The Global Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

©iStock/FeelPic What's affecting me, my clients, my colleagues and other global small business owners: Global small businesses need financial services , not charity. Today’s small businesses face extraordinary multi-layered challenges on local, state, national and global levels. Here's why. China holds the key to speeding up debt relief and ending the “silent crisis” that is holding back attempts to tackle poverty in the world’s poorest countries, a senior World Bank official has said.

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31 West

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In today’s competitive business landscape, the focus is on providing customer-centric solutions. Identifying your clients’ needs, putting them first, and ensuring that your goals align with their requirements are some key factors that can help establish your brand. As your business scales, your customers will demand a 24/7 support service that provides real-time assistance when needed.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

This time of year, I like to talk about updating the data strategy for the new year to include new business goals and new technology and in doing so I sometimes forget that there are still many companies that do not have a data strategy to update. What is a Data Strategy and why do I need one? Most organizations have multiple data management initiatives underway including master data management, data governance, data migration, data modernization, OLTP operational data cleanup, data ingestion, a

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IBM Services

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Sourcing is getting smarter. To start, many organizations have already pivoted from a tactical to a strategic sourcing mindset—which can make all the difference when it comes to gaining and retaining a competitive advantage. Why? Because organizations with strategic sourcing mindsets look beyond price and cost savings-centered supplier selection initiatives.

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The Global Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

©iStock/Thinkhubstudio What was globalization meant to be? Brining the world closer together, enmeshing advanced and developing economies in a web of mutually beneficial economic and financial linkages. From about the mid-1980s, trade and financial flows between countries expanded rapidly as governments dismantled barriers to these flows. Not everything went according to plan.

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Offshore India Data Entry

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With over 1 million new legal cases filed every year, legal firms face an overwhelming amount of documentation to process. According to the American Bar Association, attorneys spend on average 16% of their time on administrative tasks like manual data entry. This time-sink not only reduces productivity but leaves room for costly errors – up to 22% of legal data entry contains inaccuracies.

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IBM Services

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As more countries, companies and individuals seek energy sources beyond fossil fuels, interest in renewable energy continues to rise. In fact, world-wide capacity for energy from solar, wind and other renewable sources increased by 50% in 2023. More than 110 countries at the United Nations’ COP28 climate change conference agreed to triple that capacity by 2030, and global investment in clean energy transition hit a record high of USD 1.8 trillion in 2023.

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The Global Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

©iStock/PIKSEL Poland's Blik is one of many homegrown mobile payment service providers (PSPs) that have become integral to commerce in the countries they were launched. As local PSPs become more popular, relying strictly on global PSPs is no longer enough for businesses expanding to new geographies. They must address payment localization to build trust with customers and avoid losing sales.

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Global Expansion

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s estimated that 49,849 mergers and acquisitions took place in 2019 , ranging from huge multinational arrangements to smaller regional deals. Whatever the size or scale, financial transactions of this kind are always complicated and fragile at the best of times.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Adobe Summit 2024 is right around the corner, and we’re excited to sit down with the executive director of marketing applications at Morgan Stanley Dorothy Joseph on March 27 at 11:30 A.M PST at The Grand Lux Café in The Palazzo. Perficient’s Jay Jackson, director of Adobe Digital Marketing and CDP, will host a fireside chat with Joseph about the global financial services leader’s successful journey to consolidate and optimize the Adobe Experience Platform.

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IBM Services

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Managed DNS is where a third-party hosts and optimizes your DNS resolution architecture to provide the fastest, most secure, most reliable experience. Perhaps the easiest way to explain it is by looking at the opposite scenario: what if you don’t have a managed DNS service in place? Every query in the Domain Name System (DNS) follows the same logic to resolve IP addresses.

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The Global Small Business Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

©iStock/Galeanu Mihai According to Courtney Kincaid, President and CEO of the Indiana CPA Society, global expansion is now easier than ever. She says studies show businesses are more successful in the long term when they spread their reach to new countries and markets. As the world becomes more connected, small business owners should look for ways to expand their reach overseas to find new customers, follow this blog , access resources like this one and Women Entrepreneurs Grow Global®.

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V-Soft Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Workflow automation requires the integration of numerous applications, services, platforms, and data sources. However, applications from legacy systems or apps can cause the integration to become complicated. Therefore, ServiceNow’s platform provides Integration Hub to simplify the integration process by providing robust integration solutions.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Read the other blogs in this series: Tutorial 01 – Microservices Architectural Design by using Spring Boot Tutorial 02 – Spring Cloud – Netflix Eureka Server Tutorial 03 – Publish Microservices to the Eureka Server / Blogs / Perficient In the Eureka Server environment, 3 “Client Component” types are possible: Discovery Client Component ( Legacy, No Support for Load Balancing ).

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IBM Services

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This week, as thousands of network operators, technology vendors, and mobile device providers from all over the world converge on Barcelona for Mobile World Congress , it’s the perfect time to discuss how IBM® is shaping the future of network operations and telecommunications. Outside the glitz of new phones, connected cars and 5G with everything, there are some real challenges the industry must address.

