How to Reduce Costs and Improve Profitability as a Subcontractor

The goal of every construction project is to make a profit. Profit is what's left after all costs and expenses associated with a project have been paid. When times are tight in construction, and there isn't a lot of work to bid, profit margins can be smaller. At times like this, it's more important than ever to maintain tight control over outgoings and expenses. We're here to help. We've put together the following guide on how subcontractors can help reduce financial risk, and how businesses can reduce costs by cutting unnnecesary friction in communication.

HR Management

Managing Employee Turnover

Learn why employee turnover really matters and how you can manage it in your organization by focusing on your people and your culture.

Human Resources
Talent Acquisition

Mastering Compliance Accuracy: How to Develop an Impact Analysis for Global Indirect Tax Tech

This document outlines a best-practices approach that successful indirect tax automation evaluation projects take to build a straightforward and logical business case to justify a project to improve their global indirect tax function.

Operational Accounting

THE LEARNING SUPPLY CHAIN

The shift to ecommerce and faster, cheaper delivery has meant exponential growth in orders and shipments. The added complexity in the supply chain is now too much for humans to make optimised decisions. Machine learning can take these vast amounts of data and turn them into improved, end-to-end operations.

Business Processes

Five Reasons to Consider a PEP as Part of Your Benefits Strategy

Five Reasons to Consider a PEP as Part of Your Benefits Strategy · 1. Improve retirement outcomes for employees · 2. Less risk for employers and …

Learning & Talent Development
Human Resources

The Future of Manufacturing: Digitally transform your business and get ready for Industry 4.0

Learn how utilising Industry 4.0 and focusing on serving your customers in new ways can keep your firm ahead of the competition.

Cloud Computing
Data Center
IT Management

Hiring for the Future: Trends, Predictions, and Outlooks

From new talent engagement models and a continued focus on compliance to a “humanled” approach towards the “talent experience,” this new Ardent Partners research report will highlight the top trends impacting hiring today and will unveil a series of predictions for the months and years ahead.

Human Resources

2021 Top Priorities for Data and Analytics Leaders

This e-book highlights the trends and challenges data and analytics (D&A) leaders will have to reconcile in the coming year and provides specific actions that they can take in response — and to better align their piece of the organization with the business.

Technology Solutions
IT Security

Guide To: Building a Design System Community

This guide is for design system makers who want to scale their initiatives in a sustainable way by building a design system community and establishing a company-wide design culture. It’s also for collaborators and key stakeholders outside of the core group who may have heard about design system efforts at their company, and want to learn why (and how) to get involved.

Software

State of Sales: Insights from nearly 6,000 sales professionals on what drives business resilience and growth

What drives business resilience and sales growth during a crisis? We asked thousands of global professionals. Read the State of Sales for the findings.

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A Guide to the New Era of Agile Marketing Planning

Get the Guide · Create a guiding strategic blueprint that shapes plans · Leverage scenario planning to stay flexible · Build agile marketing plans to the new gold …

Marketing Analytics
Marketing Automation

Disruptive Service: Embrace the Digital Service Revolution

As Salesforce Canada’s Mark Aucoin points out in his eBook Embrace The Digital Service Revolution, one of the unique aspects of meeting customers’ expectations today may not be immediately obvious. It’s this: Given that customers might need to interact with a company they’ve purchased from via smartphone app, social media service, email or another touchpoint, great service is not just about “dazzling” them but making the process as easy as possible.

Marketing Analytics
Email Marketing
Search Optimization

EMOTIONAL FOOTPRINT REPORT: Workforce Management

Info-Tech’s Category Reports provide a comprehensive evaluation of popular products in the Workforce Management market. This buyer’s guide is designed to help prospective purchasers make better decisions by leveraging the experiences of real users. Use this report to determine which product is right for your organization. For highly detailed reports on individual products, see Info-Tech’s Product Scorecard.

Human Resources

2020 Cyberthreat Defense Report

The report provides tech and business decision-makers important information on the threats their competitors and peers are facing, and how they are reacting to them. This can help guide how you deploy and invest in security for your business.

