Rick Blaisdell

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RickBlaisdell just created content Cloud communication tools - Part I

Cloud based social and communication tools help companies improve their performance in terms of efficient communication, reducing budget and increased collaboration. Businesses are not obligated any longer to pay separately for business tools, such as teleconferencing and videoconferencing, but they now have the flexibility to leverage cloud communication tools and apps that offer them more availability, flexibility and scalability.

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mdavis10 just commented on The chart is actually a in IT Performance

The chart is actually a generic one that you can find various places on the web. Growth is defined as that early stage growth often at a fairly dramatic rate. Expansion is later in a company’s history when it wants to move to the next stage of its life. Obviously these are generalisations and some companies go through various transformations and changes in different forms, reinventing themselves etc multiple times.

Agree with you that you might not want a steady Eddie, but I would guess that there are a fair number out there!

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That means it is only up from there

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Cloud-Computing Tools for Doctors and Physicians

Thu, 02/28/2013 - 12:54

As we discussed in an older article, cloud computing technologies are on the rise in the healthcare industry. From large hospitals to physicians and administrators to small medical services providers, all have seen cost savings from implementing and utilizing cloud-based solutions.

Cloud-Based Business Intelligence Solutions – Which Are the Benefits

Tue, 02/26/2013 - 10:35

Business intelligence solutions support better decision-making by providing historical, current and predictive views of all business operations. Business Intelligence (BI) technologies can process large amounts of information to provide useful functionalities such as reporting, analytics, data and process mining, business performance management, benchmarking, text mining, predictive and prescriptive analytics. BI solutions help companies gain competitive advantages by identifying and developing new business opportunities.

How to build HIPAA-Compliant Cloud Applications

Mon, 02/25/2013 - 07:02

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, enacted by the United States Congress in 1996 was created to protect health information coverage for employed people and their families when they become unemployed, either because they change their job or they lose it. According to the U.S.

Advantages of Cloud-based ERP for the Manufacturing Industry

Fri, 02/22/2013 - 12:22

The trend toward cloud computing is hard to ignore even for manufacturing companies, who are continually asking if a cloud solution is right for them. What’s the cloud providing to businesses in the manufacturing industry? Let’s see how cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) can handle manufacturing concerns.

What is an Enterprise Resource Planning solution?

How the Travel & Accommodation Industry Benefits From Cloud Computing

Tue, 02/19/2013 - 13:55

The travel sector is leading the way when it comes to adopting cloud technologies as more and more travel companies are looking for scalable and reliable support for their online presence. Cloud computing technologies ensure travel and accommodation companies an easily scalable computing infrastructure that is available on-demand and on a pay-per-use basis. The cloud model saves travel businesses from investing massive amounts of funds on infrastructure, and from managing it.

Big Data and the Cloud

Thu, 02/14/2013 - 13:04

The amount of data in our world increases massively day-by-day. Big data is about capturing, storing and analyzing large pools of data from customers/consumers, suppliers, partners, operations, employees etc. According to a McKinsey report, US companies from almost all industry sectors have, on average, hundreds of terabytes of data stored per company.