Human Capital Management (HCM) solutions in the cloud are spawning a wide spectrum of services that are revolutionizing the workplace for employers and employees. Instead of HR being just a cost center, cloud computing is affording HR the opportunity to add significant value to the bottom line in the form of reduced expenditures on software and computer systems that are now managed in the cloud, as well as increased efficiencies. With easier access to vital business processes via Wi-Fi networks and mobile devices, cloud tools are driving higher productivity and delivering strategic business results.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Tarik Taman, General Manager, HCM & Cloud ERP at Infor, will examine how HCM in the Cloud is empowering organizations to achieve new levels of success.
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Spark Integration Technologies Heißt Jetzt Distrix
Distrix, ein führender Entwickler von softwaredefinierten WAN-Produkten, die einfache, sichere und belastbare Netzwerke ermöglichen, gab heute die Änderung seines Namens von Spark Integration Technologies zu Distrix bekannt. Der neue Name spiegelt den Erfolg des Unternehmens beim Einsatz seines Vorzeigeproduktes – Distrix®, der sichere Gateway-Router – in vielen verschiedenen Branchen weltweit wider.
„Für unsere breit gefächerte Kundenbasis vom Transport- zum Bankwesen, sowie von Telekommunikation bis zur industriellen Steuerung ist der Name Distrix mittlerweile gleichbedeutend mit Netzwerken, die einfach, sicher und skalierbar gestaltet sind, und so die Kosten für die Netzwerkverwaltung senken“, so Jay Friedman, Präsident von Distrix. „Dass wir uns enger mit dem Namen Distrix identifizieren, zeigt die Einfachheit und zunehmende Bedeutung unserer Lösung in öffentlichen sowie privaten Netzwerken, und dem Internet der Dinge.
What Will It Really Take to Provide an Agile Big Data Infrastructure?
“An agile approach to data is really a requirement of just about any application, but even more so with Big Data,” stated Cory Isaacson, CEO/CTO of CodeFutures Corporation, in this exclusive Q&A with @ThingsExpo conference chair Roger Strukhoff. “What the enterprise needs is a data platform that can adapt to changing requirements in a flexible and rapid manner. This has not been the case with existing databases.”
Cloud Computing Journal: With the MapDB announcement, it sounds like to some degree you’re bringing the Java Programming Language into the 21st century modern enterprise. To what degree do you agree with that statement?
Cory Isaacson: This is a very good assessment, while Java has always been a capable language there have been many barriers when it comes to delivering full-featured database technology. For example, APIs like JDBC have worked for many years, but fast performance, convenience and tight integration in Java applications with the database were not there. With MapDB Java developers now have the convenience and agility of the native Java Collections API, with the power of a very fast database engine.
Redefining B2B eCommerce in the Cloud
The challenge for many businesses is building an integrated eCommerce solution that delivers on all fronts – design, usability, customer experience, segmentation, and execution.
In her session at 14th Cloud Expo, Marie-Pascale Authie, a Solution Consultant at Infor, will explain how apply new approaches that deliver a deeper and richer personalized online experience – with tailored content, marketing messages, and offers based on an individual user’s activity and buying behavior. Discuss customer engagement platforms that enable companies to enrich their customer interactions, and scale their market impact by taking advantage of omni-channel sales and distribution opportunities that will power their top and bottom lines.
Take Control of Your Schemalessness with Dynamic Schemas
Static data structures have been at the heart of data processing tools since the dawn of computing, but they have always limited the flexibility of the organization leveraging the data. Recently, the rise of flexible formats like JSON have led to schemaless data as an attempt to increase agility. However, schemaless data have proven difficult to work with, because of hidden rigid structure in the form of implied schemas.
EnterpriseWeb addresses the problems of both the inflexibility of structured data as well as the impracticality of schemaless data, by enabling schemaless data to be dynamically and logically structured.
The Future of Cloud IDEs
A great article of future of cloud IDEs: The Cloud IDE and its impact on DevOps by Chris Riley (@HoardingInfo). The article makes a number of excellent points. Many developers will oppose the Cloud IDE without much consideration.
These are all very good points. From my personal experience, developers are very picky, they don’t like change, and they don’t like someone telling them to use some new cloud IDE. The offline issue used to be a sticking point but nowadays it’s becoming pretty difficult to find a place without internet. If no internet or WiFi is available, people can get online by tethering their mobile devices or via MiFi devices. Many airlines offer or installing WiFi on their planes.
SOASTA Announces OEM Agreement with CA Technologies
SOASTA on Tuesday announced that it has entered into a technology and distribution partnership agreement with CA Technologies. The partnership will integrate SOASTA’s Cloud based Web testing solution, CloudTest with CA Service Virtualization and CA LISA Test software suites. The solutions will be taken to market by CA Technologies as a new integrated solution, CA LISA Cloud Test, offering web and mobile developers around the world an advanced Global Test Platform. The integrated test platform can simulate any and every possible user scenario that a web site or mobile app may experience all within minutes.
Microsoft SharePoint at a Crossroads – Opportunities & Challenges Abound
Enterprise collaboration and document management are being transformed by new cloud and mobile requirements, deeply impacting one of the most broadly deployed collaboration platforms, Microsoft SharePoint.
Delivering information as an actionable asset in a widely collaborative and increasingly mobile environment has clearly become a top business priority. Business architects need the agility enabled by such unshackled information sharing and contextual collaboration to keep pace with distributed services and a boundaryless enterprise approach to their operations and commerce.
Seven Changes Driving the Future of IT
A recent global survey commissioned by CA Technologies and conducted by Vanson Bourne illustrates how radically the role of IT is changing in today’s business — and not always to the benefit of IT leaders and staffers. The survey of 1,300 senior IT leaders from large organizations in 21 countries explored the IT department as it is today and what it might become in the future.
The research highlights seven big changes that are driving the future of IT, as seen in this SlideShare deck that summarizes the key findings of the research.
Implementing Hadoop and Elastic Map Reduce on Scale-out Object Storage
Why bother promoting data into HDFS to run Hadoop analytics? Can’t I just run Hadoop on the data in place? – after all, HDFS and object storage have the same underpinnings.
In his session at 14th Cloud Expo, Paul Turner, chief marketing officer at Cloudian, will present a unique case study showing Hadoop running directly on object storage and dive into the myriad of benefits that derive from this approach. He will explore the importance of this breakthrough for users and discuss current implementation strategies and project on future work planned.