How well your business performs is closely tied to how well you know your business and how it functions. Business Intelligence systems are designed to put the information you need at your fingertips to support you in making the most effective…

Business Intelligence: Make a Decision!

 Look around yourself and count how many devices you have for the purpose of communicating. The first thing you spot is probably your desk phone which then reminds you of your mobile phone, and both probably feature voicemail.…

Three Unified Communications and Collaboration Trends to Watch for in 2020

 Making a request and getting a response is a common occurrence both in programming and in the real world. You walk up to an elevator and press the call button. The elevator shows up a few seconds later, the doors open, and you step in. You press the…

Components of Event-Driven Architecture

 The real world is a messy state of affairs. Things happen for all kinds of reasons, sometimes for no apparent reason at all. Other things and people react even though they may bear no direct connection with the thing that happened. For example, when…

Disadvantages of Event Driven Architecture

 The Event-Driven Architecture pattern is not new. The concept first originated in 2000 which was just prior to the dawn of what can be considered the age of interactivity and interoperability. Event Driven Architecture EDA departs from the…

Advantages of Event Driven Architecture

An examination of how people go about planning for the development of pivot tables, selecting data sources, integrating them, identifying desired results, formatting pivot tables, populating data and more. Develop a deeper sense of what’s…

Pivot Table Fundamentals: What Goes into Planning, Designing, and Developing Pivot Tables

 Event Driven Architecture (EDA) Explained Ideal for real-time product creation, highly resilient thanks to loose coupling of services and wide distribution of processes, event-driven architecture (EDA) is becoming more and more popular among today’s…

What is Event Driven Architecture?

Days like today make me glad to be part of the Information Technology (IT) industry, mainly because we do so much to recognize and appreciate the contributions and leadership of the women in our business.
It’s International Women’s Day around the…

Standing with Women on International Women’s Day

Some sportsmen may love a moving target, but developers certainly don’t.Often, however, when a team starts down the path toward creating a new product, be it a software product, an appliance, or really any product or service, they don’t start out…

Scrum – When You’re Really Not Sure What You’re Doing

 UCaaS adoption is set to double by 2021. Adoption is rising, especially among small and mid-sized companies. When you bring together the various ways in which people can communicate, including text messaging, voice, video,…

The Rise of UCaaS: Benefits of Cloud-Based UC Systems

Professionalism shows itself in many ways. For some it’s the successful completion of an extensive course of education leading to certification and licensing. For others, it’s a way of conducting oneself in business interactions. Some define it as a…

Professional Development Training

 An ever-increasing number of organizations are moving business-critical applications out of the data center and into the cloud, seeking to capitalize on benefits including scalability with new technologies, reduced cost of ownership and security…

How Cloud Connectivity Neutralizes Cloud Migration Challenges

 This is paid content. It was written and produced by Studio 61 of CBS Interactive’s marketing unit in collaboration with the sponsor. Clean water, safe energy, and ample food supplies are critical priorities for human beings around the world. In…

AI Partnerships Improve Conditions Around the World

 This is paid content. It was written and produced by Studio 61 of CBS Interactive’s marketing unit in collaboration with the sponsor. Farmer's can't control the weather, and yet their livelihoods are so dependent on it. One solution is to improve…

Predicting the Weather with Pinpoint Accuracy

 This is paid content. It was written and produced by Studio 61 of CBS Interactive’s marketing unit in collaboration with the sponsor. Climate change is considered by many to be the greatest crisis confronting us globally. Most people focus on the…

AI Enables the Future of Farming

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Amplifying Human Capability with AI

For AI to function as intended, a host of IT resources, data, and infrastructure must come together seamlessly. Microsoft puts these tools into the hands of innovators and organizations that care about the future of our planet. This is paid content.…

6 Ways Cloud AI Empowers Global Causes

Have you got 2020 Channel Vision? Early in the history of the original IBM PC, an IBM marketing manager observed that channel partners would have to always be innovating to remain ahead of IBM. The first step in innovating, of course, is being able…

2020 Channel Vision – Planning for Channel Growth

“The best partnerships aren’t dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, desire, and no small amount of passion.”
– Sarah MacLean, New York Times Best Selling Author
The most overused word in our channel may be “partner.”…

6 Channel Partner Pain Points When Working with Vendors

Channel Insider, the go-to source for all things channel, recently published “Making Channel Promotions Work Better“, highlighting the benefits of using Channel Mechanics to simplify doing business through the Channel. For most channel partners,…