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What Is Your Operating Model Costing Your Business?

The biggest cost in your business may not appear anywhere on your balance sheet because some of the most expensive problems are rarely measured directly. Lost productivity, recurring technology issues, underused applications, and the effort required to manage them all accumulate over time without ever appearing as a line item in a financial report.

9 Powerful Log Monitoring Best Practices to Follow in 2026

How many of your last five incidents were already sitting in the logs before anyone noticed? Most teams already collect more than enough log data. The problem starts with what happens next, and the same four gaps show up almost everywhere: This guide covers the log monitoring best practices that close those gaps. It walks through how to collect, structure, correlate, retain, and secure logs, so monitoring becomes a steady process and not a scramble during the next incident.

Experience-Driven Transformation: How GSK Is Building a World-Class Workplace

Guided by five strategic ambitions—sustainability, experience, innovation, focus, and operational excellence—GSK’s journey with Nexthink has grown from a standard deployment into a dynamic, insight-led philosophy shaping every facet of its workplace experience.

Driving Global Application Success at Scale: UPS' Journey with Nexthink Adopt

Large-scale enterprises like UPS face the challenge of ensuring global employees adopt business-critical HR applications effectively without overburdening IT. In this session, John Hampton, Senior Leader at UPS, will share how his team used Nexthink Adopt to embed in-app guidance, contextual self-help, and proactive reminders, helping employees complete tasks accurately the first time while reducing support dependency in Workday and Cornerstone on Demand. With analytics providing visibility into adoption gaps and user behavior, UPS achieved measurable gains in productivity, accuracy, and employee experience.

From Reactive to Proactive: Eversource's Journey with Nexthink

Every DEX journey starts with challenges—but the real story is in how you overcome them and build lasting impact. In this session, Rebecca Hall and Mark Milano of Eversource will share how they tackled the pain points that initially drove their adoption of Nexthink, from visibility gaps to IT service inefficiencies. They’ll highlight the early wins that built momentum, including key integrations with their ITSM tool and ROI realized through targeted use cases.

Shadow IT and Discovery AI Blind Spots: What Legacy Tools Miss

Ask three teams what assets exist in your environment, and you’ll get three different answers. Most organizations don’t lack tools. They lack agreement on what actually exists in their environment. Asset, endpoint and cloud data exist — but it’s fragmented, stale and trusted differently by teams across every department and function.

13 Best Observability Tools in 2026 [Top-Picked]

How many tools does your team open before anyone can say why production is slow? If the answer is more than two, you are paying for that gap in engineering hours every week. We understand the frustration. So we did the research work for you to help you pick the best observability tools.

How to Choose the Right Server Monitoring Tool: A Step By Step Guide for 2026

How do you pick one server monitoring tool when every vendor page promises the same thing? A few years ago, two monitoring vendor websites showed you two different products. Today you can open five and read nearly the same feature list on each one. Real-time dashboards, instant alerts, AI everywhere. That sameness has made evaluation harder than ever. The marketing tells you nothing, and the wrong choice follows your team for years, either as features nobody opens or as the one missed alert at 2 a.m.

How Agentic AI is Transforming Infrastructure and Operations

Infrastructure and Operations (I&O) teams have long operated under a familiar paradox: the faster the business scales, the more pressure I&O absorbs. Every new application deployment, every endpoint added, and every cloud workload spun up generates more complexity, more risk and more tickets. The traditional responses to this pressure — more headcount, more tooling, more scripts, more APIs — have delivered incremental relief at best.

Why AI-Powered Asset Audits Are Replacing Manual Physical Verification (And How to Switch)

Picture this. It's the end of the financial year. Your audit team is clipboard in hand, walking floor to floor, cross-referencing serial numbers against a spreadsheet that was last updated six months ago. Three days in, two people are still checking warehouses, and someone has already found a printer that the system says was disposed of in 2022. This is how most enterprises still run their physical asset audits in 2026.