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In this case study, a large enterprise with an increasing amount of off-site work from both work-related travel and a fast-growing remote workforce, is faced with a unique challenge to ensure their data security is scalable and impenetrable. Their data access policies rely on physical access management provided at the company offices and do not always provide off-site employees with the ability to complete work-critical tasks. Legacy security solutions only add burden to productivity, sometimes causing employees to ignore security protocols in order to simply complete their work. Upon evaluating security vendors for a frictionless solution, they selected BehavioSec for its enterprise-grade capabilities with on-premise deployment and integration with existing legacy risk management systems.

AA Ireland specializes in home, motor, and travel insurance and provides emergency rescue for people in their homes and on the road, attending to over 140,000 car break downs every year, 80% of which are fixed on-the-spot. “In each of the last five years, the industry lost a quarter billion in motor insurance," says Colm Carey, chief analytics officer. "So, there's a huge push for new data, models, ways to segment and pick profitable customer types—and get a lot more sophisticated. Our goal is to optimize pricing, understand the types of customers we're bringing, and the types we're trying to attract. We would like to tie that across the business. Marketing will run a campaign, trying to attract a lot of customers, but maybe they're not the right type. "We wanted to step away from industry standard software and go with something that was powerful and future-proof. In 2016, we had an opportunity to analyze all software. We chose the TIBCO® System of Insight with TIBCO BusinessWorks™ i

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TravelPass Group is a marketplace for independent and brand name hotels, wholesalers, and the world’s largest travel agencies. To better track their customer experience, they began to look at screen recording technologies and Quantum Metric was brought to Knudson’s attention. They have saved millions of dollars, finding solutions faster through the platform.

Collaboration in the enterprise requires a triumvirate of people, process and technology to be successful. With the plethora of collaboration applications available today, both IT professionals and collaboration business users alike need to take a holistic approach to be successful with collaboration. This paper lets you know about some of the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

To improve safety and mobility across its 5,600km road network, the City of Toronto forged a partnered with HERE Technologies for the provision of traffic, incident, and historical traffic data. Access to this data allows the city authority to see exactly what’s happening on its roads and more easily and affectively run studies on improvement projects. This case study details how HERE Technologies enabled the City of Toronto’s transportation team to: Work smarter with comprehensive network coverage and accurate data to aid analysis Examine the impact of city projects without significant forward planning or expenditure Ensure travel volume models used to drive decision making are calibrated to represent real-world truths

How can brands create relevant, authentic advertising experiences with real-world location intelligence? Innovative brands and marketers are looking for data sets and services that contextualize consumer movements and habits in the world around them. Understanding location and its connection to customer behavior is key to increasing the effectiveness of retail campaigns and diving deeper into audience behavioral patterns. HERE enables relevant and authentic experiences through real-time location intelligence. As the world’s leading location platform*, HERE also shares its insights into the future of reaching customers on their mobile devices as they travel. *Souce: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes

Financial services firms are turning to Business Spend Management (BSM) as a Strategic Solution Beset by competitors and burdened by ever-shifting regulatory requirements, financial services firms are turning to cloud-based technology to gain better control over—and visibility into—spending. In the process, they are becoming fiercer competitors. Download this ebook for insights into how you can improve your organization's financial health and how: A cloud complete-BSM solution can track and measure all purchasing activities, identifying patterns that provide opportunities for negotiating discounts, and better managing risk To increase savings across source-to-contract, procure-to-pay, travel & expense management, as well as risk and supplier management Modern technology enables the finance function to take cost-management to a deeper level—without investing in IT infrastructure

In an innovation-powered economy, ideas need to travel at the speed of thought. Yet even as our ability to communicate across companies and time zones grows rapidly, people remain frustrated by downtime and unanticipated delays across the increasingly complex grid of cloud-based infrastructure, data networks, storage systems, and servers that power our work.

Sure, ROI calculators help distill anecdotal evidence and analyze cost savings associated with travel, but it usually goes something like this: total hours spent traveling + cost of hotel, rental car, and food divided by the number of meeting hours. Well, at least that’s one version. No matter the final number, the ROI total savings on cost of travel is only part of the story. Calculating the true ROI of video conferencing combines facts with real-life tangibles to help you understand and quantify your investment.

How can brands make the most of the growing opportunities offered by location data? Understanding location and its connection to customer behavior is key to gaining full and reliable insights and making efficient change. HERE is building and sharing real-time location intelligence which reveals why customers make transactions in specific places. HERE’s Open Location Platform contextualizes consumer motivations in the world around them. As the world’s leading location platform in 2018 (Source: Ovum and Counterpoint Research annual indexes) HERE also shares its own insights into the future of reaching customers on their mobile devices as they travel, including in-car advertising.

In an innovation-powered economy, ideas need to travel at the speed of thought. Yet even as our ability to communicate across companies and time zones grows rapidly, people remain frustrated by downtime and unanticipated delays across the increasingly complex grid of cloud-based infrastructure, data networks, storage systems, and servers that power our work.

