Most people agree that today’s technology is (for the most part) making life simpler, allowing us more time for other things and ultimately giving us a wealth of opportunities to have more comfortable lives. While we can sometimes feel like throwing our computers out the window, can you imagine how we ever functioned without Facebook, … Continued
Drop The Box: Is Synchronisation The Solution?
The use of cloud services is rising continuously for both private and public companies. In fact, analysts predict a growth in the enterprise cloud market from $18.3 billion in 2012 to $31.9 billion in 2017. This rise of cloud services is due to the increase in the use of smartphones and tablets. These devices usually … Continued
Putting The ERP In Customer Experience Initiatives
How much thought have you given recently to the role your ERP system plays in enabling your customer experience initiatives? When you implemented the system efficiency, scheduling, and getting more flexibility were probably on the list of goals, but not necessarily customer experience, even though it is impacted by all the other goals. When it … Continued
Patience Is Not A Virtue For Online Business
A wise man once proclaimed, “all good things come to those who wait.” But that wise man clearly didn’t work in the hustle and bustle of online retail. In the modern world it feels like everything moves at a million miles per hour. The culture of fast food means the notion of going for dinner … Continued
Corporate Identity
What is a Corporate Identity? Corporate identity is about how you want your business to look to your target market – i.e. those folks you call clients or customers – as well as those other folks that haven’t become customers or clients yet…but you would like them to. This is generally achieved through the following: … Continued
HR, Payroll And The Cloud
Cloud systems have progressed from being the latest buzzword, to being an integral part of our day to day personal and working lives, changing the way we communicate not just with our loved ones, but our colleagues and business partners too. But more importantly, it’s changed the way in which we work, and this is … Continued
The Revolution In Online Bookkeeping: Counting On The Cloud
Unlike traditional software, online accounting technology provides the real-time controls and visibility needed to put small and microbusiness owners in the driving seat when it comes to their finances. The boom in function-rich cloud-based software is having a transformational effect on the vast small business community. Nowhere is this being felt more keenly than in … Continued
SAP Offers Fast Track To Innovation Via A Flexible Path To The Cloud
SAP Offers Fast Track to Innovation Via a Flexible Path to the Cloud SAP AG (NYSE: SAP) is taking the next step to make the recently announced unified cloud portfolio vision a reality for customers, putting them in the driver’s seat for their cloud journey. SAP now offers customers and partners a simple, flexible model … Continued
How Can The Cloud Protect Us From Identity Theft?
How Can The Cloud Protect Us From Identity Theft? More than 600 million Internet users will store data on the cloud by the end of the year. If you’re using anything from online banking to iTunes, you’re using the cloud. Our business files have moved to the cloud, our audio and visual media have moved … Continued
Top 10 ways to keep your computer cool
Keep it clean It’s especially desktops that tend to moulder under desks, their innards becoming clogged with dust, dirt and errant hairballs. Before trying anything else, we’d suggest you open up your PC (or laptop, if possible) and have a go at removing potentially several years’ worth of debris. Dust clogs the fans, and can … Continued
Skills Required To Land A Competitive Job In IT
Experts from the HR department at social recruitment platform jobandtalent have evaluated the IT skills most sought after by employers when recruiting for top paid positions. Jobandtalent currently hosts over 30,000 IT jobs, and sources IT talent for industry leaders such as Accenture and Clifford Chance. The salary of IT professionals varies, with more … Continued
Keeping Your Organisation’s IT Hardware Assets Off The Scrapheap
Last week the scale of Britain’s IT scrapheap was revealed in research by Crucial Technology, stating that Britain is throwing away 5,528 tonnes of PCs and laptops every year. The question is how many of these devices had reached the end of their usable life? How many could have been saved? Were they disposed of … Continued
Disaster recovery: time for SMEs to look to the cloud
With businesses of all descriptions now completely dependent on IT and telecoms to keep functioning, the need for a disaster recovery plan, no matter what size the business, has never been more compelling. Smaller businesses, lacking the standby facilities and support services enjoyed by their larger counterparts, can be hit particularly hard. Downtime is one … Continued
Hottest IT Skills in 2013 – Cloud, Mobile and BI
While cloud computing is in first place among the technologies of interest to the corporate sector, the industry is a struggle for professionals in this field. In 2012, more than 1.7 million jobs in the field of cloud computing remain unoccupied, according to analysts firm IDC. The reason for this is lack of qualifications and … Continued
Sitting On A Goldmine And Clueless? Tap Into Your Data Assets
Most companies have inadvertently locked away the value of their enterprise data, because they can rarely harness the right information at the right time. When they finally do access information, it is often inaccurate, incomplete or unavailable. This is costing companies dearly in the form of lost revenue opportunities, greater operational costs, and increased risk … Continued
Why The CRM Wars Matter
The battle for market share between the leading vendors of CRM systems may not appear to be something you should worry about, but it could affect far more than whose logo you see in your system. While we focus on the developments in mobile and Cloud, a war is brewing under the radar as CRM … Continued
Clearing The Path Towards Collaboration And Communication
Clearing The Path Towards Collaboration And Communication In The Multi-Generational Workplace The advances being made on the technology side of business, such as cloud, social media and smartphone apps often have to stop and wait for the human side to catch up. Resistance, fear and inertia are rampant in companies whose managers and senior decision-makers remain … Continued
From Big Data Farmers To Role Specialisation
One hundred years ago, in 1913, Henry Ford invented the assembly line. By introducing role specialisation and division of labor, Ford reduced the time it took to build a car from 12 hours to 30 minutes. And he opened the door for a new and different kind of economy. Without role specialisation, one person is … Continued
Ecommerce Systems: How They’re Showing Results For The Retail Sector
In recent years, a growing number of us have realised that we don’t have to do all our shopping on the high street, retail parks or in out-of-town supermarkets and shopping centres. As the internet has grown, so has ecommerce – online retail to you and me. For retail companies large and small, ecommerce has … Continued
Is the Cloud ready for Mission Critical Apps?
By Vic Nyman “Cloud Computing!” Is it the savior of IT or the bane of our existence? Cloud computing has extreme potential, especially for achieving operational efficiencies and cost savings. Unfortunately, with that potential is the potential for business disaster – outages in places you can’t control impacting customer satisfaction or even sales results. Imagine … Continued