Category: Analysis

The breakneck pace of change in the IT industry is forcing you to change the way you think about attracting and hiring skilled workers. Here are six new IT roles for 2015 and advice on how to find talent to fill them. Information Insight Enabler Most organizations have an abundance of information, reports and statistics, but aren’t using that effectively to drive business and strategic decisions, says Horne. “And information insight enabler is something of a big data role; they act as coaches, not just technologists, to help business leaders…

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Technology Broker The ubiquitous nature of affordable, easy-to-use cloud-based apps has led to an influx of these applications into the enterprise, says Horne. “In the past, IT was in charge of all technology purchase decisions and developed specific vendor negotiation and purchasing skills,” Horne says. “Now, almost every department from marketing to finance has the ability to buy apps they feel will benefit their group, but in some cases these folks are more willing than able.” A technology broker provides buying advice and negotiating support to divisions across a company…

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The breakneck pace of change in the IT industry is forcing you to change the way you think about attracting and hiring skilled workers. Here are six new IT roles for 2015 and advice on how to find talent to fill them. The pace of change in IT has always been brisk, but technology advances such as virtualization, the cloud, service management and a focus on information management and collaboration have forced businesses into a dead sprint to keep up. And as technology changes, so do the skills, knowledge and…

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According to a Kaspersky Lab survey of 3,900 IT professionals worldwide[AK1] , industrial and production businesses have security priorities that are drastically different from service-based industries. Industrial sectors can value (or under-value) certain types of data far differently than other businesses, and even amongst different industrial sectors, security priorities can vary greatly. The adage that “no two businesses are alike” is especially true when comparing businesses in corporate and services sectors (e.g., Education, E-Commerce, Healthcare) to industrial businesses. Kaspersky Lab’s survey classified respondents across 17 different business sectors, including the Manufacturing…

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If your company is looking for a page layout app that won’t break the bank, check out these five low-cost tools.  There are plenty of reasons to have page layout software at the ready. Your business will need professional correspondence, marketing materials, flyers, and much more. But for some businesses, dropping the cash for a page layout app isn’t feasible. Fortunately, for those needing affordable solutions, there are plenty of page layout tools to choose from. I have gathered five such tools that should meet the needs for most users.…

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This is the first of a series of excerpts from The Digital Economy, 20 Anniversary Edition by Don Tapscott, released October 24, 2014. Too bad the term “socialism” was appropriated by Karl Marx, because it would be an apt description of today’s emerging social economy. The social media revolution is transforming the way we create wealth, work, learn, play, raise our children, and probably even the way we think. A billion people use social media daily. We have social networking, social business, social government, social entertainment, and social everything. Today’s…

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Gartner’s latest PC market tracker features some sobering food for thought for tablet makers 2014 will mark the start of a significant slowdown in the growth of tablet sales, as users put off replacing older devices or turn to hybrid-style ones when it comes to upgrading. That’s according to analyst house Gartner’s latest PC market tracker, which predicts global tablet sales will be 11 per cent higher in 2014 than last year, with 229 million units sold. To put this figure into context, in 2013, tablet sales grew 55 per…

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Kaspersky Lab’s experts performed a forensic investigation into cyber-criminal attacks targeting multiple ATMs around the world. During the course of this investigation, the company’s researchers discovered a piece of malware infecting ATMs that allowed attackers to empty the cash machines via direct manipulation, stealing millions of dollars. INTERPOL alerted the affected member countries and is assisting ongoing investigations. They work at night – only on Sundays and Mondays. Without inserting a credit card into the ATM slot, they enter a combination of digits on the ATM’s keyboard, make a call…

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How much money could a company save if all of its systems worked from a single, consistent system that operated the front end of the business—for example, if enterprise resource planning (ERP), accounting, customer relationship management, and all of the other systems that a business needs all came from one place? How much better would it be if all of the elements of that one system could draw from a single source of data, across the organization, no matter how diverse the system or how geographically spread out company might be? That’s the…

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The number of pay-TV subscribers has grown steadily in Serbia in the last few years and amounted to 1.55 million in 2013. According to the Cable Operators Association of Serbia, it stood at 1.44 million a year earlier and less than one million (922,000) in 2008. Cable penetration among the population has also increased, rising from 19.9% in 2012 to 21.62% last year. Cable accounted for 70% (1.09 million) of pay-TV subscribers, with DTH and IPTV claiming 216,000 and 244,000 customers respectively. Interestingly, while the figures for cable and IPTV…

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