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7 Use Cases Solved with Enterprise Architecture

This whitepaper explores seven of the most common use cases where EA can be a real game-changer.

The Business Value of SAP LeanIX

IDC conducted a comprehensive study of the value and benefits that organizations can achieve from SAP LeanIX solutions. Read now to explore IDC's findings, including ROI, payback period, cost savings, and productivity increases.

Successful ERP Transformation: The EAM Advantage

Replacing an existing ERP system is complicated. A data-driven, collaborative approach to enterprise architecture management (EAM) can simplify the process and pave the way to success.

Insight, Communication, Engagement: How EA Supports Change Management

This white paper explains how to make change management part of your ERP transformation in a collaborative way that results in faster time to value, less risk, and higher ROI. It explores the 5 critical steps to change management in any ERP transformation project, and how the right EA tool can provide the insight and information you need to tackle them successfully.

Create an Application Modernization Roadmap

This whitepaper reveals how to create the actionable road map you need to drive and support your application modernization every step of the way. It details the key phases of application modernization and highlights the role that enterprise architecture (EA) plays in ensuring success.

Picking Up Where SBOMs Leave Off – Best Practice Guide to Securing Software Supply Chains

Connecting SBOMs to a comprehensive service catalog is the best way to discover critical information about vulnerabilities, including the specific products affected and which teams must be informed about them. Read this in-depth whitepaper to learn more.

The Business Transformation Management Playbook

The pace of change in markets and technology today have made the ability to transform a critical, differentiating business capability. In this practical business transformation playbook, you will find a scalable, repeatable approach to business transformation.

Two-Phase vs Single-Phase Immersion Cooling Fluids: Deconstructing Myths with Science

There are many myths and misconceptions in the data center industry surrounding two-phase immersion cooling (2-PIC). This white paper sets the record straight while comparing 2-PIC and single-phase immersion cooling (1-PIC) across several categories, including fluid cost, safety, toxicity, sustainability and reliability.

How Data Centers Could Save 300 Billion Liters of Water Per Year

As drought and climate change accelerate, many are looking critically at data centers, which use a tremendous amount of water to operate.

The 5 Principles of IT Infrastructure Management: How IT Leaders Can Become Strategic Business...

Overcoming hybric cloud control, security and cost challenges requires an approach to infrastructure management that facilitates innovation and improves organizational performance while maintaining comprehensive visibility and control over enterprise resources.

How An Adaptive Analytics Fabric Helps Conquer the Top 5 Cloud Migration Pitfalls

Explore how an adaptive analytics fabric can help eliminate five common pitfalls that organizations encounter while undergoing a cloud migration.

Cloud Migration Best Practices for the Financial Industry

Financial services enterprises that successfully migrate to the cloud employ strategies that alleviate location, time and data format challenges. They also obtain visibility and agility while freeing IT teams to migrate backend data on a schedule of their own choosing.

NIST Recommendations for IoT & ICS Security

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) recently published a report describing how purpose-built IoT & ICS anomaly detection technologies like CyberX enable manufacturing organizations to effectively reduce the risk of disruptive cyberattacks — such as WannaCry, NotPetya, and TRITON — without impacting OT networks.

Automate Through Analytics: Unifying Workforce Planning Behind a Single System of Truth

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Shortening the Sales Cycle to Convert More Leads to Revenue

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LeanIX AI Survey Results 2024 | LeanIX

Discover how companies worldwide are embracing generative AI, the challenges they face, and the need for effective AI governance. Explore the SAP LeanIX AI Survey 2024 findings.

AI Governance HUB | SAP LeanIX

Explore AI governance strategies and best practices to ensure compliant and effective AI adoption. Learn how to align AI initiatives with business goals.

Expert Guide: Using the Gartner TIME Framework for Application Rationalization

The Gartner TIME (tolerate, invest, migrate, eliminate) framework is the industry standard for planning and executing an application rationalization. This expert guide details how to apply this proven method to maximize the business value of your application portfolio. 

