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5 Ways to Reduce IT Costs
Rising IT costs are something that all businesses in the digital age are having to contend with. Why? Because the modern IT department is an innovator – the driving force behind digital transformations, and the creation of new products, services, and opportunities to connect with more customers. According to a new report by Gartner, released
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5 Ways to Protect Your Business Against Cybercrime
Cybercrime is on the rise. Even without diving into research and statistics, we know this to be true. Barely a day goes by without some cybersecurity incident affecting business or government stealing the headlines – so when we do take a look at the figures, we should be neither shocked nor surprised to observe the
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Data – The New Gold Rush for Businesses
You’ve no doubt heard the cry many times already – “Data is the new gold!” And it’s true. Though of course not everybody loves data in the same way that people love gold in all its shiny allure and opulence, the analogy fits – especially when you consider the thousands if not millions of prospectors
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The Pros and Cons of Offering Freeware
Every business, big and small, will use third-party software tools. Among these software tools will be some freeware solutions. Free-to-use software is a boon to small businesses when they are new, and a useful resource for bigger businesses with many functions in need of completion. As a software company, though, what are the benefits of
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How Your Role as a Marketer Will Evolve in the Coming Years
In the years before the internet exploded first into our homes, and then into our pockets, marketing was a very different beast than what it is today. Print advertising, traditional media direct mail and good old word-of-mouth amongst real (i.e. not “Facebook”) friends and family were pretty much the only options marketers had for spreading
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Unpacking Enterprise Architecture and Agile
Christopher Armstrong, president of Sparx Services North America, unpacks the loaded topics of Enterprise Architecture and Agile and the ways industry standards can help companies achieve their agile ambitions. Christopher is a well-known enterprise architecture thought leader and contributor to industry standards including: TOGAF, UML, ArchiMate, SysML, BIZBOK Guide to Business Architecture and TM Forum
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The Lack of Tech in Education Is Not Preparing Our Kids for the Future
Why do we send our children to school? To get them out of the house, out of the way? No – because we entrust the educational system to teach them how to become responsible, productive citizens, and equip them with the skills and knowledge needed for adulthood. So, why the lack of tech in education?
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5 Great Chaos Engineering Blogs to Help You Create Chaos
Developed by the software engineers at Netflix, chaos engineering is the increasingly popular distributed software system testing methodology, designed to unearth failures before they become outages. How is this achieved? By deliberately – yet carefully – injecting failures into software systems in production to test how they perform under stress. In short, chaos engineers break
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