Determining where and how to host your IT systems is largely a strategic business decision, even more so than an IT decision. It’s one that can have a large impact on your business, in regards to system performance, security and cost. Having a clear understanding of the true costs of it all to not only weigh all of your options, but to build a comprehensive cloud and IT outsourcing strategy is essential.
Cloud ROI and Implementation - A TechBlocks Solutions GuideTechBlocks
Realize your business potential in the cloud. This guide includes:
- How to improve business productivity in the cloud
- How to measure cloud ROI
- A step-by-step process for building your roadmap for success
1. Putting together a qualified team
2. Creating a written business case and strategy
3. Picking the right deployment and service model
4. Creating governance rules
5. Overcoming compliance and security issues
6. Integrating, validating and managing the cloud
7. Moving forward into the cloud - long term management
Leveraging research findings from EMA's 2012 "Big Data Comes of Age" Research Report, this new Infographic outlines the five business requirements driving Big Data solutions and the technologies that support those requirements.
IBM Global Technology Services: Partnering for Better Business OutcomesIBM Services
IBM can help you take advantage of the changes in technology – including Cloud, Social, Mobile, and Analytics – and devise the right partnering strategy to drive innovation for your organization.
Determining where and how to host your IT systems is largely a strategic business decision, even more so than an IT decision. It’s one that can have a large impact on your business, in regards to system performance, security and cost. Having a clear understanding of the true costs of it all to not only weigh all of your options, but to build a comprehensive cloud and IT outsourcing strategy is essential.
Cloud ROI and Implementation - A TechBlocks Solutions GuideTechBlocks
Realize your business potential in the cloud. This guide includes:
- How to improve business productivity in the cloud
- How to measure cloud ROI
- A step-by-step process for building your roadmap for success
1. Putting together a qualified team
2. Creating a written business case and strategy
3. Picking the right deployment and service model
4. Creating governance rules
5. Overcoming compliance and security issues
6. Integrating, validating and managing the cloud
7. Moving forward into the cloud - long term management
Leveraging research findings from EMA's 2012 "Big Data Comes of Age" Research Report, this new Infographic outlines the five business requirements driving Big Data solutions and the technologies that support those requirements.
IBM Global Technology Services: Partnering for Better Business OutcomesIBM Services
IBM can help you take advantage of the changes in technology – including Cloud, Social, Mobile, and Analytics – and devise the right partnering strategy to drive innovation for your organization.
Nowadays, IT organizations face challenges that not only relate to the use of technologies, platforms and tendencies; they go go beyond operating and maintaining applications over 15 years-old, many of them developed in old or obsolete programming languages, in platforms whose maintenance and operation are increasingly more complicated to maintain.
With this in mind we have developed an assembly of services and solutions for the purpose of supporting IT officials to optimize time, resources and investments in IT.
Are your clients asking you about the costs and benefits of cloud based accounting and financial management systems? Are they asking you about the risks of cloud computing? Are you curious to know why there is so much buzz about the cloud?
As a trusted advisor, it is your responsibility to be informed about available (and exceptional) accounting and financial management software options. So, have you informed your client-base about the power of the cloud? Have you shared the rewards and possible risks of cloud computing? What, exactly, do they need to know to make the best financial decision for their organizations? This webcast will provide you with the nuts and bolts of cloud computing so you will be better able to answer your client’s questions.
In this webcast you will learn:
How to evaluate the available cloud options provided by various software vendors.
How cloud accounting complies with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley?
Why cloud computing is relevant to CPAs in public practice?
What are the cost saving opportunities that arise from cloud computing.
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Managing documents can be difficult. But with Kofax's capture solution, you can align all your documents in one place. See how one company used Kofax & NeoStream's proven technologies to organize and streamline their document management process to cut costs and cut time.
Today's IT needs to accomplish more with less. Virtualizing your IT infrastructure can save you 25% or more on your operating costs.
For forward-thinking business enterprises, virtualizing IT infrastructure has become standard practice. In fact, to stay competitive in a tepid U.S. economy, enterprises find it increasingly critical to innovate new ways to leverage their existing virtualization products and services. International Integrated Solutions, Inc. (IIS) prides itself on industry-leading innovation and proactive service, which will pave the way in a virtualized IT industry.
