A VIEW FROM THE FRONT LINES

While we have seen modest gains in organizations’ ability to attack the security gap, advanced (and not-so- advanced) threat actors continue to evolve their tactics to find a way through it . In last year’s M-Trends we noted that cyber security had gone from a niche IT issue to a boardroom priority . This year, cyber security (or perhaps more accurately, cyber insecurity) entered the mains…

SWITCHING FROM MICROSOFT DYNAMICS GP TO THE CLOUD

To discover how cloud-based ERP systems support and accelerate growing organizations, NetSuite’s Vishrut Parikh and Anand Misra engaged senior IT executives in discussions on the topic. These executives shared case studies of why they switched from on-premise to cloud-based systems, how the implementation process occurred, benefits they have experienced, and lessons learned. A prevailing them…

FROM QUICKBOOKS TO CLOUD FINANCIALS

Over the years, QuickBooks has become the de facto standard financial software for small businesses, with more than 5 million businesses using it. QuickBooks is the best fit for many businesses on day one, but is it the right choice to enable rapidly growing businesses to sustain and accelerate growth? In many instances, QuickBooks is inadequate. It lacks many of the capabilities that growing b…

Streamlining Global Operations

In an ideal world, every multinational organisation would run its entire global operations on a single enterprise resource planning (ERP) application suite. A few do achieve this financial nirvana–but often at significant cost. The rest have to make the best of reconciling conflicting requirements and historic investment decisions to manage what can often be a complex catalogue of different s…

The Retrospective Handbook

Over fifteen years ago, Norm Kerth (author of Project Retrospectives: A Handbook for Team Reviews) asked me to lead are trospective for a team. He was acting as interim manager for the project which made him ineligible for the role of neutral facilitator - he knew he had opinions about the project and wanted to contribute them. We’d met through a mutual friend,and he had learned that I had ex…

Smart Selling Tools for Inside Sales 2010

Once upon a time, an inside salesperson was hired because they had a nice phone voice. The key to their success was how well they met their outbound dialing metrics and how well they were liked by their field partners. They had the easy part of the job— making new introductions, setting appointments, and supporting the field—and expectations were low: they only had to know a few products an…

Command Center Handbook Proactive IT Monitoring

Monitoring should be proactive, not reactive. Its purpose is to sound an alert when something has the potential for failing, not to notify when something breaks. It alerts the right people that a failure may occur if an action is not taken to correct the event that just occurred. Early warning alerting and monitoring can be done in various ways and through numerous tools. One way is by setting…

A Mid-Market Supply Chain Manager’s Roadmap to Mobile

Mobility is a hot topic these days. Regardless of industry or profession, there is a mobile application or ecosystem in development to serve it. The supply chain is no different. In fact, given its very manual and distributed nature, it is better suited to mobile application deployment than most business processes. For distribution and fulfillment services, where most of the activities take p…

Windows 2000 Commands Pocket Reference

This desktop reference documents Windows 2000 command mode. It is designed for system administrators, but will also prove beneficial to many other types of users. It includes most available Windows 2000 commands, as well as the most useful system administration command-line utilities from the Resource Kit (space permitting). Resource Kit commands are marked with an "RK" superscript in their hea…

An Introduction to Statistics using Microsoft Excel

To illustrate the statistical functions and techniques within Excel we have used examples drawn for the world of research. We chose to do this because we believe this will clearly demonstrate some of the facilities within this spreadsheet. However, the statistical power of Excel will allow readers to use this software in a variety of ways, far beyond that of research.

Windows 8 MVVM Patterns Revealed

Microsoft released the latest version of the operating system Windows 8, which is designed to provide the next generation touch-optimized applications that can run seamlessly on different Windows devices from PCs and tablets, to Windows 8 mobile phones supporting different form factors. These touch-optimized, next-generation Windows 8 applications are called Windows 8 Store Applications. The Wi…

Windows 7: Up and Running

Windows 7 is Microsoft’s latest version of its Windows operating system. Unlike its predecessor, Vista, Windows 7 offers incremental upgrades and is aimed at ensuring maximum compatibility with applications and hardware already supported in Vista. Microsoft’s key agenda around Windows 7 is to woo many of the Windows XP users who skipped Vista. Windows 7 offers significant performance improv…

Web Information Retrieval

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Agile in a Flash

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Web 2.0 Architectures

Web 2.0 generally refers to a set of social, architectural, and design patterns resulting in the mass migration of business to the Internet as a platform. These patterns focus on the interaction models between communities, people, computers, and software. Human interactions are an important aspect of software architecture and, even more specifically, of the set of websites and web-based applica…

Statistics for Health, Life and Social Sciences

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Navigating the Windows 8 Start Screen

You can easily fi nd an application’s Start screen tile if you only have a small num- ber of tiles on the screen. But the more apps you install, the wider your Start screen becomes, which forces you to move around the screen to fi nd the apps you need. Windows 8 tablet users can quickly navigate the Start screen by swiping their fi ngers left and right. But traditional PC users can also mo…

6 Questions For a Prospective Cloud Service Provider

In order to remain competitive in today’s global marketplace, organizations must constantly improve customer service, reduce IT overhead, and increase efficiency—frequently with fewer resources than ever before. This may seem like an impossible feat, but the advent of UCaaS (Unified Communications as a Service) has enabled many IT departments to be viewed as business drivers rather than cos…

CREATIVITY: FOSTERING, MEASURING AND CONTEXTS

This chapter reports on longitudinal research which explores the experience of mentally ill, developing artists. Through a particular use of the interview space and biographic narrative interviews, an intimate portrait was drawn of the different lines of continua these artistic individuals were negotiating. Such lines were traced through their „wellnesses,‟ their crises, their creative and …

101 Design Ingredients to Solve Big Tech Problems

Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks.Where those designations appear in this book, and The Pragmatic Programmers, LLC was aware of a trademark claim, the designations have been printed in initial capital letters or in all capitals. The Pragmatic Starter Kit, The Pragmatic Programmer, Pragmatic Programming, Pragmatic B…

Freedom and Religion in Kant and His Immediate Successors

Kant is the most important figure in this book, as one would expect in a work that deals with late-eighteenth-century German philosophy. He is not, however, the only or even its main object of interest. As a matter of fact, Fichte will end up occupying just as much space as Kant. The main object of interest lies, however, in neither of these two philosophers but at the intersection of two theme…

Strategic Analysis of Supply Chain Design

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The Basics of Business Models

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Security for Multihop Wireless Networks

As discussed above, there are many types, sub-types, variants, and sub-variants reported in the literature about security attacks in MANETs. The efforts carried out by the research community to understand and solve the different attacks are remarkable. However, the absence of valid classifications from a practical perspective can be seen in the in existence of studies that try to extract commo…

From Big Data to Smart Data

To compare the relationship between Big Data and its value for business (Smart Data) in a connected world where information technologies are perpetually evolving: several billion people connect to the internet and exchange information in a constant flow every day; objects will be connected to software agents in increasing numbers and we will delegate many supervision tasks to them, etc., thereb…

The A to Z of Presentations

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An Introduction to Business Reasearch Methods

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On the Shoulders of Giants

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Planning and Managing your Work Based Project

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Philosophy and Blade Runner

idley Scott judges Blade Runner to be unusual as films go: ‘Blade Runner works on a level which I haven’t seen much – or ever – in a mainstream film. It works like a book. Like a very dark novel’ (Knapp and Kulas 2005, p. xiv). This is hardly surprising given the film’s genesis in Philip K. Dick’s 1968 dystopian science fiction novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In his bi…