On the transactional side of enterprise processes we expect companies to be attracted to crowdsourcing because of cost savings but also because of flexibility too.
In essence, I think this is not just the specialization of enterprise processes to departments and job roles, but the hyperspecialization of work, down to the task level.
It is a business transformation involving organizational culture, enterprise business processes, customer relations, and workforce behavior just as much as it is a change to the enterprise IT infrastructure.
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These data sets align with traditional goals of an enterprise to optimize business processes (sales, finance, HR, etc.) in order to drive revenue growth and profitability.
In my view there is a simple line running from where companies were and the processes they needed thirty years ago, to a highly externalized enterprise that carries new rules and needs new processes.
It will be aimed at salespeople, HR professionals and project and resource managers to aid in customer relationship management, enterprise resource planning and other business processes.
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The Enterprise Edition easily fits into existing business processes and helps reduce the cost of deploying and maintaining client-based software.
This means converting the data into meaningful information and integrating the data with enterprise business systems to optimize existing business processes.
The smartphone and tablet have created an expectation for a touch experience that will revolutionize the enterprise and its desk-bound business processes and their users.
This is especially important for the enterprise, where a majority of business processes do not necessarily take place on the road or in the field, and where many processes require more user input than is possible on a tablet or smartphone.
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Other considerations for moving to cloud computing include improving processes to offer more agility across the enterprise (80%), and offering technical benefits that they otherwise could not gain from their own data centers (76%).
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By design, systems of record are records-centric, revolving around enterprise data, documents, messages and their surrounding business processes.
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Lean is appealing, then, to people in enterprise settings, particularly those who already take responsibility for agile processes.
The results are enriched customer relationships, streamlined business processes, and improved communication and collaboration across the enterprise all through a familiar experience.
The firewall has long been emblematic of the enterprise's approach to information security, and software solutions have imposed rigid processes and limited licenses to employees to minimize the risk of the wrong information ending up in the wrong hands.
Apparently tired of hearing pitches about the consumer takeover of the enterprise from too many startups and investors, Horowitz explains that enterprises usually have complicated processes for spending money, sometimes ineffective, but almost always arcane.
The company is rolling out Advent Direct, a new cloud-based system that lets investment managers take data from their Advent modules and other enterprise systems such as SalesForce.com, to generate a view of their investment processes and, soon, of their customers.
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In The Elastic Enterprise, Nick Vitalari and I described how companies are evolving new ways to externalize their processes.
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The combination of the two enabled HP, Dell, and Lenovo to introduce tablets that provided the consumer-friendly features of the iPad while allowing enterprise IT to use the same security, provisioning, deployment, management, service, and repair processes and tools as their Windows 7 PCs.
As a result of this mismatch we will see new business processes develop that accommodate customer engagement while at the same time selectively integrating this unstructured content in enterprise systems.
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