February 15, 2017
We live in a rapidly advancing world. Those who fail to keep up, risk falling behind. Even just monitoring your competitors’ prices could be using has become a full-time job in some industries. Both online, and storefront retail stores are constantly bombarded by new trends in attracting customers and maintaining brand awareness. When it comes to price management, there is one answer that big retailers have already latched onto – and smaller stores ignore at their peril.
February 10, 2017
We operate in an environment where complex software systems are essential to business functions. Especially in verticals such as retail, finance and manufacturing, there is the need for exceedingly reliable software—and proving this reliability requires in-depth software testing. Conducting tests is no longer a “last minute” activity, but a core part of the development process, one that can dictate how the software meets development goals and in some cases how successfully a business can sell its software to potential customers.
February 9, 2017
It’s becoming increasingly evident that cloud adoption is going to become one of the most dominant forces in the IT industry over the next few years. As CIOs continue to focus on the digital transformation of their companies, the transition to cloud-based architectures will undoubtedly be at the forefront.
February 9, 2017
with Alan Paradise, WilandIn this article, we ask Alan about Wiland’s predictive analytics and audience modeling, modern challenges of managing large relational databases, and how open source fits into Wiland’s strategy. Read More >>>
February 1, 2017
Data science software maker, Dataiku, recently completed a worldwide survey that asked thousands of companies: how does your organization put data science into production? The results show that most companies using data science have unique challenges that fall into four different profiles: Small Data Teams, Packagers, Industrialisation Maniacs, and The Big Data Lab.
January 31, 2017
If you have embraced the internet to market yourself, then do you know how you can make it better? Don’t think further, embrace SEO. Do you know what it is? Well, it is not rocket science. It involves the process of getting traffic from the free, organic, editorial or natural search results on search engines. It is a great marketing strategy for businesses.
January 30, 2017
Most people are using the social media sites and other sites regularly to get updated information. In fact, each of them should require a strong password which is meant for protection purpose. Having a secure and unique password for each online account is critically a necessary one forever. It begins to access your account quickly by entering the secure password in it. This is the positive step for accessing the account by having a password for your account.
January 27, 2017
with Sridhar Iyengar, ManageEngineManageEngine conducted a survey to understand what IT pros need from an advanced analytics tool. The survey looked at the critical areas of analytics and reporting for service desk management around incident management, asset management and change management. Read More >>>
January 27, 2017
Running a healthcare facility can be complicated and at times, overwhelming. Health administrators are a lot like choreographers tasked with creating perfect harmony between the movements of doctors, nurses, patients, insurance companies, and more recently, with the rise of vocational training such as online medical transcription courses, clerical workers — medical billers and transcriptionists; and that’s just the people. Consider how the layout, location, quality and condition of a facility can impact the delicate state of balance which clinics and hospitals strive for.
January 24, 2017
Ecogas – Fueling rapid growth and building game-changing analytics capabilities with IBM and SAP.
January 24, 2017
Software development is hard enough, so we’re making it easier. You see, a few years ago Sonatype made a promise that Nexus Repository should provide universal component support for free. This month, we are continuing to live up to that promise by expanding component support in Nexus Repository OSS to include PyPI and RubyGems packages.
January 23, 2017
Continued digitization of documentation and mobile workforces. But also continued strong growth for Push to Talk in areas such as security, crisis, logistics and healthcare. GroupTalks CEO Magnus Hedberg writes about what he believes are the strongest trends in IT and digital communications in 2017.
January 23, 2017
In the digital world, speed is ever increasing. This is true for the business world as well. Fast websites, speedy data collection, transaction handling and more are necessary to compete. If your information processing and decision making isn’t fast enough, opportunities will be lost.
January 17, 2017
Read more to learn how Symantec delivers on its strategic vision with Next-Generation Secure Datacenter powered by Cisco ACI.
January 17, 2017
This document is written for IT decision makers, architects, engineers, and application owners who make architectural decisions for hybrid deployments. The architecture described in this document is for large and medium-sized businesses that are considering hybrid cloud solutions. This document is also useful for service providers that deliver hybrid cloud services to businesses.
