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Manufacturers: Use a warehouse for product customization

Leveraging warehouses for product customization, or late personalization, adds flexibility, shortens delivery lead time and helps better meet customer expectations.

By Dave Turbide • Sept. 14, 2015

Will Salesforce Wave Analytics’ upgrade be persuasive for users?

After a year on the market, Salesforce Wave, the BI platform, gets an upgrade. But there are continuing question marks about its value.

By Lauren Horwitz • Sept. 14, 2015

Challenges hinder Salesforce Lightning, Wave adoption

One year after they were released, users are looking before they leap into Salesforce Lightning and Salesforce Wave. What is crimping adoption?

By Lauren Horwitz • Sept. 14, 2015

FinancialForce project management tool boosts Lexmark’s ECM services

When Lexmark took on FinancialForce to manage its technology services projects, its ability to provide services blossomed

By Lauren Horwitz • Sept. 1, 2015

Wearable technologies still need to hit their enterprise stride

Wearable technologies represent a $7 billion industry, but they haven’t yet made their stake in the ground for knowledge workers.

By Matt James • Sept. 1, 2015

Communication essential to sales and marketing alignment

A lack of communication between sales and marketing teams can derail internal processes. Here's how to ensure collaboration between the two factions.

By Steve Signoff • Sept. 1, 2015

Kronos shift scheduling software a grind for Starbucks worker

On-call scheduling software gets criticized in workers' rights debate, but top employment lawyer says the software helps manage costs.

By Dan Ring • Aug. 27, 2015

Comparing the leading VoIP vendors and their products

Before purchasing a VoIP system, enterprises need to carry out careful research as VoIP vendors offer intricate products with varying capabilities.

By Chris Partsenidis • Aug. 27, 2015

PeopleSoft ERP suite excels at human capital management

PeopleSoft ERP software aims to help enterprises recruit and retain top talent, while offering financial and supply chain modules.

By Mary Shacklett • Aug. 26, 2015

Cloud-based CRM enters new territory for Salesforce partners

Channel partners are pursuing increasingly sophisticated Salesforce implementation projects, helping customers integrate and optimize complex systems.

By Crystal Bedell • Aug. 19, 2015

Zoho CRM platform overview

Zoho's cloud-based CRM platform helps businesses manage the key aspects of their customer engagement strategies.

By T.J. Houpes • Aug. 18, 2015

Challenges of combining structured and unstructured data

Business intelligence tools can turn company data into valuable insights, but unstructured data is often a missing component. It doesn't have to be.

By Shawn Shell • Aug. 17, 2015

Three essentials for an effective mobile app strategy

With mobile apps invading the enterprise, it's time to develop a strategy using a set of universal app development tools.

By Marty Resnick • Aug. 13, 2015

How does SharePoint 2016 differ from SharePoint 2013?

SharePoint 2016 will bring new features on premises, but many upgrades focus on easier integration with cloud-based Office 365 services.

By Brien Posey • Aug. 10, 2015

Toshiba IPedge VoIP System Product Overview

The Toshiba IPedge is a secure software-based VoIP system intended to replace legacy telephony.

By Chris Partsenidis • Aug. 7, 2015

What is Cortana and how does it benefit my users?

Microsoft integrated Cortana in its Windows 10 operating system. It's capable of carrying out complex search requests and it can help enterprise users navigate their desktops.

By Brien Posey • July 30, 2015

What is the multiple desktop feature in Windows 10?

The Windows 10 multiple desktop features gives workers the feel of using multiple monitors on the same screen, which can increase productivity for users that keep many windows open at once.

By Brien Posey • July 27, 2015

Is Windows 10 really the last version of Windows?

Microsoft has said that Windows 10 is the last version of Windows, and that's sort of true. Rather than releasing Windows 11 in years to come, the company will deploy perpetual updates to Windows 10.

By Brien Posey • July 27, 2015

Oracle Sales Cloud update aims to boost sales, efficiency

Oracle updates its Sales Cloud to increase sales; Infer announces new lead gen product; and Xactly Strategic Services aims to drive workforce management.

By Lauren Horwitz and Tim Ehrens • July 24, 2015

Do I really need Citrix NetScaler?

NetScaler or not, you need an application delivery controller. But XenApp and XenDesktop shops that use a non-Citrix gateway run the risk of losing Citrix's support.

By Margaret Jones • July 23, 2015

Social customer service needs to be integrated with larger business

For social customer service to be effective, it needs to be integrated with other aspects of the business, including sales, marketing and product development.

By Lauren Horwitz • July 23, 2015

Location-based service apps yield trove of information

When customers come into a store with offers from location-based service apps, like mobile wallets, it indicates a new level of buying intention greater than just window shopping.

By Lauren Horwitz • July 23, 2015

Why you should remove local administrator rights once and for all

Some companies shy away from removing local admin rights just to make users happy, but taking back users' admin privileges can prevent many problems and improve security.

By Kevin Beaver • July 23, 2015

Running Windows desktop apps on mobile devices gets easier

Today, admins can choose from a combination of virtualization, refactoring, secure containers and GPU virtualization to deliver Windows apps on mobile devices with a decent user experience.

By Eric Klein • July 13, 2015

Cloud-based marketing tools need integration to work

When companies don't integrate their cloud-based marketing tools, customer data can easily become out-of-date and out-of-sync among various systems.

By Steve Robins • July 10, 2015