Virtualization is far from the latest fad in the IT industry. The economic potential of virtualization has been theorized for quite some time, but leveraging virtualized infrastructure for maximum return on investment requires an outsider's perspective. IIS provides enterprises with new strategies to optimize return on investment through innovation, careful planning, proactive trouble-shooting and reliable maintenance. IIS understands how to make the most of each company's virtualization strategy.
At SmartERP, we realize that every organization is different with a unique set of requirements. You depend on your PeopleSoft applications to manage many facets of your business. When contemplating how to improve your PeopleSoft system to meet your continually changing business requirements, there are three potential options: Cloud, Edge, or Replace. These are all great options that will not only make your working life easier; it will save you time and money. Learn more about updating your PeopleSoft in this webinar on-demand (slides) - see smarterp.com webinars on-demand for the recording of the webinar.
Lean IT... here's how we use activity based costing, total quality and process re engineering to drive quality up, cost down and redirect IT spend from support to strategic investments
A consolidated data center has been an attractive alternative for CIOs to protect the IT investment as many of them have realized that centralized infrastructure and processes help optimize the shared resources and in turn bring greater ROI from their IT investments. This whitepaper explains the various benefits of data center consolidation and how CIOs can work collaboratively with service providers to build an outcome based IT framework that can deliver cost efficiencies, savings and innovation in an organization.
Digital Transformation: How to Run Best-in-Class IT Operations in a World of ...Precisely
IT leaders looking to move beyond reactive and ad hoc troubleshooting need to find the intersection of maintaining existing systems while still driving innovation - solving for the present while preparing for the future. Identifying ways to bring existing infrastructure and legacy systems into the modern world can create the business advantage you need.
View the conversation with Splunk’s Chief Technology Advocate, Andi Mann and Syncsort’s Chief Product Officer, David Hodgson where we discuss the digital transformation taking place in IT and how machine learning and AI are helping IT leaders create a more business-centric view of their world including:
• The importance of data sharing and collaboration between mainframe and distributed IT
• The value of integrating legacy data sources and existing infrastructure into the modern world
• Achieving an end to end view of IT operations and application performance with machine learning
Connected Service: Leveraging M2M and IoT Data to Create Proactive 1:1 Custom...Capgemini
Most companies with M2M and IoT systems analyze the data only periodically to schedule predictive maintenance. At Capgemini, we use the data generated by connected devices in real-time to create a one-to-one post-purchase dialog with the business customer or consumer.
By analyzing the condition, performance and also use of connected products like cars and machines, our ConnectedService solution can trigger real-time customer interactions in sales, customer care, and service.
By using data in this manner, we enable a new set of proactive business cases like identifying new sales opportunities, decreasing emissions, improving safety, optimizing resources, and enhancing productivity.
First presented at Dreamforce 2014 by Michael Capone, Prof. Dr. Principal Business Analyst, DCX, Capgemini.
http://www.capgemini.com/salesforce
An overview of what it is and how it can benefit your operations. Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is the lifecycle management of the physical assets of an organization. An asset can be such things as machines, equipment, tools, buildings, plants, vehicles or ships.
Try IBM Maximo today: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/maximo
Venho trazer uma novidade aqui! Este é o lançamento oficial do #InfoHeaven. Ele funcionará da mesma forma como um Jornal Online gratuito, onde iremos postar frases, testemunho, fotos, musica, reflexão, agenda de programações e etc…
Este é mais uma meio que o Senhor nos concedeu para estarmos alcançando cada vez mais pessoas com o Evangelho de Cristo!
Nowadays, IT organizations face challenges that not only relate to the use of technologies, platforms and tendencies; they go go beyond operating and maintaining applications over 15 years-old, many of them developed in old or obsolete programming languages, in platforms whose maintenance and operation are increasingly more complicated to maintain.
With this in mind we have developed an assembly of services and solutions for the purpose of supporting IT officials to optimize time, resources and investments in IT.
Are your clients asking you about the costs and benefits of cloud based accounting and financial management systems? Are they asking you about the risks of cloud computing? Are you curious to know why there is so much buzz about the cloud?
As a trusted advisor, it is your responsibility to be informed about available (and exceptional) accounting and financial management software options. So, have you informed your client-base about the power of the cloud? Have you shared the rewards and possible risks of cloud computing? What, exactly, do they need to know to make the best financial decision for their organizations? This webcast will provide you with the nuts and bolts of cloud computing so you will be better able to answer your client’s questions.
In this webcast you will learn:
How to evaluate the available cloud options provided by various software vendors.
