The Global Small Business Blog

JANUARY 30, 2025

iStock/Maria_Castellanos Happy New Lunar Year of the Snake ! Renewal. Wisdom. Strength. Lets shed all the bad energy!

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Amzur

JANUARY 30, 2025

Supply chain management is crucial in the retail industry to ensure smooth operations and build stronger customer relationships over time. It involves overseeing the inbound and outbound logistics for every product a retailer sells. Every process in the retail supply chain, from demand planning, sourcing materials, and coordinating with suppliers to tracking inventory and delivering products, must be managed effectively for optimal supply chain performance.

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SPD Load

JANUARY 30, 2025

Artificial Intelligence has surged into our daily lives. And software development is not an exception. According to a GitHub survey, in 2023, The post AI Development Tools We Use to Speed Up Development Process first appeared on SpdLoad.

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Intelligent Sourcing

JANUARY 30, 2025

Joel Walker is the Co-Founder and Managing Director Platform Services of The Knowledge Group (tkg). He is based in Luxembourg. Last year Peter saw the tkg vendor selection system, which […] The post CX Files: What Do CX Suppliers Need To Bring To The Table? appeared first on Intelligent Sourcing.

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Everest Group

JANUARY 30, 2025

Join Everest Group Practice Director Lokesh Goyal alongside industry experts as they explore the emerging global talent acquisition and procurement trends set to shape the industry landscape in 2025.

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Premier BPO

JANUARY 30, 2025

Redefining Finance Operations in a Dynamic Era In an era shaped by rapid technological advancements and global interconnectedness, Finance and Accounting Operations (FinOps) have become a cornerstone of strategic growth and operational resilience for businesses. No longer limited to cost reduction, FinOps is now a driving force for innovation, empowering companies to leverage advanced technologies, address critical talent shortages, and navigate increasingly complex financial ecosystems.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Our colleagues at Perficient are generous, kind, and take pride in paying it forward through a passion for philanthropy. In 2024, Perficients Giving Employee Resource Group (ERG) launched the Perficient Gives Global Grants Program, a unique opportunity to support global nonprofit organizations in their mission to make a significant impact in our communities.

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Amzur

JANUARY 30, 2025

Supply chain management is crucial in the retail industry to ensure smooth operations and build stronger customer relationships over time. It involves overseeing the inbound and outbound logistics for every product a retailer sells. Every process in the retail supply chain, from demand planning, sourcing materials, and coordinating with suppliers to tracking inventory and delivering products, must be managed effectively for optimal supply chain performance.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Were excited to share that Sitecore has honored six of our Perficient colleagues with the prestigious title of Sitecore Most Valuable Professional across all three categoriesstrategy, technology, and ambassador. With this achievement, our total MVP recognitions now exceed 80. Together, our team has continued to reach new heights and set a benchmark of excellence for our Sitecore practice here at Perficient, Art Quinn, General Manager said.

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Paysquare

JANUARY 30, 2025

Year-end payroll might seem like a big task, but if you follow the right steps, it becomes much easier. This process includes checking employee details, paying bonuses, handling taxes, and making final reports. If not done correctly, mistakes can cause delays, extra costs, or legal trouble. But with a clear plan, payroll can be done smoothly, on time, and without stress.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

The Optimizely Configured Commerce SDK and Optimizely Configured Commerce Cloud serve different but complementary purposes within the Optimizely ecosystem. Below is a breakdown of their differences to help clarify their roles: Optimizely Configured Commerce SDK (Software Development Kit) The SDK is a toolkit developers use to build, extend, and customize Optimizely Configured Commerce solutions.

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inDinero

JANUARY 30, 2025

Choosing the right corporation type is important for startup founders and small business owners. That decision has implications for raising capital, taxes, liability protection, and more. The most common business entities are: Limited liability company (LLC) C corp S corp General partnership Sole proprietorship This article will compare and contrast the impactful differences, so you can decide which is right for you. 12 Facts About SBA Loans That Surprise Most Business Owners Considering an SBA

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Software development techniques have rapidly improved because of the quick growth of technology, with Content Management Systems (CMS) and MVC (Model-View-Controller) frameworks performing a key role in the creation of contemporary online applications. These approaches do, however, have challenges in the fast-paced, high-demanding technological environment of today.

