Blog

Five Considerations for Measuring Product Performance – Setting the Stage for Great Outcomes

Relying on anecdotal evidence and opinions when making decisions about your product or service can be risky. With the right data to guide you, it can be easier to determine whether you should continue investing, pivot your strategy, or abandon a product idea altogether.

App Dev & DevOps

The Impending Risks of Ignoring AngularJS End-of-Life

AngularJS is nearing its end-of-life, and ignoring the repercussions of this transition can expose websites and applications to a variety of risks. Embracing change and staying up to date with evolving technologies is not just a best practice; it is imperative to ensure the long-term viability and security of your web applications.

Application Development & Integration Services

Unlocking Efficiency: Seven Advantages of Upgrading to Angular

Explore the top seven benefits of transitioning from AngularJS to Angular, including improved performance, mobile responsiveness, and TypeScript integration.

Cognitive and AI

AI Adoption: Drawing Insights from the Past for Tomorrow's Strategies

As the business world continues to venture into the exciting realm of Artificial Intelligence learn how past experiences can help guide AI adoption in 2024 and beyond.

Enterprise Architecture

How to Select Enterprise Architecture Tools

Choosing the right enterprise architecture tool requires a deep understanding of your organization's goals, capabilities, and resources.

B2B Integration

Streamlining B2B Data Exchange: Overcoming Common Challenges with IBM Sterling Data Exchange

Streamline B2B data exchange with IBM Sterling Data Exchange. Overcome challenges, ensure security, and achieve seamless integration for successful data exchange.

Cloud

Zero Trust MFT in a Hybrid Cloud World

Most businesses only prioritize a secure file transfer system once they have a breach. Learn why Zero Trust MFT is so critical.

Agile

Introducing the Enterprise Agility Maturity Matrix

The Enterprise Agility Maturity Matrix can be used to set transformation goals on the path to Agility and monitor your progress. Download this tool today.

Recruiting

Laying the Groundwork for your NEXT Job

Networking online and offline is a great way to prepare for your next IT position, and a safeguard strategy for keeping your options open down the road.

Agile

Waterfall or Agile: Wrong Question!

Eliassen Group's Bob Ellis shares how to reframe your Agile approach. Start by empathizing with the audience, not focusing on a solution. Learn more.

Recruiting

Making the Shift from Full-Time to IT Consulting

Have you ever considered making the switch from full-time employment to IT consulting? Read this article to figure out if it’s right for your tech career.

Agile

Mixing Oil & Water (Part 2 of 2)

In Part 2, we’ll look at more robust Agile solutions required in highly regulated environments and scenarios, such as the Agile QMS and the Agile Playbook.

Recruiting

Don't get burned: social media rules for job seekers

What should job seekers be concerned about when it comes to their social media habits? In this blog post, we address some of the DOs and DON’Ts.

Recruiting

(Not Your Grandmother's) Job Interview Tips for Recent College Grads

Gearing up for job interviews? Here are some job interview tips for recent college grads.

Recruiting

4 IT Consulting Hourly Rate Negotiation Strategies

If you are looking for a contract tech job, you need to know these four IT consulting hourly rate negotiation strategies. Learn more.

Recruiting

How Not to Write a Job Posting

Why didn't anyone apply to your job posting? You might be surprised. Read this list of how not to write a job posting so you can make improvements.

Agile

My Coder is Faster Than Your Team

It can be very beneficial for agile teams to take a break from their regular value stream to work on smaller, valuable things. Read the blog to learn more.

Agile

Why Choose the Agile Planning Process?

By going with an Agile planning process, your team can deliver value faster. Here's why.

Agile

Agile Transformation: Millions invested in Agile... Where's the value? Part 1

Want to prove your ROI if you invest in an Agile Transformation? Working with an Agile Transformation coach can help your organization move toward success.

Agile

SAFe for Fully Virtual Teams - Part 1, Pre-PI Planning

We break down implementing SAFe for fully virtual teams, including the process of SAFe Pre-PI planning and creating a SAFe program board. Read to learn more.

Agile

Agile Transformation: Million$ invested, where is the value? - Part 2

In part two of this blog series, Bob Ellis reveals the next three keys to success in an Agile Transformation. Start reading to accelerate your progress.

Agile

The Product Owner Journey, Part 2: Mitigation Strategies

A proxy product owner faces many challenges in an organization going through an agile transformation. Learn more about these challenges, and how to solve them, in this blog post.

Agile

Do we need a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)?

The Scaled Agile Framework (or SAFe Framework) provides a blueprint for enterprise systems, and setting up Scaled Agile Framework roles can boost success. Learn more in this blog post.

Agile

Stop Doing Backlog: Critical Component in Agile Transformation

A key component of a successful Agile Transformation is eliminating non-value tasks. Learn more here.

Agile

Transformation: Deceptions in Disguise

Personal transformations are the engines that drive change — and the end result can be cultural and organizational transformation. Learn more in this blog post.

