Innovation in the Middle Market: An Outsourcing Option
One of the key challenges faced by almost every middle market enterprise is that of continuous innovation. Whether we refer to business model innovation, product and/or service innovation, marketing/selling innovation or any other process, the ability to achieve real innovation rests on an almost insurmountable need to invest human, financial and,...
Awards Season for American Unit
We really don’t like to toot our horn very often, but American Unit has had the privilege of being nominated for, and winning, a number of awards recognizing the strides we have made in becoming a trusted systems integration and application development service provider, as well as a great place to work. Most recently, we [...]...
Gartner: Cloud will penetrate enterprise email markets by 2020
The recent popularity of cloud technology is expected to take over the majority of enterprise email networks during the next 10 years. A recent study from Gartner Research predicts 65 percent of enterprise email networks to adopt the cloud for email service in an effort to lower storage costs and provide constant remote access. Currently, cloud [..
Enterprise IT spending cuts will slow down global PC shipments during second half of 2010
Anticipating an overall slow-down for global IT spending, market research firm Gartner recently reduced its forecast for PC sales during the second half of 2010 by 2 percent. The firm predicts worldwide PC shipments to grow by slightly more than 15 percent between July and December. After a successful first half of 2010, in which the [...]...
Trends indicate more SaaS cloud computing adoption among smaller businesses
Mid-sized businesses are indicating a growing demand for IaaS cloud computing technology, while small businesses may move toward Saas, according to a recent report from CIO.com. The report cites a variety of industry analysis that has attributed cloud computing to mainly small enterprises, and asserts thats mid-sized companies will become the most...
Enterprise IT focusing on data management
A recent study has revealed the emerging trends among enterprise IT departments to strengthen data protection and information backup solutions, according to InformationWeek. The technology news provider published its most recent research on the IT backup strategies of nearly 400 business technology professionals within businesses that have at least...
Businesses continue to increase IT spending on servers
A recent study conducted by IDC Research shows IT investments in server technology have consistently increased through the second quarter of this year. The Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker report found revenues in the global market for server technology have shown 11 percent year-over-year growth, reaching $10.9 billion by the second quarter of 2...
Effective Employee Collaboration Platforms
In today’s business climate, many companies have employees scattered across many states and time zones. Keeping employees informed and engaged even though they are geographically distant can bring increased employee performance and innovation to your company. Businesses can implement effective employee collaboration platforms with the many online t...
Benefits of Customer Relationship Management
The most valuable assets of any business are its customers, without which there would be no business. Customer relationship management (CRM) business practices help companies retain their best customers and attract new customers effectively through sales, marketing and support interactions. CRM applications are used by companies to focus on product...
Systems integration is a critical solution for the business management sector, bringing together the various components of other subsystems in a company’s information technology system to function as one unit. Each subsystem has its own interface that must be integrated and interlocked so that the capability of the entire system adds value to...
In the past several years, several new pieces of legislation have been enacted that impact the compliance regulation processes of the enterprise. It imperative that companies have compliance policies in place. Keeping compliant is often very expensive, but being found in non-compliance can be even more expensive. Not only are the monetary fines pur...
Outsourcing for enterprise organizations comes in many forms. Many people first think of outsourcing in terms of IT third-party service providers, but another type of outsourcing is becoming more and more common. Business process outsourcing (BPO) entails hiring another company to handle specific types of business activities for your company. BPO c...