How cloud accounting complies with Section 404 of Sarbanes-Oxley?
Why cloud computing is relevant to CPAs in public practice?
What are the cost saving opportunities that arise from cloud computing.
How to Manage Your Documents: Visual Case StudyNeoStreamTech
Managing documents can be difficult. But with Kofax's capture solution, you can align all your documents in one place. See how one company used Kofax & NeoStream's proven technologies to organize and streamline their document management process to cut costs and cut time.
Today's IT needs to accomplish more with less. Virtualizing your IT infrastructure can save you 25% or more on your operating costs.
For forward-thinking business enterprises, virtualizing IT infrastructure has become standard practice. In fact, to stay competitive in a tepid U.S. economy, enterprises find it increasingly critical to innovate new ways to leverage their existing virtualization products and services. International Integrated Solutions, Inc. (IIS) prides itself on industry-leading innovation and proactive service, which will pave the way in a virtualized IT industry.
Virtualization is far from the latest fad in the IT industry. The economic potential of virtualization has been theorized for quite some time, but leveraging virtualized infrastructure for maximum return on investment requires an outsider's perspective. IIS provides enterprises with new strategies to optimize return on investment through innovation, careful planning, proactive trouble-shooting and reliable maintenance. IIS understands how to make the most of each company's virtualization strategy.
At SmartERP, we realize that every organization is different with a unique set of requirements. You depend on your PeopleSoft applications to manage many facets of your business. When contemplating how to improve your PeopleSoft system to meet your continually changing business requirements, there are three potential options: Cloud, Edge, or Replace. These are all great options that will not only make your working life easier; it will save you time and money. Learn more about updating your PeopleSoft in this webinar on-demand (slides) - see smarterp.com webinars on-demand for the recording of the webinar.
Lean IT... here's how we use activity based costing, total quality and process re engineering to drive quality up, cost down and redirect IT spend from support to strategic investments
A consolidated data center has been an attractive alternative for CIOs to protect the IT investment as many of them have realized that centralized infrastructure and processes help optimize the shared resources and in turn bring greater ROI from their IT investments. This whitepaper explains the various benefits of data center consolidation and how CIOs can work collaboratively with service providers to build an outcome based IT framework that can deliver cost efficiencies, savings and innovation in an organization.
Digital Transformation: How to Run Best-in-Class IT Operations in a World of ...Precisely
IT leaders looking to move beyond reactive and ad hoc troubleshooting need to find the intersection of maintaining existing systems while still driving innovation - solving for the present while preparing for the future. Identifying ways to bring existing infrastructure and legacy systems into the modern world can create the business advantage you need.
View the conversation with Splunk’s Chief Technology Advocate, Andi Mann and Syncsort’s Chief Product Officer, David Hodgson where we discuss the digital transformation taking place in IT and how machine learning and AI are helping IT leaders create a more business-centric view of their world including:
• The importance of data sharing and collaboration between mainframe and distributed IT
• The value of integrating legacy data sources and existing infrastructure into the modern world
• Achieving an end to end view of IT operations and application performance with machine learning
Connected Service: Leveraging M2M and IoT Data to Create Proactive 1:1 Custom...Capgemini
Most companies with M2M and IoT systems analyze the data only periodically to schedule predictive maintenance. At Capgemini, we use the data generated by connected devices in real-time to create a one-to-one post-purchase dialog with the business customer or consumer.
By analyzing the condition, performance and also use of connected products like cars and machines, our ConnectedService solution can trigger real-time customer interactions in sales, customer care, and service.
By using data in this manner, we enable a new set of proactive business cases like identifying new sales opportunities, decreasing emissions, improving safety, optimizing resources, and enhancing productivity.
First presented at Dreamforce 2014 by Michael Capone, Prof. Dr. Principal Business Analyst, DCX, Capgemini.
http://www.capgemini.com/salesforce
An overview of what it is and how it can benefit your operations. Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) is the lifecycle management of the physical assets of an organization. An asset can be such things as machines, equipment, tools, buildings, plants, vehicles or ships.
Try IBM Maximo today: https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/maximo
Venho trazer uma novidade aqui! Este é o lançamento oficial do #InfoHeaven. Ele funcionará da mesma forma como um Jornal Online gratuito, onde iremos postar frases, testemunho, fotos, musica, reflexão, agenda de programações e etc…
Este é mais uma meio que o Senhor nos concedeu para estarmos alcançando cada vez mais pessoas com o Evangelho de Cristo!