Network
Technology Solutions

A guide to affiliate marketing

Download Pepperjam’s Guide to Affiliate Marketing and take a dive into the channel’s evolution, key players, facts and statistics as well as how a thoughtfully curated affiliate technology platform can make all the difference when it comes to achieving the best outcomes.

Marketing Analytics
Marketing Automation

Future Ready with SaaS Management

Uncover 5 ways that VMware vRealize Cloud Management and vRealize Cloud Universal give infrastructure, cloud, and operational teams a proven way to make cloud your business.

Cloud Computing
Software
Business Processes

The Forrester Wave™: Digital Asset Management For Customer Experience, Q4 2019 - The 14 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

In our 28-criterion evaluation of digital asset management (DAM) for customer experience providers, we identified the 14 most significant ones — Adobe, Aprimo, BrandMaker, Bynder, Canto, CELUM, Censhare, Digizuite, MediaBeacon, Northplains, Nuxeo, OpenText, Sitecore, and Widen — and researched, analyzed, and scored them. This report shows how each provider measures up and helps application development and delivery professionals select the right one for their needs.

Software

Process Excellence for Frictionless Finance - How Finance departments can optimize processes for the outcomes that matter

Download our eBook to find out how Process Mining can help different finance functions optimize their processes to achieve the outcomes they want

Business Processes

From Theory to Practice: Top Considerations for Migrating to Windows 10 Modern Management with VMware Workspace ONE

The goal of this paper is to provide an overview and guidance around key considerations when migrating to modern management of Windows 10 desktops with Workspace ONE.

Software

The HR Playbook: 10 METRICS THAT PROVE THE VALUE OF HR

0 key metrics HR teams must track; How to calculate each metric; Benchmarks to see how you stack up

Workforce Management

HOW TO LEVERAGE COMPLIANCE AS A TOOL to Shape Your Company Culture

In this ebook, look at how these public compliance failures have spotlighted the impact that compliance can have on company culture. Along with building your culture, we also want to help you focus on the most important asset of your organization — your people.

Business Processes
Human Resources

Achieving Network Modernization for the Decade Ahead

This White Paper examines how VMware and Intel have worked together to deliver network virtualization capabilities that leverage software and hardware innovation to provide a wide range of business and operational benefits to enterprises that need their networks to be every bit as agile, flexible, secure, and elastically scalable as their other infrastructure supporting the business resiliency, availability, and performance of increasingly valuable applications and workloads.

Operational Accounting
Hardware

Why the Document Data Model

In this guide, we’ll discuss the fundamental design concepts underpinning the document data model, how they help developers innovate faster, and use cases where you can put document databases to work.

Data Center
Software

MOVE BEYOND ERP

There is a better way for manufacturers, distributors, service providers and mid-market enterprises to drive their companies forward.

Cloud Computing
Marketing Technology

BEST PRACTICES FOR MIGRATING TO CONTAINERIZED APPLICATIONS

This document will outline specific, technical recommendations and guidelines for migrating software into containers, ranging from image build procedures to how they should run in production. The application requirements will dictate how the application should be migrated.

Software

6 Steps to Overcoming PCI DSS Compliance Challenges in Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Environments

This eBook examines the challenges inherent in achieving continuous PCI DSS compliance across multi-cloud and hybrid landscapes and what to look for in evaluating solutions and service providers that can address those complexities.

Business Processes
Human Resources
IT Security

Monitoring as a Service: The MSP Opportunity Featuring a Hybrid IT Service Definition

This document describes a new managed service that helps MSPs monetize the rapidly growing cloud computing market. While cloud adoption is proceeding rapidly, especially for testing and development projects, the lack of visibility that enterprise customers have into public cloud services and hybrid IT creates a major pain point that cannot be solved easily and which acts as a significant barrier to cloud adoption for mission-critical workloads. Legacy monitoring tools are typically very difficult and costly to extend for seamless visibility into public cloud services, while the more cloud-centric tools have little or no coverage for the extensive tail of legacy IT systems that may remain on-premises for a considerable time yet

Technology Solutions
Cloud Computing
Data Center
IT Management

7 TELLTALE SIGNS YOUR LEADERSHIP PLAN NEEDS A REBOOT

This guide helps you identify signs that your leadership development plan could use some adjustments and outlines how to establish a sustainable leadership program within your organization. Find out if your leadership development plan could use a reboot.

