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There are no doubts that HR ana­lyt­ics have a mas­sive role to play in mod­ern busi­ness, with data dri­ven deci­sions proven to help improve effi­cien­cy and reduce costs. How­ev­er, with dif­fer­ent sys­tems offer­ing dif­fer­ent insights, it can be easy to lose sight of what infor­ma­tion real­ly mat­ters to help make these deci­sions. So, as an HR leader in your organ­i­sa­tion, which key met­rics should you pri­ori­tise to draw insights?

Down­load this E‑Book to learn which met­rics are most sought after by HR and busi­ness lead­ers and how your cur­rent HR sys­tem com­pares in offer­ing this data.

It’s no sur­prise that buy­ing for busi­ness looks dif­fer­ent in 2021 than it has in years past. The strate­gic plan lead­ers may have dust­ed off each year and sim­ply refreshed is insuf­fi­cient. Small- and medi­um-sized busi­ness­es now face bal­anc­ing ongo­ing busi­ness oper­a­tions with long-term strate­gic objectives.Purchasing teams played a key role in reduc­ing costs and nav­i­gat­ing new sup­ply chain real­i­ties of the last year. Now, it can lead the organ­i­sa­tion in accel­er­at­ing growth and meet­ing new strate­gic challenges.

Down­load, ““The Small and Medi­um Busi­ness Guide to Buy­ing,”” and learn how the strongest, most agile pur­chas­ing lead­ers are reshap­ing how they buy.

Regard­less of where employ­ees work — in the office, from home, on the man­u­fac­tur­ing line or any­where else — today’s employ­ers have an imper­a­tive to take care of their peo­ple. It’s bet­ter for the peo­ple who work there, and it’s bet­ter for business.

Which is why employ­ee well­be­ing comes hand in hand with psy­cho­log­i­cal safety.

Employ­ee well­be­ing is a valu­able tool for estab­lish­ing mean­ing­ful con­nec­tions at work, as well as for improv­ing busi­ness met­rics includ­ing reten­tion, engage­ment and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty. The research also shows it is underutilised.

For organ­i­sa­tions to thrive in today’s fast-paced busi­ness land­scape, their employ­ees need to thrive too. And an effec­tive way to help them thrive is with employ­ee recog­ni­tion. When employ­ees feel appre­ci­at­ed, they are much more like­ly to thrive.

Read more to find out five ways lead­ers can pro­mote and ampli­fy employ­ee well­be­ing in the work­place with recog­ni­tion, plus tips and tricks to make sure they stick.

Many organ­i­sa­tions are mov­ing to cloud-based IT infra­struc­tures as a means of solv­ing scal­a­bil­i­ty, per­for­mance, avail­abil­i­ty, and cost prob­lems. How­ev­er, they often fall short in ensur­ing the secu­ri­ty of their data and assets as they move to the cloud. It is very impor­tant for com­pa­nies to realise that the need to secure their data­bas­es is greater than ever before, but can also open a Pandora’s box of secu­ri­ty issues since respon­si­bil­i­ty for man­age­ment of the data­base and its under­ly­ing secu­ri­ty is no longer han­dled by the data own­er, but by a third par­ty. Because of this trade­off of data secu­ri­ty for scal­a­bil­i­ty and cost sav­ings, the need for an enter­prise data­base secu­ri­ty strat­e­gy has nev­er been greater

Rela­tion­al data­bas­es and big data stores are a prime tar­get for attack­ers due to the amount of sen­si­tive infor­ma­tion resid­ing with­in, such as cus­tomer infor­ma­tion, intel­lec­tu­al prop­er­ty and pro­pri­etary secrets. A col­lec­tion of lessons learnt through Trustwave’s client engage­ments, this doc­u­ment can guide you in devel­op­ing and oper­a­tional­is­ing an effec­tive data­base secu­ri­ty pro­gram with the min­i­mum pos­si­ble impact on your organ­i­sa­tion, finances and infrastructure.

Unstruc­tured data has risen recent­ly — both in terms of the capac­i­ty it con­sumes and its impor­tance. Busi­ness­es must under­stand that data demands will only accel­er­ate as com­pe­ti­tion for pre­cious stor­age resources grows. The use of data amongst organ­i­sa­tions must there­fore adapt to be used only when its need­ed, as effi­cient­ly as possible.

With its recent OneFS release, Dell EMC is pro­vid­ing dig­i­tal organ­i­sa­tions greater choice, flex­i­bil­i­ty, and con­trol of data with its Pow­er­Scale tech­nol­o­gy. Down­load this paper to learn why posi­tion­ing your busi­ness with a data-first men­tal­i­ty is key for future suc­cess and how OneFS can help as an effec­tive data solution.

AWL is a huge pres­ence at the cut­ting edge of glob­al man­u­fac­tur­ing. Yet few of us will be famil­iar with the name. The Dutch com­pa­ny pro­vides solu­tions to auto­mate and digi­tise indus­tri­al process­es in fac­to­ries and ware­hous­es all around the world. AWL robots help build car parts, assem­ble fur­ni­ture and pick and pack orders in vast warehouses.

The chal­lenge for AWL is to cre­ate a work­place that is col­lab­o­ra­tive and dynam­ic, yet secure and con­trolled — an envi­ron­ment that is sim­pler for users to access and for AWL to main­tain. Dis­cov­er how Aru­ba helped AWL achieve this goal.

