Cloud-Adoption Success Factor: Understand the Business Drivers

Optimizing the Cost Model Dedicated, owned or leased infrastructure requires capital investment to design and build an IT ecosystem that meets expected peak demand. When not running at peak, that excess capacity equals lost value that you can’t bank for future use. In the cloud, you provide for your needs “a la carte”; you pay …

Why the Hybrid Cloud Needs Managed Services

Cloud computing, in both public and private mode, has become the new enterprise standard. At the same time, enterprises are continuing to work with managed service providers for a widening range of IT solutions. These two trends are linked. In a survey of some 400 managed service providers (MSPs) last year, CompTIA reported that the percentage saying …

Risk & Responsibility: Is Your Corporate Board Prepared?

Those of you who know me or have been students of mine know that I constantly rant about the supreme importance of knowing and understanding the client’s business, in order to intelligently comprehend and appreciate the risks the business faces. Well, the same goes for the board of directors. Obtaining an understanding of the company’s …

Reverse Logistics: Who Does It Well?

It would be tempting to think of reverse logistics as forward logistics done backwards. Tempting, but wrong. Reverse logistic isn’t simply a reverse gear. Almost everything can change. Products come back in dribs and drabs, not in nearly packaged batches. They don’t come back to predefined schedules. They don’t even come back in the same …

The Disturbing Cyber Threat Targeting Medical Devices

Hackers have found another way to extort the medical community and their patients. There’s a disturbing trend of cyber-thieves targeting medical devices in doctors’ offices and hospitals. The very medical devices that provide life saving treatment are now being targeted by hackers – for profit. Just recently, researchers discovered a new version of MEDJACK, which is …

Consumers Are The Future Of Healthcare

Late last month, the annual Internet Trends report was released by Mary Meeker of KPCB. For many, including myself, it is considered essential reading. This meticulously prepared deck is a trove of valuable data for anyone participating in the digital economy—which, in 2018, is virtually everyone. It does a phenomenal job of distilling rapidly evolving consumer behaviors …

How To Survive In The Smart Machine Age

New Skills are Required to Remain Marketable Artificial Intelligence, virtual reality, robotics, biomedical engineering, nanotechnology and many other advances are happening rapidly.  Are you preparing or are you simply putting your head in the sand and hoping it doesn’t affect you? The reality is that it will affect most of us in the near future. …

Data Science and Artificial Intelligence: The Life-Saving Technology That Will Transform Healthcare using actionable insights

Artificial Intelligence is called the new nervous system of the healthcare domain. Application of Artificial Intelligence in Health information comprises of training databases for health data, medical data exchange clinical decision support system, creation, and use of knowledge. Medical data and healthcare statistics have now evolved as a separate domain called Health Informatics. Technology aids …

CTMS Implementation Success: Top Five Steps to Keep You On Track

CTMS implementation success might seem not that easy, especially when utilizing this kind of software for the first time. In this case it is important to have a very well sketched plan that will help you with the initial steps to get everything in place. The beginning is the toughest part and this is the …

Implementing Payments at Self-service Kiosks

As reviewed in previous payment trend articles, we are seeing increased adoption of self-service check-out and ordering solutions in both retail and QSR locations. These applications range from self-service ordering kiosks at QSRs such as McDonald’s and Taco Bell to self-check-out stations in retailers like Walmart and BJ’s Wholesale Club. Implementation of self-service kiosks is not …