Harnessing the Power of Metadata for Security
Download Gigamon’s white paper, Harnessing the Power of Metadata for Security, to see why metadata is the new security super power. Metadata is data about data or put another way, a kind of summary or high-level view of data.

2018 Report: The State of Application Delivery
Our 4th annual State of Application Delivery survey results are in. After hearing from over 3,000 of your peers, we saw some distinct trends, confirmed many theories, and learned some surprising facts.

Variants, Attributes, and SKUs—Oh My! Simple Instructions for Reaching the Emerald City of Ecommerce Inventory
In ecommerce, a variant is a product that has attributes, and each attribute is represented with a different identifier, or SKU. For example, if you have a small, orange shirt and a large, gray shirt, each of these products is a variant and each has a different SKU.

7 Keys to Ecommerce Success —And a Few of the Costly Tripwires to Avoid Along the Way
The world of online selling is full of folks who thought it would be the easier, softer way to run a business. The unspoken fantasy sounds something like “I’ll work in my pajamas at home, click a few buttons, get a PayPal account, build a website in five minutes, and the money will start rolling in.

The Case For Supporting Always Up-To-Date Operating Systems
Delivering applications to enterprise customers is a perennial challenge, but software vendors face greater demands than ever as customers expect new capabilities to be delivered on a regular basis. In May 2017, Microsoft commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate adoption and usage trends of cloud-enabled operating systems among software vendors.

2016 Dresner Big Data Analytics Market Study (Sponsored by Pentaho*)
Based on survey methodology, this second Big Data Analytics Market Study from Dresner Advisory focuses upon the combination of analytical solutions within the Hadoop ecosystem, adding some new criteria and exploring changing market dynamics and user perceptions and plans.

TDWI Best Practices Report: Improving Data Preparation for Business Analytics: (Sponsored by Pentaho*)
Want to get the data you need faster? If you’re trying to automate and scale your data preparation processes, this TDWI Best Practices Report is a must-read. The TDWI report also examines how self-service data preparation will affect your operations, including how self-service data prep fits with visual analytics, data discovery, BI tools, and Hadoop.