Techaisle SMB Cloud Computing Adoption Market Research Report DetailsTechaisle
Techaisle's SMB Cloud Computing Adoption survey in US and Germany provide a detailed outline of what is needed by SMBs as we move through a period of intense growth spurred by the combination of increasing cloud penetration and increasing cloud workload density. Techaisle provides readers with the fact-based insight needed to take share-building action on these issues in this 360° on Cloud in the SMB market report. Its seven major sections are aligned with our clients’ key information requirements:
• Why is cloud being used by U.S. SMBs?
• Who is driving cloud adoption?
• What is in use
• Where is cloud being deployed?
• When will cloud usage patterns change – and how?
• Managing cloud security: roles and responsibilities
• Assessing success: key cloud solution elements
Report is delivered in PowerPoint format. Clients may also have access to Techaisle analysts, who can provide additional context for these findings and their implications for your firm. To inquire further contact inquiry@techaisle.com or visit www.techaisle.com
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As the post-pandemic economy grows, your organization faces both opportunities, such as supporting a growing customer base, and challenges, such as helping your employees thrive in the new normal. While there are still many considerations to balance when upgrading—including timing, budget, IT resources, and your current and anticipated needs—you may benefit from a server solution that can support workload requirements such as keeping digital transactions running smoothly and sustaining the websites for your business. Plus, a solution that offers the capacity and software features to natively support Kubernetes containers could add value by helping your organization get more from your hardware. When our testing concludes with the mixed workload that reflects these needs, our forthcoming report will detail the performance you may be able to expect from a cluster of 16G Dell PowerEdge single-socket servers powered by 4th Gen AMD EPYC processors compared to a cluster of legacy 15G Dell PowerEdge servers
Executives in this study rated their own organizations based on both revenue/effectiveness
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fully integrated their cloud initiatives into an overall strategic transformation compared to the
full survey sample (57 percent versus 34 percent, respectively).
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1. The Four Biggest Back-Office Challenge Areas in the Oil and Gas Industry
(And How the Cloud Can Help)
Introduction
For all its importance to modern society, energy is a challenging business to be in at the best of
times. Companies face a wide array of challenges, and fierce competition for opportunities. On
the administrative and support end, energy companies have a unique set of concerns.
In late 2011, we at P2 Energy Solutions sent out a survey to domestic oil and gas companies with
revenues under $700 million, asking their accountants and senior management about industry
trends and their attitudes. 115 companies responded.
From the responses, we identified four main back-office areas where companies are concerned.
These are:
• Number of spreadsheets
• Real-time reporting
• Workflow
• Training
This white paper will discuss these issues, and talk about how modern cloud computing can
substantially help in dealing with them.
Spreadsheets
Many oil/gas companies depend on spreadsheets, our survey found. But as they grow – adding
properties and acquisitions, and more activity – it becomes difficult to handle everything
manually in Excel.
Issues include:
• Control. Spreadsheets can be changed on the fly, making it difficult to enforce auditable
controls.
• Speed. Companies that handle their JIB (Joint Interest Billing) and AFE (Authorization
for Expenditure) processes through spreadsheets, find it a difficult and burdensome affair.
It takes longer to get a clear picture of where you are at a given time.
• Workload. Integrating spreadsheets, closing your books at the end of every month,
necessarily takes a lot of time.
The essential problem with spreadsheets is that they’re not integrated, and therefore rely on a lot
of manual labor. They’re a cumbersome way of doing things that requires a lot of (avoidable)
time and effort.
Real-time Reporting
Related to the issue of spreadsheets being cumbersome is the matter of real-time reporting and
business intelligence – the data that allows management to make effective, timely decisions.
2. 77% of companies in our survey indicated that they don’t presently use a business intelligence
solution. This despite the substantial benefits, which boil down to companies being able to move
faster and take advantage of opportunities.
Why don’t they? Without integrated information systems – if you’re dependent on spreadsheets
that have to be pulled together on a monthly basis – it’s simply not possible to get that kind of
dashboard-level intelligence quickly.
Workflow
In a manual world, workflow management looks a lot like invoices moving around an office –
people write/approve statements, move them on. Losing track of material is easy and common.
This is especially the case in the energy industry, where a given company will have a lot of
different locations and heavy remote usage of systems.
It’s another case where an integrated, automated paperless solution has very real benefits. It
allows a company to streamline its processes, with electronic confirmations keeping anything
from being lost along the way.