Recruiting

The Best Eliassen Group Recruiting & Job Search Advice of 2016

Read the best Eliassen Group recruiting and job search advice blogs of 2016 to get a head start on the New Year. Check them out here.

Agile

Asking the Question: Why is Agile Failing Us? Part 2

Agile isn’t perfect and we should question it and keep looking to improve it. Continuous Improvement is part of Agile and should also be how we treat Agile.

Talent Solutions

Top 3 Benefits of IT Asset Management

Businesses will find three main benefits when leveraging IT asset management within their operations to handle their infrastructure. Learn more today.

Agile

Tactics for Agile in Biopharma Research & Development

A director of product management shares what works and what doesn't when implementing Agile within drug discovery organizations. Learn more today.

Talent Solutions

3 Signs You Should Outsource Your Technology Project

Let’s take a look at some of the biggest signs that you should outsource your technology projects.

Agile

Scrumming Scientific Project Management

Scientist and Agilist Kendra West shares tips for scrumming scientific project management by introducing Agile practices. Learn from her findings today.

Agile

E-Book: 7 Important Reasons to Start Consolidating Multiple Instances

Running multiple instances of Jira and Confluence can pose business problems. Valiantys, an Eliassen Group partner, helps you prepare to consolidate.

Agile

The Agile Principia (a.k.a. Playbook) - Part 1: Agile Documentation

In Part 1 of a two-part series, Stephen Gristock considers Agile documentation, ultimately making a case for an Agile Playbook.

Agile

What Is Agile? It Ain't No Big Thing

Agile isn't a system that rolls out "transformations" turning project managers into Scrum Masters. Find out from Bob Dobson what Agile really means.

Agile

Accelerating Team Maturity by Failing Faster with One Week Sprints

Charles Galoppe advocates for one-week sprints, providing the team with the ability to learn up to 4 times faster to accelerate their maturity. Learn more.

Agile

When Companies Lose Their Way: Find It Again in 3 Steps (Part 2)

In part 2 of his blog series, Agile expert Mark Hill continues to explore the ways in which an Agile mindset can help companies that have lost their way.

Risk Management & Business Optimization

Financial Services Case Study: Risk Management & Business Optimization

These case studies on Risk Management & Business Optimization show how Eliassen Group has helped the companies excel despite challenges. Learn more.

Agile

Business Agility Definition: Avoid Becoming Organizational Roadkill

Companies must get beyond Agile just for IT. Agile expert Tom Wessel provides a business agility definition and shares how to survive -- and thrive.

Agile

Get The Whole Team Training!

Consider investing time in Whole Team Training! Whole Team Training is a curriculum that encourages involvement from everyone on a team across the board.

Workplace Culture

Recruiting & Retaining Multi-Generational Workforce: The Baby Boomers

As a generation, Baby Boomers have a lot to offer employers and colleagues. Here are some tips for recruiting and retaining these valuable employees.

Workplace Culture

3 Tips to Ensure a Positive Work-Life Balance

Work-life balance is a very popular topic of discussion and some would argue that there is no such thing.

Agile

Agile eBook – Kanban vs. Scrum: Tips for Choosing the Right System

With many companies adopting Agile methodologies, many project management software tools have popped up in support of Agile transformation and implementation.

Agile

Avoid Business Transformation Failure (3 Transformative Truths Part 2)

Avoid business transformation failure by understanding these 3 key transformative truths and creating the right organizational DNA. Learn more in this blog post.

Agile

The Product Owner Journey, Part 1

The product owner operates at the friction point between the agile team and the rest of the enterprise. Learn more about this role here.

Agile

Mixing Oil & Water (Part 1 of 2)

Stephen Gristock discusses how, while Linear compliance processes and Agile methods do not inherently work together, Agile compliance is possible.

Agile

Do you know where you really are in your Agile Transformation?

Enterprise Agility Maturity Matrix is a tool that can be used to set transformation goals, monitor progress and get everybody on the same page regarding Agile. Check out the tool here.

Recruiting

Working with Millennials

Millennials. The generation of lazy, narcissistic, self-righteous, participation trophy-toters. As one of those very Millennials, I’d like to help shed some light on what we need in order to thrive.

Agile

Scaling Great Heights with SAFe - Part 2

In Part 2 of “Scaling Great Heights with SAFe,” Stephen Gristock examines some approaches for successfully leveraging SAFe. Read to learn more.

Agile

How Clean is Your Code?

In the world of software development and the Agile Manifesto, we should always ask ourselves, how clean is this code? Get help answering this question.

Our Company

What Leadership Needs from Employees: Supporting Great Company Culture

Great company culture involves strong leadership and employee engagement. How can you build a culture of trust and transparency in your company?

CAP

Net Promoter Scores: What Do the Numbers Really Mean?

Net Promoter Scores are based on how likely you are to recommend your firm to a friend or colleague. Find out what the highest net promoter score reveals.

