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31. Automated Cash Management Technology Becomes A Time Saver For Pennsylvania Hardware Store 12/4/2020

    Sometimes seeing is believing. Just ask the owners of Quincy Hardware in Waynesboro, PA, who were so impressed with a demonstration of APG Cash Drawer’s SMARTtill ® Intelligent Cash Drawer Solution that they simply had to have it. Never mind that the store had just deployed two brand-new cash drawers a year earlier.

32. End Of Silicon Era Is At Hand – Software About To Change In Big Way 12/2/2020

    Moore’s Law means hardware gets about twice as fast every 24 months as chips can have smaller footprints. We are reaching the end of silicon-based efficiency because the laws of physics mean the etching on chips cannot get all that much smaller.

33. Why Now Is Actually The Perfect Time To Give SaaS Users Ad Hoc Reporting 11/20/2020

    It might be time to consider how much stickiness and utility self-service (ad hoc) BI could bring to your SaaS product, especially if your company is being inundated with customer reporting requests.

34. How Onestream Software Grows Fearlessly Around The Globe 11/6/2020

    HR professionals, your job isn’t simple. You pivot between getting technical, implementing systems and processes, and protecting your employer, to balancing the emotional side – the people.

35. How The Channel Is Responding To COVID-19 Challenges 9/28/2020

    The COVID-19 pandemic has undoubtedly touched every sector of business – across every industry – to some degree. Most organizations have been forced to pivot quickly to keep business going amidst unprecedented challenges: the surge in remote work, economic uncertainty, and borders closing. As these changes continue, organizations need to consider: which are effective interim responses, and which might work in the long term?

36. Are We There Yet? The Long, Hot Road Trip To The Cloud 8/27/2020

    "If I have to pull this car over, there will be trouble!" Does this evoke childhood memories of summer adventures in the family car? It’s the same sort of dread we get when the IT budget holder turns around and threatens to pull over on our journey to the cloud or hybrid cloud. The family summer road trip may be filled with great expectations, but the last thing we want is an unforeseen disruption along the way.

37. IT Spending During COVID-19: 3 Insights From Recent Surveys 8/24/2020

    With Gartner projecting a 7.3 percent decline in 2020 technology spending, how do IT leaders make the right investments that will protect and deliver revenue in an era of social distancing while preparing for eventual recovery and growth? The following are three takeaways from recent surveys on enterprise IT spending during Covid-19.

38. How To Reinforce Your IT And Manage A Remote Team 7/9/2020

    Despite communities starting to reopen, remote work is far from over for many enterprises. Understanding that the world won’t return to “normal,” IT managers must anticipate long-term needs and lay a foundation that enables them to remain agile amidst uncertainty.

39. Leaping From A 'Project' To A 'Product' Mindset For Excellence In Software Engineering 7/1/2020

    Within the walls of enlightened software and services companies it has become popular to discuss a product mindset – a way of life for software engineering that almost automatically forces continuous evolution. And continuous evolution is the key to relevance and the ability to thrive.

40. Should I Stay Or Should I Go? A Cloudy Decision 6/18/2020

    If you’ve been operating in the cloud for some time now, chances are your business has changed since you first made that move and particularly during the current climate. Has your cloud usage grown considerably—and your OpEx costs? Is that just the cost of doing business in the cloud? It doesn’t have to be. Here’s how you can rationalize your infrastructure and determine if there are cloud expenses you can reclaim and even if it makes sense to move some of your cloud deployments into co-location.