Purchasing decisions are often strongly influenced by people who the consumers know and trusts. Moreover, many online shoppers tend to wait for the opinions of early adopters before making a purchase decision to reduce the risk of buying a new product. Web-based social communities, actively fostered by E-business firms, allow consumers to share their personal ...

The right IT infrastructure choices are critical to business success, more so than ever before. Mobile, social, cloud, big data and analytics are fueling an explosion of data, and spawning new workloads and business models that are putting unprecedented demands on our IT environments. In this changed world the expectations for IT infrastructures to be ...

In January 2014 EMC commissioned Forrester Consulting to conduct a Total Economic Impact™ (TEI) study and examine the potential return on investment (ROI) enterprises may realise by deploying EMC VPLEX. The purpose of this study is to provide readers with a framework to evaluate the potential financial impact of EMC VPLEX on their organisation, specifically ...

In this infographic, check out eye-opening stats on the state of mobile apps and technology today, and discover a low-effort, high-ROI way to manage mobile development, testing, and delivery. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay up to date on the latest in technology with Daily Tech Insider. We bring you news on industry-leading ...

With the proliferation of available browsers, plus the boom in usage of devices to navigate the Internet, cross-browser testing has become a vital part of website development. Developers must ensure that, no matter which browsers are used to view their website the site will look and function the same way. Subscribe to the Executive Briefing ...

In this strategy brief, get advice for maintaining control of the software development lifecycle with effective change and configuration management strategies. Learn why a “loose coupling” approach may be the best strategy. Subscribe to the Developer Insider Newsletter From the hottest programming languages to commentary on the Linux OS, get the developer and open source ...

What does the future of the service desk look like? Of course, the answer to this question depends on how far ahead we want to look. What can we do right now to prepare for the future? The first thing is to ensure that you have all the service desk fundamentals covered. This whitepaper is ...

The wave toward Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD) and Bring Your Own Applications (BYOA) has been building since roughly 2007, but has now become a tsunami. Many organizations are realising the variety of benefits provided by BYODA and are embracing them. However, while IT may have warmed to the idea of BYODA, they must deal ...

Get beyond the obstacles that limit your help desk efficiency and start your journey to ticketless IT.. Take your first step by viewing this eye-opening infographic. Subscribe to the Data Insider Newsletter Learn the latest news and best practices about data science, big data analytics, artificial intelligence, data security, and more. Delivered Mondays and Thursdays ...

Discover how SAP Business One delivered huge benefits for both operations and customer service in many organisations. Download this whitepaper and learn on how SAP helped organisations increase business insights while reducing the total cost of ownership. Subscribe to the Daily Tech Insider Newsletter Stay up to date on the latest in technology with Daily ...

Gamsole, a Kenyan-based mobile game developer turns to the Windows Phone 8 platform in a bid to drive global download success and within a short time achieves over four million downloads for a new game. The ease-of-development framework provided by Windows Phone 8 shapes the company’s future game strategy as it turns to this platform. ...

The benefits of eliminating on-premise file share for cloud-based collaboration are clear and quantifiable. This white paper demonstrates why businesses choose Box to unify their storage and collaboration and avoid the upfront and ongoing costs of storage, data center infrastructure and LAN optimization. With independent analysis supported by ESG, the average business saves $40,000 per ...

Retail shoppability, defined as the ability of the retail environment to translate consumer demand into purchase. It is making consumers’ needs salient in specific retail settings & turning shoppers into buyers. The primary motivation to study store image has been to investigate the store atmospherics & store layout as a predictor of consumer behavior and ...

Mobile is becoming a core platform for healthcare communications and services. As information access expands to more people and more devices, mobile creates new systems and processes that are subject to HIPAA compliance. The MobileIron security and management platform includes controls for the following key elements of a HIPAA mobile compliance program: Ongoing management Remote ...

Cloud computing models offer a new approach for IT organizations to deliver business services to end users. By implementing their own internal or “private” cloud infrastructures, IT organizations can deploy a technology model that provides both flexible IT architectures and dynamic business agility. Subscribe to the Data Insider Newsletter Learn the latest news and best ...