You can:
• Better manage cash flow
• Take advantage of discounts offered for rapid payment
• Get clearer information faster
• Save on expensive paper record-keeping.
Training
The fourth big area companies in our survey listed as a concern, was training. Clearly, a system
isn’t much good if your people don’t know how to operate it effectively, and this is seen as a
barrier to transitioning to integrated systems.
The oil and gas industry is an active and fast-moving one, with a lot of acquisitions and constant
staffing turnover. Any solution deployed by a company in the space needs to be usable, which
means that sufficient training materials need to exist and be rapidly deployable.
About Hosted Solutions
One option that contributes heavily toward solving a lot of these issues is an integrated,
externally-hosted solution. Rather than sitting on the company’s own network, a hosting solution
resides ‘in the cloud’, on a dedicated server (or servers) reached by internet connection.
Hosted solutions have a number of advantages over in-house ones:
• Higher uptime, because they’re run in dedicated data centers by specialists on-site 24/7.
• Rapid deployability. Most hosted solutions require nothing on the client’s end except an
internet connection and a web browser. This makes rollout easy.
3. • Focus. A company using a hosted solution doesn’t have to worry about server or IT
management; they can focus on their core business.
• Fixed costs. Typical cloud solutions charge a set and predictable monthly fee.
• Scalability. It’s easy to add capacity in a hosted solution; just ask the provider.
• Capital expenditure. You’re paying by the month, without having to shell out for
infrastructure costs.
• Security. Cloud servers operate in specialized data centers, with considerably better
controls and policies – and staff – than most small-to-medium companies can bring to
bear.
• Backup. Cloud servers also tend to have firm, redundant backups, functionally negating
your risk of a catastrophic data loss.
Of course, a potential disadvantage to a cloud solution is that it is off-site, and you’re therefore
totally dependent on your internet connection. Without internet, you lose access to mission-
critical applications. It’s a highly recommended best practice to have multiple ways to reach the
internet – a wireless option in case a local cable gets severed, for instance.
Benefits of a Hosted Solution in the Energy Space
Given the turbulent environment and unique considerations facing the oil and gas industry, and
the four main areas that respondents to our survey indicated were major concerns, an integrated
hosted solution can deliver very real benefits.
Many hosted solutions allow direct integration with Excel and other spreadsheet packages; the
data can be brought together, extracted, processed and presented seamlessly.
This frees you from dependence on spreadsheets, and – from a business intelligence and reporting
standpoint – allows you to access data in real-time, without having to go into your accounting
system to create custom presentations. Reporting gets to management faster.
Another industry-specific benefit to this type of a solution is remote access. The cloud can, by
definition, be accessed from anywhere a user has an internet connection; people in remote sites
can log in easily to enter or pull data.
And because hosted solutions are designed to scale, many of them will have comprehensive
training materials available for your staff, with human instructors and tech support readily
available, often 24/7, to fill in any gaps or solve immediate problems.
Conclusion
The turbulent energy and gas space faces serious problems; other findings of our survey were that
64% of the responding companies thought there was room to improve their accounting systems,
and that 62% are prepared to invest in technology when there’s a competitive return on
investment to be made.
Replacing spreadsheet-based accounting processes with an integrated cloud solution has clear
benefits. Some of the key ones are:
• Many processes can be fully automated
4. • Data can be compiled, collated and accessed much more rapidly
• Scalability and integration, as a company makes acquisitions, is simplified
• Auditable controls are considerably easier to implement and ensure
• Fixed monthly costs remove capital expenditures and a potentially expensive variable
from your balance sheet
• Outsourcing IT allows a company to better focus on its core business
Companies looking to improve their back-office processes have good reason, then, to seriously
consider a shift from internal, spreadsheet-based systems to an integrated cloud solution. The
cloud directly addresses – and in some cases resolves entirely – some of the biggest challenges
that energy-industry accountants and executives have identified themselves as presently facing.
About P2 Energy Solutions
Headquartered in Denver, CO, P2 Energy Solutions is the largest independent technology
company providing solutions to the energy industry. They provide a comprehensive range of
software to the oil, gas, and alternative energy sectors. These include the Excalibur Online suite, a
SaaS package specifically designed to address the problems discussed in this white paper. For
more information, go to http://www.p2energysolutions.com/excalibur .
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14:45 (on the workload imposed by heavy spreadsheets)