HR management: colleagues motivate significantly more than bosses 30. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Employee retention and development measures are still neglected in many companies. HR department initiatives hardly develop any motivation-enhancing effects, because direct colleagues rather than supervisors are crucial to employee commitment to the workplace.
Market forecast: investments in IT security increase significantly 30. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Global expenditure on IT sector security measures in 2015 is expected to rise by 4.7% compared to last year, reaching USD 75.4 billion. Government initiatives, stricter legal regulations and extensive attacks on companies’ data security are driving the development. The interest in security solutions for the cloud, mobile applications and the Internet of Things also …
Mobile communication: smartphones make you unproductive 30. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Smartphone users turn on their devices on average about 80 times a day, i.e. approximately every twelve minutes. They are unlocked 50 to 60 times in the process, which means every 18 minutes on average. 15% of the total service life is accounted for by the WhatsApp messaging service, 9% by Facebook and 13% by …
One foot in jail: online criminals live dangerously 30. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Software experts from around the world are increasingly insistent in warning against dangers from the Web: hackers, Trojans, botnets, spam and phishing. One question remains: Who is actually behind all this cybercrime?
Flash storage: New Oracle storage system can even cope with large workloads 23. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Higher performance, faster processing and rapid retrieval times: Oracle presents the completely redeveloped storage system All Flash FS1. It was designed in particular to process non-sequential mixed workloads, including OLTP (online transaction processing) and fast data backup.
Cloud management: Oracle improves service for social media applications 23. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Oracle has refined the Oracle Service Cloud and Oracle Social Cloud to be able to identify customers, collect public opinion trends on social media, and derive measurement categories to improve customer contact.
Cloud technologies: Companies giving away advantages in competition 23. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Companies around the world are overestimating the ability of their IT systems to adapt. The potential of outsourced IT services is still not recognised and effectively employed in most companies and many firms are unable to react quickly enough to a fluctuating load on their IT infrastructure.
Cloud computing: Windows 10 and the cloud are changing the tablet market 17. September 2015 by Ralph Novak The market researchers at GfK in Nuremberg have long been observing a fundamental change in the global tablet market. While demand for classic models in the style of the Apple iPad is continuously falling, tablet computers and convertibles, which can be used both as a PC and a tablet, are becoming more and more popular.
Business communication: e-mail remains a central communication channel 17. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Although the ‘death of e-mail’ has been predicted for years, the flood of electronic mail into companies continues unabated. One alternative are social business tools, although these are often associated with unrealistic expectations.
Big Data: How data analysis can be optimised 17. September 2015 by Ralph Novak Efficiently utilising large quantities of data requires more than just buying corresponding analysis tools. Fundamental changes must also be made in terms of the approach. Otherwise, by 2017, around 60% of the current projects to analyse big data will be halted within the pilot or experimentation phase.
