Salesforce.com Inc. (NYSE: CRM) is a cloud computing company based in San Francisco, California. It has become highly successful in the customer relationship management (CRM) software arena; Salesforce software helps companies to manage the tasks, relationships, and ‘buying funnel’ of new and existing customers. How successful? Salesforce is currently the largest American cloud computing…
5i Solutions, Inc. Salutes M-Files EU GDPR Compliance Innovation 5i Solutions Inc., a value-added reseller of M-Files Corporation products that improve how business manage documents and other data, salutes new offerings by M-Files. These innovations are designed to help companies better protect their customer’s personal data and adhere to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)…
Hacking, Spying, and Today’s High Tech This past week was the week that WikiLeaks let Americans know how easy it was for their smartphones, televisions, and even cars to be used to spy on them. On March 7th, WikiLeaks published extensive documentation that indicated secret Central Intelligence Agency capabilities to spy and hack. The files…
It goes without saying that you don’t want to be in the news for the wrong reason. And if you lived in the California towns of Marysville, Hallwood, Olivehurst/Linda, Plumas Lake, Gridley, Live Oak, Yuba City, or Wheatland you got that unfortunate experience recently. If those names don’t sound familiar to you, here’s one that…
Singapore is a relatively small place—an island city-state just 30 miles across. Politically speaking, it has been governed by the same party for decades. Its geography and political stability have allowed Singapore to position itself for the future rather uniquely as the world’s first “Smart Nation.” This is a truly ambitious set of programs designed…
USA Today readers may have been surprised to see the story of a fired IT worker that took his revenge on his for-profit online college employer. Allegations were that the IT worker had access to an account that stored email and course material for 2,000 students. After his employment was terminated, he changed a password…
Data mining and predictive analytics allow retailers to see into the future: they use collected information to anticipate what their customers want (sometimes even before they know they want it) and custom-tailor their marketing to match. And the practice is only growing more accurate as technology and analytics move forward. A great example of predictive…
LAS VEGAS — Carnival isn’t the first company most people think of when it comes to high tech. But that might change – especially after Carnival CEO Arnold Donald took the stage Thursday, January 5th to kick off Consumer Electronics Show 2017 (CES) in Las Vegas Nevada. CES takes place each January and is one…
Big data may be a relatively new term, but what it describes is already critical to business: large volumes of data that are the lifeblood of many enterprises. Collecting this information is important – it can be analyzed for insights in to past performances as well as real-time activity, helping decision-makers update/modify their business strategy…
The 2016 Presidential election results are still a political hot potato. So let’s leave political questions out of this and ask the other question that begs to be answered: How did the polls miss the mark so badly? We have written before about some of the challenges in modern polling, and you can read…