Three Steps to a BYOD Plan

Leaders of today’s businesses function in an increasingly complex environment with diminishing resources. Users expect the latest and best technologies while the security threats become increasingly complex. While satisfying user demands, leaders also need to safeguard the data they have – from customers, the company and employees by thwarting cyber-attacks. Needless to say, this is a strenuous, high risk balancing act that leaders have to perform every day.
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Editorial Team | May 2nd, 2013 | Continued

The biggest threat on the Cloud is not what you think

Sensitivity of data is a big concern for companies. The slow growth of cloud adoption in the enterprise is attributed to security – companies fear that their data could get compromised. However, the bigger, and potentially more damaging, threat is that the cloud could experience an outage – leading to data loss. Though companies worry about the safety of their data, there are relatively few incidents of data leakage – as [...]

Editorial Team | April 10th, 2013 | Continued

7 Benefits of Effective Application Lifecycle Management

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) is vital in making the complex coordination of people, information and processes, simple. This process is particularly vital in iterative/agile software development. Effective ALM helps in improving the quality of products and services by enhancing the probability of success for projects and by reducing the costs associated with identification and eradication of software bugs and errors.
Multiplatform software development is an expensive and time consuming process. IBM Rational [...]

Editorial Team | March 28th, 2013 | Continued

How can Social Technologies help B2B companies sell?

Social Selling is the way of the future. By successfully integrating social technologies into daily processes – including those that are upstream and downstream to selling, organizations are able to outperform the competition. Many of these organizations have adopted the power of user generated content (UGC) to transform their approach to marketing, sales and customer service. Compared to non-adopters, these organizations also benefit from enhanced collaboration and greater levels of customer [...]

Editorial Team | March 28th, 2013 | Continued

3 Perceived Challenges of the Hybrid Cloud

Today’s globally competitive business environment along with tough economic climate is causing many companies to revisit and redesign their business processes. Be it for increasing productivity, improving quality, speeding up market penetration, cost cutting or improved efficiency of processes, the cloud can contribute significantly to the companies’ solutions.
Cloud computing technologies are developing rapidly around the world and the different manifestations – public, private and hybrid are gaining mainstream acceptance. Though the [...]

Editorial Team | March 25th, 2013 | Continued

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