The retail space online and in the high street is continuing to transform. Can marketplaces help smaller retailers compete and differentiate their businesses? And what does the future of integrated retailing look like as customer experiences drive demand for change?  

Welcome to the last in this series of podcasts: The Data Dilemma: How to Become a Data
Centric Enterprise 

In this final episode, we are considering what a 'data business' is today and how
enterprises can begin their journey to becoming more data-centric.

Today we are joined once again by Michael O’Donnell, Senior Analyst with Quest
Software.  

Are businesses still striving to build their omnichannel as they look towards their post-pandemic futures? Do digital consumers even want an omnichannel experience? Or have they, too, evolved towards a different kind of customer? Listen to insights from  Elissa Quinby, Retail Insights Leader, Global Director of Retail Insights, for Quantum Metric and former Amazon Product Manager.

Welcome to the fourth in the Quest Software Podcast series, The Data Dilemma: How to Become a Data-Centric Enterprise. 

In this episode, we are considering Resilience and Security.

Improving resilience and security are priorities for enterprises, none more so than in the context of their data strategies. The pandemic illustrated how sensitive data must be protected as it moves across increasingly remote networks. As businesses become data enterprises, security and resilience are core pillars on which business processes will be built. 

The technology infrastructures that businesses rely upon have moved through massive change. The impact of the cloud and today's hybrid approach to data and network management, together with transforming business processes and a dispersed workforce, has meant a new approach to data resilience and security is needed.  

What are the remaining challenges to building an IoT environment that all companies can use practically? Networks have also been evolving towards the edge. Learn how enterprises develop their edge network capabilities and integrate them into their wider IT infrastructures.  

What are the essential components of a data-focused toolset? Many data tools are available, but what benefits, insights and value can choose the right tools to bring to an enterprise as they transform into data businesses?  

Does your enterprise know how resilient it really is against cyberattacks? Or even what it means to be resilient? It’s a question that is not often asked, as strong cybersecurity can frequently be overlooked. 

Having sight of the potential risks your business faces is critical to long-term digital security. CAF (Cyber Assessment Framework) enables businesses to have a systematic and comprehensive assessment of their current levels of cyber risk and how potential attacks would be managed.   

How does the IT infrastructure needed to support the Metaverse differ from the IT infrastructures that are currently in place? Do we need to be clear what we mean when we describe the Metaverse from an environment point of view? Is the infrastructure needed for fully
immersive spaces different from a ‘3D internet’ which some have described the
Metaverse?