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Platform businesses are reshaping our economy and disrupting entire markets by seamlessly connecting buyers and sellers. However, processing payments and the exchange of value on a platform or marketplace can be challenging. Stripe commissioned Forrester Consulting to evaluate the challenges that platforms and their sellers face, and the solutions they seek. Through a global online survey of 2,030 platform sellers and four in-depth interviews, Forrester found that platforms struggle to provide their sellers with much-needed payment capabilities, reporting, and customer support services with in-house resources alone. Meanwhile, sellers demand that platforms provide these services and will prefer platforms that are service-rich over platforms that are service-poor. KEY FINDINGS • The complexities of managing a platform force executives to divert resources, which stalls growth. • Going global is easier said than done. • Sellers will flock to platforms that simplify the process of sellin

One of Away’s core values is being “customer-obsessed”. But Away’s customer service agents had to constantly switch between systems to get the information they needed. Learn how Kustomer enabled them to deliver best-in-class customer experience, in real time.

The modern-day customer expects their needs to be met immediately, no matter the channel. Drive meaningful customer relationships, increase revenue streams and improve operational performance, with omnichannel support.

Your customers crave and deserve a stellar customer service experience. Learn three ways to deliver personalized support and earn lifelong brand loyalty.

To succeed in this new era of customer service, retailers must figure out how to personalize the way they connect with customers. Find out why personalizing your support strategy is crucial for your business — and how to do it.

i. Brief – US based automobile had no asset management and CMDB discovery which lead to longer procurement lifecycles. LTI implemented end to end ServiceNow and operational support using global delivery model. Also helped in optimising integrations after reviewing license consumptions which then helped in reducing the process implementation to mere 2.5 months ii. Benefits 1. Hybrid process governance helped reduction in TCO by 25% 2. Reduction in number of licenses by 20% using integration with SharePoint

Nordics based financial company had challenges in migrating the old legacy network design to Cisco ACI for a new Datacentre. Also it did not had service overview and CMDB to support 150 business services transition. LTI leveraged and implemented several ServiceNow modules, customised 100 odd patterns for 150 business services and executed extensive integration of 25 legacy systems. These transactions and implementation helped in easy cost computation for new business expansions ii. Benefits 1. 25% reduction in DC migration time by creating business service oriented move groups 2. Accurate costing of each business service for replication in new regions/geographies

"By asking the right questions as you design your hybrid cloud, you maximize your chances for success. What do you want to achieve? Identifying your goals will help you zero in on the biggest pain points and attack those first. Description Learn how to increase the effectiveness of your hybrid cloud with a focus on data strategies for running hybrid applications. Use this guide to: Discover key Differences between enterprise IT environments and the public cloud. Learn if you can support enterprise applications in the public cloud. See if you can support cloud-native applications on-premises. Understand if you can protect data cross your hybrid cloud."

"By asking the right questions as you design your hybrid cloud, you maximize your chances for success. What do you want to achieve? Identifying your goals will help you zero in on the biggest pain points and attack those first. Description Learn how to increase the effectiveness of your hybrid cloud with a focus on data strategies for running hybrid applications. Use this guide to: Discover key Differences between enterprise IT environments and the public cloud. Learn if you can support enterprise applications in the public cloud. See if you can support cloud-native applications on-premises. Understand if you can protect data cross your hybrid cloud."

Mapping, tracking, positioning and real-time data arekey to supporting defense and intelligence initiatives. Governments and agencies need location data they can trust to track and adjust fixed and mobile resources to address rapidly changing events and circumstances. With Ovum's Location Platform Index: Mapping and Navigation, agencies can assess location platform industry leaders and identify the platform that best meets their product development demands. This year, HERE Technologies cemented its role as the industry leader, earning the highest ranking, and besting Google, for the second time in a row. Download your free report to learn: The relative strengths and weaknesses of each vendor, including data, enablers and features Vendor strategies to keep up with changes in technologies and trends The specific workings of the location platform market, and to better understand what constitutes a healthy location platform and which provider offers the correct portfolio and the necess

Digital commerce platform complexity continues to increase due to constant changes in product offerings and functionality, technology delivery, and pricing models. We evaluate the viability of 13 vendors to assist application leaders supporting digital commerce in making an objective evaluation.

Read how Cheniere  is transforming the maintenance of complex assets at the upgraded Sabine Pass facility with IBM Maximo.

Connected Intelligence in Insurance Insurance as we know it is transforming dramatically, thanks to capabilities brought about by new technologies such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). Download this IDC Analyst Infobrief to learn about how the new breed of insurers are becoming more personalized, more predictive, and more real-time than ever. What you will learn: The insurance industry's global digital trends, supported by data and analysis What capabilities will make the insurers of the future become disruptors in their industry Notable leaders based on IDC Financial Insights research and their respective use cases Essential guidance from IDC

The current trend in manufacturing is towards tailor-made products in smaller lots with shorter delivery times. This change may lead to frequent production modifications resulting in increased machine downtime, higher production cost, product waste—and the need to rework faulty products. To satisfy the customer demand behind this trend, manufacturers must move quickly to new production models. Quality assurance is the key area that IT must support. At the same time, the traceability of products becomes central to compliance as well as quality. Traceability can be achieved by interconnecting data sources across the factory, analyzing historical and streaming data for insights, and taking immediate action to control the entire end-to-end process. Doing so can lead to noticeable cost reductions, and gains in efficiency, process reliability, and speed of new product delivery. Additionally, analytics helps manufacturers find the best setups for machinery.

