Transportation Industry Update: Two Years of CSA Compliance It’s been almost two years since the government’s Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program harnessed the power of big data to make the nation’s highways safer by collecting and sharing vast amounts of data on the trucks and truckers who carry 70% of all goods bought and sold

Big 4 Trends Changing IT Staffing It’s hardly news that the “big 4” IT trends — cloud, mobile, social and data analytics – are changing enterprise IT. As they do, they’re also changing the IT staffing picture.  Some of the changes are obvious, as companies struggle to fill positions that didn’t exist until recently. As

IT Staffing Services Grow as IT Employment Stays Flat It’s no secret that many companies are keeping IT staffing levels flat – or even continuing to reduce them. But IT staffing services are continuing to grow and hire top talent, with industry projections showing a growth of 10-12% for IT staffing services during 2013. Most

Transforming Enterprise Application Support & Management Every November, IDC’s lead analyst for business software, Michael Fauscette, publishes an annual list of predictions for enterprise applications trends during the next year.  Then, early in the New Year, he publishes a report that shows how well his team did the year before.  The analysts haven’t always had a

IT Staffing: Finding Top Talent Quickly You hear it everywhere you go. It’s hard to find top IT talent. At the same time, we hear talented technology solutions professionals say they can’t find a position that offers them the financial and personal rewards they want. Part of it is the fact that IT department budgets

Winning the War for LOB Budgets If you’re in enterprise IT management, this may sound like old news: in most companies, line of business (LOB) executives now have the power of the purse strings over IT budgets. It’s one of the biggest shifts in enterprise application development and deployment. The shift toward LOB decision-makers taking

Combining CRM, BI & Big Data for Real Time Answers Until recently, enterprise CRM solutions, business intelligence (BI), and big data solutions were separate tool sets, often siloed within enterprise IT.  Now, more and more companies are realizing that relying too much on big data analytics risks losing the personal approach to selling – and

Four Questions to Assess Your Company’s App-titude For many companies, determining whether or not a mobile app makes sense for service optimization often boils down to the CTO’s  “everybody’s-doing-it” approach to adopting new technology. And while there’s certainly a place for staying in step with your competition, there is a better way to set apart

Let’s WATCH for wearable devices In the last several months, there’s been much ado about the future of wearable devices. If you’re not familiar with this term, wearable devices are the next generation of smart mobility — technology that goes where you go. By now, most of us are fully accustomed to, no matter where

Best Practices for Building a Global Workforce Finding good talent for your organization can be quite challenging.  Finding candidates with the right educational background, work experience, skills and company culture fit — before your competitionfinds them — is often frustrating and extremely time consuming even at the local level.  But many organizations  are looking to build