The 6Rs: A Basic Framework for Application Modernization

The AWS 6R framework (Replace, Re-architect, Re-platform, Rehost, Retain, Retire) is one of the most effective approaches to application modernization. This quick overview shows how to create a solid foundation for an application modernization plan of action.

How SAP LeanIX Helps and Supports TOGAF

This visual e-book reveals eight key ways SAP LeanIX helps organizations apply The Open Group Architecture Framework (TOGAF) by streamlining the implementation and management of enterprise architecture.

Six Best Practices: Drive Insights from ArchiMate® Models with SAP LeanIX

The flexible SAP LeanIX meta model can be adjusted to accommodate all the concepts from the ArchiMate® framework (Motivation, Strategy, Business, Application, Technology, Implementation and Migration). This visual e-book reveals 6 best practices for aligning and synergizing both frameworks to enhance EA decision making.

Reinventing the Digital Commerce Experience: From Transactions to Relationships

Digital commerce today requires a foundation of trust, built upon a secure and intelligent first-party data strategy.

Setting the Record Straight on Drupal Myths

What's Real, What's Not and How Acquia Has Redefined Drupal for the Enterprise

How to Pivot Quickly in Today's Digital Ecosystem

Technology comes at you fast, and empowered customer preferences change just as quickly. Prepare to pivot and be ready for the "next big thing."

Scaling in the Era of Digital Acceleration

How five brands have scaled customer and employee experience to keep up with the accelerated speed and scope of digital transformation.

Enterprise-Ready & User Friendly: The Best of Both Worlds

With most content platform options, you have to choose either enterprise functionality or ease of use. Why compromise? Get the best of both worlds.

Why Go It Alone? The Hidden Costs and Competitive Disadvantage of DIY Drupal Hosting

DIY Drupal hosting is often more effort than it's worth. See why hosting with Acquia can you save your business valuable time and resources.

Council Post: GDPR And A Cultural Reckoning: A Government Byproduct Is Hindering Global Health...

Global health equity won't be achieved until everyone-no matter who they are, where they live or what their means are-can access the best possible healthcare providers and treatments. Most people in regulated industries like data aggregation or healthcare are familiar with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of 2018, which is designed to protect individuals' private information and give people control over their personal data.

You Don't Have an AI Talent Gap: You Have an AI Leadership Gap | Spiceworks

Companies want to digitally transform themselves today using AI and ML. However, most companies do not have an AI leader with the ability and authority to implement the significant changes necessary to achieve AI-driven outcomes. Kjell Carlsson, head of data science strategy & evangelism at Domino Data Lab, shares how companies can find an AI leader.

IT can play a major role in driving sustainability

With data centers alone consuming around 1% of global electricity demand, IT departments have substantial influence on their organization's sustainability goals.

How Industry Can Leverage Data to Best Educate Practitioners - MedHealth Outlook

Physicians are only human. They are intelligent, capable humans, but human nonetheless. They have 24 hours in a day. They eat, sleep, have families and personal lives. And they are very busy treating patients. That leaves little time to stay on top of the constant deluge of newly published medical research being released.

Council Post: Companies Are Hitting A Wall With Cloud Solutions: How They Can Overcome It

The Covid-19 pandemic forced businesses to rapidly expand digital capabilities and services. As a result, multi-cloud environments grew very large and complex in a very short period of time. Unfortunately, this was more than existing tools, platforms and processes could handle.

FinOps in the New Cloud Order - Efficiency Vs. Optimization

Industry executives and experts share their predictions for 2022. Read them in this 14th annual VMblog.com series exclusive. Cloud costs are devouring an ever-growing share of company budgets. According to a recent paper by Andreesen Horowitz, cloud inefficiencies are costing some companies up to 2x more than if they had simply stayed with their own data centers; the report estimates this to be a trillion-dollar issue in terms of valuation reduction.

Council Post: Three Ways To Eliminate Visibility, Integration And Governance Pitfalls In Your...

Eighty-seven percent of enterprises today have adopted a hybrid cloud approach. While hybrid cloud provides organizations with an incredible amount of flexibility, it also brings mounting levels of complexity. This complexity poses challenges in three areas: integration, visibility and security and governance.

