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Empowering Remote Users

2020 has certainly presented all of us with its fair share of challenges. Small businesses and large organizations alike have been forced to change policies and procedures to adapt to the concept of ‘the remote worker’. As more and more employees are working from home, it is critical that they are set up for success and armed with the tools to address issues that arise, no matter where they are located.

Digital Incidents in Retail Have Increased 37% Year-Over-Year

2020 will go down as one of the hardest years that brick-and-mortar businesses have ever experienced. By the end of March this year, half of the world’s population was estimated to be on “lockdown,” causing an unprecedented shift in priority for businesses from brick-and-mortar stores to ecommerce channels.

Borrow Expertise With Runbook Automation

Every team has their experts. Maybe you’re the expert for a segment of your team’s applications—the person who’s always called when there’s a problem or when something unexpected happens or when things just look “weird” and the solution isn’t simple. Maybe there’s two of you or even, if you’re lucky, three!

Hybrid cloud: easing the migration pain

Most enterprises today are in the stages of a hybrid cloud migration, and no matter how they view this migration or implement it, the challenges they face are fairly common across the board. Does that mean there are common best practices for a hybrid cloud migration, and if so – what are they? Join us in a CTO Perspective discussion with Scott Stradley, Field CTO at BigPanda. Lean back and watch the interview, or if you prefer reading, take a few minutes to read the transcript.

Major incident reporting template: Downloadable and with a tutorial

According to a recent report by IBM, the damage caused by major IT incidents is greater than ever. An incident that results from a data breach will cost the organization an average of $3.86 million, with the average time to breach containment coming in at 280 days! And according to the ITIC, hourly downtime costs come in at over $300,000, with some at even $1 million per hour.

What Is AIOps and Why Should I Care?

Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, so a definition of what it is and what it does is difficult to nail down. In an age where digital acceleration is priority zero, companies are evaluating cultural shifts towards new operating models like service ownership to unlock efficiency in a complex world of hybrid cloud environments, AIOps emerges as an attractive potential investment to solve central IT aches and pains.

Welcome to BigPanda University and the new Getting Started with BigPanda video series

Ease of use and outstanding user experience have always been a top priority for us, and we consider them to be a key factor in our success. Recent years have seen enterprise customers also looking for a self-service, low-friction user experience – and part of that includes access to extensive educational content, for all the stages of the product onboarding process and all levels of usage.