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Data Management Insights – Meet Mr. Clutter

April 23, 2015 No Comments

Have you met Mr. Clutter? He works at your firm. Well, works is probably not the right word. But he’s there—pervasively—and has the greatest impact on your company, more than any other employee by far. Mr. Clutter floods you with innumerable emails, text messages, alerts and notifications. He knows every one of your email addresses and mobile numbers and will inundate each of those inboxes. You can run, but you can’t hide from Clutter.

7 Steps to Securely Deploy Cloud Apps

April 22, 2015 No Comments

by Chip Epps, OneLogin Gartner predicts the number of cloud-provisioned office system users will grow 28.5% a year to 695 million users by 2022 –constituting 60% of the user universe that will exist by then. Read More >>>

Comindware selected as one of Top 20 Most Promising BPM Technology Solution Providers

April 21, 2015 No Comments

Comindware® (www.comindware.com) – a leading provider of cloud-based Enterprise Work Management solutions has been selected as one of the Top 20 Most Promising BPM Technology Solution Providers by CIO Reviewin 2015. The CIO Review editorial board comprised CEOs, CIOs, CMOs and industry analysts who reviewed the finalists by various parameters such as impact on the market, product differentiation, ability to execute and other criteria.

Why Marketers Need to Put A/B Testing by the Wayside Content

April 20, 2015 No Comments

by Cory Munchbach, BlueConicWhile A/B and multivariate testing has been known to improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns, newer tools and methodologies that can be implemented today have evolved to become more effective and informative than their predecessors. Read More >>>

Why It’s Time to Modernize Your Network for Today’s Digital Enterprise Webinar

April 17, 2015 No Comments

Watch this on-demand webinar to learn how enterprises can accelerate innovation in this hyperconnected world.

7 Service Desk Habits of The Avengers

April 16, 2015 No Comments

with Vinit Tibrewal, ManageEngine“If you are an IT help desk technician, you’re a superhero!” You may have heard this many times from your help desk solution provider, if not from your customers and colleagues. Read More >>>

CA Security Council Report: Consumers Don’t Know Much About Security

April 13, 2015 No Comments

The CA Security Council (CASC), an advocacy group committed to the advancement of the security of websites and online transactions, today released its 2015 Consumer Trust Survey which found that validation matters. While consumers are confused about some aspects of security, they recognize and trust the security that SSL brings to e-commerce sites. Fifty-three percent of respondents identify the padlock as adding confidence in an e-commerce site, with 42 percent associating the green bar and organization name in the URL with greater safety.

Using Dropbox? Get Ready for Spring Cleaning!

April 8, 2015 No Comments

by Paul Castiglione, IpswitchApril is finally here and that means IT teams, like everyone else, will be busy with their spring cleaning projects. While spring cleaning your house is a pretty straightforward endeavor, spring cleaning your files can be a lot more complicated. Read More >>>

Riverbed Application Performance Platform Solutions Power California Environmental Firm Dudek’s Expansion as Highly Efficient Hybrid Enterprise

April 3, 2015 No Comments

Headquartered in Encinitas, Dudek is a California-focused environmental firm with more than 300 planners, scientists, civil engineers, contractors, and support staff located in 13 sites across the state. The firm has provided its clients with environmental, permitting, planning, engineering, construction and operational services since 1980. When Abe Esguerra, IT Director at Dudek, came to the firm in 2002 there were just five offices, 120 employees, and no wide area network (WAN). In those days, inter-office collaboration consisted of sharing large files via FTP, MAPI and mailing CDs.

COPE vs. BYOD vs. CYOD – How Should an Enterprise Choose?

March 31, 2015 No Comments

by Mitch Black, MOBIRecently, there has been a great deal of debate in the world of mobile devices and how they function in the enterprise. There’s BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) vs. COPE (Corporate Owned, Personally Enabled), and now even CYOD (Choose Your Own Device). Read More >>>

Borrowing Technology from Media & Entertainment for Big Data Analytics in the Cloud

March 31, 2015 No Comments

For most of computing’s history, data meant “structured” data or data that fits neatly into pre-defined categories and rows stored in databases or spreadsheets. But the big data movement has changed all of that with the proliferation of unstructured data analysis. Unstructured data is any data that doesn’t fit into a predefined data model. It includes things like video, images, text, and all the data being logged by sensors and the myriad of digital devices. Where structured data is relatively easy to store and analyze using traditional technology, unstructured data isn’t.

Outsourcing Your Enterprise Mobility Management: Considerations and Questions

March 26, 2015 No Comments

Nieslen reports that mobile Web adoption has grown at a rate eight times faster than Web adoption in the 1990s and early 2000s. More than 1.2 billion people are accessing the Web from their mobile devices. This explosion of mobility creates exciting opportunities to serve customers better and more quickly, as well as allow employees greater work flexibility. It also creates a strain in IT resources.

