Fri.Nov 03, 2023

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The U.S. Economy's Vulnerabilities

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/MarianVejcik America’s smallest companies tell us a lot about the economy’s vulnerabilities. So far, they have been resilient in the face of rising borrowing costs. Recession watchers should be careful about jumping to conclusions over the rise in small-business bankruptcy activity. Smaller firms' exposure to variable-rate debt may well make them a leading indicator for the American economy, but so far they're mostly sending a message of resilience.

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Apache Kafka and Apache Flink: An open-source match made in heaven

IBM Services

In the age of constant digital transformation, organizations should strategize ways to increase their pace of business to keep up with — and ideally surpass — their competition. Customers are moving quickly, and it is becoming difficult to keep up with their dynamic demands. As a result, I see access to real-time data as a necessary foundation for building business agility and enhancing decision making.

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Next-generation Quality Engineering (QE) Services PEAK Matrix® Assessment 2023

Everest Group

Next-generation Quality Engineering (QE) Services Enterprises pursuing digital transformation are exploring cutting-edge next-generation technologies to gain a competitive edge, drive business model innovation, and expand their operational capabilities. However, to achieve the desired benefits without disrupting their existing operations, implementing comprehensive Quality Engineering (QE) processes for these next-generation technologies is vital.

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NVMe vs. SATA: What’s the difference?

IBM Services

Today, everyone from gamers and video editors to software start-up executives launching apps in the cloud are demanding faster solutions for data storage. The reason is simple: Better storage technologies mean faster, higher-performing compute environments. For gamers, this means less lag time; for editors, it means shorter video renders; and for businesses, it means they can run workloads swiftly and smoothly in the cloud.

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We’re Here to Help! How to Navigate Your Top HR Priorities

Are you helping your people proactively plan for retirement? How are you prioritizing the mental health of your HR team? These are a few of the questions that HR professionals are seeking answers to today. Luckily, Gallagher’s consultants came together with four robust articles (and one infographic) that help address these pain points and provide you with proactive planning tips to help you simplify, personalize and create flexibility in your benefits offerings to help ensure your people thrive

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A Live Answering Service For The Holidays

Magellan Solutions

It’s something that happens every year. Strangely enough, it still appears we don’t learn from it. Christmas rush shopping drives consumers to the brink of insanity and stress-related illness, but so many people still choose to put off buying their Christmas gifts. However, despite their previous experiences, business owners face challenges managing the influx of customers and orders.

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Mastering Ingress in the UI: Elevating your app visibility

IBM Services

When scaling up the number of applications you manage, it can feel like there are a lot of moving parts to ensure that your APIs are going through to the right applications in a secure manner. To make this easier, IBM Cloud® Kubernetes exposes various API integrations, which are already available through the command line interface (CLI) and Terraform.

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Multi-cloud, why it’s here to stay

Infosys Consulting

Under the right circumstances, multi-cloud can reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) and improve performance, reliability, security, and flexibility. Expert Ian Porter looks at some of the benefits and challenges of implementing a multi-cloud approach. Cloud computing has become an essential platform for organizations to harness the flexibility, agility, and power of the internet to store, manage and access their applications and data.

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7 Benefits of Outsourcing Medical Billing Data Entry to India

Offshore India Data Entry

Today, the medical field is confronting challenges like efficiently managing the revenue cycle management of medical billing and coding. Outsourcing medical billing data entry to experienced BPO companies in India can help healthcare providers improve revenue cycle management, reduce costs, and streamline operations. Partnering with a reputable medical billing outsourcing provider in India can help free up clinicians’ time to focus on delivering excellent patient care.

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Preparing for Direct Connection to OneStream

Perficient Digital Transformation

One of the most common if not the most common requests when setting up OneStream is to have a direct connection from an ERP such as Oracle, Peoplesoft, and/ or Netsuite to OneStream to allow for data to be automatically uploaded on a regular basis. Below is a link from one of my fellow Perficient consultants that describes the steps and how to setup a Direct connection to OneStream: Oracle EBS Direct Connect Configuration in OneStream / Blogs / Perficient This blog is going to focus on the step

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How to Choose the Best Recruitment CRM in 2023?

SPD Load

The best recruitment CRM solutions have become indispensable in today’s highly competitive talent acquisition landscape. As the demand for innovative recruitment and.

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Reduce Bias in Hiring: Structured Interview Questions for Employers

Structured interview questions are a valuable tool for reducing bias in hiring. They help: Ensure all candidates are asked the same questions in the same way Level the playing field so all candidates have a fair chance of being successful Improve credibility, reliability, and validity Download the guide to get the most out of your interview questions!

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Transforming Customer Relationships: The Impact of Outbound Call Center Services.

Go4Customer

"The customer's perception is your reality." - Kate Zabriskie In today's fast-paced corporate realm, customer interactions are critical to success. Outbound call center services and incoming call center services have evolved as a result of how organizations have altered their customer service strategy in response to technology improvements.