Agile

Your Agile Journey: What about my old metrics?

With sprints, sometimes we don't get around to fixing a bug for weeks which is presenting an issue when it comes to our Agile adoption.

Recruiting

The Growing Trend in Cybersecurity Equals Job Opportunties

Learn about the job opportunities for IT professionals in the field of Cybersecurity.

Agile

Pharmaceutical Innovation and Agility

Dr. Terry Barnhart shares how your company can boost pharmaceutical innovation through Agility. Start accelerating your innovation today.

Agile

When Companies Lose Their Way - How to Find It Again in 3 Steps

Realizing how you’ve lost your way invites a new disruptive way of thinking that creates the possibility for a transformative change in your choices.

Agile

The Unstoppable Drive to Win

The human drive to win can be an incredible transformational tool when harnessed and used for positive change. Read this blog post to learn three basic questions that can propel you ahead of your competition.

Workplace Culture

Holiday Workplace Celebrations Reinvented

Holiday celebrations in the workplace that honor your employees

Recruiting

College Athletics & Your Career

Looking for a competitive environment and to be compensated based on your performance? Check out the Resource Specialist Program at Eliassen Group!

Agile

Agile Roundtable Series: What Is Business Agility?

What is business agility, and why is it so important to organizational survival? A group of experts offer their perspectives and where to get started.

Agile

Why Measure Maturity With Agile Assessments?

Audrey Boydston and Stephen Gristock reveal the approaches that make an Agile maturity assessment report successful. Learn more.

Recruiting

How to Align Recruiting With Your Talent Acquisition Strategy

How do you ensure that your IT recruiting & hiring practices match your talent acquisition strategy? Learn to evaluate your process & attract desired candidates with this blog post.

Application Development & Integration Services

The High Demand for UX/UI Designers

Top companies recognize how critical the need for great user experience design is for their products. A UX/UI designer will help you focus on these challenges.

Recruiting

How to Evaluate and Select a Job Recruiter

Do you know what to ask when evaluating an IT job recruiter? Here are specific questions and considerations to help you select the right recruiter.

Agile

New Agile Training Courses: Eliassen + Scrum@Scale

Eliassen Group offers a variety of Agile training courses to help organizations and individuals learn Agile practices, the Scrum@Scale framework, and more. Learn more here.

Agile

Understanding Agile Metrics - Part 2: Measuring Value and Maximization

Value maximization is a key part of scrum. Do you know the difference between value and outcome-based metrics, and leading vs lagging metrics? Learn more in this blog post.

Agile

Avoid Business Transformation Failure (3 Transformative Truths Part 1)

What are the common missteps that hamper Agile Transformation? The following insights will help you avoid business transformation failure. Learn more.

Agile

The Agile Principia (a.k.a. Agile Playbook) - Part 2

In Part 2 of this blog post, we look at some of the pre-requisites and adoption scenarios of an Agile Playbook, which you can use in your own organization. Learn more.

Recruiting

Building Your Personal Brand: Career Tips for Millennials

Learn how to build your personal brand for career success! This blog post provides great tips to help you build your influence early on in your career.

Agile

Agile Management in the Real World

Why don't we talk about the role of management in Agile? Marc Danziger makes the case for a thoughtful discussion.

Digital Transformation

The Business Benefit of Design Thinking

Learn more about what design thinking actually is, how it benefits an organization, and how it impacts a digital transformation in this blog post.

Agile

Agile Case Studies: Talent Solutions and Agile Transformation

Learn how Eliassen Group has helped financial services stay agile and win more business with these Agile case studies.

Agile

Is it time for a SAFe® Health Check?

Scaled Agile Framework can bring your enterprise best practices, values and principles with an evolving library of courseware, and growing community of SAFe Agilists.

UX/UI

Mobile Usability in Web Design: The Demand for UX & UI Designers

With the growth in mobile usage, UX/UI Designers or User Experiencers/User Interface Designers are becoming more and more sought after by companies.

Agile

4 Dimensions of Success for Agile Metrics

When setting Agile metrics, avoid common pitfalls by choosing metrics that cover these key elements. Read the blog post to learn more.

Agile

Challenges Facing Product Organizations: Root Causes, Results & Recommendations

In this blog post, learn about challenges facing product organizations, including root causes, results and recommendations

IoT

What IoT programming language works best for you?

There are 11 IOT programming languages you can use in your Internet of Things engagements. Start thinking about which one is right for you.

Agile

What if Continuous Compliance were possible in the Drug Industry?

Jennifer Mariani discusses the high resistance to change in the drug industry. Find out why she proposes Agile and Continuous Compliance as the solution.

Recruiting

The True Value of Corporate Mentoring Programs

What are the key benefits and the true value of corporate mentoring programs? Here are key considerations for establishing and measuring your mentoring program.

Healthcare IT

User Experience Design in Healthcare: On the Precipice

There are many opportunities and challenges facing healthcare companies related to user experience design. Learn how to find and hire the right creative talent.

