Tag: cloud computing

February 15, 2024

The Internet of Things (IoT) is coming of age. IoT was something of a slow-burning technology that is finally gathering momentum. Now, it is increasingly being integrated into the B2B sector. With the ability to make businesses more connected, competitive, […]

December 1, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO — For close to a decade, supporters of the chip technology that powers mobile phones vowed to shake up the market for computers. For the most part, they made little headway. Now that finally seems to be changing, […]

April 29, 2020

You can reduce the story of CRM to a lot of things, especially its many component parts. Social networking, cloud computing and analytics are mentioned often. We don’t need an exhaustive list, but if we stop there I think we […]

February 13, 2020

It’s hard to avoid the phrase “digital transformation” in technology articles these days. The thing is we’ve been in the digital age for at least 40 years. Companies have been transforming with the use of digital technology for a long […]

June 7, 2019

Digitally maturing companies are far more innovative than their less mature — or even traditional — competitors. They also invest more in innovation. And once the digital transformation ball starts rolling, there is no stopping it as these digitally mature […]

April 13, 2017

VMware announced today its intention to acquire Wavefront, a cloud-based metrics monitoring and analytics platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Officials at VMware, which provides virtualization and cloud infrastructure software, said the acquisition will help the Palo Alto, Calif.-based […]

April 11, 2017

Many discussions about the cloud center around the direct benefits businesses gain by using it, elements that are mostly hidden from consumers. There’s a good reason for that – the cloud offers a number of improvements when compared to local […]

July 13, 2016

Whether we’re talking about analyzing data, surpassing larger competitors, or helping firms in low-connectivity countries succeed, the conversation inevitably turns to the cloud. Why does this happen every single time? The reason is quite simple: The cloud is a delivery […]

November 12, 2015

Microsoft announced plans today to offer cloud services including Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics CRM Online from two data centers in Germany. This follows an announcement yesterday that it also plans to develop a number of data centers in the UK and […]

October 5, 2015

A year after it announced plans to bring Data Loss Prevention (DLP) capabilities to SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, Microsoft started introducing those capabilities. The same capabilities that already exist in Exchange, Outlook and the Outlook Web App, they promise […]

September 7, 2015

Today’s rejuvenated CRM solutions are nothing more than glorified Web-based customer records management systems unless they are properly integrated with back-end systems to ensure that customers get the products and services they expect. This is critical in a brave new […]

August 18, 2015

Google figured out something important: You can sell businesses the future, but they’ll show up with lots of the past. The company on Thursday showed off changes it had made to Chrome, its operating system for business computing, aimed at […]

August 10, 2015

There were a couple of interesting announcements around Outlook this week. First, Repstor announced the release of affinity 3.0. The affinity solution gives users direct access to content without leaving the Outlook interface, regardless of where that content is saved, […]

March 30, 2015

Two converging trends — the growth of the mobile workforce and digital business processes — are giving a big boost to the e-signature market. That’s the word from Michael Laurie, co-founder and VP of product strategy at Silanis, an electronic […]