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Be ready for what comes next. The world of work has changed, possibly forever. But if companies are able to transition to cloud-based productivity and collaboration tools, they can build for what comes next.

When COVID disrupted in-person work for many businesses, IT departments had to respond quickly to accommodate a massive expansion in remote work. Whether they already had technology in place or were scrambling to fill the gaps, technologies leaders had to adapt to fast-changing conditions. To find out what worked and how they’re moving forward, we surveyed 240 IT decision- makers across industries and in multiple countries.

Cloud communications give businesses all sorts of ways to collaborate more effectively, improve their operations, get more done, and save money. But if you don’t set up these solutions the right way, you could be creating a new set of problems for your business.

As businesses increasingly embrace a cloud-first strategy, many are migrating their most heavily used business applications — including office productivity, customer relationship management (CRM), customer care, and more — to the public cloud. In today’s remote workplace, in which work from home (WFH) and work from anywhere (WFA) have become the new normal, this cloud-first strategy is a productivity booster for office employees, remote workers, IT staff, and others who need to stay connected with each other, as well as customers, business partners, and suppliers, regardless of their locations or devices.

It’s clear that employees and business owners have been forced to become comfortable with change. Businesses across multiple industries, including professional services and retail, have learned to adapt to new environments, shifting from in-office to remote. Now, almost a third of businesses have already returned to the office. As the landscape continues to change, business owners are being forced to manage a more complex hybrid work model.

The workplace has transitioned into a new world of communications. With more and more organizations shifting to remote and hybrid work models, the tools that once served us well are coming up short.

This is a beginner’s guide to checkpoints in Apache Flink® and provides all the necessary information about how to use Flink’s checkpointing mechanism for distributed, stream processing applications.

Move beyond the hype and discover the tangible benefits of machine learning. In this e – book, we have outlined seven leading use cases where businesses have successfully applied machine learning to achieve fast, efficient, and measurable results.

To be a leader that’s going to reinvent, you have to be relentless and tenacious about getting to the truth. And you have to have the tools to stay agile enough to pivot when needed and jump on new opportunities. To do this, you need to build a data-driven strategy for your organization.

Migrating and modernizing with AWS can help you drive the sustainable transformation you need to win in today’s hyper-competitive business world.