Recruiting

Here are seven helpful tips for acing phone interviews

Now that we can't always make first impressions in person, use these tips for acing phone interviews to be ready when a hiring manager calls.

Agile

Agile featured in "Software skills shortage spurs channel business"

Eliassen Agile featured in TechTarget: Software development skills shortage spurs channel business. Read the article here.

Consultant Advocate Program

We all need someone in our corner. That’s why we have CAP.

Our consultants know that instead of spending time guessing who the point of contact is to answer a question, they can reach out to CAP the first time. Learn more about the program here.

Agile

Help! My Teams are Agile but my Execs are Waterfall!

Software is strategic differentiator for companies and the ability to design and deliver this software effectively and efficiently is dependent upon agility.

Agile

Scaling Great Heights with SAFe - Part 1

SAFe calls for an initial focus on defining the need for Agile with the help of active participation from Leadership. Learn more in this blog post by Eliassen's Stephen Gristock.

Recruiting

5 Tips for Crafting Job Postings That Stand Out

How do you make your job postings stand out to attract top candidates.

Recruiting

How do you prepare for the interview "dance?"

How can you learn more about your candidate(s) and come away with information that will aid in the hiring process? Learn more in this blog post.

Agile

The Three Hallmarks of Product Agility (And Why It Matters)

Learn more about the three hallmarks of project agility and why it matters in this blog post.

Our Company

Positively Impacting Our Consultants

At this year's Kickoff, we held a panel with a few of our consultants who gave us valuable insight into their time working with Eliassen Group.

Recruiting

Be Prepared! The Many Types of Interviews

Job candidates must be prepared for the various types of interviews that may come their way during the job interview process.

Agile

Understanding Agile Metrics and Measurements

Can alignment be measured during a transformation? Here's how to interpret crucial Agile metrics and measurements, including Agile quality metrics.

Biopharma

Is Agile the Answer to Big Pharma's Digital Revolution?

A push for speed and innovation is forcing large pharma companies to exchange less-efficient liner, traditional processes for methodologies like Agile. Learn more.

Agile

Is Agile Dead? What Successful Agile Adoption Looks Like

Find out from Eliassen Group's James Sweet and Valiantys's Dean MacNeil why some organizations reap the rewards of Agile and others don't.

Recruiting

Recruiting 'Check Up' - Upfront Planning to Recruit the Best Talent

Learn how upfront recruitment planning can help you locate and hire the best IT talent. Here are 5 questions your recruiting partner will ask - read the article

Talent Solutions

Job Negotiation Skills for Millennials

Regardless of the motivations, that first position is critical as a stepping-stone to the rest of your career.

Recruiting

Job Search During the Holidays: The Force is With You

Yes, continuing your job search during the holidays can be advantageous. Read our blog by Eliassen Group's Tech Recruiter, Mark Paolini, to find out why.

Agile

The Whole Enchilada: A Value Stream Example, Part 1

Find out why the "whole enchilada" is an ideal value stream example, and learn how to use these lean value stream mapping examples in your organization.

Recruiting

Ongoing Training Opportunities for Tech Consultants

Learn about the ongoing tech training available for IT and tech consultants: which ones are best for your career path?

Recruiting

5 Tips for Writing Job Postings That Stand Out

Writing job postings that stand out and encourage the best candidates to apply is more important than ever. These tips can help you get started.

Agile

What Is a Scrum Framework?

What is a Scrum framework? We'll explain it at several levels and show you how it works through a case study.

Recruiting

How to Write Killer IT Job Postings

Creating effective job posts to recruit IT and technology professionals can be tough. Learn how to craft winning career posts in five easy steps here.

Recruiting

It's more than just a job search.

At Eliassen Group, our purpose drives what we do. Our purpose is to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities in which we operate. And we mean that. See how we’ve positively impacted the lives of a few of our consultants.

Our Company

Unstoppable

Take a look at how Eliassen Group overcomes obstacles to achieve success and become truly unstoppable.

Agile

What Is an Agile Coach, and What Is It Like to Work As One?

What is an Agile Coach? Find out from a coach and top recruiters if the Agile coach career path is right for you.

Risk Management & Business Optimization

Risk Management in Banking: Case Studies

These case studies involving risk management in banking demonstrate how to handle complex situations successfully. Learn more today.

Agile

The Push-Me-Pull-You Paradox: Self-Organizing Agile Teams

Get back to Agile basics by taking a look at these things to remember when forming self-organizing Agile teams.

Workplace Culture

The Secret of High-Performing Virtual Teams

This webinar features an expert panel discussion around effective ways to respond to change and adapt to remote teams. Watch the video to learn more.

Big Data

Which Big Data certification is right for your career?

Big Data certifications can transform your career. Here are some of the most popular ones, including tips for which to choose based on your individual goals.

Cloud

How do you measure your IT department’s performance?