HR Management
Learning & Talent Development
Workforce Management

5 Best Practices to Identify the Best Bid

Finding the right bid every time can be really challenging, but it can be much easier by following some simple tips and tricks we’ve compiled from estimating experts.

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Best practice makes perfect: malware response in the new normal

Computing surveyed around 150 cyber security decision-makers, representing organisations from a wide variety of industries, including education, finance, technology manufacturing and the public sector, to gain a detailed picture of the challenges facing security teams in the modern environment. Our objectives were to explore how SOC professionals were reacting to the rise in remote working, especially the increased susceptibility of employees to malware attacks; identify how such attacks have changed in terms of scale and sophistication; and examine the importance of quickly isolating and remediating an attack. The research also looks at how to secure their organisations after the pandemic.

Network
Technology Solutions

Better B2B: Taking E-Commerce to the Next Level

In this e-book you will find best practices and helpful information on salesperson expectations and how to navigate successful implementation without disrupting your sales teams, why documentation and content libraries are changing the landscape of B2B commerce, how to streamline the purchasing process with efficient search and navigation features and plenty more...

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CROWDSTRIKE FALCON COMPLETE - How to Achieve Instant Cybersecurity Maturity for Organizations of All Sizes

This white paper explores the challenges organizations face in getting the most out of a security solution. It also offers insights on how CrowdStrike Falcon Complete can raise you to the highest level of endpoint protection with speed and efficiency, regardless of your size and IT resources.

Technology Solutions
Network

Simplify endpoint backup with Druva

Simplify endpoint data protection and reduce data risks. Improve cyber resilience and compliance, protecting enterprise workforce and data assets. Download now to see six customer stories for overcoming data protection challenges

Data Center
Software
Hardware
IT Management
Storage

Finding the Best WAN Edge Solution for Your Enterprise

SD-WAN (Software Defined Wide Area Network) can help enterprises improve application performance, lower WAN costs, and strengthen business continuity. But as you consider deploying SD-WAN, it’s important to understand the differences between solutions. Identifying which features matter to your enterprise is essential in making this selection. This paper discusses the most important considerations and outlines capabilities that separate “just okay” products from really good ones. While this paper does not compare specific products, it does include examples of features from Citrix SD-WAN, one of the leading WAN Edge solutions in the industry.

Network
Business Processes
Technology Solutions

WHEN MAILCHIMP IS NOT ENOUGH: Why Choosing an Ecommerce-First Email Provider Matters

With this guide we'll break down the ecommerce-specific functionality that matters to online DTC brands looking to increase their sales. We’ll explore what matters, why it matters, and the right questions you need to ask when graduating to an email provider built specifically to help your business grow.

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Introducing MLOps: How to Scale Machine Learning in the Enterprise

This book specifically for analytics and IT operations team managers, that is, the people directly facing the task of scaling machine learning (ML) in production. Given that MLOps is a new field, we developed this book as a guide for creating a successful MLOps environment, from the organizational to the technical challenges involved.

Technology Solutions

EMPLOYER INSIGHT SURVEY: Returning to the worksite

Returning to the worksite. Transition strategies and approaches. Current status of return-to-worksite transitions among large employers.

Learning & Talent Development
Human Resources

The IT Roadmap for Data and Analytics

The Gartner IT Roadmap for Data and Analytics is based on unbiased research and interactions with thousands of organizations across all industries and sectors. Data and analytics leaders can execute a smart, effective data and analytics initiative by following best practices detailed in the roadmap.

Data Center
IT Management
Management Accounting
Business Processes

The IT Roadmap for Digital Business Transformation

From our expert research and interactions with thousands of companies in a wide range of industries, we’ve compiled digital business transformation best practices into a customizable roadmap. Your organization can use this roadmap to understand the key stages, resources and people required to plan and execute an effective digital business transformation initiative.

