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    SaaS ERP is making the grade at Brown University 23 August, 2011 09:40:00

    When powerful ERP applications are needed by growing businesses today, SaaS ERP is being looked at more and more as a viable option to traditional complex, expensive and labor-intensive packaged ERP suites. And while SaaS ERP is still young, in the right setting and with the right users, it's offering some eye-opening real world gains for a variety of organizations.
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    Prevent internal IT sabotage 20 August, 2011 05:52:00

    Preventing external attacks to IT systems is a huge and critical task for most companies, but what are businesses doing to stop similar attacks when they come from within? That's a question that more companies should be asking themselves as internal IT sabotage cases regularly hit businesses hard, causing big monetary losses and often knocking companies offline for days or weeks.
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    ERP apps gaining useful new social media tools 17 August, 2011 07:05:00

    Consumer-friendly social media tools are finally being integrated into complex ERP applications. Enhancing ERP with deep social media capabilities will allow for easy and fast communications between businesses and customers.
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    Fear of change impedes Cloud Adoption for companies 05 August, 2011 06:57:00

    It's not budgets, technology issues or strategic worries that are creating roadblocks for Cloud projects in many enterprises. Instead, deep-seated fears of change and requirements for more Cloud education are keeping many enterprises from moving forward.
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    Emerging ERP apps stores could change ERP buying 03 August, 2011 00:11:00

    Choosing your company's next mission-critical ERP system might have just gotten easier.
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    Software license audits: Avoid SAP, rent-a-center brouhaha 30 July, 2011 04:18:00

    When your company contracts with an enterprise applications vendor for a fixed number of software licenses for your users, it behooves you to carefully monitor that usage at all times.
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    Will your business data be safe in the Cloud? 20 July, 2011 09:42:00

    It's scary out there in the cloud. Data thieves, hackers, criminals, they're all out there scouring the Internet around the clock for ways to get into your corporate networks so they can steal data from poorly protected businesses.
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    Managing your cloud's performance: Best practices 20 July, 2011 00:47:00

    Once you move your core IT systems into private or public cloud networks, your work isn't over. Now you have a different set of technology issues to deal with: managing the cloud to ensure that your investments pay off for your enterprise and deliver the efficiencies and ROI that you're expecting.
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    Customise your ERP or adapt to it? 15 July, 2011 04:44:00

    If your enterprise has customized your mission-critical ERP systems over the years, your future upgrades will likely be more troublesome and terrifying because the changes can conflict with the patches. On the other hand, if you are running out-of-the-box ERP with little customization, maybe you're not getting all the important features your business needs.
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    Is Your CRM system meeting the needs of your enterprise? 30 June, 2011 08:23:00

    In the past, CRM served a simple purpose inside your enterprise: It kept track of your customers, their addresses and their orders. Now, though, there's far more that comes under the CRM umbrella, from connecting with your customers through social media to being able to instantly transmit customer data to a call center agent when customers call in for help.
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    20 events that shaped the Internet, part 2 04 April, 2011 23:43:00

    We take the Internet for granted now, but a lot of developments helped to make it the gargantuan shopping, socializing, commerce-helping, video-sharing behemoth it is today.
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    Antivirus software powerless to stop data breach attacks, study finds 10 February, 2012 01:43:00

    Analysis of 300 incidents spots an elephant in the room
    Large numbers of data breaches are being initiated by targeted malware that antivirus software simply can't detect, an analysis of 300 real-world incidents from 2011 has suggested.
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    Valentine's Day Patch Tuesday: Microsoft to issue 9 patches, 4 critical 10 February, 2012 09:29:00

    Microsoft Thursday said that the second Patch Tuesday of 2012 will see nine security bulletins, four of which were deemed critical.
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    Security experts ask House for light a regulatory touch 10 February, 2012 01:39:00

    Cybersecurity experts on Wednesday warned members of a House subcommittee against racing to legislation that would establish an overly burdensome regulatory framework for safeguarding digital systems against attacks, instead urging a more limited approach that would clear away legal impediments such as the prohibitions against sharing critical threat information.
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    The six pillars of security operations 10 February, 2012 11:37:00

    Six key points that should be considered when creating and developing a SOC
    As mobilisation and bring-your-own-device (BYOD) becomes increasingly prevalent, business security has been propelled to the forefront of corporate strategy.
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    Google Wallet Security Concerns Raised 10 February, 2012 01:40:00

    Security firm Zvelo has discovered that the Google Wallet PIN can be cracked via an exhaustive numerical search.
    Google's new NFC system that purports to turn your phone into a credit card can be compromised using a brute-force attack -- and that raises questions about its security.
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