Expanding NonStop Opportunities

Options to Expand NonStop Opportunities

As we all know, business is becoming increasingly technology-based. With this, enterprises need to deliver new digital services and be better at business innovation on an ongoing basis to continue being relevant and to expand their opportunities. This is fundamental to delivering value, growth, creating wealth, etc. – which is very important to Customers and stakeholders.

Fortunately, by design, NonStop is well suited to enabling organizations successfully address increasingly demanding needs – to improve outcomes and have a future going forward.

In this context, there are multiple ways to increase NonStop relevance –

1. To satisfy very demanding and important business needs

• • • • With NonStop the platform of choice for on-line, real-time, all-the-time information services (with 7 9’s or high availability from the date the application goes live).

2. To support a “ Cloud Strategy “

• • • • With NonStop providing more options to have a cloud environment – for internal and external as well as small to very large deployments, plus it’s important to have a high degree of control over the data, operations, costs, etc.

3. Technology Life Cycle Selling

• • • • Announcing new technology and end of life for current technology. While the primary method by upgrading installed systems, compared to the other options, this is the least value scenario.

4. Being a  Strategic Solution Partner

• • • • With services and a platform that enables an organization to meaningfully improve business outcomes (ie: NonStop – with a new application, for new initiatives with AI, ML, IoT, Security, Mobile, Big Data, Sustainability, etc.), and to make Business Innovation more rewarding.

5. Being Entrepreneurial

• • • • Contacting organizations to improve outcomes with NonStop based on their plans.

Examples of those involved in NonStop business development reaching out to –

A. Albertsons promotes branded products with Pinterest’s shelf-edge media platform

Albertsons is rolling out a Pinterest shelf-edge program that welcomes shoppers to open Pinterest on their smartphone and take a photo of a finished dish located next to a product’s price, before being directed to the grocer’s Pinterest page to access information about the product and other ingredients along with the recipe. During a holiday test, Albertsons used Pinterest Trends insight to develop its recipe selections based on consumer interest.  Grocery Dive

B.  Danske Bank builds on machine learning to predict IT failures

Denmark’s Danske Bank wants to apply machine learning to predict and fix IT problems before customers experience problems. With IT outages regularly causing downtime for mobile banking apps and online banking systems, banks’ reputation among customers is at stake as they increasingly promote digital channels.

C.   Shipping giant Maersk on taking a cloud-first approach to disrupting the competition

Danish transport and shipping giant Maersk has shared details of the cloud-first strategy it is pursuing as it seeks to retain its market-leading position, while surfacing new opportunities for revenue growth. In conjunction with this, Rasmus Hald, who heads up Maersk’s cloud centre of excellence, said the firm is facing a number of wide-ranging competitive threats.

As you can see, there are options for Expanding NonStop Opportunities.  To better understand each of these scenarios, future articles will provide additional insight.

In the interim, you are welcome to contact HPE or CAIL if you have a suggestion or are aware of an opportunity or to learn more improving outcomes with NonStop.  For additional information on organizations getting more benefits from NonStop see Improving Business Outcomes with NonStop   in the CAIL Suite section at  www.cail.com