Business Processes
Technology Solutions

THE RETAILER’S GUIDE: SEVEN KEY STRATEGIES TO GROW YOUR PROFITS

In this white paper, we explore seven key strategies that organizations have used to improve their results and show you how to use them to your company’s advantage. Ranging from top-line revenue-oriented actions to regulatory burden management to simple cost-cutting tips, these strategies will help you free up scarce resources, maximize your company’s strengths and grow your profits in 2019. Each strategy is accompanied by a case study that brings the ideas to life.

Management Accounting
Business Processes

Planning Deconstructed: 5 Types of Planning Crucial to Delivering on Strategy with a Dynamic and Continuous Approach

The purpose of this paper is to outline different planning types and what a more continuous and agile approach to planning looks like. Assess your capabilities across each type and determine your organization’s maturity level. You’ll understand what it takes to create plans that enable you to continuously connect strategy to delivery

Business Processes

Align Salesforce with your enterprise quality strategy to deliver safer, faster updates

The following white paper shares best practices for building a modern testing strategy that will accelerate the delivery of Salesforce updates.

Business Processes
Software

Now Tech: Professional Services Automation Tools, Q2 2018

Forrester’s Overview Of 17 Professional Services Automation Providers CI professionals should use Forrester’s Now Tech report to understand the value they can expect from PSA tools and select vendors based on size and functionality

Cloud Computing

Revolutionize distribution operations with a modern ERP system

Read this executive brief to learn the top reasons leading distributors are investing in modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

Cloud Computing

COMPLIANCE GUIDE FOR FINANCE LEADERS

The Comprehensive Guide to Compliance through the Employee Lifecycle

Learning & Talent Development

Food and Beverage Traceability

Understanding food and beverage Understanding food and beverage manufacturing compliance and traceabilitycompliance and traceability

Business Processes
Human Resources

How to Build Marketing Dashboards That Don't Suck

Best Practices for Building Better Dashboards

Market Research

Employee Lifecycle Feedback

Find out how you can understand the key actions to take at every stage of the lifecycle, from formalized stages like recruitment, training, onboarding and exit as well as more personalized moments, such as when employees return from parental leave.

Talent Acquisition
Learning & Talent Development
Human Resources

Business Thinking for Designers

The essential vocabulary and strategies to effectively communicate with your business partners, plus tools, tips, and frameworks that you can put right to work.

Software

Litigation Management: Four Ways to Improve Your Approach

Four strategies that can guide companies’ litigation-prevention approaches.

Business Processes
Human Resources
Financial Services

THE IMPORTANCE OF INCENTIVES

WHAT, WHY, AND HOW INCENTIVES WORK AT ENTERPRISE ORGANIZATIONS In this white paper, we’ll explain what incentives compensation is, examples of how it works, its benefits, some potential pitfalls in such a program, and some tips for implementing and improving an incentives compensation plan at your organization.

Learning & Talent Development

The GORILLA GUIDE to Kubernetes Operations

Your resource to ensure the success of your Enterprise Kubernetes projects by thinking through critical decisions around deployment options, day-2 operational considerations, use cases, and choosing your Kubernetes implementation solutions.

Software

The New Science of Hiring: 7 Strategies

In this ebook, you’ll learn why now — despite gloomy economic indicators — is an ideal time for employers to hire great talent; why you should consider looking for talent beyond your traditional geographic boundaries; and how virtual hiring can help diversify your hiring. You’ll also come away with strategies for narrowing the candidate pool when faced with an overwhelming volume of applicants.

Human Resources
Talent Acquisition

Recruiting, Hiring and the Future of Work in the Technology Industry

With demand for talent continuing to grow and the skills gap widening, recruiters need to adapt if they want to win the best talent for their companies. Learn how in this PDF.

Human Resources
Talent Acquisition

3 PILLARS OF AN OFFSHORE RPO PARTNERSHIP THAT DRIVE MORE PROFITABLE PLACEMENT

Improve Onshore Sat Ratings to 10.0 on average; Increase placements per recruiter by 69%; Enlarge your gross margin multiplier by 6.9 times.

