Insight Enterprises, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSIT), atechnology provider of hardware,
software and service solutions, today announced its U.S. operating division
has unveiled its HP Cloud Center of Excellence in its Bloomingdale, Ill.,
facility. Insight is a Premier HP Partner, and its HP Cloud Center of
Excellence provides clients convenient access and an interactive learning
environment with live demonstrations and briefings for HP Cloud Solutions.
The Insight HP Cloud Center of Excellence includes systems with complete and
integrated solutions for building and managing services across private,
public, and hybrid cloud environments. The center is fully equipped with HP
software, servers, storage, and networking products allowing clients to see
how HP cloud solutions seamlessly work together.
“Insight’s HP Cloud Center of Excellence enables clients to gain
firsthand knowledg... (more)
Cloud supply chain platform provider GT Nexus on Thursday announced the
general market availability of Cloud Tools, a multi-enterprise trade network
administration solution. Cloud Tools allows authorized participants to
independently manage their interactions with other companies on the GT Nexus
cloud platform.
For years, companies have struggled to support global supply chains with
scalable information systems. The traditional approach of bilateral
electronic data interchange (EDI) between ERP systems has fallen short of
delivering a global supply chain monitoring system capabl... (more)
The mission of the Security Innovation Network™ (SINET) is to advance
innovation and enable global collaboration between the public and private
sectors to defeat Cybersecurity threats. SINET increases awareness between
builders, buyers, researchers and investors in the Cybersecurity domain, in
particular the Defense Industrial Base and the Federal Government. SINET
utilizes a top down – bottom up, mutually beneficial and trust based
approach to accelerate innovation and increases business opportunities for
both small and large companies.
A key SINET activity is a yearly showcase... (more)
It’s really easy to quantify some of the costs associated with a security
breach. Number of customers impacted times the cost of a first class stamp
plus the cost of a sheet of paper plus the cost of ink divided by … you get
the picture. Some of the costs are easier than others to calculate. Some of
them are not, and others appear downright impossible.
One of the “costs” often cited but rarely quantified is the cost to an
organization’s reputation. How does one calculate that?
Well, if folks sat down with the business people more often (the ones that
live on the other side of the... (more)
20th century customer service consisted of packed call centers, phones
ringing off the hook, and large, convoluted databases of information to
manage a never-ending stream of support requests. Cloud computing, and the
introduction of powerful, business-specific software solutions, has changed
that.
There are hundreds of systems out there for handling contact management
(CRM), project management, and sales workflows: likewise, there are more than
a couple systems built for customer service. The best of the bunch is
Zendesk, and we are psyched to award it an A+ and our seal of appr... (more)