Enterprise resource planning, or ERP, systems are critical to the business operations of many companies, despite their notorious reputation for failed deployments and expensive maintenance plans. ERP is used to track important data — usually related in some way to an...
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Learn how to prepare for cloud computing and how to manage IT security and compliance within the cloud. With the proliferation of cloud computing, how does an organization manage IT security, compliance, and audit? Cloud computing poses new challenges for IT security,...
Nov 30, 2011
Learn How WAN Optimization can Bridge the Performance Gap. Today's smart CIOs are assessing their workloads against business needs and analyzing where each should run—locally or in the public cloud. Read on to learn about the benefits of cloud computing, and why its...
Nov 30, 2011
Next-generation CRM services are fundamentally cloud aware, with open interfaces for integrating with other related services, such as collaboration; content, such as product specifications, or customer data; and network information, such as device location and user...
Nov 21, 2011
The telephony market has been revolutionized in the past few years by three technologies: Voice over IP (VoIP) Converged Networking Cloud Computing. All three technology advancements offer benefits over standard analog telephony services. Even if you’ve already...
Nov 16, 2011
Keeping IT systems secure and running within regulatory compliance mandates, especially for mid-sized and even small businesses, seems next to impossible. There are many reasons for this — but fortunately, several recent technological trends show that it doesn't have...
Oct 12, 2011
An early adopter of healthcare IT, Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) began implementing bar coding for bedside medication verification in 2007 as part of its organization-wide initiative to enhance patient safety. SVMC—which operates a 99-bed flagship...
Oct 12, 2011
To achieve and maintain its award-winning reputation, Thibodaux has progressed on several key initiatives in recent years. The medical center has increasingly moved toward a more paperless environment and brought in bedside medication verification (BMV). This case...
