By Bart Perkins Few IT leaders recognize when a salesperson is exaggerating product capabilities (or omitting limitations). In practicing their craft, salespeople hone their pitches to a gleaming sharpness. They can demonstrate how their product meets a variety of needs, and they can counter virtually any objection or concern the IT team might raise. Absent…
Inforum 2016: Travis Perkins commits to Infor for cloud transformation
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By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Construction industry company Travis Perkins strikes a deal with Infor to use its CloudSuite enterprise software to build better customer relationships and improve employee productivity …read more Source::
Visa’s Dubai innovation centre to focus on digital payments
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By Edward Banda(editor@www.com Visa has opened a technology innovation centre in Dubai to focus on cashless payments …read more Source:: Careers
Lessons for leaving
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By Paul Glen I made a terrible mistake the first time I quit a professional job. I was in my 20s and had been working on an MBA at night and decided to return to school full time to finish the second half of the degree. Wanting to leave well, I gave my boss six…
Outdated IT limits retail gains from customer data
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By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Legacy IT systems are making it more difficult for retailers to collect and use customer data to improve services …read more Source:: IT Management
How not to cut overtime costs
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By Sharky This company buys a big competitor, which means IT has to integrate several divisions — and that, in turn, is requiring lots of overtime, reports a pilot fish on the scene. “At least they were paying overtime, even for contractors,” fish says. “They also brought in real dinners and put people up in…
Make fictional expense claims a thing of the past
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By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Some executives think that travel and entertainment (T&E) expense claims are a licence to practise their creative fiction skills …read more Source:: IT Management
Security industry largely welcomes NCA cyber crime report
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By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Most information security professionals support the National Crime Agency’s call for help from businesses in pursuing cyber criminals …read more Source::
Government announces technical education overhaul
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By ComputerWeekly.com(editor@www.com) Skills minister Nick Boles has announced an overhaul of the delivery of technical education in the UK, including introducing new courses and a focus on creating skilled workers …read more Source:: Careers