This white paper considers the pressures that enterprises face as the volume, variety, and velocity of relevant data mount and the time to insight seems unacceptably long. Most IT environments seeking to leverage statistical data in a useful way for analysis that can power decision making must glean that data from many sources, put it together in a relational database that requires special configuration and tuning, and only then make it available for data scientists to build models that are useful for business analysts. The complexity of all this is further compounded by the need to collect and analyze data that may reside in a classic datacenter on the premises as well as in private and public cloud systems. This need demands that the configuration support a hybrid cloud environment. After describing these issues, we consider the usefulness of a purpose-built database system that can accelerate access to and management of relevant data and is designed to deliver high performance for t

Welcome to Secure Hybrid Cloud For Dummies, IBM Limited Edition. The hybrid cloud is becoming the way enterprises are transforming their organizations to meet changing customer requirements. Businesses are discovering that in order to support the needs of customers, there is an imperative to leverage the highly secure IBM Z platform to support missioncritical workloads, such as transaction management applications. The Z platform has been transformed over the years. The combination of z/OS, LinuxONE, open APIs, and the inclusion of Kubernetes has made IBM Z a critical partner in the hybrid cloud world. Businesses can transform their IBM Z environments into a secure, private cloud. In addition, through IBM’s public cloud, businesses may take advantage of IBM Z’s security services to protect their data and applications.

This white paper considers the pressures that enterprises face as the volume, variety, and velocity of relevant data mount and the time to insight seems unacceptably long. Most IT environments seeking to leverage statistical data in a useful way for analysis that can power decision making must glean that data from many sources, put it together in a relational database that requires special configuration and tuning, and only then make it available for data scientists to build models that are useful for business analysts. The complexity of all this is further compounded by the need to collect and analyze data that may reside in a classic datacenter on the premises as well as in private and public cloud systems. This need demands that the configuration support a hybrid cloud environment. After describing these issues, we consider the usefulness of a purpose-built database system that can accelerate access to and management of relevant data and is designed to deliver high performance for t

In the last few years we have seen a rapid evolution of data. The need to embrace the growing volume, velocity and variety of data from new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Things (IoT) has been accelerated. The ability to explore, store, and manage your data and therefore drive new levels of analytics and decision-making can make the difference between being an industry leader and being left behind by the competition. The solution you choose must be able to: • Harness exponential data growth as well as semistructured and unstructured data • Aggregate disparate data across your organization, whether on-premises or in the cloud • Support the analytics needs of your data scientists, line of business owners and developers • Minimize difficulties in developing and deploying even the most advanced analytics workloads • Provide the flexibility and elasticity of a cloud option but be housed in your data center for optimal security and compliance

Digital transformation is a business enabler, one that also translates to an increase in the demand for greater storage capacity and performance. This increasing demand requires IT organizations to re-examine their data storage strategy as the growth in capacity doesn’t align with a shrinking IT budget. To support the growth of the business and remain competitive in a global digital market, CIOs are asked more than ever to “do more with less,” while improving performance and availability at the same time.

Infrastructure efficiency and effectiveness directly support profit and growth as competition increases in the cloud and managed service provider (xSP) market. Savvy service providers understand that storage choices have a profound impact on not only their profit and growth, but also on their customer experience and retention. They also know that storage challenges in all those areas increase exponentially with scale. Infinidat storage platforms allow service providers to build and scale differentiated, profitable solutions without worrying about storage. Infinidat technology enables unprecedented efficiency, performance, and resiliency, while flexible business models make it easy for service providers to operationalize those platform advantages—including unique co-branding and promotional opportunities as part of the Powered by Infinidat program. Cloud providers worldwide trust their businesses to Infinidat storage. This paper explores a path for service providers to unlock greater sc

Databases represent the backbone of most organizations. And Oracle databases in particular have become the mainstream data repository for most mission-critical environments. Some of the largest companies and organizations in the world rely on Oracle databases to store their most important data. The biggest challenge organizations face relative to an Oracle database is to maintain these databases at optimum performance and reliability without breaking the bank. This paper discusses the storage capabilities customers should consider when choosing storage to support an Oracle database environment.

Your customers crave and deserve a stellar customer service experience. Learn three ways to deliver personalized support and earn lifelong brand loyalty.

The digital age has forever changed customer expectations. By unifying customer data and tracking interactions, Kustomer gives retailers the power to better understand customers and deliver great experiences wherever they happen to engage.

UNTUCKit wanted to ensure their stellar shopping experience was supported across every customer touchpoint, especially support. But the growing UNTUCKit team was spread across multiple platforms, without visibility into customer history or lifetime value. Learn how Kustomer enabled them to deliver exceptional service while increasing agent efficiency by 25%.

ConnectWise has helped more than 5,000 companies like yours create new practice areas for managed services to build upon their monthly recurring revenue. We’re confident that with the right tools and support, incorporating managed services into your existing portfolio is easy. Use these strategies and tips to sell the value of managed services to your clients.