Innovation in the Middle Market: An Outsourcing Option
One of the key challenges faced by almost every middle market enterprise is that of continuous innovation. Whether we refer to business model innovation, product and/or service innovation, marketing/selling innovation or any other process, the ability to achieve real innovation rests on an almost insurmountable need to invest human, financial and,...
Awards Season for American Unit
We really don’t like to toot our horn very often, but American Unit has had the privilege of being nominated for, and winning, a number of awards recognizing the strides we have made in becoming a trusted systems integration and application development service provider, as well as a great place to work. Most recently, we [...]...
Report: Spending for computing and technology research on the rise
Even with budget constraints and cost cutting, businesses are increasing spending on computing and technology research, according to a new report from Research and Markets. The international market research data firm found a significant increase in spending on IT research. Among the most popular research for respondents pertains to cloud computing...
European companies increase IT outsourcing this year
A recent study by Gartner shows 53 percent of European companies outsource their IT services, and the figure may increase with 40 percent reporting plans to increase spending on external IT services. The Gartner survey was taken in the first quarter of 2010 and polled 206 companies across Europe. Many of those survey participants spend between [...
Private clouds surprisingly on the rise
Results from a survey conducted by Virtual Instruments at the VMworld 2010 conference show a surprising number of IT organizations are planning on implementing private cloud computing. The survey, which polled 200 conference attendees, showed 23 percent said they will implement a private cloud within the next year. Also surprising is that 35 percen...
Retail industry surprises experts with August sales growth
The U.S. retail industry fared better in August than experts had anticipated, reporting a 3.3 percent increase in sales. Thomson Reuters, the organization that released the retail industry’s most recent numbers, had previously predicted a 2.5 percent improvement for the industry in August. The only segment that failed to exceed the retail ind...
Gartner: Cloud will penetrate enterprise email markets by 2020
The recent popularity of cloud technology is expected to take over the majority of enterprise email networks during the next 10 years. A recent study from Gartner Research predicts 65 percent of enterprise email networks to adopt the cloud for email service in an effort to lower storage costs and provide constant remote access. Currently, cloud [..
Effective Employee Collaboration Platforms
In today’s business climate, many companies have employees scattered across many states and time zones. Keeping employees informed and engaged even though they are geographically distant can bring increased employee performance and innovation to your company. Businesses can implement effective employee collaboration platforms with the many online t...
Benefits of Customer Relationship Management
The most valuable assets of any business are its customers, without which there would be no business. Customer relationship management (CRM) business practices help companies retain their best customers and attract new customers effectively through sales, marketing and support interactions. CRM applications are used by companies to focus on product...
Systems integration is a critical solution for the business management sector, bringing together the various components of other subsystems in a company’s information technology system to function as one unit. Each subsystem has its own interface that must be integrated and interlocked so that the capability of the entire system adds value to...
In the past several years, several new pieces of legislation have been enacted that impact the compliance regulation processes of the enterprise. It imperative that companies have compliance policies in place. Keeping compliant is often very expensive, but being found in non-compliance can be even more expensive. Not only are the monetary fines pur...
Outsourcing for enterprise organizations comes in many forms. Many people first think of outsourcing in terms of IT third-party service providers, but another type of outsourcing is becoming more and more common. Business process outsourcing (BPO) entails hiring another company to handle specific types of business activities for your company. BPO c...