Does your company measure its IT department’s performance with analytics? Read the blog post for some reasons why you should get started.

Our Company

Employee Net Promoter Scores

Learn about how Employee Net Promoter Scores (eNPS) are calculated, and see where Eliassen Group ranks among Employee Net Promoter Scores benchmarks.

Workplace Culture

Glassdoor Lists Best Jobs for a Positive Work-Life Balance

The best jobs for a healthy work-life balance. With a healthy balance, employees will be more loyal and more productive.

Recruiting

Career Opportunity: Become a Technical Recruiter

Have you thought about a career as a technical recruiter? Eliassen Group's Resource Specialist Program will train you for recruiting success. Learn more.

Agile

Why Innovation Matters in Your Management Practices

Are your management practices simply in need of fine-tuning or do they require thoughtful innovation? Are those processes something you set-and-forget, or are they worthy of regular examination and renewal?

Talent Solutions

What's the Big Deal About Big Data?

Let’s take a deeper dive into why big data is such a big deal and what can be expected from this technology in the near future.

Agile

Melting the Frozen Middle: Helping Management Transition to Agile

As an organization goes through an Agile Transformation, middle managers must change their style from functional manager to servant leader, or they risk becoming obsolete. Learn more.

Recruiting

Does Your Company Take Too Long to Hire?

Does lack of a streamlined hiring process slow your company down? Learn quick tips for reducing time-to-hire in this blog post.

Agile

Successful Program Increment (PI) Planning: SAFe®

Eliassen Group's James Sweet shares why proper program increment (PI) Planning: SAFe is crucial and how to assemble an agenda correctly. Get started now.

Agile

How to Become an Agile Coach

So what does an Agile coach do, exactly? Learn more, and how to become an Agile Coach in this article by Eliassen Group.

Agile

Project Accounting to Agile Funding

If you prefer managing with data, you will love Agile. Find out how your organization can transition to rolling planning and strategic Agile funding.

Recruiting

How to Get the Most Out of College Career Fairs

How can you take advantage of college fairs and use them to maximum advantage in your search for a great job opportunity? Learn how in this blog.

Recruiting

What NOT To Do When Developing a Job Posting

How to develop more effective job postings to attract great talent - avoid these mistakes.

Agile

Asking the Question: Why is Agile Failing Us? Part 1

In this blog post, Robert Annis disusses his talk at the TriAgile Conference - "Why is Agile Failing Us?" Learn more about the talk, and why Robert chose this topic, here.

Agile

Agile Infrastructures: The Future of IT Operations Happening Now

For organizations to adapt at the rate the market demands, the IT infrastructure of an organization must be an Agile infrastructure. Learn how to get there.

Recruiting

Which Job Boards Are Most Effective for Employers and Job Seekers?

Which job boards yield the best results for employers and job seekers? Read our blog post to find out how to take advantage of these top performing job boards.

B2B Integration

Orchestrating Resilient Supply Chains Through EDI and APIs

Modern integration approaches that combine EDI and APIs can help drive numerous benefits. Here's how a blended approach can contribute.

Cloud

Planning for Effective Cloud Integration

As companies strive to optimize their cloud investments, a cohesive cloud integration plan along with the right tools can help ensure the best results.

Cloud

What is Cloud Migration?

Here's a 360-degree overview of migrating to the cloud, including the benefits, types of cloud deployments, migration strategies, and more.

Integration

5 Key Components of a Modern Integration Platform

Your integration platform must enable connectivity and innovation across your organization. Here are 5 Modern Integration Platform components:

API Management

Six Tips for Building a Successful API Strategy

These tips will help you build a comprehensive API strategy, aligned with your business goals, for developing, delivering, and managing APIs.

Digital Transformation

Modernization: Advantages of Leveraging Newer Programming Languages and Frameworks

Leveraging newer programming languages is not only beneficial for a more diverse skillset - it can generate many business benefits as well.

B2B Integration

Three Skills You Need for Integration Success

Organizations must ensure they have the required skills to combat multiple integration success challenges, including APIs, EDI, and coding skills.

Cloud

Benefits of Employing Cloud-Friendly Design Patterns

By leveraging cloud-friendly design patterns, companies can achieve greater scalability, efficiency, and agility, while addressing their unique needs.

Cloud

Why Modernize? Here are 10 Great Reasons to Modernize Applications

Companies across industries have faced numerous disruptions over the last few years - that is why it’s critical to modernize now.

Cloud

Your Cloud Strategy: The First Step to Achieving Cloud Transformation Success

Developing a solid cloud strategy is a critical step in your cloud transformation journey. Here's how and why to get started now.

Application Modernization

Building the Business Case for Application Modernization

There are many good reasons for modernizing applications. Here are recommendations for helping to build an effective business case.

Digital Transformation

Three Reasons Why Enterprise Architecture is Critical to Your Business Strategy

To support the business, IT leaders must think beyond the short-term and focus on true transformation. Here's why Enterprise Architecture is so critical.

