BriefingsDirect Podcasts

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 focuses on the big-data problem in the realm of politics. We'll learn how the Democratic National Committee (DNC) leveraged big data analytics to better understand and predict voter behavior and alliances in the 2012 U.S. national elections. To...

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 highlights how Virginia Healthcare provider Sentara Healthcare has improved its IT operations and services delivery at higher quality and higher speed. As part of its modernization journey, Sentara improved its IT service management (ITSM) matur...

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 provides deep insights into how big data is changing the game around customer analytics.  This case study panel discussion highlights how various organizations are developing the means to develop far better analytics about their customers. Learn...

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 highlights how healthcare technology provider TriZetto has been improving its development processes and modernizing its ability to speed the applications lifecycle process. To learn more about how quality and Agile methods tools better support a...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. The next VMworld innovator interview focuses on how a fast-growing healthcare claims company is gaining better control and optimization across its IT infrastructure. Learn how IT leaders at Navicure have been deploying a comprehensive monitoring and operational management approach. To understand how the...

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 details how a healthcare solutions provider leverages big-data capabilities. Learn how MZI Healthcare has deployed the HP Vertica Analytics Platform to help their customers better understand population healthcare trends and identify how well hea...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Kapow Software, a Kofax company. The next BriefingsDirect innovator interview examines the improved data use benefits at Thomson Reuters in London. Part of a discussion series on how innovative companies are dodging data complexity through the use of Synthetic APIs, learn here how, from across many different in...

Subscribe to the podcast series on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: SAP Cloud. The next BriefingsDirect thought leadership discussion defines a momentous shift in business strategy. Join an SAP Cloud executive as we explore the impact that big data, cloud computing, and mobility are having in tandem on how businesses must act -- and react -- across their markets. Explore...

Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. Follow the HP Protect 2013 activities next week, Sept. 16-19. Join HP’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)  here to learn about how some of the very largest global enterprises like HP are exploring all of their options for doing business safely and continuously. Brett Wahlin, Vice President and Globa...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Dell Software. While so-called BYOD isn't necessarily new -- IT departments, after all, have been supporting mobile "road warriors" since the 1980s, the rising tide of end users seeking the use and support of their own consumer devices is something quite different. It’s so different that IT departments are grasping for...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series highlights how employee benefits provider Unum Group has been building a DevOps continuum, and is further exploring the benefits of a better process around cloud-assisted applications development and deployment. To learn more about how they've been usin...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series highlights how retailer Guess, Inc. has used HP Vertica to both speed up and better distribute its big-data analytics capabilities. We'll see how Guess can increasingly predict how to satisfy its shopping customers, and we'll specifically look at how Gu...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP company. The next BriefingsDirect podcast, from the recent 2013 Ariba LIVE Conference in Washington, D.C., explores how the spot-buying process is benefiting buyers and sellers, and how they're using the Ariba Network and Discovery to conduct tactical buying. Here to explain the latest and greatest around...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: VMware. The next BriefingsDirect IT innovator interview examines how the City of Melrose, Massachusetts, plans to reduce the cost of supporting its applications to perhaps zero -- and maybe even generate revenue -- by embracing hybrid cloud computing to become a specialized managed-services provider. Melrose transition...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: Ariba, an SAP Company. This latest BriefingsDirect podcast, from the recent 2013 Ariba LIVE Conference in Washington, D.C., examines how the healthcare sectorhas unique and daunting operational efficiency and regulatory challenges. We'll learn how MedAssets, a healthcare industry procurement, spend, operations, and sup...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series explores how wireless services provider T-Mobile US, Inc. improved how it delivers cloud- and data-access services to its enterprise customers. It's a story about walking back manual cloud provisioning services and moving to a centralized service portal to m...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: HP. This next edition of the HP Discover Performance Discussion Series welcomes Colin Mahony, General Manager at HP Vertica, on the first day of the inaugural HP Vertica Big Data Conference in Boston. It's been well over two years since HP acquired Vertica, and the analytics platform has become a pillar of HP's recentl...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group. This latest BriefingsDirect discussion from The Open Group Conference earlier this month in Philadelphia explores the essential role of standards in an increasingly complex and unpredictable world. From risks around cybersecurity to supply chain concerns to fast-changing trends around cloud computing, t...

Find the podcast on iTunes. Read a full transcript or download a copy. Sponsor: The Open Group. This latest BriefingsDirect discussion, leading into The Open Group Conference on July 15 in Philadelphia, brings together a panel of experts to explore how new IT trends are empowering improvements, specifically in the area of healthcare. We'll learn how healthcare industry organizations are seeking la...

The next edition of the HP Discover Performance Podcast Series examines how McKesson Corp. accomplished a multi-year, pan-IT management transformation. We’ll learn how McKesson's performance journey, from 2005 to the present, has enabled it to better leverage an agile, hybrid cloud model. Andy Smith, Vice President of Applications Hosting Services at McKesson, joins host Dana Gardner, Principal An...