The most successful businesses are greater than the sum of their parts. When individuals work together well, they fill in each other's blind spots and build on each other's great ideas. These conversations ultimately help teams be more productive, reduce time-to-market and come up with more innovative ideas. But if your teams are spread across different offices, or working from home, can you create the same collaborative magic? Web-based collaboration tools claim to break down the collaboration barriers that distance can build. Everyone agrees they can reduce the time and cost of travel. And yes, these tools can stream your colleagues' voices, facial expressions, and slide decks into your meeting room, so you can get a clearer picture of verbal and behavioral signals. But if you're researching collaboration platforms, you'll hear skepticism, too. Naysayers declare that: People won’t participate because they’re afraid of digital change. You just can’t trust the security of collaborati

With more and more employees spread around the globe, IT teams face a conundrum: how to secure an increasing amount of data traveling outside the network while preserving workforce productivity in an increasingly interconnected and global market. It’s up to IT decision-makers to protect and secure company data in a way that promotes user access without imposing overly restrictive or cumbersome device policies. When it comes to protecting data on laptops and mobile devices, several key factors are essential for today’s businesses:

Airfare is increasing. Car rentals are down. Ecotourism is at an all-time high. The truth is, travel and hospitality is in flux. Read the Adobe Digital Insights report US Travel Trends in 2017 to see what’s going on in the industry, including major trends and predictions. You’ll learn all about: •What motivates today’s customers to book travel reservations •Why virtual (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are new disruptors in the industry •Travel predictions for Summer 2017, including major holiday weekends

Travel agents, tour operators and travel wholesalers are typically spending thousands in unnecessary costs each year. And in a fiercely competitive market operating on high volumes and low margins, ensuring efficiency with sales and purchasing systems is no easy task. Especially when it comes to payments. If you want to find out where you’re losing money, how efficient your platform really is and the simple way to eliminate these costs, read this white paper. It explores the top three areas where you could be overspending. And it reveals the statistics behind your unnecessary costs – giving you the information you need to save money and drive efficiency.

With the 'EMC Mission Control' center in Portsmouth, UK and a second at the America’s Cup venue in Bermuda, plus a mobile center travelling worldwide to the preliminary events, Land Rover BAR will have all its data continuously replicated. The team in Portsmouth can analyze race and testing data immediately, as well as identify and make improvements right up to and through the finals in June 2017. This allows the design team and the crew to adapt much faster. With the introduction of the VCE VxRail Appliance powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, Land Rover BAR will be able to flexibly and rapidly scale, irrespective of location, ensuring a seamless experience for the team. To learn more about the impact of the Dell EMC VCE VxRail Appliance, read this brief infographic.

According to a McKinsey study, half of all outsourced projects failed to meet their expected goals – while an Information Week Survey showed that 40% of outsourced projects did not save money! Factors that contribute to these problems include issues with quality, time zone challenges, and added travel expenses, among others.

Collaborative looks at how and why the onshore model has re-emerged as a solution-of-choice for many IT organizations. Today the advantages include lower costs, less travel, and the security and continuity provided by a more stable workforce. Even more important, moving “home” generates higher consumer satisfaction and new business opportunities.

Learn how to enable fast and secure network, cloud, and application access in order to maximize productivity for those employees who work remotely or are constantly travelling.

In an innovation-powered economy, ideas need to travel at the speed of thought. Yet even as our ability to communicate across companies and time zones grows rapidly, people remain frustrated by downtime and unanticipated delays across the increasingly complex grid of cloud-based infrastructure, data networks, storage systems, and servers that power our work.

Hotel room prices account for only a fraction of total corporate lodging costs. What could your company be overlooking? Read our “The Total Cost of Lodging” white paper to discover: •The top 3 largest costs in lodging management •The percentage of inaccurate hotel invoices •How to save on lodging Find expert answers to rising hotel rates, inaccurate billing, and inefficient systems. Read more to find out how to make your lodging program better!

The economic face of the APAC region is changing. While the East has long been considered a source of competitively priced raw materials and manufacturing services, the spending power of its inhabitants - and their increased fondness for international travel - has transformed it into a force to be reckoned with. It’s estimated that, over the next five years, 88% of the growth in the global middle class will be in the Asia Pacific region.1 If multinational companies hope to take advantage of this vast new target market, they will need to adapt their expansion strategies and offer APAC customers a tailored retail experience.

Why travel agencies are losing 20% of their profits to unnecessary costs. Travel agents, tour operators and travel wholesalers are typically spending thousands in unnecessary costs each year. And in a fiercely competitive market operating on high volumes and low margins, ensuring efficiency with sales and purchasing systems is no easy task.

For some travelers, purchasing a plane ticket or checking into a hotel can mean only one thing : the beginning of a long , laborious, and frustrating trip where they’re met by overeager staff, noisy hotel neighbors, and sick plane passengers.