Order Management

Why APIs Should Be an Essential Part of Your Omnichannel Strategies

APIs can play a critical role in enabling seamless omnichannel experiences, and are often the missing link in many omnichannel strategies.

Cloud

7 Steps to a Successful Cloud Migration

Here are some of the key steps - from planning to partnerships to measurement - that are critical for optimizing your cloud migration.

Enterprise Architecture

Rethinking Your Strategy and Investments for Making Bold Moves

Strong strategic planning and analysis capability driven through Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture can help your company prepare for disruption.

API Management

How API-Led Connectivity Addresses Digital Transformation Challenges

Adopting API-led connectivity and application networks helps organizations meet digital transformation challenges head-on, providing a critical enabler. Learn how.

B2B Integration

EDI + APIs: 3 Ways to Create Greater Value Together

Explore how you can leverage APIs and EDI platforms and capabilities together to make lasting business and IT improvements.

B2B Integration

APIs vs. EDI: Still Trending

APIs and EDI complement each other more than they compete. In this post, we explore how both APIs and EDI contribute to the ultimate goal of speed, reliability, and flexibility in B2B communications.

Integration

Technology Investment Advice: It’s Not the Tool…It’s the Team

The success of critical IT projects requires more than just a new or different tool. You need the right people and processes to create lasting results.

Artificial Intelligence

Opportunities in the Healthcare Billing Industry for AI and Machine Learning

In this blog, we explore how AI and Machine Learning can be leveraged to improve the healthcare billing process and tackle common roadblocks to success.

Cloud

Connecting Hybrid Environments Requires a Well-Planned Approach

Getting the most from both legacy on-premise and cloud-based investments requires a flexible, agile, and well-planned approach to hybrid cloud integration.

Cloud

Navigating Change and Disruption with Enterprise Architecture

During times of major change and disruption, Enterprise Architecture Alignment can play a critical role in helping companies survive and eventually prosper.

Order Management

Choosing the Right Order Management System for Great Customer Experiences

If you want to improve the customer experience, consider some of the most critical components of an omnichannel order management system as you evaluate your options. Here are some questions you should be asking.

Cloud

Why Now is the Time to INVEST in Your Strategy

There will be many lasting changes from the COVID-19 crisis; but investing in your strategy, along with effective planning and execution, can help you emerge even stronger.

Cloud

What is Enterprise Architecture and What are its Benefits?

Enterprise Architecture isn't just a technical concern. Learn about the definition of EA and its role in getting the most value from investments.

Integration

Integration Modernization Series Part 2: The Disruptor

In the second post in our Digital Transformation series, we feature an innovative company embracing Digital Transformation as they try to become the disruptor in their industry.

Integration

Integration Modernization Series Part 3: Implementing Modern Integration

For successful Digital Transformation, organizations must become great at Integration Modernization. Here are 3 lessons for modernizing integration.

Integration

Why Integration Modernization is Essential for Digital Transformation

In this first post of our Digital Transformation series, we'll explore two examples of companies forever changed by digital technologies, and why both are examples of the importance of Digital Transformation.

API Management

Understanding App Connect Enterprise as an API Microgateway

Learn about the various ways that you can expose APIs using IBM products and, in particular, the IBM App Connect Enterprise (formerly IIB) microgateway functionality.

API Management

Want a 360-Degree View of Your Customers? Look to APIs.

APIs & API Management play a critical role in achieving an effective 360-degree view of the customer. Learn Customer 360 in this article.

Order Management

The Importance of Store Enablement in the Omnichannel Customer Experience

Explore how the retail store plays a critical role in the omnichannel customer experience, and why store enablement is so important for increasing customer satisfaction and loyalty.

B2B Integration

B2B Partner Onboarding: A Technical or Process Problem?

Learn what B2B trading partner onboarding is and then why it should be considered both a human process and a technical one.

API Management

Why Successful Digital Transformation Requires Integration and APIs

Integrating applications is critical to digital transformation, but a point-to-point integration approach isn't feasible for addressing today's demands. Learn about successful integration approaches and why APIs are so important.

Order Management

Simplifying the Complexities of Order Management to Satisfy Customer Expectations

Without an adequate order management system that provides visibility across multiple channels and locations, inventory can suffer.

B2B Integration

What Are the Top Five Reasons to Consider a Managed File Transfer Solution?

Not all file transfer solutions are equal: 5 reasons why Managed File Transfer (MFT) can benefit your company over FTP or email file transfer.

B2B Integration

B2C eCommerce Lessons for B2B Companies

The B2B eCommerce industry is becoming increasingly customer-centric, resulting in several parallels between B2B and B2C interactions.

Managed File Transfer

Top 5 Pillars of Highly-Effective Managed File Transfer Strategies

To ensure a successful Managed File Transfer (MFT) initiative, companies must back up the technology with a strategy that aligns with the organization’s goals, compliance needs, and end users. Here are 5 key elements of a highly-successful MFT strategy.

