Mobile Shopping is Not Just a Holiday Trend
Get ready for growth in 2015 with value-added services This holiday season, mobile devices have had a serious impact on sales. “For the first time ever, smartphones and tablets accounted for the majority of all online traffic on Thanksgiving Day, according to data...
Are you Ready for IDC’s CIO Predictions for 2015 and Beyond?
Tips to Take Advantage of Emerging Markets for Future Growth Recently, International Data Corporation (IDC) hosted the Web conference, IDC FutureScape: Worldwide CIO Agenda 2015 Predictions, where analysts offered insights and perspectives on future industry and...
What is a Rules Engine Anyway, and Why is it So Important to Salespeople?
Many businesses run a rules engine to automate systems, maintain information and keep their programming code clean. A rules engine is simply a tool formatted in an if/then conditional format that gives you a different way to look at, and solve, a problem outside of...
3 Scary Reasons to Avoid Isolated IT and Data
Without consolidation, you frighten innovation and sales away! All is well with your legacy systems handling scattered IT and data at your business. It has been in place for years, and why spend the time and money to change it? If this sounds familiar, you may be in...
Global Businesses Encouraged to Re-Imagine Their Relationship with Technology
Earlier this month, Mediaspectrum had the privilege to host an international gathering of more than 50 of its client and partner executives for the company’s first annual Customer Summit 2014. The group represented an impressive list of attendees from a variety of industries. All with the common goal in mind, to share ideas and best practices for leveraging technology that will help businesses to integrate operations; eliminate nuisances that delay innovation; and produce valuable insights and information to give customers exactly what they need, when they need it.
Stay Competitive While Reducing IT Costs
Business owners know that using the latest technology to increase revenues and provide excellent customer service is essential to success, and they are willing to spend a great deal on it. In fact, the amount spent on worldwide IT is “on pace to total $3.7 trillion in...
3 Ways to Boost Revenue with Customer Relationship Management
Is your CRM program only reporting results? Customer relationship management (CRM) systems that automatically organize large quantities of data and provide real-time results are important. But new, CRM solutions offer much more than reporting. They provide valuable...
How to Reduce Your IT Spending Trends in 7 Steps
Are you taking advantage of the benefits of server virtualization, an IT disaster recovery plan and more? More than $180 billion – that’s how much end-users are expected to spend on cloud services by 2015 per a recent “Cloud Computing” article in Forbes covering IT...
Is Big Data Improving the Customer Experience at Your Business?
Positive, personal interactions provide a competitive advantage With all of today’s hype about big data, private cloud solutions and the latest technological advances, it can be easy to lose focus on what’s really important for business success – providing a...
Is Your National Data Center Ready to Expand with Your Business?
Don’t forget the “big picture” when it comes to private cloud solutions. Gartner’s recent report, “Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Enabled Managed Hosting, North America,” states, “the market for cloud-enabled managed hosting is developing rapidly, so it is vital that...