Introduction Today, businesses are oblivious to many risks facing them, but with some critical thought and foresight, they can become aware of these potential dangers. With the right tools and knowledge, you can shed light on the potential risks faced by your business, and manage them effectively. But, what are the major risks—internal risks to be ...

Introduction Do you spend a good part of your workday performing repetitive, manual tasks? If yes, then you’re not alone. Most employees—including senior-level executives, spend most of their workday performing mundane administrative duties such as sorting emails and updating spreadsheets. This is counterproductive, to say the least, but things don’t have to be that way—especially not ...

Introduction Like oil, data increases in value after it gets processed. Whether the data is processed through data warehouses, in-house databases or Big Data technologies, organizations need to coordinate multiple tasks to ensure its availability when needed. Traditional data collection and processing allows for error-prone processes, a lack of control and visibility into data, and high ...

Introduction Relying on Excel, manual processes, and ad hoc code to perform business critical tasks is counterproductive. The solution? Business process automation. An innovative approach to systemize key business tasks, business process automation streamlines the processes by making them less redundant, risky, costly and fragile. What comes to mind when you think of business automation? Efficiency? More ...

Introduction As a means by which devices and software communicate over the World Wide Web, web services range from major services such as customer relationship management (CRM) and storage management to much more restricted and niche specific services such as checking of auction item bids and provision of market data. Web services are services made ...