Many midmarket businesses are turning to cloud ERP to accelerate growth and drive innovation. The scalability and flexibility of a cloud-based ERP platform gives midmarket businesses an advantage over their larger counterparts, and allows for significant savings versus a legacy on-premise system. Download an excerpt of the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide SaaS and Cloud-Enabled Midmarket ERP Applications 2017 Vendor Assessment report […]

At Amazon, we’ve been investing deeply in AI for more than 20 years. Machine learning (ML) algorithms drive many of our internal systems, and have formed the core of our customers’ experience—from the path optimization in our fulfillment centers, and Amazon.com’s recommendations engine, to Echo powered by Alexa, and our new retail experience, Amazon Go.

Today’s organizations are tasked with managing multiple data types, coming from a wide variety of sources. Faced with massive volumes and heterogeneous types of data, organizations are finding that in order to deliver insights in a timely manner, they need a data storage and analytics solution that offers more agility and flexibility than traditional data management systems. A data lake […]

IDC’s research has shown the movement of most IT workloads to the cloud in the coming years. Yet, with all the talk about enterprises moving to the cloud, some of them still wonder if such a move is really cost effective and what business benefits may result. While the answers to such questions vary from workload to workload, one area […]

Healthcare and Life Sciences organizations are adopting cloud-based workloads at a significant pace. A 2017 HIMSS study found that 65% of Healthcare organizations were using cloud-based services, and nearly 88% of those organizations were utilizing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions, which have become the preferred deployment method for many clinical application vendors.

As easy as it is to get swept up by the hype surrounding big data, it’s just as easy for organizations to become discouraged by the challenges they encounter while implementing a big data initiative. Concerns regarding big data skill sets (and the lack thereof), security, the unpredictability of data, unsustainable costs, and the need to make a business case […]

“Big data” is an idea as much as a particular methodology or technology, yet it’s an idea that is enabling powerful insights, faster and better decisions, and even business transformations across many industries. In general, big data can be characterized as an approach to extracting insights from very large quantities of structured and unstructured data from varied sources at a […]

Cloud computing offers compelling benefits for organizations in the fields of Healthcare and Life Sciences, but organizations that are new to the cloud often have questions about compliance and regulatory requirements. “How can I use the cloud and comply with requirements for handling electronic Protected Health Information (PHI)?” “How can I validate regulated systems running in the cloud?” “How do […]