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As the pace of innovation accelerates, customer needs change and industries converge, many companies find it challenging for their information technology to support the rapidly changing needs of the business. This whitepaper examines how organizations can evolve their IT infrastructure to enable modern business innovation, agility and growth.

Change is afoot in cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Two years ago, a two-tier cloud ERP strategy was often pitched as an effective means of rapid consolidation and real-time reporting across a cloud platform. Cloud ERP’s common data model was a breakthrough for companies looking for better oversight across far-flung subsidiaries. But amidst heated global competition, transformation is no longer a wish list item; it’s an operational imperative.

Analysis of customer feedback shows enterprises, large and small, are increasingly frustrated with their on-premise technology vendors. They also know the history of the software industry—few vendors successfully navigate major architectural shifts. Tired of waiting for these vendors to modernize their environments, many customers are increasingly doing so on their own.

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Learn how Urban Outfitters: • Drove a 15% click-through to product pages from user-generated content. • Collected 13,000+ user-generated images of people celebrating their Urban Outfitters style in 2 months. • Celebrated fan support while using UGC to enhance ecommerce pages.

Download your copy to: • See which image types rank as most important to a visual marketing strategy. • Discover which channels are leading and lagging in visual commerce. • Learn the biggest challenges in driving ecommerce revenue with images.

Discover nine key data center and cloud architecture challenges that NetScaler helps solve more effectively than F5 to help you: • Address surges in traffic quickly and cost-effectively with on-demand elasticity • Reduce TCO within the data center through ADC consolidation • Enable network application-awareness through unique third party integrations • Expand hardware seamlessly without downtime • Cloud-enable your data […]