Out with the Old, In with the New Cloud Order

A majority (68%) of enterprises executing digital transformation initiatives declare hybrid cloud to be an explicit IT strategy, according to 451 Research. There are good reasons for this. A hybrid approach provides the operational efficiency, resource optimization, and agility organizations need to keep up with digital transformation and compete in a digital-first economy.

Why 5G Gaming Needs Edge Data Centers : @VMblog

By Amber Caramella, Chief Revenue Officer at Netrality Data Centers The cloud gaming industry is on the cusp of a monumental evolution. 5G wireless technology enables data transmission speeds ten times faster than 4G networks. Massive bandwidth increases will allow one hundred times more traffic capacity and enable richer, more sophisticated games to be played on mobile devices.

Maintaining Governance and Security in Multi-Tool Environments - Security Boulevard

Maintaining Governance and Security in Multi-Tool Environments The massive shift to hybrid cloud architectures means enterprises are choosing a multi-tool approach to IT. However, the new multi-tool world inevitably creates security and governance challenges. The more tools you add, the more complicated things get.

Custom Coding: An Obstacle Along the Hybrid Cloud Journey

By: Grant Ho on If you're like 80% of enterprises, you're somewhere along a hybrid cloud journey. The imperatives of digital transformation, the emergence of DevOps as the de facto enterprise development methodology and the rapidly growing demand for continuous innovation have made hybrid cloud the go-to infrastructure for competitive enterprises.

Beyond Selenium: Real Automation is Finally Coming to E2E Testing

Software engineers in the United States are very expensive to employ. This means, and perhaps rightly so, that industry leaders often bend over backward to make sure their engineers' time is being used in the most productive way possible.

The Future QA Industry: Which Platforms and Toolsets Will Come Out on Top? - DevPro Journal

The Quality Assurance (QA) industry is currently undergoing a massive proliferation of new toolsets, most of which will no longer be here five years from now.

Unchaining data scientists to make DataOps work

DataOps (data operations) - an automated, process-oriented methodology for optimizing the rapid collection, integration, analysis, security and integrity of data - needs to be standard practice at any insight-driven organization. DataOps improves the quality and reduces the cycle time of data analytics, while upholding security, compliance and governance policies.

Model Velocity: The Key to Accelerating Your Model-driven Business

Model Velocity measures your company's ability to traverse the end-to-end model development and deployment process rapidly, repeatedly, and consistently.

Serious About AI? You Need a GPU Strategy | Domino Data Lab

Scaling artificial intelligence in your organization? You'll face challenges without a strategy. Here are the key elements your GPU strategy should address.

Shattering the Myth of the Citizen Data Scientist

It is finally time to kill the dangerous myth of the "Citizen Data Scientist" and shift attention to a neglected "honorary" data scientist.

Hybrid Cloud is the Next Frontier for Scaling Enterprise Data Science

To give businesses the secure and cost-saving scalable resources they need, Domino and its launch partner NVIDIA are announcing Nexus, the first hybrid cloud platform for enterprise-wide data science.

What Will Accelerate Adoption of Immersion Cooling? | LiquidStack Blog

Read this blog post from LiquidStack CEO Joe Capes to understand the six major factors driving the need for 2-phase immersion cooling.

Breaking the Thermal Ceiling in Chip Design | LiquidStack Blog

With AI processing speed doubling every 3.5 months, we're reaching a thermal management limit with most cooling methods. Learn how immersion cooling addresses these issues.

The Other Green Story: 2-Phase Immersion Cooling Results in Tremendous Water Savings - LiquidStack

When we hear about data centers "going green" and implementing sustainability measures, we usually think about reducing carbon emissions - and for good reason. Data centers use massive amounts of electricity, and the indirect carbon footprint involved with building and equipping them is impacted through the consumption and fabrication of raw materials throughout the entire [...]

