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Supply Chain Management in a Digital World for Your Business

July 29, 2014 No Comments

Businesses that are in search of logistical resources able to improve their inventory and materials management efforts will be delighted to know that there are plenty of options and solutions available to them. Relying on a conventional inventory process often requires greater efforts on the part of employees as well as a less effective picture of any materials that are being processed for shipping and receiving. Digital resources and next generation technology can provide a superior alternative for any organization interested in improving its material handling and inventory processes.

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Threat Intelligence: The Key to a Complete Vulnerability Management Strategy

July 29, 2014 No Comments

Join us for this session to learn how to integrate threat intelligence into your vulnerability management strategy.

Companion Data Services Launches ‘Co-Pilot’ Approach to Health Claims

July 28, 2014 No Comments

Companion Data Services (CDS) is offering a new service designed to streamline health care claims processing and enable organizations to transition systems by product, group or market.

Data Centers in the Crosshairs: Today’s Most Dangerous Threats

July 28, 2014 No Comments

This paper analyzes the top five most dangerous threats to your data center.

What to do when you rely on Internal Names in TLS/SSL Certificates

July 28, 2014 No Comments

A deadline set by the CA/Browser Forum for the use of Internal Names is quickly approaching, and many system administrators need to understand how best to adapt to this change. At the same time, hundreds of new top-level domains are being launched, which redefines what constitutes an Internal Name. In this post we’ll explain what the changes are, why they’re being made, and how you can update your systems in response to the problem.

Leading a Successful Software Implementation

July 24, 2014 No Comments

Identity and access management solutions provide a competitive edge in many industries, including increased efficiency, better security and protection of corporate data. Organizations that haven’t implemented such technology may find themselves at a disadvantage when managing the data in their systems for a variety of reasons such as automating a manual process, and they may wish to consider taking immediate action.

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Fortune Favors the Brave CIO

July 24, 2014 No Comments

There’s no doubt that the current shift to digital is disrupting the telecoms industry. Yet, major shake-ups of this kind do create opportunities for businesses that are bold enough to make the changes needed to succeed.

The Impact Prioritization Technology Plays on Sales Lead Conversion

July 21, 2014 No Comments

Study Conducted by Sales Automation Software Provider, Velocify, Reinforces Impact Prioritization Technology Plays on Sales Lead Conversion

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Make Your Website Search Engine Friendly With SEO


July 7, 2014 No Comments

There are more than 30 search engines on the web, including deep search engines.
When you want your website to rank high on Google and the other search engines, it’s important to use the most effective SEO methods. Search engine algorithms change frequently and as they do, methods of effectively using SEO change. There is a variety of methods to incorporate SEO into your website so it will rank higher in the search engines and your targeted traffic will increase. Here are some of the most effective user experience design


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Where Do You Fall Within the Data Protection Divide?

July 1, 2014 No Comments

Ipswitch recently conducted a survey of more than100 IT professionals unveiling that employees feel an overwhelming sense of personal responsibility to protect corporate information or data. While accountability was high (84 percent) from an individual standpoint, 42 percent of respondents indicated that their organization does not mandate methods for securely transferring corporate files or have an automated system in place to mitigate the risk of human error.

Reliant General Improves Efficiency and Profitability with Visual Process Management

June 23, 2014 No Comments

Reliant General, one of Southern California’s premier insurance wholesalers, distributes its products around the state through an increasing network of more than 1,800 independent brokers. With many daily transactions, the company’s success relies on well-documented processes.

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Pointers for Conducting Market Research Online

June 18, 2014 No Comments

Market research need not be an expensive endeavour of focus-groups and two-way mirrors. With the Internet, you can conduct market research without the cost or the trouble. In fact, you may already be doing market research online without being aware of it — often a simple Web search or customer feedback form is enough to provide the data you need.

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Data Boom Pressures Operators to Speed up Deployment of New Data Centers

June 18, 2014 No Comments

The seemingly insatiable demand by users for more data has taken many players in the telecom and communications sector by surprise. To keep up with demand, new infrastructure is often needed and particularly data centers – the heart and brain of any network. With speed to operations being essential, prefabricated and modular data centers that can be deployed in mere days have become all the rage. Telecoms expert Peter Karaszi explains.

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Application Design for Beginners

June 13, 2014 No Comments

Have you ever been searching for a certain kind of application in your OS’s app store and come up empty? Chances are if you’re looking for specific features, you’re not the only one who needs it. Don’t let someone else implement your idea. App design is easier than you think.

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Rugged computers are more than just ‘hard shells’

June 12, 2014 No Comments

Even professional users of rugged laptops, tablets and smartphones, are sometimes unsure of what defines a “rugged computer” and how the various tests to validate ruggedness are carried out. A truly rugged computer is so much more than just a normal computer wrapped in a tough outer case, as Handheld’s CEO Jerker Hellström explains in this article.

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Three Ways Retailers Can Benefit from the Cloud

June 10, 2014 No Comments

It’s no secret that cloud computing is playing a major role in the transformation of several industries, and retail is among the fields capitalizing most on its benefits. From breaking down silos between legacy systems to revolutionizing the Point of Sale (POS) model, cloud computing has helped both e-commerce and storefront retailers alike streamline operations and improve business outcomes.

Lessons Learned in a Bronx Middle School Find Their Way onto Big Data’s Worldwide Stage

June 6, 2014 No Comments

It has been a few decades since Bronx-born Joe Caserta last walked the halls of his middle school, J.H.S. 127 on Purdy Street in the Castle Hill/Parkchester neighborhood of the Bronx, and proudly sat in the auditorium of Truman High School on his graduation day. That changes on June 23rd when Joe returns to Truman H.S. to talk to the J.H.S. 127 graduating class on their way to high school and, if Joe has his way, onto rewarding careers in technology and data science.