Human Resources
Talent Acquisition

How restaurant brands can manage customer and employee experiences during COVID-19 + beyond

SMG's exclusive Interactive XM Playbook, with a 3-phased strategy map + personal status tracker, helps restaurant brands keep pace with evolving customer + employee expectations—optimizing your XM program to navigate uncertainty with precision and emerge a stronger brand.

Marketing Analytics
Talent Acquisition

The Ultimate Cloud-Based Management Showdown: Windows Management Approaches Compared

Learn why Cloud-ready isn’t enough. Only Cloud Native solutions can optimize resources, secure and protect endpoints, deliver remote first experiences, and help organizations move to modernized IT.

Technology Solutions
Cloud Computing
Data Center
IT Management

Best Practices for Implementing Security Awareness Training

The goal of this white paper was to understand the current state of security awareness training through an in-depth survey of security professionals, and to offer advice about best practices that organizations should consider as they develop a robust training program for their employees.

Human Resources

Definitive Guide™ to Internet Isolation

Learn how the cyber security industry is changing, how existing technologies and solutions are failing, and how Internet isolation can prevent 100 percent of all email- and web-based attacks.

Network
Marketing Technology

DevOps Without Measurement Is a Fail

This ebook will introduce you to five critical drivers of DevOps success and show you how and what to measure to achieve that success: business success, customer experience, application and infrastructure performance, engineering velocity, and quality.

Technology Solutions
IT Management

Dangerously MisLeading: How some companies drive more pipeline without inbound SDRs

We have an inconvenient idea. The idea that inbound SDRs may not be necessary to driving meetings. Learn more in our guide.

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Driving Finance Transformation

In this this whitepaper, uncover a business case and technology roadmap to accelerate change and help drive finance transformation within your organisation.

Marketing Technology
Financial Security

How to Scale Hiring and Win Talent in 4 Important Steps

Four-step process to scale your hiring and win quality talent

Human Resources
Talent Acquisition

The Total Economic Impact™ Of Qualtrics CustomerXM

Thirty-eight million reasons why we believe the world’s leading brands choose Qualtrics for customer experience management.

Email Marketing
Marketing Analytics
Market Research

8 REASONS Automation is Critical for Effective MDR

Many organizations are turning to managed detection and response (MDR), giving them access to 24x7 threat detection and incident response services without the overhead necessary to do it on their own.

Financial Security
Technology Solutions

Design Systems Handbook

Learn how you can create your design system and help your team improve product quality while reducing design debt.

Business Processes
Software
Strategic Marketing

The Future of Work Compendium

Why technology, innovation, and automation continue to drive the future of work and why securing the right talent is more important than managing headcount and costs

Learning & Talent Development
Workforce Management
Management Accounting
Business Processes

A FRICTIONLESS ZERO TRUST STRATEGY

Download this white paper to learn how to realize frictionless Zero Trust to understand authentication gaps across on-premises and cloud identity stores, detect, analyze and reduce risks in real-time and improve user experience and operational efficiency for both the end-users and IT teams.

Technology Solutions
Software
Financial Security
Network

What is erpCommerce™?

A quick guide

Cloud Computing

The State of Customer Experience Management, 2019

To understand the current state of customer experience (CX) management, we surveyed 212 large companies with at least $500 million in annual revenues.

Email Marketing
Marketing Analytics
Market Research

LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM HEALTH CHECK

In this guide is a list of questions to determine if your Learning Management System solution provider is innovating to meet your current and future needs.

Learning & Talent Development

The Forrester Wave™: Governance, Risk, And Compliance Platforms, Q1 2020 - The 12 Providers That Matter Most And How They Stack Up

This report shows how each provider measures up and helps risk and compliance professionals select the right one for their needs.

Business Processes
Human Resources

HOW LUCRATIVE ARE VULNERABILITIES?

This report is intended for CISOs, security managers and security practitioners who are familiar with vulnerabilities and zero days and want a deeper understanding of the market dynamics driving their discovery and dissemination.

