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If company laptops, PDAs, or other mobile devices can't be found, it doesn't always mean that they've been stolen. Companies often lose track of these IT assets because there's no clear record of them. Encryption and inventory management can help to safeguard against the loss of confidential data.

How do you create trust and meaningful marketing content that doesn't read like a sales pitch? In an age of digital noise and an abundance of information, how do you reach your target audience and become a trusted brand? This eBook will show you how.

Yearly Talent Evaluations are a Mix of Three Elements: 1) HR chasing down managers and employees to submit their reviews 2) managers rifling through months of hastily-written sticky notes, and 3) nervous employees sweating over how to reduce the last 12 months to a quick meeting. This strategy is ineffective and doesn’t reflect the needs of the modern worker. Check out five new trends that deliver more meaningful, engaging performance evaluations that lead to tangible workforce growth.

Recruitment doesn't end with a job offer. It begins from the moment your business defines its candidate audience, and continues long after an employee leaves your company. CareerBuilder's Ultimate Recruitment Guide e-Book is a definitive how-to-hire guide compiled by our team of business experts.

Traditional antivirus (AV) just doesn’t cut it anymore. From ransomware that holds intellectual property hostage to sophisticated malware-less attacks that exploit PowerShell, scripting, and memory, endpoints are facing more security risk than ever before. As a result, companies have set their sights on the next generation of lightweight AV solutions.

The impact of accounts receivable (AR) on business success is unquestionable. Not only is it one of an organization’s largest assets, it deals directly with a different type of asset that doesn’t show up on the balance sheet — customers. So why then, do so many organizations still run their AR processes like it’s the mid-90s? You have to admit, it is a bit ludicrous. Despite its vital importance, AR is consistently one of the most under-resourced and operationally outdated business processes. One recent study found that 50% of all businesses still use manual processes for managing their receivables. Fortunately, as this eBook will explore, the reason for AR’s stasis isn’t an unsolvable problem; on the contrary, the strategies for overcoming these challenges are as simple as they are sensible, and any business can do them. Learn More — Download the Accounts Receivable Management eBook!

When folks in AR hear the word automation, it doesn't necessarily bring to mind the most positive, reassuring thoughts. Change is never a seamless process but distinguishing fact from fiction can go a long way. Every AR department has the same goals - reduce operating costs, collect payments faster and strengthen their relationships with customers - AR automation is simply a tool to help accomplish them. Learn why AR automation shouldn't be scary and why it matters more than ever in this insightful white paper.

What's in the white paper? Great customer service hinges on efficient order fulfillment — especially the initial processing of a customer’s order. With thousands of sales orders coming into most large organizations monthly, this mission-critical process can demand a significant portion of customer service representatives’ (CSRs') time and attention in the quest for near-perfect input accuracy and order fulfillment. But such intensive personnel support isn’t necessary for effective order processing. Great customer service doesn’t have to be cumbersome. Sales order automation can transform customer service and operations which provide quantifiable benefits to the organization. Automation provides an opportunity to improve order management by: • Reducing error rates and decreasing costs per order • Improving process transparency from receipt to archival • Reducing reshipping and inventory problems

The impact of accounts receivable (AR) on business success is unquestionable. Not only is it one of an organization’s largest assets, it deals directly with a different type of asset that doesn’t show up on the balance sheet — customers. So why then, do so many organizations still run their AR processes like it’s the mid-90s? You have to admit, it is a bit ludicrous. Despite its vital importance, AR is consistently one of the most under-resourced and operationally outdated business processes. One recent study found that 50% of all businesses still use manual processes for managing their receivables. Fortunately, as this eBook will explore, the reason for AR’s stasis isn’t an unsolvable problem; on the contrary, the strategies for overcoming these challenges are as simple as they are sensible, and any business can do them.

CIOs and IT professionals know that as their businesses grow, the need for computing also grows, making it necessary to add servers to existing environments. While this process can be time consuming and potentially complicated, it doesn't have to be.

Technological integration doesn’t happen overnight, of course. It takes years of behind-the-scenes teamwork and engineering—backed by decades of expertise, research, and development—to have a broad and lasting impact. This special edition of Unleashing IT highlights the fruits of those labors, showcasing the unparalleled alignment of Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel technologies. In the following pages, you’ll read about the advancement and unique value of integrated solutions, spanning cloud environments, data centers, and management tools. You’ll also hear from organizations that are taking advantage of these converged technologies, including King County, Provincia Net, and Swinburne University. With Microsoft, Cisco, and Intel, you have a triad of innovators and leaders that recognize the value of integration, virtualization, and unified management. A triad that continues to work behind-the-scenes to reduce the complexity and increase the capability of enterprise solutions.

Your network doesn’t just transport data. It serves a myriad of apps and endpoints—mobile devices, sensors, servers, machines, cameras, wearables—and all the employees, customers, and processes that use them. Which means it can produce invaluable contextual intelligence based on real-time analytics to help you navigate the growing demands of business, security, operations, and IT. Cisco DNA delivers crystal-clear visibility across your network so you can enhance mobile experiences and make business decisions quickly and accurately.

