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Cybersecurity Should be a Priority in Any Digital Transformation

Digital technologies have emerged as the most fundamental tools for the survival of businesses in the fiercely-competitive modern marketplace. Implementation of modern technologies helps achieve the most desirable business objectives. However, the adoption of innovations to facilitate digital transformation also brings cybersecurity challenges too.

Excel for Asset Management: 10 Reasons to Ditch your Spreadsheet ASAP

As much as some IT admins may claim otherwise, using Excel for Asset Management is not a good idea. MS Excel is a powerful tool and has served analysts, accountants, finance personnel, the logistics team, and even IT admins ever since its inception. It has become one of the most ubiquitous office software ever since its initial release. Of late, Google released Sheets, a product similar to Microsoft Excel, as a potential competitor.

How Microsoft Dynamics helped us fix a leaky CRM bucket

Customer relationship management (CRM) is sometimes like a bucket. New customers represent water going into the bucket, and departing customers reflect water flowing out. The water level—or the number of customers—rises and falls depending on the amount of water flowing into the bucket and the number and size of the holes. At ServiceNow, we recognized we had a leaky CRM bucket, thanks to rapid customer growth.

How Cloud Asset Management Provides Fuller Inventory Visibility

Cloud adoption has grown in recent years. From organizations developing a cloud-native strategy to those focused on cloud migration, there are many different ways to consume the cloud. No matter the reason for choosing the cloud or how organizations get there, many overlook one critical piece of the puzzle: cloud asset management. Have you been frustrated by figuring out what you have deployed in what cloud? If so, you're not alone. Let's examine why this is so important.

Top 10 Reasons Service Mapping Can Accelerate your IT Service Management Capabilities

Service mapping is an essential tool for IT service management, as it allows you to gain a clear and comprehensive understanding of the various components and dependencies that make up their IT services. Service mapping focuses on discovering data center devices, infrastructure, application dependencies and the corresponding relationships. This enables your organization to manage and optimize their IT operations, improve service delivery and more effectively reduce disruptions and outages risk.

Edge Computing vs. Cloud Computing and What It Means For Your Environment

For decades, network administrators have tried to combine and centralize compute power. And the premise behind cloud computing was to delegate your data storage, analytics, and computing intelligence to some remote data center instead of or in addition to these resources remaining solely on-premises. Nowadays, increased processing power is combining with increased demands on response time to reverse the process. This blog post will dive deeper into the resulting trend, called edge computing.

Best Customer Service Companies in 2023

Customer service is an integral part of running any business. Every customer is deserving of excellent service and attention. When you instil this attitude in your employees and leadership, great things can happen. Staff will feel empowered to make decisions with a conscience, and they will learn how to serve their customers’ best interests. The company needs to give them significant ownership, empower them with a voice at the executive level, and let their efforts enhance the customer experience.