Moving ERP To The Cloud

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You can’t run a business without ERP. The term itself stands forEnterprise Resource Planning, but in essence ERP is about pulling together all the functions involved in a company into one computer or system. Everything from purchasing raw goods to shipping finished product, even HR and Accounts Payable needs to be accessible and useable in order to correctly handle the basic reason for a company’s existence: to get a product or service out to the paying customer. Whereas in earlier decades the processes involved in order fulfillment, purchasing, tracking, warehousing,…

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Create an interesting LinkedIn profile for customers in 5 steps

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LinkedIn, at the moment the most popular social media channel for social selling. Thanks to LinkedIn cold calling is almost over. But how interesting is your LinkedIn profile for customers and prospects? A lot of LinkedIn users see LinkedIn as an online resume. These resumes are refreshed almost every day with new posts and updates. Recruiters use LinkedIn a lot to find the right candidates and candidates use LinkedIn to find their dream job. But a lot of LinkedIn users use their interactive resume nowadays also to reach customers and…

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Net neutrality solution may be a win-win for ISPs and users

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ISPs want to regulate bandwidth. Users want good service. Researchers at Stanford University feel there is a way both parties can get what they want. Image: YouTube The FCC just released proposed policy changes in response to the January 2014 federal appeals court ruling (PDF) that rejected the FCC’s “Open Internet” regulations. Proponents and opponents have been vocal about the proposed changes to net neutrality, or what the FCC calls the Open Internet: “The ‘Open Internet’ is the Internet as we know it, a level playing field where consumers can make their own…

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Symantec: Antivirus is ‘DEAD’ – no longer ‘a moneymaker’

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Oh, and it’s still 40 per cent of our business Symantec, a company that has made huge amounts of cash as the largest antivirus software vendor for the last quarter of a century, looks to be getting out of that business and into fixing hacking problems rather than stopping them. “We don’t think of antivirus as a moneymaker in any way,” Brian Dye, Symantec’s senior vice president for information security, told The Wall Street Journal, adding that antivirus was “dead.” Dye said that modern antivirus software only stops around 45 per cent…

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Cyber-Attackers Have Advantages, but Enterprises Must Fight Back

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Most security pros believe attackers are able to dodge defenses. Companies can better protect themselves by sharing threat intel within their industries. Over the past three years, the IT security community has gradually come to the consensus that every company should assume that their systems have been breached. While the lack of faith in their technology, tools and people may, on some level, be practical, it should not be a reason to give up, security experts stress. The latest report from the Ponemon Institute released this week shows, for example,…

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11 sure signs you’ve been hacked

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Sure sign of system compromise No. 10: Your bank account is missing money I mean lots of money. Online bad guys don’t usually steal a little money. They like to transfer everything or nearly everything, often to a foreign exchange or bank. Usually it begins by your computer being compromised or from you responding to a fake phish from your bank. In any case, the bad guys log on to your bank, change your contact information, and transfer large sums of money to themselves. What to do: In most cases…

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EMC’s Elastic Cloud Storage Targets Amazon, Google

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Data storage company EMC on Monday took the covers off its ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) Appliance at EMC World 2014 in Las Vegas. Formerly known as Project Nile, the company is positioning its latest product as a breakthrough in hyper-scalecloud storage infrastructure that spans customers of any size in every industry — and aiming squarely at Google and Amazon. EMC is answering what it sees as an industry need: The so-called “third platform of IT” — social, mobile, cloud and bigdata — is creating new opportunities and competitive threats for large enterprises and small…

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Cash is a Dirty Habit

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Two thirds of Europeans believe cash is dirty – but struggle to break the bad habit with only one in five washing their hands after holding it  Waterloo, May 6, 2014 –  Research released today by MasterCard has shown that despite believing handling cash, bank notes or coins to be unhygienic and dirty, only one in five wash their hands after holding it. The European wide study of over 9,000 consumers from 12 countries highlighted how despite being ranked as more unhygienic than hand rails on public transport or communal food, such as nuts in…

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The Changing Face of the Financial Services Industry

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In an information age, data becomes the new source of value. The information revolution isn’t just changing consumers’ preferences and behaviors. It’s also changing industries by enabling new information-driven solutions that match consumer needs better than traditional offerings do. In short, the old way is not working anymore because consumers expect more. This new reality is impacting all industries, but particularly financial services, which is not known for its revolutionary thinking. According to the Oliver Wyman report “A Money and Information Business: The State of the Financial Services Industry 2013,”…

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Big Data knows you’re broke

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Big Data knows when you’ve fallen on hard times. Whether you’re deep in debt or a senior on a fixed income, data brokers can track and sell your information to payday lenders, debt consolidation firms and other marketers. The problem is the information can be used by businesses or scammers that prey on the poor and the elderly, lawmakers say. For example, lists of frequent payday loan borrowers could be targeted for other high cost loans — ones that could sink them even further into debt. And lists of elderly…

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