Last November, Ergo hosted an event for IT professionals who were anxious to hear about the future of business technology. The event entitled Year Zero offered insights into “new ways of working”.
We call it Year Zero because we believe it’s the start of a new era in business technology. The availability of new technologies, the consumerisation of IT, and the economic downturn, have all fundamentally changed the way we go about IT. Cost and complexity are no longer acceptable. Organisations must now undertake a journey to turn IT into a platform for business innovation.
When Worlds Collide: Intelligence, Analytics and OperationsInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Shawn Rogers and Composite Software
Slides from the Live Webcast on May 15, 2012
Everyone wants more data these days, though often for different reasons. Business analysts, data scientists and front-line workers all know the value of having that extra piece of information. The big question remains -- how can all these needs be supported without taxing IT and without breaking the bank? And how can the worlds of traditional Business Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Transaction Systems combine to improve business outcomes?
In this episode of The Briefing Room, veteran Analyst Shawn Rogers of Enterprise Management Associates explains what is needed to take advantage from today's hybrid data ecosystem. He'll be briefed by Bob Eve of Composite Software who will explain how innovative enterprises are using data virtualization to gain insight across these worlds and doing so with greater agility and lower costs.
For more information visit: http://www.insideanalysis.com
Watch us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5EE76E2EEEC8CF9E
Social Business in the Cloud: Achieving Measurable ResultsRawn Shah
As social technologies have evolved, they have increased in adoption across a wide spectrum of
businesses, industries, and geographies. Some organizations, usually with strong business and IT
alignment, are realizing that social technologies initiated for one business activity can spark innovative
uses in other areas. This insight creates motivation to widen the reach and adoption of these
investments. Unfortunately, this is not always the case; many organizations are still struggling with how
to justify social business investments in a way that reflects their actual business value. This inability to
quantify the business impact of social technology has become a key inhibitor to adoption.
When Worlds Collide: Intelligence, Analytics and OperationsInside Analysis
The Briefing Room with Shawn Rogers and Composite Software
Slides from the Live Webcast on May 15, 2012
Everyone wants more data these days, though often for different reasons. Business analysts, data scientists and front-line workers all know the value of having that extra piece of information. The big question remains -- how can all these needs be supported without taxing IT and without breaking the bank? And how can the worlds of traditional Business Intelligence, Big Data Analytics and Transaction Systems combine to improve business outcomes?
In this episode of The Briefing Room, veteran Analyst Shawn Rogers of Enterprise Management Associates explains what is needed to take advantage from today's hybrid data ecosystem. He'll be briefed by Bob Eve of Composite Software who will explain how innovative enterprises are using data virtualization to gain insight across these worlds and doing so with greater agility and lower costs.
For more information visit: http://www.insideanalysis.com
Watch us on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5EE76E2EEEC8CF9E
Social Business in the Cloud: Achieving Measurable ResultsRawn Shah
As social technologies have evolved, they have increased in adoption across a wide spectrum of
businesses, industries, and geographies. Some organizations, usually with strong business and IT
alignment, are realizing that social technologies initiated for one business activity can spark innovative
uses in other areas. This insight creates motivation to widen the reach and adoption of these
investments. Unfortunately, this is not always the case; many organizations are still struggling with how
to justify social business investments in a way that reflects their actual business value. This inability to
quantify the business impact of social technology has become a key inhibitor to adoption.
Although cloud is widely recognized as a technology
game changer, its potential for driving business innovation remains virtually untapped.
Indeed, cloud has the power to fundamentally shift competitive landscapes by providing a
new platform for creating and delivering business value. To take advantage of cloud’s
potential to transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value
chains, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business
models that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
Architecture Standardization Using the IBM Information FrameworkCognizant
Case study describes how a Middle Eastern banking major achieved digital transformation with a standardized information model based on the IBM Information Framework (IFW).
The Business Data Catalogue provides a method of integrating business data from back-end server applications, such as SAP or Siebel or other line of business applications, into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, without writing any code. Business Intelligence with Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a framework for accessing that data, and for providing a toolset for business decision makers to turn the raw data into critical business information.
This presentation is designed to provide the audience with an overview of how BI can be used to create visual dashboards that assemble and display business information from multiple sources (e.g. Excel Services, SQL Reporting) using built-in web parts.
This is a business session and does not cover the technical implementation of BDC.
See How Virtualization can help Organisations to Improve their Datacenters: W...Microsoft Private Cloud
This guide examines strategies for moving an organization toward a dynamic information technology (IT) environment using data center virtualization technologies. As companies approach Dynamic IT, their data centers evolve through a series of stages from manual and reactionary to automated and proactive—from being perceived as cost centers to becoming strategic assets for the company. This guide shows how virtualization can help organizations improve their data centers, control costs, increase security and availability, and enable their business to be more agile. This guide also highlights scenarios that show how virtualization can enable server consolidation, business continuity, and an optimized desktop environment, among others, while examining the Microsoft® technologies that support those solutions. It also explains some of Microsoft’s technology partnership investments that support heterogeneous virtualization environments. Lastly, the appendices in this guide provide information on Microsoft licensing for virtualization.
