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…
With our Skill Up survey we wanted to look at the tech community as a whole to identify upcoming trends over the next few years and share what you can do to ensure you get the most out of your career and skills. We divided our survey into 4 segments, Web Development & Design, Application Development, Security & System Administration, and Data Science & Business Intelligence, making this one of …
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…
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…
The need for SSL certificates has moved well beyond the “Buy” page to core functions of the enterprise. SSL certificates are used to protect remote employee and partner communications via webmail, chat and IM. Browser-to-server communications for cloud-based services require SSL certificates when used to display customer account information, business partner transactions and for employee pr…
You have a thought. You want to write it down. You’re thinking your computer might be pretty good for that, but, surprise — it’s not. You need two things when you want to write. You need the words to say what you are thinking, and you need a place to put them. Before wikis, computer writing was all about the words. The computer could help you type them, spell them, hyphenate them, size…
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…
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…
With these words, John Finnis, while still in his late 30s, began his masterwork, Natural Law and Natural Rights—the book that would not only revive scholarly interest in the venerable, but deeply misunderstood, idea of natural law and natural rights, but also powerfully challenge dominant ways of thinking among philosophers of law and moral and political philosophers in the analytic traditio…
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…
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…
The SNIA CIFS Technical Reference is included by kind permission of the Storage Network Industry Association (SNIA). The author would like to thank the SNIA, particularly the members of the SNIA CIFS Technical Work Group, for making this document available. Please see page v of the CIFS Technical Reference for SNIA copyright information. Please Note: The SNIA CIFS Technical Reference does not f…
The cover artwork of this book continues the freedom theme of the first edition of “The Official Samba-3 HOWTO and Reference Guide.” We may look back upon the past to question the motives of those who have gone before us. Seldom do we realise that the past owes us no answer, and despite what we may think of the actions of those who have travelled lifes’ road before us, we must feel a sen…
Many organizatons fail to see IT's impact on the bosom line, but imagine if: Your e-‐commerce applicaton lags or worse, becomes unavailable. • Corporate email goes offline and severely hampers productvity across the board. • Business critcal applicatons like Salesforce.com or SAP become unresponsive. The financial loss could be millions of…
The phone service and system is a necessity for any successful organization. Having the right hardware and software is strikingly imperative. Although embedded with many fine details that must be focused closely on, transitioning from a traditional analog phone system to one with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) capabilities does not have to be an intimidating process. With reliable resource…
Configuration management is a critical cornerstone of IT automation, providing tools that allow you to centrally manage the packages, configuration files, process state, firewall rules and other settings that equip servers to do their assigned jobs. Without automated configuration management, you do all these tasks manually, or with handwritten scripts. It's time-consuming, and prone to human e…
Employees use mobile devices and cloud apps in their personal lives because they are easy-to- use, anytime, anywhere. So naturally, they want to use these technologies in the workplace. In fact, enabling mobility offers huge productivity gains for businesses. According to the Pew Research Center’s 2013 Internet & American Life Survey, smartphone adoption in the US crossed 50% of the ad…
Owning and operating a small business is a continuous uphill battle. You’re fighting the big guys to keep your business alive, tackling new obstacles each day, and staying busy trying to make your business successful. Knowing this, many people tend to focus on the percentage of small businesses that close shop each year, but it’s actually more valuable as a business owner to look at the oth…
Regulatory compliance has become an important corporate initiative as the complexity and scope of the regulatory environment continues to increase. Coupled with the rise in cyber attacks and insider threats, organizations are now searching for a more effective, sustainable, and scalable approach that will achieve their compliance objectives while improving the overall security posture of the or…
We are pleased to present the findings of the 2012 Payment Security Practices Survey: United States, sponsored by CyberSource and Trustwave. The study also was conducted in the United Kingdom and the findings from that research are available in a separate report. A secure payment process is essential to maintaining customer confidence and trust when making online purchases and sharing financ…