Mobile applications continue to grow in volumes for various industries and retail outlets. Banks must learn fast to understand the implications of this for their business. Consumers are mobile, web smart, love our cool gadgets and want more! For banks to compete for market share they must “mobile up” to provide access to products and…
Category Archives: Business & Information Technology
Why Cloud Computing for your Las Vegas or Charlotte Company?
What is Cloud Computing? A loosely defined term for Internet application development, services, and IT infrastructure for independent computer technology. Co-term: Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Ancestor: Mainframe Era – centralized computing. Why Cloud Computing? Cloud-based services so far are cheaper than traditional IT products. Many are now becoming under-performing and legacy systems. Large on-premise database driven applications…
How Safe is Cloud Storage?
Cloud Storage is one of the fastest growing Cloud Computing offerings at this moment. For decades hard drive technology costs have been driven down to almost nothing. And that’s not all. In a report by Gartner, “Many businesses will not own IT assets by 2012.” IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) trends appear to be right about this as…
How Much Is An Information Technology (IT) Professional Worth?
Information Technology vendors have long marketed their IT certification programs (ie, CCNA, MCSE, CNE) to individuals and businesses. IT certification programs are planned revenue generating models well designed and sold by vendors. There is a catch, IT professionals do not evolve from production lines, the same goes for IT Consulting. Either you have it in…
How To Lower The Ownership Costs for Computers
Now that cloud-computing has the attention of business owners and executives, this blog adds another NOT SO WELL KNOWN savings tip – Solid State Disks (SSD). By now everyone has a digital camera, USB thumb drive, light weight NetBook or smart-phone like the one I am writing this blog with. Inside is a storage chip…
Certified Accountants or Certified IT Professionals. Who is More Qualified?
I recently posted a blog featuring general End of Year Tax Savings Tips. While writing that blog a concern came to mind about Certified Accountants or Certified IT Professionals. Who is more qualified? Not long ago Acuity Information Systems & Consulting received a marketing piece soliciting IT services from a solutions provider. There was a…
Why IT Managed Services Is a Good Business Practice
Depending on which day, news station you watch, talk radio you listen to and on-line or print media you read, the greatest US economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s may or may not be getting better. Economic Recovery is just around the corner for the spirited American entrepreneur – we hope! The…
10 Ways Business and IT Management can Save Money and Be More Effective
1 – Consolidate and centralize IT applications and systems. Adopt Pay-As-You-Go models and reject long-term recurring licensing agreements that are “insurance policies” rather than value focused – Software-as-a-Services (SaaS), IT-as-a-Service (ITaaS) and Cloud Computing. 2 – Remove resource robbing applications from desktop computers and servers – Examples: Installed outdated database application clients. Customer Relationship Management…
Banking Industry Can Save Money Using Cloud Computing
Are you still having those days where things do not seem to be getting better? Is the “ladder of success” taller now? Regulated industries like Banking will struggle to climb any ladder. Why? The relentless burdens of regulations and high costs of compliance. Cloud computing and other Information Technology innovations can remove the taxing burdens…