January 17, 2017
When it comes to matters money, many people tend to shy away. No one would like to have their financial situation put out there for everyone to see. This is more so in the event that you are not able to manage your finances as well as you ought to. Are you one of those people who are into the habit of spending money without a care only for you to realize you have nothing in your account by mid-month?
January 16, 2017
During one of my case study presentations of a complex ERP implementation, a CFO in the audience asked me a question, “Around 15 years ago, there was a very popular story of ERP implementation failure in this CPG Company. Why this company failed to implement the solution?” This CPG Company attempted SAP implementation during late nineties for their North American operations and failed. It was a very popular story in the media.
January 16, 2017
As you consider what vendors you will partner with in the future, this analysis provides a helpful summary of the evolving AFA Market as well as the Nimble technology, business value, customers, and go-to-market strategies.
January 16, 2017
A new Gartner Magic Quadrant report shows Nimble solidly in the “Leaders” category for General Purpose Disk Arrays – in fact, Nimble is the industry leader in “Completeness of Vision”.
January 13, 2017
The first two industrial revolutions characterized a period of extraordinary innovative, financial and social change. The revolutions transformed some countries into the world’s first industrialized societies. A large group of us have lived, worked and gained experiences through the third one, which was characterized by information innovation. Progressively, the winds of industrial transformation are blowing once more, bringing with them another transformation – Industry 4.0 – which is set to change life as we have become accustomed to it.
January 12, 2017
Tracing the Steps. For years now, I have witnessed needless work being performed across the DevOps industry. No, not within our clients DevOps and continuous delivery practices. I have seen it in the buyer’s journey — from the folks taking their first baby steps into DevOps to those organizations trying to master their craft.
January 11, 2017
With the holiday season behind us, e-commerce and retail companies are recovering from the accelerated pace of their peak season. The National Retail Federation found that more than 154 million consumers shopped or planned to go shopping over the Thanksgiving weekend alone. Out of this number, around 40 percent shopped in-store. With this type of traffic, retail companies need to know that their systems will be able to handle high traffic loads.
January 9, 2017
Chester Zoo realized its customers were rapidly going mobile as early as 2010. Working with agency partner, Code Computerlove, the zoo embarked on a mobile transformation project to make sure every customer visit is mobile optimized before, during, and after every zoo visit.
January 9, 2017
These are the best of times and the worst of times for IT managers. On the one hand, newer technologies like cloud, flash storage, and converged and hyper-converged systems provide compelling on- and off-premise choices for optimizing IT infrastructure and workloads. On the other, the number of choices and the complexity of the decision-making process present a variety of hurdles for busy IT teams, frustrating efforts to use these new platforms to create leaner and more agile IT environments.
January 6, 2017
Over the past few years, IT service management (ITSM) has become increasingly important to an organization’s IT strategy, and companies are seeking new ways to improve IT service delivery and efficiency via better ITSM processes. This increases the importance of tracking and measuring critical KPIs.
January 4, 2017
People outside of the business world imagine success as something similar to winning a lottery. You make your moves, your competition makes theirs and someone has the winning ticket. However, nothing can be further from the truth. There is a reason why some businesses make it and others don’t and this reason is the difference in their efficiency.
January 2, 2017
Bring your own device or “BYOD” is gaining serious momentum. However, before we go any further, it’s important to establish what BYOD is. Essentially, it’s a business policy that enables employees to bring in personally owned endpoint devices (such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, etc.) and allows them to securely connect to company applications and access privileged business data. It also allows employees to remotely access this information from locations outside the office (anywhere, anytime, any device).
December 26, 2016
with Nancy Van Elsacker, Top DeskIn this Interview, Nancy Van Elsacker Louisnord, president of TOPdesk US, discusses the value of IT Service Management within the ever evolving IT Enterprise. Read More >>>
December 20, 2016
with Alexander Vityaz, CorezoidIn this interview, Alexander Vityaz shares his thoughts on effects that current advances in FinTech are having on the industry, as well as the challenges that lie ahead. Read More >>>
December 20, 2016
This joint session will explain SAP’s road map for SAP HANA on Power architecture and Pfizer’s rationale and lessons learned during this exciting project. Pfizer has now moved from development into production and will share the results from this recent experience.
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