TTBS can help you setup a complete digital workspace that offers best-in-class connectivity, collaboration and security at low costs.
With simple-to-use interfaces, our solution is easy for organisations to implement and use. Smartflo is a cloud based communication
suite that boosts digital connectivity, streamlines business processes and delivers better customer experience.
Can content management be used as an asset to boost productivity and collaboration?
Atos’ performance at the Olympic Games has proved the ideal challenge to improving the way we deliver world-beating business technology for our clients. This new Fast Track Guide on ECM is quick to read and formed from the very latest thinking. It describes how, in the economic climate, enterprise collaboration tools have been embraced by organizations looking to become leaner and more flexible to boost productivity and efficiency across an increasingly dispersed and mobile workforce.
Although cloud is widely recognized as a technology
game changer, its potential for driving business innovation remains virtually untapped.
Indeed, cloud has the power to fundamentally shift competitive landscapes by providing a
new platform for creating and delivering business value. To take advantage of cloud’s
potential to transform internal operations, customer relationships and industry value
chains, organizations need to determine how best to employ cloud-enabled business
models that promote sustainable competitive advantage.
Architecture Standardization Using the IBM Information FrameworkCognizant
Case study describes how a Middle Eastern banking major achieved digital transformation with a standardized information model based on the IBM Information Framework (IFW).
The Business Data Catalogue provides a method of integrating business data from back-end server applications, such as SAP or Siebel or other line of business applications, into Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, without writing any code. Business Intelligence with Office SharePoint Server 2007 provides a framework for accessing that data, and for providing a toolset for business decision makers to turn the raw data into critical business information.
This presentation is designed to provide the audience with an overview of how BI can be used to create visual dashboards that assemble and display business information from multiple sources (e.g. Excel Services, SQL Reporting) using built-in web parts.
This is a business session and does not cover the technical implementation of BDC.
See How Virtualization can help Organisations to Improve their Datacenters: W...Microsoft Private Cloud
This guide examines strategies for moving an organization toward a dynamic information technology (IT) environment using data center virtualization technologies. As companies approach Dynamic IT, their data centers evolve through a series of stages from manual and reactionary to automated and proactive—from being perceived as cost centers to becoming strategic assets for the company. This guide shows how virtualization can help organizations improve their data centers, control costs, increase security and availability, and enable their business to be more agile. This guide also highlights scenarios that show how virtualization can enable server consolidation, business continuity, and an optimized desktop environment, among others, while examining the Microsoft® technologies that support those solutions. It also explains some of Microsoft’s technology partnership investments that support heterogeneous virtualization environments. Lastly, the appendices in this guide provide information on Microsoft licensing for virtualization.
TTBS can help you setup a complete digital workspace that offers best-in-class connectivity, collaboration and security at low costs.
With simple-to-use interfaces, our solution is easy for organisations to implement and use. Smartflo is a cloud based communication
suite that boosts digital connectivity, streamlines business processes and delivers better customer experience.
Can content management be used as an asset to boost productivity and collaboration?
Atos’ performance at the Olympic Games has proved the ideal challenge to improving the way we deliver world-beating business technology for our clients. This new Fast Track Guide on ECM is quick to read and formed from the very latest thinking. It describes how, in the economic climate, enterprise collaboration tools have been embraced by organizations looking to become leaner and more flexible to boost productivity and efficiency across an increasingly dispersed and mobile workforce.
Lowe Lintas Case Study - Prosares Solutions Pvt LtdRakesh Vajpai
Prosares Solutions implemented enterprise portal for Lowe Lintas, India’s leading advertising agency. Leveraging Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server 2007 (MOSS 2007), Lowe now has an enterprise-wide platform for communicating with all employees; collaboration amongst employees; document and knowledge management; and a host of other requirements.
As more employees transition to a work-from-home environment, digital workplace technology offers a vital agile setting for businesses. We show you how to create a Digital Workplace within your company, uniting technology, people, and processes using intranet software.
The OpenText™ AppWorks™ Platform is the ideal solution to build new business applications and new business processes faster and in a simplified way. The solution leverages prior investments in enterprise software and legacy systems to bring together all existing IT assets and empowers the organization with the ability to monitor the entire enterprise under one platform.
Digital Transformation is recreating business models, changing the way customers and employees interact
and altering whole industries. Social and business values surge when people, devices, and resources are
meaningfully connected.