From tweets to posts and even likes, this webinar covers the basics of social media marketing. Learn how your peers are leveraging social media in their practices and hear what works - and what doesn't.

Today’s workforce is more mobile than ever before, routinely working whenever and wherever necessary, using a variety of mobile devices and productivity apps. They expect their tools to deliver the capabilities they need to stay productive and efficient. But what if they don’t? When a business doesn’t support its workforce with suitable, properly vetted apps, employees will often download and install the tools they like. This trend, called “Shadow IT,” is almost always a recipe for trouble. One-off, standalone apps don’t conform to business strategy and growth plans, but instead create difficulties — security, compatibility, compliance and technical support — that draw resources away from strategic work.

Brand advocates are 50 percent more likely to influence a purchase over non-advocates. Yet turning your superfans into brand advocates doesn’t happen overnight. You must first understand how to identify your loyal followers and nurture those relationships to keep your superfans engaged for the long term.

The subscription model fuels success for a wide variety of businesses, providing predictable revenue, encouraging customer loyalty, and powering growth. The key to managing a successful subscription business is a trusted, flexible and secure subscription billing solution that provides both technical and operational expertise—and that doesn’t require massive integration effort and expense.

You may be considering the move to a SaaS model for several reasons: it's cheaper, easier, more flexible. But then reality sets in. You can't afford to move to SaaS right away. Many of your apps are too mission-critical to trust SaaS at this point, and security restrictions and company guidelines will not allow you to use SaaS for many apps. However, for some apps, it's not an issue, and that number continues to grow. So how do you reconcile? Enter stage left-- Hybrid APM. With the ability to pick and choose between SaaS or on-premises monitoring for your different applications and components, wherever they reside, your troubles are alleviated and the shift towards SaaS can be seamless.

Enabling a "digital business" is becoming an increasing priority for organizations; the transition to enabling a digital interaction model inside an organization is twofold. There are technologies that underpin interactions as well as the cultural and behavioral changes that support this transition. Enterprise social networks (ESNs), and more broadly, social workflow, can play a significant role in this particularly when thought of as both a platform and a social workflow embedded in business systems where users are getting work done. This study identifies several key areas of market opportunity and provides criteria by which vendors can be judged now and over the next 5 years.

Compliance doesn’t have to be a scary word – even when facing the multifaceted challenges of meeting the European Union’s May 2018 deadline for its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). SAS conducted a global GDPR survey among 340 business executives from multiple industries. Based on the results of that survey, this e-book delves into the biggest opportunities and challenges organizations face on the road to GDPR compliance. Read this e-book to learn: How to get started on the best path to compliance, based on advice from industry experts. How to turn this compliance challenge into a competitive advantage. How your peers are preparing across a variety of industries. An end-to-end approach that can help guide your journey to GDPR compliance.

Data sharing is the first priority in web conferencing. Web conferencing doesn't work well for day-to-day collaboration. Everything is a scheduled, “meet-me” conference. You can’t just call someone. Web conferencing providers don’t offer a complete solution. You have to separately manage and integrate video systems and instant messaging through independent platforms that do not integrate into the web conferencing service, resulting in an inferior and disjointed user experience. Download now to learn why Lifesize Cloud is the ONLY solution you need!

A successful training program doesn't require choosing between traditional and online learning - it's a strategic balance of both.

The buzz around the cloud is very real. It offers considerable business agility, cost efficiencies and service improvements to IT managers. What the buzz doesn’t tell you is that getting to the point where the cloud brings these benefits to your organization isn’t easy. So the real question becomes: What do you need to keep in mind when integrating cloud computing into an IT strategy?

Unified Communications, or UC, has no official or even widely accepted definition. Pundits, analysts and journalists all have their own descriptions. So do vendors – theirs just happen to fit their own products perfectly. But this lack of consensus doesn’t mean the term is meaningless. In fact, unified communications is a complex but very real phenomenon. And this phenomenon has the potential to radically improve businesses’ ability to communicate.

redefining longstanding infrastructure paradigms doesn’t just raise eyebrows, it raises questions. cisco senior Vice president of Marketing soni Jiandani sat down with Unleashing IT to discuss the new cisco Application centric infrastructure (Aci) and what makes it so unique in the marketplace.

The world is moving rapidly towards a New Style of IT, and will leave behind any business that doesn’t adapt even more rapidly. Is your storage ready? Learn how HP 3PAR StoreServ Storage is the only primary storage architecture you will ever need—regardless of whether you are a midsize enterprise experiencing rapid growth in your virtualized Microsoft® Exchange, Microsoft SQL, or Oracle Database environment, a large enterprise looking to support IT as a Service (ITaaS), or a global service provider building a hybrid/private cloud.