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With BYOD, You Don’t Have to Choose Between Productivity and Security

June 6, 2014 No Comments

Mobile devices could become an immense source of productivity, but employers are still reluctant to let employees use apps of their choice on personal devices that access corporate data. With work hours and locations ever more flexible, employees want to access corporate data on-the-go, at home and long after “EOD.” BYOD is allowing people to get more done with more freedom, but we now have a gap between employee and employer expectations.

4 Industries Bringing Big Ideas to Life through IT Infrastructure

June 6, 2014 No Comments

It’s clear that any company, regardless of industry, is reliant on – or stands to improve its business through – the use of technology. Concepts like Big Data, Cloud and the Internet of Everything are relatively new pieces of the technology puzzle, but are quickly becoming vital to modern consumers and the businesses that serve them.

If You Can Count To Five, You Can Move To The Cloud

June 2, 2014 No Comments

Most business owners are already familiar with the cloud. These businesses understand the many benefits of moving to the cloud, so much so that according to a recent Forbes article[1], businesses in the United States will spend more than $13 billion on cloud computing this year. The global cloud computing market is predicted to grow to 79.1 billion by 2018, with the Forbes article noting that by 2015, “end-user spending on cloud services could be more than $180 billion.” The cloud is here to stay and is going to continue to grow each year. However, small business owners are asking, “what does this mean to me?”

How to Manage Content Inside Transactional Applications

May 30, 2014 No Comments

Web applications come in all shapes and sizes. From online banking interfaces to video players like Hulu to social apps like HootSuite or TweetDeck. What all of these applications have in common, though, is that they exist to manage user-specific data that was generated from some other transaction. The user of the app manipulates data created through some other process intended specifically for them, like their financial records or their list of Twitter followers. These transactional applications primarily handle data that is not often subject to any editorial process. There is usually no human creation, no editing and no approval.

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Case Study: Improving Monitoring Capabilities Quickly

May 28, 2014 No Comments

Digital Fortress, Seattle’s #1 regional provider of network-intensive, retail colocation and wholesale data center services, was faced with serious obstacles to efficiency and growth. Outdated monitoring platforms, increasing customer capacity demands, and rapidly shrinking margins for error made it clear that they needed vastly improved monitoring capabilities immediately.

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Tips For Increasing Conversion Through Web Design

May 28, 2014 No Comments

Business owners new to internet marketing spend a lot of time getting traffic to their websites. Traffic is very important, but what happens once visitors arrive at your site is what really matters. So much time is spent focusing on getting hits and studying traffic patterns that the entire concept of conversions is missed. One of the biggest mistakes people make that kills sales is bad web design.

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The Files Ruining Your Sharing Policies

May 27, 2014 1 Comment

According to Ponemon’s 2013 Cost of Data Breach Study, the majority of information leaks aren’t caused by malicious or criminal attacks. Rather, about two-thirds of data breaches are actually due to system glitches and human factors. You can’t afford to let users break important information-sharing policies. The study found the average cost of a data breach in the United States is US$188 per record, which makes the average organizational cost more than $5.4 million.

Online vs Offline Marketing – Final Showdown

May 20, 2014 No Comments

There are a lot of different ways to market your business. With the steady increase in Internet users, it is widely debated that online marketing is more important compared to conventional offline marketing methodologies. Be it any kind of marketing, the whole point is to reach out to potential customers and create brand awareness.

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Innovative Trends Make Mobile App Development More Responsive

May 19, 2014 No Comments

As the array of mobile devices flourish in the market and as mobile applications coded in HTML5 start appearing in abundance, it becomes more essential for mobile app developers to concentrate progressively on the aspect of responsive app schemes. Why? Because amidst an overwhelming number of mobile options/solutions existing in the current hour, the singular code of a responsive design looks like the most tempting universal answer for mobile optimization.

Automation Technology in the Workplace: Will a Machine Take Your Job?

May 19, 2014 No Comments

Picture taking a ride around town in a self-driving taxicab, or having the item you just ordered online delivered to your door by a flying drone within minutes of a mouse-click. The future sounds pretty cool—unless you happen to drive a cab or deliver packages for a living. But that’s the reality we will face in the future. As automation technology continues to advance, the loss of human jobs is inevitable.

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Top Five Tips to Choose the Right CMS Solution

May 15, 2014 No Comments

The future of technology is being built on openness and transparency. Open source platforms provide a back-end framework that allows users to build and customize websites while also managing user registration, system administration, page layout, RSS and much more. Across the globe, open source developers are making innovative contributions and sharing code to build stronger platforms with higher security and better support.

The Post XPocalyptic World

May 14, 2014 No Comments

April 8th, 2014, the day when the world faced the Xpocalypse. If you were using a Windows XP computer at that time, did it explode? Did red letters start flashing across the screen that your workstation was about to meet its demise? Probably not. As many people found on April 8th, their Windows XP computers continued functioning as usual. It then shouldn’t be a surprise to learn that from our benchmark results, on average, companies are still running Windows XP on 38% of their workstations.

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IT Briefcase Exclusive Interview with Ed Brill, Director, Mobile Enterprise Marketing, IBM

May 9, 2014 No Comments

with Ed Brill, IBM Social BusinessIn this interview, Ed Brill from IBM Social Business discusses mobile as a business transformation tool and considerations for the ‘upwardly mobile’ enterprise. Read More >>>

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