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Planergy Software

JANUARY 30, 2025

What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Learn more We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with PLANERGY.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Part 1 of this new blog series will focus on what KubeOne is, its features, and its architecture. KubeOne aims to provide a reliable and automated solution for provisioning, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters. It focuses on high availability, self-healing, and ease of maintenance across multiple nodes and environments. What is KubeOne? KubeOne is an open-source tool for setting up, managing, and scaling Kubernetes clusters in environments such as public clouds, private clouds, and on-prem

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Planergy Software

JANUARY 30, 2025

What's PLANERGY? Modern Spend Management and Accounts Payable software. Helping organizations spend smarter and more efficientlyby automating purchasing and invoice processing. Learn more We saved more than $1 million on our spend in the first year and just recently identified an opportunity to save about $10,000 every month on recurring expenses with PLANERGY.

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Paysquare

JANUARY 30, 2025

Year-end payroll might seem like a big task, but if you follow the right steps, it becomes much easier. This process includes checking employee details, paying bonuses, handling taxes, and making final reports. If not done correctly, mistakes can cause delays, extra costs, or legal trouble. But with a clear plan, payroll can be done smoothly, on time, and without stress.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

In today’s rapidly evolving web development landscape, creating interactive and dynamic user interfaces has become essential. Traditionally, developers relied on JavaScript frameworks like Vue.js or React to achieve this. However, Laravel developers now have an effective alternative: Laravel Livewire. Laravel Livewire enables developers to build dynamic, reactive components directly using PHP, eliminating the need for JavaScript.

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V-Soft Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

Common IT Staffing Issues and How to Solve Them The demand for skilled IT professionals has reached new heights, and hiring from the right talent pool can propel quick success. However, IT staffing has been a pressing issue for many organizations, as it can disrupt even the most efficient teams. From sourcing top-shelf candidates to retaining them is a struggle organizations face every day.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

GitHub Actions is an open-source CI-CD tool that is an extended feature of GitHub. It automates software workflows with world-class CI-CD. Build, Test, and deploy your code from GitHub. How GitHub Actions Work Workflows : Workflows are automated processes defined in the YAML file and triggered on an event like Push. Events : Events are operations that change the repository, like Pull Operations and Push Operations.

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Capgemini

JANUARY 30, 2025

Creating resilient supply chains: A value-driven blueprint for fortifying futures Phil Davies, Jrg Junghanns, Richard van Schip, Haresh Panjavani, Pablo Aldonza Rubio, Henrik Bathke, John Hancock Jun 6, 2024 Facebook Linkedin A Joint Point-of-View from Capgemini and Kuehne+Nagel In the last twenty years, supply chains have experienced tremendous growth and sizable challenges across the globe.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

Why Security and Privacy Matter Security and privacy are not just best practices but legal requirements when handling customer data. Regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the EU, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in California, and other global privacy laws mandate that businesses protect the privacy of individuals and ensure their data is stored and processed securely.

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Capgemini

JANUARY 30, 2025

The critical need for data trust in business operations Srikanth Gosukonda Nov 28, 2024 Facebook Linkedin Organizations require accurate, reliable data they can trust to ensure healthy, sustainable business operations. Organizations continually face challenges with their data, making the reliability of information and trusted data exchange across business functions essential.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

JANUARY 30, 2025

So, DeepSeek just dropped their latest AI models, and while its exciting, there are some cautions to consider. Because of the US export controls around advanced hardware, DeepSeek has been operating under a set of unique constraints that have forced them to get creative in their approach. This creativity seems to have yielded real progress in reducing the amount of hardware required for training high-end models in reasonable timeframes and for inferencing off those same models.

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Vilmate

JANUARY 30, 2025

The latest IT news still revolves around artificial intelligence. Companies are competing to create the most powerful AI models. American products like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini are already well-known worldwide. But in early 2025, Chinese AI developments made a big splash in the news. While Donald Trump announced a $500 billion investment in AI , China responded with significant funding.

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