Recovering From Disaster in 140 Characters or Less Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/13/2013 18 comments Celina Insurance once used a telephone tree to notify employees about disasters and emergencies. Now the carrier uses Twitter and tells everyone at once, with one click.
Make Mobile Work Better for Your Customers Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/6/2013 26 comments Mobile channels are increasingly important in the B2B and B2C environments, but how do businesses gain the visibility that helps them optimize their customers' mobile experience?
Rice Mill IT Exec Grinds Out Emergency Tasks Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 4/8/2013 2 comments As the new IT manager of SunWest Foods, longtime IT professional Dave Rowland is using his technological and business expertise to help the large rice mill stay free of bugs. Computer bugs, that is.
Bring Your Own Internet Access for Global Expansion Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 3/18/2013 8 comments Unless you're moving into countries like the UK or Germany, your international expansion plans may crash due to lack of affordable, accessible Internet.
Casting for Twitter Resumes Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 3/4/2013 16 comments In the debate over the death of the paper resume, let's not forget it's the quality of the candidate that ultimately counts most.
Midmarket Companies Occupy Security 'No-Man's Land' Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 2/25/2013 4 comments Big enough to be targets, too small to have their own security staff, midmarket companies need mentors to help guide them through security dangers.
Ghengis Khan, Superbowl Teach Crowdsourcing Benefits Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 1/14/2013 12 comments Crowdsourcing empowers midsized companies to cement existing relationships, underscore their loyalty to customers and partners, and profit from new ideas.
Take a Closer Look at Smarter Commerce Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 12/10/2012 1 comment Rich Luciano, IBM NA channel executive for business analytics, reports from the trenches on how the midmarket is stealing a march on larger competitors through deployment of analytics.
Don't Let Employees Set a Social Media Trap Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 11/26/2012 17 comments With lawsuits against Twitter users likely to expand the scope of English libel law, enterprises everywhere should be wary of legal risks from social media use.
Taking on Amazon Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 11/19/2012 47 comments Midsized retailers succeed against even their largest rivals by tightly integrating their sales channels.
Construction Firms Build on Web, Social Media Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 11/9/2012 15 comments The promise of new business is encouraging construction companies and suppliers to create Web-based marketing materials. But they must not forget the broad adoption of tablets.
Data Protection Relief for EU Midmarket Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 10/29/2012 Post a comment As the EU looks to extend the scope of its data protection laws, the European Justice Commissioner holds out hope of relief for some SMBs.
Approach Windows 8 With Caution Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 10/22/2012 11 comments Windows 8 comes packaged with confusion and concerns, and enterprise IT will take a long, hard look before upgrading.
Midmarket Firms Keep Taking the Tablets Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 10/15/2012 9 comments As the replacement of PCs by tablets and smartphones comes to seem inevitable, the midmarket is faced with both challenges and opportunities.
The Midmarket Is Networking Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 9/24/2012 10 comments Data confirming the importance of social networking to SMBs comes as no real surprise.
Evernote Gets Enterprise-Friendly Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 8/24/2012 10 comments Evernote Business is designed to make it easier for IT to give the popular service its blessing. Because users are using it anyway.
Hiring Advice for the Midmarket Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 7/9/2012 11 comments Even in this job market, mid-tier enterprises should think twice before turning down good IT candidates.
Midmarket Cloud Choices Still Hazy Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 7/2/2012 4 comments It's unclear, as yet, whether the midmarket is embracing private or public cloud, or choosing hybrid solutions.
Connections for the Midmarket Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 6/18/2012 3 comments IBM's Global CEO report spells out the relevance of social and mobile connections to engagement with employees, customers, and partners.
Mary Meeker: We're Going Mobile Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 6/4/2012 6 comments Mary Meeker's annual review of Internet trends confirms that the mobile revolution is gathering pace.
The Midmarket Stands by IT Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/14/2012 2 comments A new survey finds the midmarket continuing to invest in automation and analytics, and showing increasing interest in the cloud.
IT Innovation Wins in the Midmarket Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 5/7/2012 Post a comment Midmarket IT leadership award winners are recognized for exploiting agile, responsive platforms, on-demand applications, and the cloud.
The Smarts for Big-Data Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog 4/30/2012 3 comments With adoption of business intelligence by small to midtier enterprises growing, the question is whether lack of know-how is impeding the evolution to big-data analytics.
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
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M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet David Weldon In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M. CLICK FOR MORE
