Tag: The Next Smart

We are excited to highlight 60 AWS Partners that received new designations in December for our global AWS Competency, AWS Managed Service Provider (MSP), AWS Service Delivery, and AWS Service Ready programs. These designations span workload, solution, and industry, and help AWS customers identify top AWS Partners that can deliver on core business objectives. AWS Partners are focused on your success, helping customers take full advantage of the business benefits AWS has to offer.

Increasing penetration of analytics in the life sciences industry is expected to drive significant growth for businesses in the coming years. Learn about Accenture’s life sciences data and analytics accelerator which enables customers to respond to these challenges and use data for their competitive advantage. Particular focus is given to the commercial domain and use of analytics to increase customer engagement and optimize sales and marketing.

Servian Cloud Foundation helps organizations build an automated, secure, compliant, and fully customizable account and infrastructure foundation on AWS. It’s a well-architected and opinionated blueprint built from Servian’s expertise and experience helping customers address security, compliance, DevOps, and IaC adoption challenges. Servian Cloud Foundation significantly reduces time to adoption for building solutions at speed and scale, while decreasing risk and putting in place consistent best-practice processes.

The notion of shared responsibility has become very popular in the public cloud, and rightly so. This post focuses on helping organizations achieve their part of shared responsibility—security in the cloud. We start by introducing three areas of responsibility—configuration, access, and data—and then illustrate how tools from AWS Security Competency Partner Zscaler can address security and compliance issues in each of these areas.

Utilities need a solution to manage devices on the field, whether they are for the management of gas, water, electricity, waste, or other. IBM has developed BEAM IoT to address these needs with a solution that, in addition to offering modules and functionalities specific to each segment, has been designed to be open and modular. It can be quickly extended to new business use cases, new regulatory requests, new types of IoT devices, and new data analysis requirements.

It can be difficult to gain security insights into your cloud infrastructure, especially as architectures grow to encompass multiple availability zones, regions, and clouds. Aviatrix Systems is uniquely positioned to provide deep insights into network traffic that can augment AWS-native security capabilities. In this post, we detail new capabilities that were recently added to the Aviatrix Secure Network Platform—ThreatIQ and ThreatGuard.

As serverless architectures start to grow, finding the right troubleshooting approach becomes a business-critical aspect. In this post, dive into the “instrumentation approach” and how to keep track of internal events within an AWS Lambda function, and how to export processed telemetry data. Lumigo shares a practical guide on how to use AWS Lambda Extensions and follow a storyline of extracting internal events from Lambda functions, processing them, and sending telemetry data to external services.

This post explains the challenges faced by customers running SAP ECC environments on premises and how IBM can accelerate their S/4 HANA transformation journey to AWS. The IBM Accelerated Move Centre (AMC) delivers a cost-effective approach to SAP S/4HANA transformations, enabling customers to migrate and modernize, utilize existing investments, reduce costs, and embrace cloud innovations. IBM has nearly 50 years of experience in the industry, and has completed more than 6,500 SAP projects.

When implemented in legacy on-premises systems, business rules tend to be rigid in nature and impact business agility. By using a combination of AWS managed services, Capgemini can build a cloud-based rules engine that can be scaled to increasing data volume, easily configured, and quickly accessed. This enables organizations to be completely agile in developing new business rules, or updating/retiring business rules, without relying on IT.

Customer experience is at its best when a customer perceives the experience offered is unique and aligns to their preferences. The need to engage, at a very personal level, becomes key. Learn how Capgemini’s data and analytics practice implements customer intelligence platforms on AWS to help companies build a unified data hub. This enables customer data to be converted into insights that can be used for reporting and building AI/ML predictive analytics capabilities.