 One of the top questions people looking to get into IT will often ask is “Should I get certified?” The short answer is Yes. Read the post below to find out why certified professionals spend less time looking for a job, end up with higher salaries,…

The Top 7 Benefits of I.T. Certification

 The primary goal behind uniting the processes and partnership between software developers and IT operators is to achieve an environment in which software is constantly being improved. How does DevOps achieve this? It begins by recognizing that with…

It Begins with a need: What is DevOps?

In 2020 the need to do more with less will continue to rise for those managing market data for their companies. Many financial institutions are looking for opportunities to introduce automation and integration to cut costs, while maintaining their…

Market Data Management Outlook for 2020

 By reading the past ten chapters in this series you’ve learned a great deal about Event-Driven Architecture (EDA) and its place in the new, interoperable, machine-to-machine (M2M), Internet-of-Things (IoT) world. You’ve learned how it replaces…

Leveraging a Partner for EDA Success

 Buzzwords such as 5G, eSIM, SD-WAN, Cloud, AI, IoT and IIoT have dominated conversations and headlines lately. While they no doubt will change entire industries, what do they really mean to you and the world of expense…

Technology Buzzwords: Sting or Succeed Against Expense Management?

 Everything you’ve ever heard about how much money is lost due to information security breaches is only part of your exposure. When word gets out you’ve been breached, the reputation of your law firm for privacy, discretion, and…

Beyond Financial Consequences – Protecting the Reputation of your Firm

 Ambition! If you’ve got it, growth is among the most important words in your vocabulary. The challenge is that we’re talking about your career. You don’t want to waste time, energy, and money going in the wrong direction. What you want is to…

Define Your Career with New Cisco Certifications

 Event Driven Architecture Table of Contents: Chapter #10: Getting Started with EDA (You Are Here) Chapter #11: Leveraging a Partner for EDA Success (Coming Soon) Real-time is no longer a “nice-to-have.” Sensors deployed in the Internet of…

Evolving Your System by Implementing Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)

Three layers of regulatory compliance burden governments, businesses, financial institutions, and other organizations.
Internal Regulations – The information governance body within an organization creates authorized use policies (AUP) for their own…

Index License Management Now Assures Compliance at All Three Levels of Regulation

There really is nothing we do more frequently than communicate. We’re constantly communicating, not only through words but also through our facial expressions, gestures, posture, and more. Even not communicating is communicating something very…

Communications Training

 Event Driven Architecture Table of Contents: Chapter #7: Microservices and EDA (You Are Here) Chapter #11: Leveraging a Partner for EDA Success (Coming Soon) We’re living in a new age of software development, a cloud-native application…

EDA and Microservices – Meant for Each Other

 “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.” An article in The Economist from 2017 first informed us that “data is the new oil.” A year earlier a post on the IBM Business Analytics blog suggested that “data…

Market Data Management (MDM) for Market Data Vendors

Your network has layers—seven of them, actually (application, presentation, session, transport, network, data link and physical). Each layer requires specific security measures for the overall
network to be secure, and while it’s not a piece of cake,…

WHY LAYERS ARE SO IMPORTANT TO SECURITY (HINT: IT’S NOT A PIECE OF CAKE)

 Event Driven Architecture Table of Contents: Chapter #6: When to Use Event-Driven Architectures (You Are Here) Chapter #7: CI/CD, Microservices, and EDA for Zero-Downtime Deployments (Coming Soon) Chapter #9: Overcoming the Challenges of EDA…

When to Use Event-Driven Architecture (EDA)

How much money are you wasting? Specifically, how much are you wasting on telecommunications services and equipment? For that matter, how many telecom accounts and how many phones and related equipment are floating around your organization?
One thing…

Building a Business Case for Telecom Expense Management (TEM)

 Event Driven Architecture Table of Contents: Chapter #3: Event Driven Architecture Topologies (You Are Here) Chapter #7: CI/CD, Microservices, and EDA for Zero-Downtime Deployments (Coming Soon) Chapter #9: Overcoming the Challenges of EDA…

Event-Driven Architecture Topologies – Broker and Mediator

A February 11, 2020 article in the New York Times announced that “T-Mobile and Sprint Are Cleared to Merge as the Big Get Bigger” in which they explain, “The long-in-the-works merger would combine the nation’s third- and fourth-largest wireless…

Sprint/T-Mobile – A Merger of Ingenuity and Innovation

Proactive developers have been including application programming interfaces (API) which allow other software systems to easily share data and co-exist. In many cases tools have been developed to specifically enable functions which the core software…

How Third-Party Tools Increase the Value of Microsoft Dynamics

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.…