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    Ensuring your cybersecurity teams are helping the business

    Business leaders need to review how they're handling cybersecurity oversight. Are leaders asking the right questions and understanding how their cybersecurity program currently works?

    Nick Vigier • Sept. 23, 2020
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    How can companies handle CX opportunities during COVID-19?

    The COVID-19 impact on in-person shopping experiences has changed customer service expectations; now companies must find ways to compete in e-commerce against Amazon and others.

    Roger Beadle • Sept. 22, 2020
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    Don’t risk your business internationally with noncompliance

    Companies need to ensure they take compliance seriously when expanding internationally. They need to make sure they are compliant in countries by understanding regulations.

    Paul Sleath • Sept. 14, 2020
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    Balancing safety and privacy with social distancing technology

    As companies look to employ technology to help office workers maintain social distance, we need to look at whether this could result in a loss of privacy as these tools become the norm.

    Scot Marcotte • Sept. 2, 2020
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    The importance of personalized experience in CX

    Musa Hanhan breaks down the three stages of customer experience and explains why personalized experiences offer companies the best chance at customer retention.

    Musa Hanhan • Sept. 2, 2020
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    The return-to-work challenge: Ensuring employees remain safe

    Simone Fenton-Jarvis offers some advice on how companies looking to reopen their offices safely could do so, allowing employees to actually be safe and feel it too.

    Simone Fenton-Jarvis • Sept. 2, 2020
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    Are you a customer experience leader or laggard?

    Organizations need to invest now in customer experience to ensure they're leaders in their industry. They cannot risk falling behind their competitors with their CX initiatives.

    Robert Azman • Aug. 28, 2020
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    Why you should consider the transformative power of Agile

    Saggezza speaks with Mastercard and WillScot to offer a look at the Agile methodology for software development and how teams may benefit from using it in 2020.

    Frank Trainer • Aug. 28, 2020
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    Your chief digital officer can’t be an afterthought anymore

    As we all adjust to the new normal, the digital experience a company provides is more important than ever. Companies need to reconsider how they handle their digital leadership.

    Anand Rao • Aug. 18, 2020
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    The framework for your digital transformation during COVID-19

    Companies need to remain agile during the pandemic, especially when it comes to your digital transformation journey. Alisia Genzler offers a strategy for moving forward.

    Alisia Genzler • Aug. 18, 2020
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    What to consider for a contact center remote working strategy

    Colin Taylor suggests 11 areas that a good contact center work-from-home policy should address, including who provides equipment, workforce management, coaching and more.

    Colin Taylor • Aug. 7, 2020
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    The move to UC 3.0 and what it means for businesses

    Tony McQueen makes the case for why companies should consider implementing UC 3.0, such as improved integration, easier for remote employees to use and more.

    Tony McQueen • Aug. 7, 2020
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    The contradiction of post COVID-19 risk management

    Security vs. usability is always a constant struggle for security teams. The rapid change to remote access during the pandemic has forced companies to revisit their risk management approach.

    Jonathan Couch • Aug. 6, 2020
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    How to build a world-class customer experience system

    Megan Burns highlights the first four building blocks necessary for building a customer experience -- core journeys, criteria, blueprints and safety nets -- in this first article of a two-part series.

    Megan Burns • Aug. 5, 2020
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    Settle the thin client vs. PC debate for VDI endpoints

    IT has the responsibility to provide virtual desktop endpoints that maximize UX based on the use cases, so admins should learn the different sides of the thin client vs. PC debate.

    Jo Harder • July 16, 2020
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    Comparing AMD vs. Nvidia for virtual desktop GPU cards

    Both AMD and Nvidia bring virtual GPUs to virtual desktop users with resource-intensive applications, but organizations should learn what each vendor's vGPU cards can offer.

    Marius Sandbu • June 3, 2020
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    How to optimize the digital workspace experience

    Digital workspaces aim to converge users' resources and IT's management into a single technology, but this massive undertaking can present some administration and UX challenges.

    Jo Harder • May 18, 2020
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    Prioritize personality in your IT recruitment strategy

    An effective IT recruitment strategy weighs a candidate's qualifications -- and personality. Cheaper Than A Geek's chief nerd explains his approach to hiring and retention.

    Christopher Barber • April 23, 2020
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    A deep dive into the internet, bandwidth, and how users in EUC and elsewhere affect capacity

    Rachel Berry offers us a look into how the internet works and whether more people working from home could result in potential bandwidth issues.

    Rachel Berry • April 17, 2020
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    What to expect from the Salesforce and Tableau integration

    The Tableau integration with Salesforce has many users wondering how this will affect its approach to growth and development, and its place in the digital transformation marketplace.

    Scott Robinson • April 8, 2020
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    How the EUC space is reacting to Coronavirus: Our big list of resources and stories (Updated 4/08)

    How-to guides; updated licensing terms; free products; what the community is doing; and more.

    Jack Madden, Rachel Berry, Kyle Johnson • April 8, 2020
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    Azure Universal Print service: what is it and should we care?

    Bas van Kaam breaks down what we know and don't know about Universal Print, Microsoft's cloud-based print solution.

    Bas van Kaam • March 31, 2020
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    Citrix App Protection prevents keyloggers, screenshots on unmanaged devices. Here’s how it works

    As more people work from home right now—the chance they access CVAD from a personal device increases, making App Protection worth considering.

    Kyle Johnson • March 30, 2020
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    How zero-trust authentication and architecture have evolved

    Zero-trust architecture has spread across the enterprise security software market, so IT pros should understand the latest advancements in zero-trust authentication.

    Kyle Johnson • March 25, 2020
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    A look at MTD vendor Zimperium, and their new product suite, MAPS

    Zimperium's MAPS provide organizations with a way to protect apps from development to after it hits app stores.

    Kyle Johnson • March 25, 2020