With the COVID-19 pandemic a further catalyst, organizations worldwide are embracing digital transformation
to manage rapid organization-wide changes in support of business continuity, remote working, and dynamic
service delivery.
Meanwhile economies are now facing the threat of recession and businesses are weighing the impact of
inflation and higher interest rates, as well as having to deal with crises in supply chains, energy sourcing and the
acquisition of digital skills. Making sense of such disruptive changes has never been so important in order to
transform smartly instead of being left behind.
As an Information and Communications Technology (ICT) leader with over 120 years of expertise and experience,
NEC is sharing its views on leading and emerging trends and technologies to help your Smart Enterprise anchor
its strategic investments. Explore NEC’s Top 10 Strategic Drivers and discover how to navigate through the
developments to simplify your organization, realize workforce efficiencies, deliver superior customer services,
and gain a competitive advantage.
By embracing Digital Transformation and enabling advanced approaches to how Communications and IT
services are delivered and managed, NEC provides new ways for Smart Enterprises to thrive and grow.
In today’s consumer technology world,
the quality of the experience is
everything. So why shouldn’t the
business IT experience be as good as
the one we enjoy at home, during our
leisure time?
This slideshow was given by Marcel Nieuwpoort on february 3rd as part of the Sparked Cloud Accelerate Workshop.
It covers Microsoft's take on Cloud Computing for business.
Modernization doesn't happen overnight. But by reassessing your existing IT portfolio, including infrastructure and applications, as well as your current processes and roles, you can better understand how you can leverage cloud technologies to deliver value faster.
Microsoft Services offers an end-to-end approach to modernization and DevOps. Our goal is to help you transform your environment so you can deliver continuous value. We’ve built our approach based on experience with thousands of customers, as well as our own transformation journey.
2. Transform
your business
with Ergo
What is Year Zero? Using an ecosystem of Collectively, these are concepts
There have been Microsoft products, deployed and tools for delivering more
and integrated by Ergo, you with less. Many of the
significant changes in the
will benefit from a new-found components are available
software and services we agility with improved business out-of-the box to Microsoft users,
deliver at Ergo, making it processes that touch every maximising investment in
easier for our customers corner of your business. challenging economic times,
to leverage technology for enabling organisations to get up
business advantage. We There are software solutions for and running without having to
call it Year Zero because collaboration and information embark on complex IT projects
sharing, business intelligence, that demand heavy capital
we believe it’s the start of
IT systems management, and outlay.
a new era that will see a virtual infrastructure for working
profound shift in the way anytime, anywhere. There is Business transformation is now
organisations go about the new option of the cloud, a affordable and within
their business. Central to here-and-now alternative to everybody’s grasp. With Ergo
this change are new ways traditional models of IT delivery. you can make it happen.
of working.
“2008 was a watershed year for the Irish economy. Life
hasn’t been the same and my view is that life won’t be the
same for a long time, if ever. Year Zero is about new ways of
working, giving people the tools to deliver value within their
organisations in a whole new way.”
John Purdy, CEO, Ergo
3. A New World of Smarter Ways of Working: Heading for the Cloud: Building Better
Collaboration: Business Intelligence Office 365/Azure Relationships:
SharePoint 2010 Using Microsoft SQL Server and As well as relieving Dynamics CRM
Microsoft’s collaboration SharePoint as building blocks, organisations of having to The beauty of Microsoft’s CRM
software is an enterprise Ergo provides its customers manage and maintain solution is that it lets
solution that offers one place with the type of BI solution that complex systems, the cloud organisation build better
to go and one place to work. At was once the sole preserve of offers lower and more customer relationships from
its simplest, it forms the basis large corporations. Best of all, predictable costs, shifting IT familiar software. Integration
for an intranet site, hosting employees in different business from capital to operational with Outlook, the contacts,
content that can be shared and units are empowered with expenditure. Faster calendar and email application
searched across an organisation. familiar Office software to deployment and robust in Office, makes CRM central to
It’s an easy and affordable way analyse data, compile reports multi-layered security the business rather than an ad
of connecting teams, and share insights with strengthen the case for a new hoc extra.
improving access to information colleagues. IT model that more and more Ergo can help you create a
and increasing productivity. Self-service tools facilitate Ergo customers are starting to 360-degree view of client
Whether you are dealing with access though a browser to embrace. lifecycle management.
traditional documents, web or virtually any data source across Office 365 is the most significant Drawing on a single and
social media content, the organisation. Content-driven software-as-a-service consistent source of data, we
SharePoint becomes a fulcrum dashboards and scorecards are proposition to date, a cloud can help you create more
for data that reduces the cost of created that enable users to version of Microsoft’s targeted marketing campaigns
maintaining multiple answer questions and dig down best-selling communications or build loyalty with
systems. More sophisticated into the root cause of business and collaboration suite, now multi-channel strategies.