Network
Financial Security

SAP digital transformation requires Continuous Testing

Find out why it's time to move towards Continuous Testing for your SAP-enabled business processes; How Tricentis can help transform the SAP software testing …

Technology Solutions
Software

Embracing Technology = Greater ROI

As the Pandemic Reinforces the Need for Digital Transformation in Senior Care, New Study Demonstrates the Value of Embracing Technology

Marketing Technology

AI for Construction Management

Enabling Timely, Profitable Project Completion in an Uncertain World

Technology Solutions

3 savvy strategies for speeding up Salesforce testing

Read this white paper to learn 3 key strategies to follow that will help you break the bottleneck of Salesforce testing

Cloud Computing

HOW TO FIND AND FIX GENERAL MARKETPLACE ERRORS

Your 9-step guide for keeping product listings as error-free as possible

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Get On Board: Building High-Performing Agile Teams and Release Trains

Learn how the success of just a few Agile teams can transform an organization into one that pivots quickly, delivers value frequently, and propels the organization forward.

Learning & Talent Development

Five Critical Requirements for Internal Firewalling in the Data Center

This white paper explains the difference between traditional perimeter firewalls and purpose-built, software-based internal firewalls, and why the latter is best suited to protecting today’s modern workloads.

Network
Business Processes
Human Resources

Security Software Company Bolsters Visibility and Control Over Salesforce

As a leading security company, Ping Identity sought a vendor who could meet their high standards for an approach that would be both comprehensive and easy to adapt to their ongoing SaaS security needs.

Operational Accounting
Cloud Computing
Software

DOCUMENT AUTOMATION BUYER’S GUIDE

This guide identifies a few of the key features that should be included when considering a purchase of document automation software.

Operational Accounting

Eliminate manufacturing operational pressures

Make sure you’re geting the most out of your technology investment

Marketing Technology
Finance & Accounting

Workforce(Mis)management is Expensive

Digital Solutions for 7 Common Workforce Problems That Affect an Organisation’s Bottom Line

Human Resources
Business Processes

Discovering Diamanti for Data Analytics

A better understanding of both how and why Diamanti, a purpose-built platform for Kubernetes, is also an exceptional fit for Splunk.

Business Processes
Hardware
IT Management

Finance Disrupted

Workday commissioned a survey of industry finance and IT leaders across Singapore, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand to examine not only the impact of the global pandemic on businesses and specific industries, but also the future trends and opportunities they see...

Business Processes

The Claim Game: Why expense reporting is broken (and how to fix it)

Discover how innovative new technologies are eliminating time-consuming manual processes while surfacing data and insights to make informed decisions that drive business growth.

Marketing Technology
Business Processes

Guide to Building a Secure Identity and Access Management (IAM) Program

Find out what is Identity Access Management, the barriers and the challenges

Business Processes
Cloud Computing

4 Fundamentals of Sales Analytics Success: What Sales Ops Needs to Know

In this paper, you’ll learn why understanding your data leads to deeper insights; a single source of truth helps to get your team on the same page

Data Center
Software
Cloud Computing

Is Your Enterprise Network Multi-Cloud Ready?

The reality is that many businesses that have adopted a multi-cloud strategy have seen their IT environment turn into a patchwork of on-premises, public cloud, legacy systems, and emerging technologies…

Cloud Computing
Data Center
IT Management

THINKING BEYOND PRODUCT SPECS

When considering document and imaging equipment, businesses should factor these six trends into their buying decisions

Hardware

A 4-TIER APPROACH TO MODERN DATA PROTECTION

Learn how NetApp and Veeam can deliver a complete, modern data protection storage platform with data tiering capabilities through an integrated storage and software solution.

Storage
IT Security

The Big Makeover : How Digital Transformation is Changing the Face of Canadian Manufacturing

How Digital Transformation is Changing the Face of Canadian Manufacturing

Business Processes
Marketing Technology
Finance & Accounting

Optimize your network for a cloud-first world

Read this e-book to learn how a unified app-delivery strategy can help you increase IT efficiency and reduce security risks.

Network
Business Processes

PEAK PERFORMANCE

How leading organizations implement performance management and employee engagement today…

Learning & Talent Development

A guide to building agile research functions in-house

There’s no right or wrong way to build a research team – but there are best practices you can follow to ensure your team makes the most sense for your organization, now and in the future.

Learning & Talent Development
Human Resources