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A.F. Blakemore & Son Ltd is a renowned food retail and distribution company based in the United Kingdom. It is also a member of the Unitas Wholesale group and a significant supplier to the independent grocery sector across the UK. How OpManager helped A.F. Blakemore A.F. Blakemore has two internal data centers that process and manage logistics, retail, and distribution data. However, it did not have a separate tool for monitoring its network, which created problems.

Founded in 2014, Netlify is a web developer platform that helps you build and deploy feature-rich websites. Netlify uses Jamstack technology for the efficient deployment of websites that are optimized to deliver a great end-user experience. The platform decouples the application backend and frontend, enabling a frictionless, streamlined way to build and deploy apps at scale.

Canadian Pacific (CP) is a historic Canadian Class I railroad incorporated in 1881. It was CP that connected the country and became Canada’s first transcontinental railway. Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, it owns approximately 13,000 miles of track across Canada and the United States. Canadian Pacific initially introduced Enterprise Alert in 2016 to increase speed and effectiveness of incident callouts to information workers, and staff in various departments.

The events of 2020 have accelerated ecommerce, increasing demand for and traffic on online marketplaces. Analyst eMarketer predicts that ecommerce sales in the United States will grow 18% in 2020, against an overall fall in total retail sales of 10.5% for the year. Likewise, our business—Japan-headquartered consumer-to-consumer marketplace Mercari Inc—is growing rapidly. In the United States alone, we have seen 74% year-on-year growth in monthly average users to 3.4 million.

For the digital workplace team at ABN AMRO, it wasn’t just the COVID-19 crisis itself that was unexpected. If you’d have told us in January 2020 that – within a few months – our tooling and capability would be the subject of direct and regular attention by the board at our company, we would have had trouble believing that, too. ABN AMRO has long had quite a special focus on employee experience in general.

It’s not everyday we are given a chance to get a first-hand look at how one of today’s leading and most advanced enterprises operates its IT stack. That’s why we were very excited when three senior IT executives from Expedia accepted our invitation to participate in a webinar discussing the company’s IT modernization journey.