Briefings Direct

The next BriefingsDirect intelligent workspaces discussion explores how businesses are looking to the latest digital technologies to transform how employees work.

There is a tremendous amount of noise, clutter, and distraction in the scattershot, multi-cloud workplace of today -- and it’s creating confusion and frustration that often pollute processes and hinder innovative and impactful work.

We’ll now examine how IT can elevate the game of sorting through apps, services, data, and delivery of simpler, more intelligent experiences that enable people -- in any context -- to work on relevancy and consistently operate at their informed best. 

To illustrate new paths to the next generation of higher productivity work, please welcome Marco Stalder, Team Leader of Citrix Workspace Services at Bechtle AG, one of Europe's leading IT providers, and Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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For a large architectural firm in Illinois, gaining better overall security, management, and data center consolidation had to go hand in hand with preserving the highest workspace performance -- even across multiple distributed offices.

The next BriefingsDirect security innovations discussion examines how BLDD Architects, Inc. developed an IT protection solution that fully supports all of its servers and mix of clients in a way that’s invisible to its end users. 

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Here to share the story of how to gain the best cloud workload security, regardless of the apps and the data, is Dan Reynolds, Director of IT at BLDD Architects in Decatur, Illinois. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. 

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Gaining control over far-flung and disparate data has been a decades’ old struggle, but now as hybrid and public clouds join the mix of legacy and distributed digital architectures, new ways of thinking are demanded if comprehensive analysis of relevant data is going to become practical.

Stay with us now as we examine the latest strategies for making the best use of data integration, data catalogs and indices, as well highly portable data analytics platforms.  

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To learn more about closing the analysis gap between data and multiple -- and probably changeable -- cloud models, we are joined by Mike Potter, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Qlik. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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The next BriefingsDirect workplace productivity discussion explores how businesses are using the latest digital technologies to reimagine the employee experience -- and to transform their operations and results.

Employee experience isn't just a buzz term. Research shows that engaged employees are happier, more productive, and deliver a superior customer experience, all of which translates into bottom line results. 

To learn how, our panel will now explore how IT helps deliver a compelling experience that enables employees to work when, where, and how they want -- and to perform at their best.

Joining us are Adam Jones, Chief Revenue Officer, who oversees IT for the Miami Marlins Major League Baseball team and organization, and Tim Minahan, Executive Vice President of Strategy and Chief Marketing Officer at Citrix. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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The next BriefingsDirect Voice of the Innovator discussion focuses on how advances in design enhance the total experience for IT operators. Stay with us now as we hear about the general philosophy and modernization of design, and how new discrete best practices are making usability a key ingredient of modern hybrid IT systems.

To learn more about the latest in IT innovations, we're joined by Bryan Jacquot, Vice President and Chief Design Officer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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We'll now examine how new intelligence technologies and automation methods like robotic process automation (RPA) help global companies reduce inefficiencies, make employees happier, cut manual tasks, and streamline the entire source-to-pay process.

To learn more about the role and impact of automation in business-to-business (B2B) finance, please welcome Michael Tokarz, Senior Director of Source to Pay Processes and Systems at McKesson, in Alpharetta, Georgia. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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We will now hear how Citrix is by no means resting on its laurels by charting a new future of work that abstracts productivity above apps, platforms, data, and even clouds. The goal: To empower, energize, and enlighten disaffected workers while simplifying and securing anywhere work across any deployment model.

To hear more about Citrix’s evolution and ambitious next innovations, please welcome David Henshall, President and CEO of Citrix. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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Just as enterprises seek to gain more insights and value from their copious data, they’re also finding their applications, services, and raw data spread across a hybrid and public clouds continuum. Raw data is also piling up closer to the edge -- on factory floors, in hospital rooms, and anywhere digital business and consumer activities exist.

Stay with us now as we examine the latest strategies for uniting and governing data wherever it resides. By doing so, businesses are enabling rapid and actionable analysis -- as well as entirely new levels of human-to-augmented-intelligence collaboration.

To learn more about the foundational capabilities that lead to a total data access exploitation, we’re now joined by Dan Potter, Vice President of Product Marketing at Attunity, a Division of Qlik. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

Speed to business value and simplicity in deployments have been top drivers of the steady growth around HCI solutions. IT operators are now looking to increased automation, built-in intelligence, and robust security as they seek such turnkey appliance approaches for both cloud and traditional workloads.

Stay with us now as we examine the rapidly evolving HCI innovation landscape, which is being shaped just as much by composability, partnerships, and economics, as it is new technology.

We’ll now learn how Ferrara Candy Company boosts its agility as a manufacturer by expanding the use of analysis and proactive refinement in its data center operations by bringing more intelligence to IT infrastructure.

Stay with us to hear about unlocking the potential for end-to-end process and economic efficiency with Stefan Floyhar, Senior Manager of IT Infrastructure at Ferrara Candy Co. in Oakbrook Terrace, Illinois. The discussion is moderated by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions.

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