How One Man With A Vision Changed Data Center Cooling Forever | LiquidStack

You probably haven't heard of Kar-Wing Lau, but your children and grandchildren may have him to thank for saving millions (if not billions) of metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. It takes a lot of electricity to power a data center. In fact, according to the US Department of Energy, data centers [...]

Making Data Centers Cool

Conventional data center cooling methods no longer hold up under the heavy processing demands of AI, 5G wireless, IoT, and the rise of Smart Cities.

Challenges at the Edge: 5G Wireless | Netrality Data Centers

The fifth generation of wireless connectivity, commonly referred to as 5G, is revolutionizing our digital lives by enabling unprecedented speed, bandwidth, processing and capacity at an industrial scale. For years now, we've been hearing about the almost science fiction-esque advancements 5G will bestow on our society, such as driverless cars , telemedicine , factory automation, and smart cities .

Challenges at the Edge: The IoT Skills Gap

Organizations dealing with an IoT skill gap can take proactive steps to prepare them for a future where IoT operations are essential to staying competitive.

Challenges at the Edge: Distributed Data

As specialized edge databases become a necessity for distributed edge computing systems, so will connection to local, interconnected colocation data centers.

Why Broadband Is Crucial for Rural America

Today, the broadband internet service divide between urban and rural America leaves roughly one third of rural Americans without access to high-speed broadband.

Smart Farming: How IoT and The Edge Will Feed the Human Race

Smart Farming will provide revolutionary advantages through next-gen technologies, including climate and soil monitoring, drones, and autonomous vehicles.

Hybrid Cloud Management: What You Need to Know - CloudBolt Software

The hybrid cloud model is sometimes viewed as a transitional phase - a necessary precursor to a new world of 100% cloud-based IT. However, it's more likely that hybrid cloud is the new world, and that it's here to stay. For one thing, it simply makes better sense to run certain workloads on-premises instead of ...

ABN AMRO Clearing: Financial Systems on Postgres Plus

High costs and vendor lock-in prompted the infrastructure architects to consider alternatives for the database. That led the team to open source-based Postgres Plus Advanced Server from EnterpriseDB (EDB) and a relationship that has expanded in recent years along with the Postgres footprint at ABN AMRO.

Locately PostgreSQL Success Story

Locately is a next-generation shopper insights firm specializing in location analytics, a burgeoning business intelligence technology being leveragedby more and more companies today. Just as web analytics is used to optimize traffic and business on a website, location analytics tracks the physical location of consumers via mobile devices in order to identify shopper behavioral trends in real time.

PinkRoccade Migrates Government Cloud to Postgres Plus

Municipal budgets have been under pressure. They must do more with less money so IT managers are looking for alternative database solutions to control their IT costs. PinkRoccade Local Government helps communities develop all cloud-based applications based on Postgres Plus Advanced Server from EnterpriseDB (EDB).

SAP LeanIX AI Governance Solution | SAP LeanIX

Companies must be able to take full advantage of generative AI to stay competitive. That's why SAP LeanIX has added an AI governance extension to our meta model. This extension enables enterprise architects to implement and govern generative AI effectively across the organization while aligning AI strategies with business goals.

6 Ways to Ensure a Smooth SAP S/4HANA Transformation

Smoothly navigate the challenges posed by your SAP S/4HANA transformation by combining Business Process Transformation and Enterprise Architecture Management​

Faster Time to Value with SAP LeanIX

We designed SAP LeanIX to deliver value to our customers quickly. This 1-page graphic shows how our powerful data model, intuitive UX, effective onboarding process, and collaborative approach to EA generate quantifiable benefits in a matter of weeks.

4 Steps to M&A Success with SAP LeanIX

Enterprise architecture is vital in the post-merger IT integration process. With SAP LeanIX, companies gain the visibility and roadmapping capabilities they need to successfully transition from current to future-state architectures.

Disaster Recovery: Why Colocation Can Save Your Business

If you’re like most enterprises, you contract with an external data center to house your servers and provide you with a variety of IT services and connectivity. But what if your primary data center goes down and can’t get back up and running for an extended period of time? You need a backup plan.

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