Cloud

Simplifying Container Management with Kubernetes: Exploring IBM and MuleSoft Solutions

Learn how IBM and MuleSoft are helping organizations run and manage large numbers of containers using Kubernetes, simplifying container management.

Order Management

Why Cognitive is Critical in Omnichannel Order Management

Cognitive and AI capabilities are transforming order management and fulfillment in many ways. Learn more about Omni-channel Order Management in this blog.

Managed File Transfer

Overcoming 5 Top File Transfer Challenges with Managed File Transfer

Learn about the key challenges and trends companies are facing today around file transfers, and the vital role managed file transfer solutions play in overcoming them.

Artificial Intelligence

How Artificial Intelligence Can Transform Supply Chains

Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive capabilities are playing a critical role in optimizing supply chains. Learn how they help companies overcome challenges while improving, even transforming, their supply chain operations.

B2B Integration

Unleashing 3 Key Benefits of Greater Supply Chain Visibility

Learn how supply chain visibility, combined with analytics and cognitive capabilities, helps organizations respond quickly and proactively to unforeseen circumstances, keep operations on schedule, avoid costs and disruptions, and exceed customer expectations.

Integration

The Blockchain Primer — Without the Bitcoin

Learn about the fundamentals of blockchain technology: what it is, what it can do for you, and what it takes to work with blockchains.

B2B Integration

B2B Omni-channel Commerce: Responding to Consumerization

As B2B relationships become increasingly consumerized, businesses must ensure their B2B Omni-channel Commerce efforts effectively optimizes the changing paradigm.

Managed File Transfer

Managed File Transfer: Best Practices to Ensure Security

In order to ensure security and prevent any unauthorized access to this sensitive content, enterprises must have a secure managed file transfer policy in place.

Managed File Transfer

How Managed File Transfer Solutions Erase Compliance Blind Spots

Managed file transfer solutions can be a game-changer for healthcare organizations still struggling to comply with HIPAA standards. With managed file transfer solutions organizations can consolidate, streamline and finally ensure end-to-end oversight of their files.

Ecommerce

Omni-channel commerce: 24-hour shopping crowd

With Black Friday approaching, more retailers are turning their attention to store hours and omnichannel commerce.

B2B Integration

B2B Integration: Don’t Engage in Risky Business

A B2B integration project can be hard. Getting control over it doesn't have to be. Here are three common issues in B2B integration that a MSP can eliminate:

B2B Integration

Stop Driving Blind: Why Supply Chain Visibility is so Critical for Growth

Lacking supply chain visibility is like driving with your eyes closed. Learn why visibility is so critical for driving—and accelerating—business growth.

Supply Chain Management

Get smart: How to make the most of supply chain analytics

Supply Chain Analytics technology may be a game-changer, but organizations need to ensure that they are surrounding new tools with the personnel and approaches that can deliver a high ROI.

Order Management

5 Ways to Leverage Order Management Software for Business Satisfaction

Order Management Software not only improves customer fulfillment, but increases productivity and reduces complexity for the business users critical to an organization's success.

Managed File Transfer

Solving information security problems with managed file transfer and employee awareness

Organizations need to invest in employee education and managed file transfer tools in order to stay ahead of today's most hazardous information security threats.

Managed File Transfer

Resolving Security issues in Large Managed File Transfers

Managed file transfer solutions are a must for companies contending with security issues regarding the transmission of large, critical data.

Order Management

Is your Order Management Truly Aligned with Customer Demand?

When order management aligns with demand companies can better leverage their OMS practices – and improve their entire supply chain.

B2B Integration

Should you consider moving B2B file transfers to the cloud?

Moving B2B file transfers to the cloud can provide a number of benefits to companies of all sizes. Learn more.

Order Management

How Order Management can Improve LTL Processes

Order management software enables businesses to make smarter LTL shipping decisions. Read this article to learn more about less-than-truckload shipping.

Order Management

Getting over Common Hurdles in Omni-Channel Commerce

Omni-channel commerce continues to be a source of headaches for many companies, but optimization requires some fundamental shifts in approach.

B2B Integration

Like a layer cake: A Guide to the Levels of B2B Managed Services

Because B2B integration is such a demanding enterprise area, it requires vigilance and proactive management. Get out guide to B2B Managed Services.

B2B Integration

B2B Integration: Addressing the Human Side of Supply Chain Management

B2B integration helps personnel and asset management in one fell swoop, harnessing a mutually beneficial relationship that drives efficiency and oversight.

B2B Integration

Optimizing Big Data using Supply Chain Management Software

Supply chain management software can help business leaders find targeted ways to implement big data and information insights.

B2B Integration

Due process: How managed services can alleviate the stress of complexity

Managed services can help businesses rein in increasingly process-centric spending and focus more on end-to-end optimization.

Order Management

Getting a Visibility Cloak for Invisible Order Management Processes

The first step to better order management is through making sure all people, processes, and platforms are visible.

