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Infor Demonstrates Steady Stream of Advances to Customers
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At this year’s Inforum user group conference, Infor representatives showed the progress the organization has made since last year in transforming itself from a ragbag of mostly small, often obsolete software companies to a competitive vendor of a modern enterprise management software suite.[read more]
Adaptive Planning "Suitens" Its Offering
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Adaptive Planning has been building out its cloud-based financial software. It recently announced the general availability of consolidation functionality in its cloud-based suite. This addition eliminates a notable gap in the company, giving it a more complete financial performance management suite.[read more]
HIPAA in a HITECH World: HIPAA Violations on the Rise
Since the HITECH Act, HIPAA complaint traffic geometrically increased. In the last 3 years, there have been over 70,000 HIPAA violation complaints. It’s impossible to enforce every complaint, and we don’t want to. The approach to enforcement needs to be smart and educational.[read more]
Cloud Security: Vetting Applications and Cloud Providers for Compliance and Security
The latest report from the Ponemon Institute sought to analyze trends in cloud computing security among organizations that use SaaS and IaaS. It found that only 43 percent of organizations audit or assess cloud computing resources before deployment.[read more]
SAS Innovates into the Big Data Analytics Era
SAS Institute held its 24th annual analyst summit last week in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The 37-year-old privately held company is a key player in big data analytics, and company executives showed off their latest developments and product roadmaps.[read more]
MicroStrategy Raises the Ante on Mobile, Social and Cloud Innovation
MicroStategy World 2013 last month found the company delving into such diverse areas as identity management, marketing services and integrated point-of-sale applications. The uniting factor is mobile intelligence. At the event, MicroStrategy highlighted three innovative product lines.[read more]
Cloud Computing and Your Small Biz: Is It a Match Made in Heaven?
Cloud computing — you’ve heard of it, you may even be using it without realizing it. And the technology is beginning to catch on, according to a 2011 Cloud Computing Tracking Poll conducted by CDW, a provider of technology solutions. What is it exactly, and what potential benefits does it offer for your small business?[read more]
CTOvision Big Data Reporting for 2012
Among the many Big Data themes we reported on in 2012, one seemed to resonate the most with our readers– all of us with a techie bent have realized that we need more discipline in our use of the term Big Data.[read more]
Plumbing the Salesforce Clouds is Your Business
Unfortunately Salesforce, like other companies that deliver applications and platforms in the cloud, has failed to advance interchanges with data in on-premises enterprise applications and systems. Managing data in the cloud can have significant process benefits, such as improving data quality and reducing resources to establish and maintain the cloud effort.[read more]
Managed Hosting: Let Somebody Else Do the Heavy Lifting
Cloud computing companies distinguish themselves by offering comprehensive support packages to their customers in addition to their normal managed hosting services.[read more]
Private Cloud Hosting: Have Your Cake and Eat It, Too
Private clouds give their users more control over how the cloud infrastructure is made up and how exactly to handle workloads.[read more]
Kronos Supercharges Workforce Analytics with New Technology
Maximizing cost-effectiveness and productivity is the goal of workforce analytics, and Kronos is focused on that. Kronos also provides workforce management applications, which I recently assessed. Now the company has released a new version of its workforce analytics software. In Kronos Workforce Analytics version 6.3 the technology is complete refreshed with the embedding of MicroStrategy, which is well-known for its robustness in business intelligence and analytics.[read more]
Has 'cloud computing' become a redundant phrase?
My eighth-grade English teacher, Mrs. Pedrick, probably would have a field day with her red pen if she ever read many of the IT-related blogs out there – including mine. One of her pet peeves was the loading up of sentences with redundancies; most thoughts could be expressed neatly and cleanly with an economy of words. Consider phrases...[read more]
Splunk: Big Data Machine for Operational Intelligence
Our analysis of Splunk’s latest release of software, version 4.3, found a series of advancements, including supporting access from tablets such as Apple’s iPad, support for data in cloud-based applications and the ability to operate in VMware environments, making it easier to deploy Splunk in the cloud. This version expands the enterprise scale of the platform, supporting more concurrent users and faster search.[read more]
SumTotal Systems Sums Up Human Capital Management
Despite some areas for improvements, SumTotal Systems is a vendor to reckon with in the market for human capital management. The company has a significant opportunity to be a strategic supplier to not just HR but to CFOs and heads of business that realize that applications and information about their workforce complement the activities within the business processes, since they reveal who the right engaged and skilled people are in the effort to achieve business objectives.[read more]
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