Author: enews

With every .brand that is launched onto the web, the industry watches closely to examine their strategy, analyse their success and evaluate whether the approach can be replicated and learned from. We’ve seen a wide range of launch strategies in recent months, from the full transition of www.barclays.com to www.home.barclays, to the BNP Paribas online banking sites, to the promotional site www.play.afl for the Australian Football League (AFL). By launching home pages, major commerce platforms or significant promotional and initiative-based sites on .brand domain names, these organisations are making a…

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The antagonism between healthcare and cloud computing is finally coming to an end. In the survey results shared by Imprivata and Porter Research, leaders and pioneers from the healthcare segment are realizing the limitations posed by the traditional IT solutions against the collaborative offerings from cloud adoption. Cloud computing promises to step beyond EHR systems and help achieve a true collaboration among the various players in the healthcare sector from the medical practitioners, hospitals to research facilities and government. Read on as we explore the new trends in the healthcare…

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Your network may not be a formal part of your ERP implementation, but network performance has a major impact on how satisfactory your ERP system is. Network problems can slow your ERP response time to a crawl and force you into all sorts of workarounds to get your ERP performance up to something at least partially acceptable. Not surprisingly, the network isn’t the first suspect for poor performance of an ERP system. You’re more likely to look at the ERP database, processor speed or other factors before examining your network’s…

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It’s no surprise that globalization, always a hot-button topic, has resurfaced in the US presidential race. But a lot of the discussion continues to re-litigate the past rather than proposing how to compete in the future. While we’re still talking about tariffs, trade deficits, and currency wars, globalization has morphed in a very different—and more digital—direction. Our old image of globalization was one of container ships moving manufactured goods from far-flung factories to markets around the world. Cross-border trade in goods remains a major force in the global economy, but…

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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a key technology that will provide the data that will fuel the cognitive business era. Cognitive systems will ingest all the IoT data and use it to infuse intelligence into systems and processes. As a result, businesses will become more efficient, improve overall customer experience, discover new business opportunities and better anticipate risks and threats. Our research over the past year has revealed three important trends driving adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) as we move through 2016. They are: 1) IoT systems…

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Report suggests organisations, be it because of embarrassment or ignorance, aren’t seeking help from the authorities when they’re victims of cybercrime. Under a third of cyberattacks against businesses are reported to the police, suggesting that organisations are underestimating the threat posed by hackers and cybercrime, a new study has warned. According to Cyber Security: Underpinning the Digital Economy, a report by the Institute of Directors and Barclays bank, companies are keeping quiet about being the victim of a cyberattack, even if their operations were badly affected by such an incident — as figures…

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When the 2016 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas filled its 2.5 million square feet of exhibit space with promising technologies, there were smart cars, smart drones and smart houses to get excited about. Missing was last year’s excitement about the Apple Watch.  Since its April 2015 introduction, Apple has remained secretive about how the smartwatch is selling.  Apple CEO Tim Cook has repeatedly stated that “we are not announcing the numbers,” but a new report by research firm Juniper estimates that Apple has claimed 52 percent of the smartwatch market.…

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