BriefingsDirect Podcasts

The next BriefingsDirect thought-leader panel discussion focuses on the future of business and how companies can benefit from the new insight and analysis that transparent business networks and processes allow. The power of data-driven business networks and the analytics derived from them are increasing, but how do enterprises best leverage that intelligence as they seek new services, products and...

Nordic IT solutions provider EVRY has taken automation and agility to new heights in its training and documentation of IT products and services, and found that even small steps can make a valuable return on user adoption patterns. By using HP's Adoption Readiness Tool (ART) to help its employees work better with IT management solutions and processes, EVRY, based in Oslo, has gained new advantages...

The next BriefingsDirect thought-leader interview focuses on the fascinating subject of preparing for the workforce of the future. It's now clear that we are entering into a very diverse and even unprecedented work environment -- something the world perhaps has never known. But how do enterprises prepare, and how do they create the means to analyze and manage the transition to very different work...

Auto racing powerhouse NASCAR has engineered a way to learn more about its many fans -- and their likes and dislikes -- using big-data analysis. The result is they can rapidly adjust services and responses to keep connected best to those fans across all media and social networks. It's a story of getting at all the information and data that's generated constantly from social media, news media, broa...

Big data capabilities and advanced business analytics have now become essential to nearly any business development activity. The benefits that enterprises can get if they can get their hands around big data analytics and apply it to business challenges are quickly being documented -- and they come as big new profits and major market advantages. Industries around the world are rapidly seeking trans...

Once the province of IT facilities planners, the management and automation of data centers has rapidly grown in scope and importance. As software-driven data centers have matured and advanced to support unpredictable workloads like hybrid cloud, big data, and mobile applications, the ability to manage and operate that infrastructure efficiently has grown increasingly difficult. At the same time, a...

This BriefingsDirect business innovation case study examines how Dell recognizes the value of social media for more than improved interactions and brand awareness. Dell has successfully learned from social media how to meaningfully increase business sales and revenue. The data, digital relationships, and resulting analysis inherent in social media and social networks interactions provide a lasting...

The next BriefingsDirect enterprise mobile strategy discussion comes to you directly from last month's the Kony World 2015 Conference in Orlando. This five-part series of penetrating discussions on the latest in enterprise mobility explores advancements in applications design and deployment technologies across the full spectrum of edge devices and operating environments. For our next innovation in...

Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) form a top-tier of requirements for banks anywhere in the world as they create and deploy applications. A close second nowadays is speed to market, and responsiveness to changing customer expectations and demands. So when Finansbank, an Istanbul-based bank, knew they had to better manage risk -- but not lose time-to-market advantages -- they did a t...

As developers are pressured to produce mobile and distributed cloud apps ever faster and with more network unknowns, the older methods of software quality control can lack sufficient predictability. And as Agile development means faster iterations and a constant stream of updates, newer means of automated testing of the apps in near-production realism prove increasingly valuable. Fortunately, a ta...

Healthcare, like no other sector of the economy, exemplifies the challenges and the opportunity for improving how the various participants in a complex ecosystem interact. The Open Group has made improved information flow across so-called boundaryless organizations the theme of its recent gatherings of IT leaders, enterprise architects, and standards developers and implementers. And so this Briefi...

As enterprise IT departments scramble to meet demand for more mobile applications, many are charting entirely new terrain. Lessons from applications development and support from PCs and notebooks don't necessarily provide a guide for the mobile tier. Indeed, mobile apps are very different in what end users expect from them. So how to learn new best practices and simultaneously meet the demand for...

If, as the adage goes, you should fight fire with fire then perhaps its equally justified to fight big data optimization requirements with -- big data. It turns out that high-performing, cost-effective big-data processing helps to make the best use of dynamic storage resources by taking in all the relevant storage activities data, analyzing it and then making the best real-time choices for dynamic...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. The high cost of unwanted intrusion and malware across corporate networks is well known. Less talked-about are the successful ways that organizations are thwarting ongoing, adaptive and often-insider-driven security breaches. Companies are understandably reluctant to readily discuss either their defenses or mishaps. Yet...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. Analytics platforms and new healthcare-specific solutions together are offering far greater insight and intelligence into how healthcare providers are managing patient care, cost, and outcomes. Based on a number of offerings announced this week at the HP Discover Conference in Barcelona, an ecosystem of sol...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Dell Software. The next BriefingsDirect innovator interview targets how the recent and rapid evolution of mobile and client management requirements have caused considerable complexity and confusion. We’ll examine how incomplete solutions and a lack of a clear pan-client strategy have hampered the move to broade...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Scribe Software. Creating big-data capabilities and becoming a data-driven organization are near the tops of surveys for the most pressing business imperatives as we approach 2014. These improved business-intelligence (BI) trends are requiring better access and automation across data flows from a variety of sou...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series details how German telco EWE TEL has solved performance complexity across an extended enterprise billing process by using service virtualization.  In doing so, EWE has significantly improved applications performance and quality for their end users, while al...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: SailPoint Technologies. Business trends like bring your own device (BYOD) are forcing organizations to safely allow access to all kinds of applications and resources anytime, anywhere, and from any device. According to research firm MarketsandMarkets, the demand for improved identity and access management (IAM)...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Dell Software. The relationship between enterprise IT and lines of business leadership has not always been rosy. Sometimes IT holds the upper hand, and sometimes the business does an end-run around IT to use new tools or processes. They might even call it innovation. Today, with the push toward big data and bus...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series delivers an innovation case study interview that highlights how data-intensive credit- and debit-card marketing services provider, Cardlytics, delivers millions of highly tailored marketing offers to banking consumers across the United States. Cardlytics, i...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. The next edition of the HP Discover Podcast Series delves into how a healthcare solutions provider leverages big-data capabilities. We’ll see how Cerner has deployed the HP Vertica Analytics platform to help their customers better understand healthcare trends, as well as to help them better run their own sy...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. The next VMworld innovator panel discussion focuses on how two companies are using aggressive cloud-computing strategies to deliver applications better to their end users. We'll hear how healthcare patient-experience improvement provider Press Ganey and project and portfolio management provider Planview...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series examines how video advertising solutions provider Visible Measures delivers impactful metrics on video use and patterns. Visible Measures measures via a massive analytics capability an ocean of video at some of the highest scales I've ever heard...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series explores how network testing, monitoring, and analytics provider Empirix developed unique and powerful data processing capabilities.  Empirix uses an advanced analytics engine to continuously and proactively evaluate carrier network performance...