IT Best Practices: Episode 76 – The technical and organizational landscape has changed dramatically in the past few years. Organizations have a wealth of new opportunities for greater employee productivity and operational efficiency. But these opportunities, combined with an increase in the number and sophistication of cyber threats, require an evolution in information security capabilities. [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is incorporating cloud business intelligence (BI) into our overall enterprise BI strategy, enabling Intel business units to perform and present analytics on data no matter where it resides—within the enterprise boundaries or outside. Cloud BI benefits Intel IT through faster deployment of solutions, more flexible capacity, faster and less-expensive exploration of [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 75 – In order to keep up with the velocity of business, Intel IT has partnered with the company’s Sales and Marketing team to create a social collaboration platform. It’s a powerful set of tools designed to enhance individual productivity and open up the collective intelligence of the sales organization. [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is deploying 2-in-1 combination laptop and tablet devices to help satisfy a growing demand for mobile and touch-enabled computing. Our analysis and feedback from employees show that 2-in-1 devices in the enterprise can increase job satisfaction through improved productivity and efficiency while producing significant time and cost savings. As a result, [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has built a web-based IT support portal to improve efficiency and effectiveness of our IT support agents. This portal integrates more than 20 tools and data sources, enabling support agents to quickly resolve a reported problem as well as proactively identify a variety of known problems and fix them before [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT is adopting software-defined networking (SDN) to enable on-demandprovisioning of networks and network services. By virtualizing the network through a programmable interface, we can offer better support for internal customers—Intel application developers—who work in a fast-paced agile development environment. These customers need to be able access network resources without having to [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 74 – Traditionally, advanced analytics – the scientific process of finding insight in data – have been the domain of a few highly-trained data scientists in the organization. Intel is looking to change that. The company wants to extend at least some of the analytics done in the organization to the [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 73 – Intel IT has found that the combination of a Windows 8 operating system running on tablets based on Intel architecture yields some significant benefits. These devices are a great resource for employees, and offer manageability and security benefits for IT. In this podcast we talk with Tiffany Pany, Program [...]

IT Best Practices: Intel IT has implemented a new type of software architecture that enables us to develop large-scale, UI-optimized, cross-platform applications using a single code base with maximum code reuse between supported platforms. With the consumerization of IT and growth of personally owned devices, we must develop enterprise applications that run on multiple devices and [...]

IT Best Practices: Episode 72 – Intel recognizes the value a big data platform can bring to Business Intelligence. Organizations like Intel are rich in data, but that value can’t be realized until there’s a way to collect, sort, and analyze that data to extract meaningful business intelligence from it. And no one knows more [...]