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
