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Entry level business intelligence for SMBs by SAP crystal solutions provide an affordable, easy to understand, powerful reporting and dashboards providing a one-view of key performance indicators. See the video to find out more
Harnessing the potential of crowdsourcing can be challenging. Dr Eric W.K. See-To, Asst Professor at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, cites Harley Davidson as an early example of crowdsourcing success. Is this the right strategy for you?
Professor Eric Tsui of the Knowledge Management Research Centre at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, believes that the level of understanding of cloud computing remains murky as a new platform for generating new business opportunities.
Andrew Martin, vice president of Asia Pacific at BakBone Software, cautions against the common myths associated with backup.
Clayton Jones, head of business development at ISC2, and Daniel Ng, director at Pacific (Panyu) Textile talk about the importance and value of certification not only to security professionals but companies that hire them as well.
In the second of the two-part video, Arun Natarjan, director of UCS, Data Center Asia Pacific at Cisco, lists the technical and busines benefits that come with re-architecting your data center around UCS.
A growing worldwide concern is skills shortage, particularly around technical areas. Row Henson, HCM Fellow at Oracle, believes this needs to be addressed now. She also discusses the impact of social networking in the enterprise, and how organizations need to react to this technology particularly as the new generation of web-savvy employees join the workforce.
Security is an important part of running a business, particularly one that is growing. Kwang Tat Ang of ANTLabs offers succint advice on how entrepreneurs can safeguard their business while growing it. ANTLabs is an SMB.
Andrew Hindmarch, regional product marketing manager for 3Com Asia Pacific discusses how the importance of networks in an SMB's business. He believes the security of these networks is paramount to the future of the SMB and shares some tips for both acquiring networks and securing them. (Duration: 4min 39sec)
Large enterprises are less likely to adopt SaaS because they want to control their IP and data. SMBs are interested in SaaS because of their is no CAPEX, the internal technical resource requirements associated with complex software is non-existent, and SaaS fast deployment is achievable. Geraldine McBride, CEO for SAP APJ shares her views on SaaS.

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Find out more about the benefits of employing endpoint security best practices and the cost of neglecting them. Read the 2012 Endpoint Security Best Practices report.
Midsized firms no longer need to be trapped in a productivity rut with this step-by-step guide to virtualize and consolidate their IT infrastructure.
 
Uttam Energy Tech realized several performance benefits with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 2.2 and more recently ran a proof of concept with the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0 Beta to examine the forthcoming features of the new platform.
When Siemens Enterprise Communications launched its OpenScape Cloud Services to extend its voice and UC services to customers using a public cloud, the company looked at setting up secure and reliable IT and communications infrastructures as well as high-availability data centers in Germany and in the US.
 
 
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