Managed Services Executive Commentary
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Healthcare Organizations Shouldn’t Go It Alone When It Comes To Meeting Mandates For User-Friendly Patient Portals
12/14/2016
Offering a warm, honest bedside manner has always been a priority for quality medical professionals. By Alaaeldin El-Nattar, COO, Rivet Logic
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Reinventing The Channel: 5 Top Emerging Trends
12/13/2016
While it has always been incumbent upon a manufacturer to keep pace with changes in technology to ensure success of its channel partners, the challenge to do so has never been greater. By Stephanie Dismore, Vice President & General Manager, U.S. Channels at HP Inc.
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If Orange Is The New Black, Then Detection Is The New Prevention
12/12/2016
Today, it’s fashionable to be called detection and leave behind the vestiges of a security model built entirely around prevention. By Jason Matlof, Executive Vice President, LightCyber
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Data Backup & Recovery: How Big Data Has Changed Things & What Decision-Makers Need To Do About It
12/9/2016
Today, companies in all sectors have a massive demand for data. To succeed, they must be able to take in a large amount of data and process it in real-time with no room for delays, lags, or hiccups. As the demand for efficiency and fast processing times has risen, companies around the world have been forced to move beyond the relational databases of yesteryear and into new, more capable data processing methods.
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Women In The Channel: Can Women Make It To The Top?
12/8/2016
Like most women who have been in the channel for many years, Theresa Caragol, Principal at TCC Consulting & AchieveUnite, began her career at the first link of the channel food chain and worked her way up. Her story is a familiar one for numerous women in the channel. This is the second of a four-part series; click here for part one.
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4 Cloud-Based Services Every MSP Should Offer
12/5/2016
It's no secret cloud-based services are in abundance right now. As an MSP, there are certain services that you must have in your arsenal to offer to your clients. By Stanley Louissaint, president, Fluid Designs Inc. and ASCII Group member since 2014
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What The Customer Wants: Focus On Correct Measurements To Improve Satisfaction
11/30/2016
When you want to focus on the customer and improve customer satisfaction, it is important to correctly measure customer satisfaction. This grants insight into the customer’s wishes and points on which you can improve your services. By Nancy Van Elsacker, president, TOPdesk US
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Clearing The Fog: A Vision Of Security For Hybrid Clouds
11/29/2016
How organizations can ensure visibility, protection, and control for critical data and assets across on premise, private, and public cloud environments By Check Point
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4 Hacks To Faster Customer Onboarding
11/21/2016
Customer onboarding is a crucial first stage in the customer experience. After all, first impressions make lasting impacts. Evidence suggests we form first impressions in about 1/10 of a second and those impressions are pretty hard to shake. Furthermore, research shows 94 percent of customers who have a “low-effort experience” will buy from that same company again. For these reasons, effective and speedy customer onboarding is absolutely critical. It’s an important moment of truth for any organization, and if done poorly, customer onboarding is where the seed of churn is planted.
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How To Keep Your Customers Protected From Constantly Changing Ransomware
11/18/2016
If you’re old enough to remember 1989, you might recall two key events: the Berlin Wall came down, and the first ransomware attack appeared on the scene. This was the AIDs Trojan horse, which, upon installation, encrypted users’ files and demanded $189 be sent to a post office box in Panama to “renew the license.”