Blog: Technology

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Professional Certifications

January 26, 2018 in Employment, IT Education, News, Technology

 

Along your professional career, you have undoubtedly heard the alphabet soup of professional certifications available that are “essential” if you wish to advance. But is this accurate? Before you spend the time and money to achieve a professional certification check out these pro’s and con’s presented by Activecollab of the most popular certifications. Some of […]

 

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IT Expansion and Beyond

December 8, 2017 in IT Integration, Technology

 

This time of year industries across the business world begin prognosticating about where their industry is going. Although this may be a fun water cooler chat exercise, billions of dollars of growth can be won or lost by catching or missing an emerging trend. Although if people could accurately predict the future, lotteries would become […]

 

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Understanding Blockchain

July 7, 2017 in Technology

 

Growing beyond the early days of cryptocurrency, blockchain is now poised to become the world’s dominant value-exchange protocol. But what is blockchain? The term may be completely unfamiliar if you live outside the world of Bitcoins, but if you run a business that involves multiple levels of interactions for contracts, complex databases, and high-value transactions with untested clients, then blockchain may be exactly what your business needs.

 

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The Benefits of Joint Application Design

February 17, 2017 in Business Intelligence, Communication Systems, E-Commerce Solutions, IT Integration, Services & Outsourcing, Technology

 

First of all, what is Joint Application Design (JAD)? JAD is the method of including key end-users in the design and development process of an application. This is done through workshops called JAD sessions. The thought behind this practice is to have an end product that is more satisfactory to the client by including them […]

 

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Data Mining: Turning Customer Data into Customer Knowledge

February 3, 2017 in Business Intelligence, E-Commerce Solutions, IT Education, News, Services & Outsourcing, Technology, Uncategorized

 

We’ve all heard the term used in the modern industry, Data Mining. What does it mean though? Essentially, data mining is the process of collecting large amounts of data and analyzing it to create a meaningful set of patterns, trends, and rules. With today’s technology, there is an unlimited amount of data being sent back […]

 

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IT Integration for a Competitive Advantage

January 6, 2017 in Business Intelligence, Communication Systems, E-Commerce Solutions, IT Education, IT Integration, Services & Outsourcing, Technology

 

Information Technology (IT) has grown like a vine into every nook and cranny of businesses worldwide. Within the past decade it has worked its way into the very foundation of the modern industry. With integrating new IT into any organization carries many competitive advantages. However, getting the technology isn’t the end of the game. A […]

 

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Echo and Alexa in Vegas

December 27, 2016 in Technology

 

“What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” is not only a motto but the mantra of a town built for sin in the desert. Where bright light mix with high stakes may likely be the last place you would want plugged into the Cloud that innervates almost every aspect of life, constantly sending and receiving […]

 

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Internal IT Performance Measures

December 9, 2016 in Business Intelligence, Communication Systems, E-Commerce Solutions, Employment, Services & Outsourcing, Technology

 

For an organization to determine a performance measurement, they must fully analyze the information given and collected from the targeted component. In many cases this process is used in employee evaluations, process evaluations, and strategy evaluations to help the organization determine whether or not the output meets the expectations set by the organization’s guidelines. In […]

 

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Cybersecurity Practices

December 2, 2016 in Business Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Security and Compliance, Services & Outsourcing, Technology, Web Content Management

 

One section of the SIMs survey discussed cyber security practices within the survey taker’s organizations. Out of the SIM members that took the survey, 45.82% of the organizations had a Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) or equivalent position on board. This position takes into concern how information security affects legal requirements; thus taking accountability for […]

 

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