March Madness Should Not Rest Solely on IT’s Shoulders

March 26, 2015 No Comments

by Steve Riley, Riverbed TechnologyThere are several steps companies can take to keep network performance from faltering without ruining employee morale. Some fall under IT’s area of responsibility, but others require other typically non-tech savvy departments and personnel. Read More >>>

How the Experience Web Will Finally Eradicate the Language Barrier

March 25, 2015 No Comments

by Rob Vandenberg, Lingotek Now that our global culture is becoming increasingly digitized, not least with the addition of the Apple Watch and drone delivery, language is going to take on new meaning. The barriers to comprehension will be lower than ever, but the obstacles to effectively marketing your global business will rise. Read More >>>

Adobe EchoSign for Salesforce

March 23, 2015 No Comments

Adobe EchoSign for Salesforce® runs seamlessly inside your Salesforce application, and enables anyone on your team to send and track contracts in a few clicks—without leaving the Salesforce application.

Gartner Digital Workplace Summit 2015

March 20, 2015 No Comments

Gartner Digital Workplace Summit 2015, May 18-20, Orlando, FL., delivers the strategic insights and actionable advice needed to redesign your organization’s work environment.

Retail: It’s all about gaining consumer confidence

March 18, 2015 No Comments

It’s no secret that the Internet and e-commerce have revolutionized the retail industry in recent years. E-commerce has drastically changed the way in which information about a customer’s journey to purchase is captured. Companies can now determine with relative ease what a specific customer is looking for, how they found the site, products they have purchased previously, and even past purchases they abandoned.

IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with IBM: How Major Snow Storms Effect Shopping Trends

March 18, 2015 No Comments

with Jay Henderson, IBM CommerceIn this interview, Jay Henderson, Director, Product Strategy, IBM Commerce, speaks with IT Briefcase on how trends such as extreme weather and holiday shopping impact online commerce and what it means for retailers. Read More >>>

Why Documenting your Business Operating Systems Matters

March 11, 2015 No Comments

Let’s face it, documenting your business operating systems can’t be classified as an exciting or creative process. While a little dull and most definitely time-consuming, it’s nevertheless absolutely essential that your business has comprehensive documentation of your business operating systems. And there are more than just a couple of reasons for it.

How to lower your company`s IT development costs

March 10, 2015 No Comments

Doing business is one of the things that has changed the most with the advent of the modern digital age, along with human communication. Since the 1980s, our entrepreneurial processes have begun integrating computers and information and communications technology solutions in order to provide easier management of a number of business factors – financial analytics, inventory and storage listing, transport and logistics monitoring, ordering and providing post-sales services to the customers, just to name a few.

PCI DSS 3.0 Still Isn’t Enough

March 3, 2015 No Comments

By Ed Fox, Met’TelFollowing the data breaches of 2014 (think Home Depot, Target and Sony Entertainment Pictures), it’s clear that security should be top of mind for both businesses and consumers in 2015. Read More >>>

How to Maximize the Business Value of IT

February 23, 2015 No Comments

This has come true, and the time is not far when entire businesses are going to be run from the cloud. Businesses will also use the other arms of the Nexus of Forces — social, mobile and information — to drive employee productivity and deepen customer relationships in the next few years. But a day will come when this will not be enough to compete. Companies will need to use the Internet of Things (IoT) to build innovative business models with smart machines. By 2020, there will be over 30 billion devices wirelessly connected to the IoT.

The Future is Here: Smart Electronics Designed to be Worn

February 23, 2015 No Comments

In this program, Gartner analyst Angela McIntyre and Dr. Andrea Claussen and Thomas Claussen of ambiotex look at how measuring and combining heart rate variability, respiration, pulse and movement can make a huge difference for athletes and stress workers and why wearable technologies are impacting the health, fitness and other industries.

Making the most of your Hybrid Cloud Migration

February 20, 2015 No Comments

By Dave Eichorn, Zensar TechnologiesEnterprises understand the value of hybrid cloud models to achieve a variety of benefits, including lower startup costs, simplified management, and flexibility to scale storage on an as-needed basis. In fact, according to Gartner, nearly half of large enterprises will have hybrid cloud deployments by the end of 2017. Read More >>>

Top five reasons to take advantage of the private cloud now

February 19, 2015 No Comments

Download this white paper and read about the five reasons why companies should take advantage of the private cloud now.

A New Data Warehouse Architecture for the Brave New BI World

February 18, 2015 No Comments

by Paul Moxon, Denodo TechnologiesAlthough Big Data, Internet of Things, Data Lakes, Streaming Analytics, and Machine Learning provide us with new sources of data and new forms of analytics, the reality today is that traditional data warehouse architectures are no longer able to handle many new technologies and a new data architecture is required. Read More >>>

5 Things to Look at Before You Buy Monitoring Software For Your Organization

February 12, 2015 No Comments

When trying to manage a large office, business owners must make sure to use monitoring software on all computers, tablets, laptops and electronic devices. The monitoring software your company invests in will lead the accountability of business, and help keep track of what happens within your office. Furthermore, it’s important to look for a few things in monitoring software before you buy, and understand how it’s going to work in your office.

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