Account­ing faces more demands than ever, includ­ing chang­ing reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments, increas­ing busi­ness com­plex­i­ties, and a dwin­dling account­ing work­force. The indus­try is ready for a fun­da­men­tal change in per­spec­tive that goes beyond the tra­di­tion­al late-night num­ber crunch­ing and instead fos­ters a col­lab­o­ra­tive part­ner­ship that dri­ves bet­ter busi­ness outcomes.

As busi­ness lead­ers increas­ing­ly rely on tal­ent­ed account­ing staff to dri­ve strat­e­gy, con­trollers are posi­tioned to lead these efforts. They’re invest­ing in pur­pose-built tech­nol­o­gy that mod­ern­izes account­ing process­es, boosts work­force pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, and cre­ates room for more high-val­ue work.

Read this white paper to:

• Learn 5 rea­sons why con­trollers trust Black­Line to mod­ern­ize account­ing oper­a­tions and free capac­i­ty for more strate­gic work
• Dis­cov­er best prac­tices for adapt­ing to a fast-chang­ing busi­ness environment
• Under­stand the indus­try trends and chal­lenges account­ing orga­ni­za­tions face

A glob­al sur­vey of IT deci­sion-mak­ers reveals a scram­ble to mod­ern­ize oper­a­tional data­bas­es and infra­struc­ture. You’ll learn why busi­ness­es are high­ly focused on data­base per­for­mance and low­er­ing TCO. Key find­ings include:

• 83% of busi­ness­es need to con­sol­i­date their data archi­tec­ture to cut TCO
• 42% of devel­op­er teams lose too much valu­able time to data­base management
• 51% of IT lead­ers say the pri­ma­ry block­er to mod­ern­iza­tion is fear of inte­gra­tion difficulties

This is a com­mis­sioned study con­duct­ed by For­rester Con­sult­ing on behalf of Couch­base, August 2023.

In the facil­i­ties man­age­ment indus­try, expe­ri­ences are help­ing busi­ness­es to stand out from their com­peti­tors, as poten­tial cus­tomers have an increas­ing demand for a bun­dled or ful­ly inte­grat­ed out­sourc­ing of their facil­i­ty man­age­ment services.

Cus­tomers expect their ser­vice provider to take a holis­tic view of their needs while break­ing down ser­vice deliv­ery silos by offer­ing com­pre­hen­sive first-rate ser­vices to all stake­hold­ers – includ­ing cus­tomers, vis­i­tors, and employ­ees. They expect a ​‘Total Experience.’

In this eBook 5 indus­try experts dis­cuss the key steps for facil­i­ty ser­vice providers to build a Total Expe­ri­ence strat­e­gy. Down­load now and learn how this strate­gic tech­nol­o­gy trend can be a com­pet­i­tive dif­fer­en­tia­tor for FM outsourcing.

Ran­somware attacks have con­sis­tent­ly hit the head­lines in recent years, caus­ing seri­ous rep­u­ta­tion­al and finan­cial loss­es for organ­i­sa­tions in every indus­try. The aver­age ran­somware pay­ment is increas­ing year upon year, but it’s the cost of recov­er­ing from a ran­somware attack that is the real issue, though.

While it’s clear that ran­somware has a finan­cial effect on busi­ness­es that are com­pro­mised, what may be an even big­ger con­cern is the poten­tial of data loss. This risk is par­tic­u­lar­ly high for organ­i­sa­tions using Microsoft 365 in their dai­ly oper­a­tions. Approx­i­mate­ly 54% of attacks are ini­ti­at­ed via email, and with over 354 mil­lion licensed Microsoft 365 users, this makes cor­po­rate Out­look accounts attrac­tive targets.

Con­tin­ue read­ing to dis­cov­er how Bar­racu­da can help to pro­tect your Microsoft 365 accounts from ran­somware attacks.

Com­pli­ance is para­mount in run­ning the finan­cial func­tions of large orga­ni­za­tions, by mak­ing sure that all account­ing and finance func­tions are oper­at­ing in accor­dance with rel­e­vant laws and leg­is­la­tions. But with so many dif­fer­ent stan­dards in exis­tence, it can be tricky to ascer­tain which stan­dards apply to you, and how you can prove that you fol­lowed them.

With hun­dreds, maybe even thou­sands of bal­ance sheet accounts, obscure IT process­es, and data sources galore, ​“achiev­ing com­pli­ance” sud­den­ly isn’t as sim­ple as it seems. Luck­i­ly, we’ve built a step-by-step guide for achiev­ing com­pli­ance in your account­ing and finance organ­i­sa­tion. Read on to learn 4 vital steps to ensure you can shift the pen­du­lum from man­u­al, detec­tive con­trols to auto­mat­ed, embed­ded controls.

Rajasthan Roy­als (RR) want­ed to cre­ate inter­ac­tive, per­son­alised fan-led expe­ri­ences through­out the sea­son. To keep their fan base engaged, a series of com­mu­ni­ty build­ing ini­tia­tives were planned with a strong focus to dri­ve mer­chan­dise sales – the team need­ed an effec­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tions chan­nel that could facil­i­tate fric­tion­less online shop­ping. The Rajasthan Roy­als mar­ket­ing team devel­oped a vir­tu­al assis­tant in What­sApp Busi­ness Plat­form to dri­ve stronger fan engage­ment as well as encour­age mer­chan­dise sales through fric­tion­less online shop­ping. A vir­tu­al assis­tant devel­oped by Fac­to­re­al enabled the Roy­als to engage fans more con­sis­tent­ly while cre­at­ing seam­less shop­ping expe­ri­ences that increased mer­chan­dise orders and drove rev­enue from sales.

Down­load the full case study to find out more.