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The Operations Bottleneck That Often Goes Unmeasured

Walk through a well managed manufacturing plant and there is usually no shortage of operational data. Teams monitor machine uptime, cycle times, scrap rates and throughput, then use that information to identify constraints and improve performance. However, some processes that influence overall capacity receive much less attention. In particular, activities that depend on people reading, counting and extracting information from documents are not always measured as operational processes.

SaaS Sprawl Is Becoming an IT Problem: Here's How to Bring It Under Control

For most organizations, SaaS sprawl does not begin with a bad technology decision. It starts with a useful tool. Marketing needs a new analytics platform. Sales adopts prospecting software. HR adds an applicant tracking system. Engineering signs up for another monitoring service. Someone discovers an AI tool that saves several hours a week and puts it on a company card. Each purchase makes sense on its own.

R&D Tax Relief, Cash Flow and Forecasting: The Finance Priorities for Growing Tech Companies

Technology businesses often operate in an environment where significant expenditure comes before predictable revenue. Product development, software engineering, specialist staff and infrastructure can require substantial investment while the business is still establishing its market position.

Notes from the Field: Incomplete Monitoring Data After Upgrading to Citrix VAD 2603

As part of our EUC Managed Support & Consultancy Services, we regularly test new Citrix releases and investigate changes that could impact the environments we support. While upgrading a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops site to version 2603 in our lab, we noticed unexpected behavior in Citrix Director. After completing the upgrade, the Connections overview showed incomplete session information.

Azure integration now supports service principal authentication

We’ve released some improvements to our Azure status integration. StatusGator can now read your Azure Resource Health events via a service principal. Previously the only supported authentication mechanism was OAuth. Both pull the same data and produce the same alerts – the difference is who the connection belongs to, and what happens to it over time.

A Look Inside Skylar AI: New Features and Updates

See what’s new in the latest Skylar AI release as Vice President of Skylar AI Douglas "DJ" James walks through updates designed to deliver smarter insights, stronger connectivity, more trustworthy answers, and greater deployment flexibility. New features and updates include: Explore the latest Skylar AI capabilities and see how ScienceLogic continues to deliver smarter insights, greater flexibility, and trusted AI for modern IT operations.

Episode 15 - Melissa M. Reeve (part-2)

When it comes to effectively rolling out AI in companies, middle managers may be more important than ever as the link between strategy and daily work. In Part 2 of this conversation on The Intelligent Enterprise, host Tom Stoneman continues his conversation with Melissa M. Reeve, author of Hyperadaptive: Rewiring to Become an AI-Native Organization, to dig into the practical side of how businesses can become AI-native. Melissa argues that AI should be treated less like a software rollout and more like the arrival of the personal computer in the 1990s.

AI is changing how organizations operate

AI is changing how organizations operate, but one thing has not changed: critical services cannot fail. Whether it is financial markets, healthcare, or other mission critical environments, organizations need observability that delivers value quickly, not weeks or months later. In this clip with theCube, Virtana CEO Paul Appleby explains how Virtana combines high fidelity telemetry with AI-driven intelligence to discover dependencies, correlate relationships, and deliver actionable insights within hours.