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The Global Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

©2024 Laurel J. Delaney. All rights reserved. "For all the supporters of Tesla over the years, and it's been several years now and there have been some very tough times, I'd just like to say thank you very much. I deeply appreciate the support, particularly through the darkest times.

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Transparent BPO Outsourcing

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Award continues recognition of Transparent BPO as one of the world’s best outsourcing services providers Transparent BPO, a leading nearshore, and offshore contact center solutions provider is pleased to announce the company’s selection for The 2024 Global Outsourcing 100® by the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals® (IAOP®). The Global Outsourcing 100, now in its eighteenth year, is a prestigious […] The post IAOP Names Transparent BPO a Top 100 Global Outsourcing Provid

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Perficient Digital Transformation

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

We had a client moving from an On-Prem v11 Optimizely instance to DXP v12 and we had a lot of blobs (over 40 GB) needing uploading to DXP as a part of the conversion. This was my first experience doing both a version and environment upgrade and I leaned heavily on Optimizely support to help me get it right. Along the way, I wrote down each step so that I could reference it for any future projects that were doing the same.

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Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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IBM Services

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The financial services industry has been in the process of modernizing its data governance for more than a decade. But as we inch closer to global economic downturn, the need for top-notch governance has become increasingly urgent. How can banks, credit unions, and financial advisors keep up with demanding regulations while battling restricted budgets and higher employee turnover?

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The Global Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

©iStock/StephanieFrey Oh what is the uproar all about? Because Lyle’s Golden Syrup is undergoing a redesign? Wait. There's so much more to it. The British baking staple, now owned by Tate & Lyle Sugars , is highly recognizable because the logo has been unchanged for 140 years. The product is even the Guinness World Records holder for the world's oldest logo.

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V-Soft Consulting

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Many organizations struggle to manage multiple projects and actively seek a centralized method of operation from conception to realization. ServiceNow Project Portfolio Management (PPM) is a solution designed to help organizations manage their portfolio of projects and programs effectively. PPM provides a centralized platform for managing all aspects of project portfolios, including project selection, prioritization, resource allocation, and performance measurement.

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Airswift

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

AI in the nuclear power sector: Insights from the 2024 GETI Report Since its launch in 2017, the Global Energy Talent Index (GETI) Report has detailed emerging trends across the global energy workforce. Over the last eight years, GETI has gathered insights from thousands of professionals to create a comprehensive map of the energy employment landscape, providing firms with the tools to attract and retain talent.

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IBM Services

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The chief difference between a CNAME record and an ALIAS record is not in the result—both point to another DNS record —but in how they resolve the target DNS record when queried. As a result of this difference, one is safe to use at the zone apex (for example, naked domain such as example.com), while the other is not. Let’s start with the CNAME record type.

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The Scalers

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This article was previously published for the Forbes Tech Council and was written by our CEO, Emilien Coquard. On October 3, 2023, a TikTok ad appeared with the biggest YouTuber in the world, MrBeast, offering iPhone 15s for just $2. It sounded too good to be true. And it was. Jimmy Donaldson (better known as MrBeast) revealed he wasn’t running a giveaway.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The goal of Databricks Unity Catalog is to provide centralized security and management to data and AI assets across the data lakehouse. Unity Catalog provides fine-grained access control for all the securable objects in the lakehouse; databases, tables, files and even models. Gone are the limitations of the Hive metadata store. The Unity Catalog metastore manages all data and AI assets across different workspaces and storage locations.

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Zinnov

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

At Davos 2024, a pivotal insight emerged: the business landscape is ripe for collaboration, far beyond what many leaders previously recognized. This concept opens up new possibilities for enriching business practices and fostering partnerships, particularly between Technology Service Providers (TSPs) and Global Capability Centers (GCCs). Once seen as separate competitive entities, TSPs, and GCCs are now identified as collaborative partners, each with unique strengths.

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IBM Services

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While many network admins outsource the management of authoritative domain name system (DNS) infrastructure to a third party like IBM® NS1 Connect®, there is a sizable community of network operators who prefer to dig in and build something themselves. These do it yourself (DIY) authoritative DNS architectures can be cobbled together from various tools.

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Everest Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

By strategically partnering with third-party providers, enterprises can fully harness the potential of gen AI in customer experience management. Learn insights from our latest survey on enterprise readiness for gen AI adoption and how collaborating with providers can help overcome the major obstacles. Reach out to us for more information or to further discuss this topic.

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Perficient Digital Transformation

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Feature Engineering is the preprocessing step used to make raw data usable as input to an ML model through transformation, aggregation, enrichment, joining, normalization and other processes. Sometimes feature engineering is used against the output of another model rather than the raw data (transfer learning). At a high level, feature engineering has a lot in common with data engineering; we use these same steps going from the Bronze to Silver to Gold layers in a Databricks medallion architectur

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Intelligent Management Inc.

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

It’s been a while since our last post. We’ve been concentrating our writing efforts elsewhere and we are very happy to announce that ‘The Human Constraint’ that started out as an online project, downloaded in 43 countries around the world, will be published this year by a major publishing house, Taylor & Francis (Routledge). Here, co-founder Angela Montgomery takes the opportunity to introduce the new book.

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