3 Ways IT Teams Can Help Businesses Using Automation
By Gregory Horvath, KPMG LLP Automation is a hot topic, and something we’re all coming to expect in…
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Review: Xamarin.Forms for Mobile App Development
While the “bring your own device” (BYOD) movement is giving many CIOs headaches over security, it also represents…
Enterprise Social Software: How to Keep Employees Using It
As we noted last week, adoption of enterprise social software does not appear to be keeping up with…
Our Relationship with Mobile Apps: It’s Complicated
By Rob Hammond, Syniverse Now that we are in the second half of 2014, I’ve been reflecting on…
5 Ways to Get People to Use Enterprise Social Software
Investment in enterprise social software appears to be picking up. Frost & Sullivan recently reported that subscriptions for…
8 Keys to Enterprise App Store Success
Enterprise apps stores offer a convenient portal that allows employees to download a selection of tested and trusted…
Startup Spotlight: Clari’s Sales Productivity Software
Sometimes you have to listen to your gut. That’s a sentiment you don’t often hear in today’s data-driven…
Mobile App vs. Paper: No Contest
By Steve Brykman, Propelics Many organizations still use pen and paper as the preferred platform for many, if…
Big Data Success: 10 Tips for SMEs
The last couple of years have seen Big Data filter down from the enterprise into the land of…
How to Buy Cloud Finance Apps
The cloud has invaded many areas of the enterprise, and recently it has been the turn of finance…
8 Ways to Make Software Licensing Agreements Work for You
By Scott D. Rosenberg, CEO Miro Consulting This is an exciting, and challenging, time to be a CIO…
4 Apps that Make it Easier to Use PowerPoint
The PowerPoint presentation is a fixture of corporate life. So it’s no surprise that third-party vendors create products…
Mobile Marketing ROI: 3 Metrics that Matter and 3 that Don’t
By Adam Marchick, CEO, Kahuna Push notifications today are like Hotmail in 1999. Mobile marketers and developers know…
10 Database Design Best Practices
With enterprises looking for new ways to use data to gain competitive advantage, database design is now more…
Information Governance in Age of Mobile, Cloud and Social
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates Enterprise data is no longer restricted to transaction-based and other legacy systems. Companies…
Business Intelligence 101: A Brief History
The purpose of business Intelligence (BI) solutions is pretty much the same as the purpose of “military intelligence”:…
Application Performance Management Buying Guide
Because application performance management (APM) is a complex area influenced by a multitude of factors, trying to sum…
5 Tips for Boosting Enterprise Software Adoption
By Himanshu Sareen, Icreon Tech The change resistor. The legacy employee. The amateur technologist. In any business environment,…
Review: Visual Studio 2013 for Enterprise App Development
Every enterprise IT organization develops and maintains some number of custom applications. In the vast majority of organizations…
3 Tips for Tackling Big Data Collaboration
Few organizations experience as many Big Data problems as the health and life sciences sector. Companies in this…
Chief Data Officer: 4 Reasons to Hire a CDO
By Priya Singh, Information Builders Recently, I read an interesting article about how the search effort for the…
Startup Spotlight: Lua’s Mobile Coordination Software
Startups are not for the faint of heart. That is not a problem for Michael DeFranco, founder and…
Cloud ERP Buying Guide
We recently published Top Ten Trends in Cloud ERP, and we’ve also looked at how ERP giants like…
How to Move Marketing Automation Beyond Email
By Natalia Dykyj, Vocus Marketing automation holds the promise to solve a lot of the pain that marketers…
10 Keys to Creating a Mobile ERP Strategy
Mobile ERP has been on the enterprise radar for a while now, with experts telling us companies will…
7 Apps for Simplifying Project Management
Every project needs to have someone in charge in order to succeed. The larger the project and the…
Taking a PaaS on Mobile App Development
It’s no secret that applications are exploding in the enterprise, especially mobile apps. A recent Fiberlink survey revealed…
Implementing iBeacons? Watch Out for 5 ‘Gotchas’
By Glenn Gruber, Propelics We recently heard the news about Virgin Atlantic piloting Apple’s iBeacon location-aware technology. Mobile…
IT Getting a Grip on Mobile Apps
Many folks believe the enterprise mobility trend has left IT organizations vainly struggling to contain rogue mobile devices…
Enterprise Social Adoption Is Growing
Adoption of business technology is often slower than expected. That’s been the case for enterprise social networking, which…
Analyzing Microsoft-Salesforce Match-up
A recent joint announcement by Microsoft and Salesforce on their new partnership sent ripples across the IT and…
3 Tips on Improving Customers’ Mobile Experience
By Rob Howard When people utilize social business tools and technology, they expect to find an ideal experience…
Review: Microsoft SQL Server 2014
Microsoft releases new versions of its main products on a relatively predictable schedule. SQL Server releases or major…
Cloud a Key Part of ‘Postmodern ERP’
ERP is changing. Large ERP vendors like Oracle and SAP are now active participants in software-as-a-service (SaaS) and…
Startup Spotlight: RJMetrics Offers Analytics for Everyone
A stint as an analyst at a venture capital firm showed Robert Moore he didn’t want a career…
Getting Information Governance Off the Ground
By Rex Ahlstrom, BackOffice Associates Many enterprises understand that establishing and maintaining data quality is essential to their…
Top 10 Trends in Cloud ERP
Cloud enterprise resource planning (ERP) software hasn’t really caught on yet. But according to a recent Gartner survey,…
Wearable Tech Will Make Enterprise Impact
Wearable technology is undeniably hot. Exhibitions like CES and the Wearable Tech Show have been brimming with consumer…
Using Analytics to Measure Mobile App Success
By Nitin Bhatia At an undisclosed location, the countdown has been initiated: five, four, three, two, one and…
Big Data a Big Priority for Most Organizations
Big Data isn’t just a buzzword, it’s a transformative technology trend that can have real impact, according to…
CRM Gets More Vertical
ERP vendors with industry-specific solutions continue to push out unique CRM capabilities, but the market is also well…
5 Best Practices for Data Quality Management
By Priya Singh, Information Builders All companies struggle to manage the cyclical data quality process. A majority of…
Midsize Companies Plan Big Push into Big Data
Big Data is not just within the purview of big companies. That’s the takeaway of new research from…
Smartphones Will Boost IVR’s Customer Service Image
A 2012 poll found that 80 percent of consumers would cease doing business with a company following a…
7 Tips for Getting a Great Software Deal
By Scott D. Rosenberg, CEO Miro Consulting With the fiscal year-end rapidly approaching for both Oracle (May 31)…
How to Bring Customer Focus to CRM
When someone goes off in all directions at once, the common advice is to focus. The same advice…
5 Reasons a ‘Data First’ Strategy Works
By Pedro Cardoso, BackOffice Associates The importance of data as an enterprise asset is now well understood. On…
How to Buy Social Customer Service Software
Social media networks are a fact of life. Customers are going to use Facebook, Twitter and other networks…
Review: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2013
Microsoft has been cranking out updates to its Dynamics CRM product for quite some time, with the latest…
Startup Spotlight: InsightSquared’s Data Analytics
InsightSquared, a startup founded in late 2010, seems to be following a success formula right out of a…