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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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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Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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Zinnov

JUNE 24, 2024

In a world where technology and innovation are transforming industries at an unprecedented pace, the search for skilled Engineering talent has become a top priority for companies worldwide. The demand for these professionals remains consistently high, even in the face of economic fluctuations, making it imperative for businesses to look beyond their local markets and embrace a global perspective.

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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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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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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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Grow your startup beyond borders and boundaries. Global expansion is the ultimate goal for many startup founders. However, to successfully enter new markets and grow internationally, you need a sound and scalable global recruitment strategy. In this eBook, you’ll discover how you can gain a competitive edge over your business rivals through the latest technology, harnessing global contractors, and using a global employment platform.

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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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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

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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In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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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

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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The benefits of expanding internationally are endless, especially if you approach it the right way. However, there are pitfalls along the way that can slow down progress. Global expansion brings many opportunities for companies —business growth, brand-building in new markets, and access to diverse talent pools worldwide. However, international growth can come with challenges.

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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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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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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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Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.

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