The Global Small Business Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

©iStock/Drazen Zigic What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: How small business owners make it happen. Impact in action. Small business owners spot opportunities to boost productivity. Quote of the week: "Supporting small businesses is not just about commerce, it's about community." – Michael Dell, Founder of Dell Technologies Global Small Business Study surveyed the owners and IT decision makers at small businesses across six countries to discover

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Everest Group

JUNE 24, 2024

Saudi Arabia is rapidly emerging as a global leader in artificial intelligence (AI ) and generative AI (gen AI) innovation. Read on to learn how the nation is making substantial investments to become a pioneer in the AI landscape, attracting significant attention from global tech and investment communities. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia has been historically dominated by its O&G industry and, until quite recently, was not perceived as a tech-savvy nation.

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NoonDalton

JUNE 24, 2024

Say what you like about the current business landscape, customer service remains pivotal in building and maintaining strong client relationships. As companies strive to balance traditional methods with digital advancements, the question arises: should they stick with traditional customer service methods or embrace digital solutions? Let’s explore the evolving approaches in customer service and weigh the strengths and weaknesses of both traditional and digital methods.

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Paysquare

JUNE 24, 2024

The healthcare and medical services industry is one of the largest and fastest-growing industries. Hospitals offering healthcare services require hiring doctors, nurses, medical experts, specialists, technicians, pharmacists, management staff, cleaning staff, security, and many more. Every person is hired on a different pay scale according to their skills, qualifications, and experience, which makes payroll a strenuous and difficult task.

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Speaker: Jennifer Hill

Payroll compliance is a cornerstone of business success, yet for small and midsize businesses, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of federal, state, and local regulations. Mistakes can lead to costly penalties and operational disruptions, making it essential to adopt advanced solutions that ensure accuracy and efficiency.

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Global Expansion

JUNE 24, 2024

The rise of remote work has changed the landscape of work. It has allowed businesses to hire the best global talent beyond international borders. However, managing and paying a global workforce has always been a challenge for multinational companies.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

It provides a unified interface for viewing and controlling your infrastructure, automating tasks, and managing configurations. Here are some key features and components of AWS Systems Manager AWS Systems Manager Core Components : Run Command : Executes commands on instances. State Manager : Maintains desired state configurations. Parameter Store : Stores configuration data and secrets.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

Introduction to Rest Assured Framework In today’s API-driven development landscape, testing RESTful APIs is a critical aspect of ensuring application functionality and performance. The Rest Assured framework is a powerful and easy-to-use Java library that simplifies testing REST APIs. Leveraging a fluent API allows developers to write readable and maintainable tests.

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Everest Group

JUNE 24, 2024

Companies that are well into their digital journey invest a lot in their platform technology stack. As I explained in a prior blog , the relationship between their technology and their business operations is becoming very codependent and intimately related. This causes a need for continuity of talent in the tech teams, which has significant implications in the relationships companies build with their third-party service providers as well as how they configure their own teams internally.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

Welcome to Part 2 of our series on Advanced API Testing with Rest Assured. In this segment, we delve into three critical aspects of API testing: JSON Schema Validation, Serialization, and Deserialization. These advanced techniques empower developers and testers to ensure the reliability and efficiency of their APIs. Let’s explore how Rest Assured simplifies these processes, enhancing the quality of your API tests and boosting confidence in your applications JSON Schema Validation JSON Sche

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SEBPO

JUNE 24, 2024

SEBPO’s Todd Handy on the Top One Percenter Show Podcast Total 0 0 0 0 SEBPO’s Todd Handy on the Top One Percenter Show Podcast From the Top One Percenter Show podcast: Join us on our latest episode as we sit down with Todd Handy , the dynamic Chief Revenue Officer of SEBPO. With a proven track record in driving revenue growth and a deep understanding of the evolving landscape of outsourcing solutions, Todd shares his insights on the future of the industry, the role of technology in transforming

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

Incorporating generative AI (gen AI) into your sales process can speed up your wins through improved efficiency, personalized customer interactions, and better informed decision- making. Gen AI is a game changer for busy salespeople and can reduce time-consuming tasks, such as customer research, note-taking, and writing emails, and provide insightful data analysis and recommendations.

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Airswift

JUNE 24, 2024

Transitioning from a technical role to a leadership position can be both exciting and challenging. As a technical expert, you possess a wealth of knowledge and skills that are valuable to any organisation. However, moving into a leadership role requires a different set of abilities and a shift in mindset. Transitioning from a technical expert to an effective leader involves embracing new responsibilities, developing soft skills , and understanding the broader business landscape.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

Unlike traditional e-commerce platforms where all the features are closely integrated, Composable Commerce breaks down the various features of an e-commerce platform into independent and interchangeable building blocks. According to Gartner, a leading research and advisory company, composable applications will accelerate business innovation with commerce being an important domain.

