Category: Data Services

July 16, 2018

Thanks to the rapid advancement of technologies within the enterprise over the past few decades, it’s more important than ever that IT strategists verify that their end-users are getting the necessary tools – and that IT is following the latest […]

June 26, 2018

In the worlds of Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and cloud ERP, manual data entry is akin to a four-letter word—something best not used in the professional space. Data entry is defined as “transcribing information into an electronic medium such as […]

June 26, 2018

Business users have lots of ideas for tools and add-ons that could improve daily operations — for instance, adding a workflow to an asset tracking application to govern how new assets are added into inventory. But with many IT departments […]

June 25, 2018

For most businesses, the decision of “to cloud or not to cloud” has been answered with a resounding yes. The burning question now is which cloud provider to use, and that has no easy answer because every cloud provider has […]

June 20, 2018

What do some of the world’s most popular and successful websites have in common? While Netflix, Amazon, Facebook and YouTube all have different business models, each one does one thing very well: personalization. If you’re a member of any one […]

June 11, 2018

Big data-crunching platform Splunk has announced plans to acquire VictorOps, an incident management platform for the DevOps community. For the uninitiated, Splunk captures machine-generated data for the purpose of generating insights and “operational intelligence” through reports and visualizations. It basically […]

May 16, 2018

Coming back from Interop ITX is always a bittersweet occasion. On one hand, it’s a little sad to leave friends and brilliant colleagues after such a wonderful event. On the other hand, I definitely leave with a wealth of knowledge […]

May 9, 2018

What do an Uber driver, app developer, social media manager, data scientist, influencer, and drone operator have in common? They are all jobs that didn’t exist 10 years ago and they’re all a result of the super-fast technological change something […]

May 3, 2018

As a sole collection point for all an organisation’s data from multiple sources, an enterprise resource planning (ERP) solution acts as a single source of truth – eliminating data duplication, enhancing data integrity, and enabling users to drive growth, manage […]

April 25, 2018

Facing the reality that many enterprise data-center managers now work in a hybrid cloud environment, Juniper Networks is set to release Contrail Enterprise Multicloud, a software package designed to monitor and manage workloads and servers deployed across networking and cloud […]

April 19, 2018

Everywhere you look there is another spreadsheet. As you walk among the people you hear complaints that the ERP is too hard to use and doesn’t yield the information needed. Is it time to change your ERP, or could you […]

April 16, 2018

When you’re running a business that’s growing, it can be hard to have a complete view of your financial picture and overall performance. As you grow and add customers, suppliers and product lines, you need access to the information that […]

April 6, 2018

All organizations, no matter their size, need to understand what’s going on with their business data in order to get an accurate picture of how the company is performing. The reporting features you get from Microsoft Dynamics aren’t just for […]

March 30, 2018

Have you ever had to compare data for several companies? That is usually not a problem to change the company you are currently attached to. You just double-click the company on the bottom of your current work space, and change […]

January 22, 2018

Modern business management technology is pretty amazing for the most part. Managing core business processes though powerful ERP systems, like Microsoft Dynamics GP Payroll, instead of specialty software or paper-based systems, saves so much time and frustration. However, even with […]

December 6, 2017

As more sophisticated resources for developers become widely available, copycat products can now be launched in a matter of hours. Software patents provided some limited protection, but feature wars rage on. Software without data is now a commodity. These pressures […]

December 5, 2017

Biased data can lead to bad decisions. Most business leaders aren’t aware of the problem just yet, but they need to be because they’re ultimately responsible. Bias is everywhere, including in your data. A little skew here and there may […]

September 13, 2017

Machine learning is a hot topic across the technology spectrum today. From self-driving cars, to catching nefarious content in the fight against terrorism, to apps that automatically retouch photos before you even take them, it is popping up just about […]

September 11, 2017

We join many others as we say that our hearts go out to all those affected by Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. Many of our customers and partners have been experiencing the wrath of these two storms, and all of […]

September 8, 2017

Unless you’ve been living in the high Himalayas for the last 5 years, chances are you’d have at least heard about big data, and you’ve probably also wondered: How does big data affect you? Collecting data —lots of it— is […]