Omnichannel Commerce

What does Omni-Channel Really Mean and are we Ready for it?

What does it mean to be omni-channel ready? Learn how omni-channel readiness is defined and what is needed to achieve it.

API Management

Real-Time Information Delivery in the Logistics Industry

Learn how using APIs can help logistics companies be quicker to market, beating out competitors with innovative, customer-focused solutions.

B2B Integration

B2B Integration in the Cloud: Tips and IBM Use Cases

Many businesses have turned to B2B integration strategies over the years to enhance their relationships with partners and deliver a better experience for customers.

Modernizing B2B Integration

The Importance of Process in a Successful Software Implementation

Developing an effective process in software implementation is just as important to success as having a map for a road trip.

B2B Integration

Spotlight on IBM Sterling partnership: File transfer, data management and integration solutions

Businesses in every industry have a variety of different needs, whether these revolve around data management, B2B integration, or file transfers. Fortunately, there is an IBM solution to address each requirement a company might have.

Supply Chain Management

Post-holiday Supply Chain Management: Challenges and Opportunities

Whether dealing with the post-holiday challenges or aiming to re-engage customers, a supply chain management solution can provide the value, oversight companies need to be successful.

Ecommerce

Defining Omnichannel: Differentiating between Omnichannel, Cross-channel and Multi-channel Commerce

Does your organization need an omnichannel, multi-channel, or cross-channel eCommerce technology solution to meet the needs of your customers? This post defines and differentiates your options.

B2B Integration

Compelling Benefits of Managed File Transfer Solutions

With high-quality MFT products in place, organizational leaders can demonstrate to any auditors that they have acted in good faith regarding the use of internal data.

B2B Integration

Why B2B Integration is Key to Gaining Greater Supply Chain Insight

Learn how B2B integration capabilities enables the proactive insight needed to make supply chains more efficient, profitable and customer-focused.

B2B Integration

Lifesaving, Real-Time Information Sharing in Health and Life Sciences

APIs open up huge possibilities helping to make the right decisions at crucial moments and could speed up the development of new treatments.

Omnichannel and Order Management

B2B E-Commerce and the Customer Experience: It’s Complicated…But Critical

Delivering great B2B e-commerce experiences can be exceptionally challenging, yet very rewarding. Learn about the complexities and the opportunities.

API Management

The Case for API Management Over Web Services

Learn about the benefits of API Management vs Web Services, and why social and technical factors are enabling APIM to make inroads into 'traditional' SOA architectures.

Order Management

Omnichannel Order Orchestration: Increase Visibility, Efficiency and Customer Satisfaction

We caught up with Alora Chistiakoff to discuss the challenges retailers are facing and the best practices around omnichannel order management and fulfillment.

Managed File Transfer

Managed file transfer for HIPAA compliance: MFT succeeds where FTP fails

With more healthcare organizations adopting EHR systems , the time has come for them to also upgrade their file transfer solution from FTP to MFT.

Managed File Transfer

File Transfer Security: Top Considerations and Best Practices

When examining file transfer security options, decision-makers should take into account their company's industry requirements, cloud needs and mobile device use.

Managed File Transfer

Managed File Transfer Needed to Stop Ongoing FTP Problems

In the wake of another round of serious FTP server breaches reflecting evolving network security issues, consider managed file transfer solutions.

Managed File Transfer

Debunked: Top 3 Managed File Transfer Myths

While managed file transfer myths still exist, market growth shows that MFT solutions are becoming even more essential for today’s businesses.

Omnichannel and Order Management

Omni-channel retail: Tips to ensure successful strategy integration

Utilize these tips to help ensure a streamlined customer experience and guarantee that your omnichannel approach is successful.

Digital Transformation

Using technology to build the “ultimate customer relationship”

Establishing healthy customer relationships is complex. Align IT strategy with digital for target audiences to keep retention high and costs low.

Managed File Transfer

Selecting the right managed file transfer solution in the cloud

Cloud-based managed file transfers boost efficiency and productivity, the ROI of MFT software can vary between specific options.

B2B Integration

IBM InterConnect Recap: Cloud, B2B Integration and Managed File Transfer Trends

Finding “A New Way” to think about solving business problems and accelerating transformation was a key theme of the three-day cloud, mobile, and technology conference in Las Vegas.

B2B Integration

Why the Healthcare Sector is in Desperate need of B2B Integration

B2B integration can spur medical organizations to reduce supply chain management efficiencies, comply with Affordable Care Act provisions and devote more resources to direct patient care.

Omnichannel Commerce

Top Three Tips for Seamless Omnichannel Retailing

Buying across multiple channels has presented both concerns and opportunities for retailers, depending on their systems in place to manage omnichannel retail.

Supply Chain Management

Supply chain management: Out to sea?

Here are a few of the biggest concerns supply chain management professionals face in the shipping sector (and how they can be avoided):

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