benefits will be enjoyed by performance issues. available with pay-as-you-go We can deploy Dynamics on
teams that want document Using familiar components from pricing options. Easy to use and premise or in the cloud as a
version control or individuals the Microsoft stack, the IT administer, Ergo can help make SaaS (Software-as-a-Service)
with compliance department is able to manage it a secure and fully solution. We can customise it
responsibilities that need to and monitor the data centrally, integrated part of a business. to meet the needs of your sales
apply retention schedules and ensuring integrity is always The cost-saving principles of team, marketing department
legal holds. maintained and that users are the cloud are delivered to or customer service agents. We
Specialist workflows can be always working with the most maximum effect by Ergo on can even use the Dynamics
developed, such as Ergo’s PMO accurate and up-to-date Microsoft’s Azure platform. platform to develop xRM
Portal Web Part for project information. Software solutions can be solutions for any line of business
managers. developed with little or no outlay application, where ‘x’ stands for
SharePoint can also be adapted and delivered back to the ‘any’ relationship in business-to-
for specific processes like business as a seamless business interactions.
scanning and indexing, contract pay-as-you go service.
management and helpdesks.
“It’s about transforming productivity in organisations. I think we have
a great opportunity to help our customers really get the most of their
own people, their own suppliers, their vendors, their partners, to make
their organisations as productive as possible in a very
challenging economic time.”
Paul Rellis, Managing Director, Microsoft Ireland
4. Breaking Down Office Walls: More for Less: Virtual Client Automating IT Operations: Microsoft
Lync 2010 Services System Center Suite
Everything you need to communicate Ergo is at the forefront of Virtual Clients Managing IT as a service that’s delivered
within an organisation, Lync facilitates Services, a revolutionary new way to back to the business is a concept that has
audio, video, collaboration and instant deliver applications to users form a been pioneered in Ireland by Ergo. As the
messaging, using familiar software and centrally hosted environment. With a country’s only Microsoft Services Ready
time-saving features like ‘presence’ to tell service flavour for every type of worker and Partner, we have the skill and knowledge
you who is available and the best way they every type of business, Ergo offers a to optimise System Center for your
can be contacted. portfolio of options for direct delivery to business.
As organisations struggle with a more the user’s client, from publishing specific A highly automated suite of applications,
distributed workforce and a proliferation of applications to full-blown Virtual Desktop System Center manages physical and
communication devices and Infrastructure. By centralising the virtual IT environments across data
applications, Lync provides a single provisioning and ongoing management of centres, client computers, and personal
interface that breaks down office walls to core client services, organisations are able devices. It helps achieve the difficult
facilitate collaboration and instant to dramatically reduce IT costs, do more balance of empowering employees with
communication regardless of location. with less, and free up IT staff to work on the flexibility they need to be productive,
By connecting people in new ways, other projects. Service desk calls fall by up while providing IT with the necessary
anytime, anywhere, you can reduce costs ten per cent and Total Costs of Ownership controls to keep it safe and secure.
and increase productivity. Used as a savings are around 35 per cent. Ergo recommends System Center as the
replacement for traditional telephony, Upgrades and security patches become superior management tool for virtualised
further savings are guaranteed. Adoption routine. Compliance, control and security environments and cloud delivery. An
is quick and easy with features and functions are easier to manage and a new orchestration console lets you integrate
functionality accessed through Microsoft agility allows the business to flex IT public and private clouds, while
Office, using the same contacts and services up and down to meet the self-service tools facilitate quick
calendar for making calls or setting up a demands of the business. provisioning. Unified performance
video conference. A skills search function monitoring provides visibility across the
makes it an invaluable tool for bringing entire estate.
people together.
Ergo and Microsoft Partnership
Ergo is a Microsoft Gold Partner with 19 years experience. As a trusted technology partner, we help our clients develop and maintain
cost-effective and efficient IT environments built on proven Microsoft technology which provides the highest levels of security,
reliability, and scalability for organisations business-critical applications.
Ergo have the largest number of Microsoft accredited engineers and developers in Ireland. We are proud to be the only Microsoft
partner in Europe to be Services Ready for System Center - the highest achievement for service delivery in a specialist area and one of
only two Microsoft partners in Ireland to be Services Ready for SharePoint 2010. Ergo also benefit from a premiere support agreement
with Microsoft, giving clients access to the highest echelons of Microsoft’s knowledge base (only two partners in Ireland have this).
What does all this mean? It means you can trust us to advise you on the right technologies, to deploy them to best practice standards
and to support you in ensuring that you get the most out of the investment you have made in Microsoft technologies.
For more information call 1850 374673, email info@ergogroup.ie or visit www.ergogroup.ie
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