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Go4Customer

JUNE 24, 2024

This industry has grown at an unrelenting pace in the recent past years with the world sales projected to go past $6.5 trillion to $5 trillion by the end of the year 2023 from its current value of $3.9 trillion in 2020. Amidst this rapid growth, one crucial aspect stands out as a key differentiator for businesses: customers.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

Hello Trailblazers… In today’s competitive business environment, managing relationships with your business partners effectively is crucial for success. Salesforce offers a powerful solution for this: the Partner Portal. A Partner Portal allows you to collaborate seamlessly with your partners, providing them with access to key information and resources while maintaining control over your data.

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Advertiser: Paycor

The HR industry is changing. Did you know… 1. There will be 4M more jobs than workers by 2033 ( BLS ). 2. For 84% of workers, flexibility is a top priority ( FlexJobs ). 3. 75% of employees have used AI at work ( CFO.com ). It’s time to meet the moment! Use Paycor’s guide to design a blueprint for success.

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Go4Customer

JUNE 24, 2024

The travel and hospitality industry is a huge industry worldwide and has a global impact; it is estimated to boast of more than 1. 4 billion international tourists in the year 2019, and this figure contributed to the global hospitality receipts of $8. 9 trillion in revenue. This is because as the industry advances, then the question of service delivery to the clients becomes a make or break activity.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

B2B commerce, stands for business-to-business commerce, refers to the online sale of goods or services between businesses such as manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors, and retailers. Shopify Plus offers advanced features specifically designed to cater to the needs of B2B businesses. One of the significant advantages is the ability to create separate storefronts tailored specifically for business customers or to blend the B2B and B2C experiences into a single storefront.

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Capgemini

JUNE 24, 2024

BRINGING SANCTIONS AND ADVERSE MEDIA SCREENING INTO THE MODERN ERA Jeffrey F. Ingber 14 June 2024 Facebook Twitter Linkedin The process of screening natural persons, legal entities, and transactions applies in a variety of AML contexts—with two key ones being sanctions and adverse media screening. It’s integral to a satisfactory AML program, but rife with errors, delays, improper decisioning, inadequate recordkeeping, and outsized costs, and increasingly difficult for financial institutions to m

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

When working with large datasets in Salesforce, summarizing data efficiently is often a necessity. Thats where the AggregateResult class in Apex comes into play. It allows developers to perform aggregate functions like SUM, AVG, COUNT, MIN, and MAX on sObjects, providing a way to group and summarize data effectively. In this blog, well delve into how to use AggregateResult in Apex, showcase some examples, discuss its benefits, and explore common use cases.

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Advertiser: ZoomInfo

In today’s ultra-competitive markets, it’s no longer enough to wait for buyers to show obvious signs of interest. Instead, sales teams must be proactive, identifying and acting on nuanced buyer behaviors — often before prospects are fully ready to make a purchase. In this eBook from ZoomInfo & Sell Better, learn 10 actionable ways to use these buyer signals to transform your sales strategy and close deals faster.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

The Importance of Cyclone Testing in Salesforce Salesforce, being a robust and versatile CRM platform, requires rigorous testing methodologies to ensure the reliability, security, and efficiency of its applications. One such methodology gaining traction is Cyclone Testing. This blog explores the importance of Cyclone Testing in Salesforce, its benefits, and real-time examples demonstrating its efficacy.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

Introduction: Regular expressions, often abbreviated as regex, stand as indispensable assets for automation engineers. These dynamic constructs facilitate pattern matching and text manipulation, forming a robust foundation for tasks ranging from data validation to intricate search and replace operations. This comprehensive guide aims to navigate through the intricacies of regex, catering to various proficiency levels — from beginners to intermediates and advanced users.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

Agile is a Cliché, a widely used Phrase in today’s Industrial timeline. Evey Organisation, Group, Team wants to be Agile. But is it adopted in the name only??? Agile frameworks hold such promise. From focusing on value driven delivery to empowered investors or stakeholders, it is the time to be part of enthusing Software development. There are fairy stories about what an Agile team should be like: It is a belief that an Agile team should not require a manager.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

Databricks Delta tables are an advanced data storage and management feature of Databricks, offering a unified framework for data management and optimization. Delta Tables are built on top of Apache Spark, enhancing Spark’s capabilities by providing ACID transactions for data integrity, scalable metadata handling for efficient management of large datasets, Time Travel for querying previous versions of data, and support for both streaming and batch data processing in a unified manner.

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Advertiser: Paycor

In today’s fast-paced business world, effective workforce management (WFM) isn’t just an option—it’s a necessity.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

I started a new Sitecore Personalize project. The client nonprod and prod environments were freshly spun up. All fresh and clean. No offer templates, no experiences, no decision models. I created the first experience and proceeded to click the preview button to test my experience. To my surprise the experience did not render, and the QA tool did not display.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JUNE 24, 2024

Your healthcare organization (HCO) could have the best content imaginable on your website. But if your users can’t find it quickly and intuitively, it’s not going to do what you want it to do. And it’s probably not going to help you with your conversion goals. That’s why content is only part of the equation for your site’s pages. You also need a strong healthcare information architecture (IA) strategy in place.

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