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Social CM Solution Brief
Today's society has evolved to be highly social, extremely adept at engaging with ever-evolving systems of communication for self-expression and the exchange of ideas. We have naturally gravitated to leveraging the power of social computing, given its ability to provide a virtual arena for meaningful interactions and discussions. These virtual communities are a real part of our lives in fact, we spent 110 billion minutes engaged in social networks and blog sites every month.
1 week ago by IBMGrove City College: College Delivers on Educational Promises with HP Converged Infrastructure
Learn how Grove City College integrates essential technologies to give students free rein to explore, collaborate, and create.
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Six ways to make cloud work
CIOs and their teams can make the cloud work for growing UK enterprises. By moving services to the cloud, which offers lower costs and flexibility, they can start to work more closely with colleagues across the business to free up capital and people, innovate, speed up time to market and even drive new business. How can your business be sure that the cloud will give you the security and resilience your business needs? Do cloud benefits outweigh cloud risks? This Phoenix white paper offers practical advice on defining your goals and plan for cloud migration, including: - Why and how the cloud model could be good for your business - What you need to do to mitigate risk - What questions you should ask potential providers
April 11th, 2012 by PhoenixThe State of Independence in America
While the current workforce picture is one of struggle, uncertainty and gloom, this study reveals key data behind the structural shift to a new age of career independence: more and more workersboth professionals and othersare migrating to independent work. These independentsconsultants, freelancers, contractors, temps, on-call workers, etcare satisfied with their work and lifestyle choice and are actively seeking to remain independent.
April 1st, 2012 by MBO PartnersTaking Measure of Talent
This Harvard Business Review Analytic Services whitepaper, sponsored by Workday, focuses on effective management of your human capital and gaining insight into your workforce's skill, knowledge, and experience through technology. As business models change, the pressure to leverage the true value of your human capital and better understand your talent management grows.
March 29th, 2012 by WorkdayUsing hybrid security to manage web threats
Security professionals are engaged in a philosophical debate around information security requirements, especially as they relate to web threat management. Should large organisations opt for on-premise security gateways or simply offload web threat management to the cloud? This Blue Coat Systems white paper talks about the strengths and weaknesses of on-premise and cloud deployments, and which organisations need hybrid solution.
March 23rd, 2012 by Blue Coat SystemsZions Bancorporation: Zeroing in on Profits
How did analysts at this banking group turn unprofitable client relationships into profitable ones? By building a modeling tool designed to pinpoint the most profitable offerings. See how Zions improved pricing competitiveness with help from SAP.
March 22nd, 2012 by SAPClustering Methods Applied to the Tracking of User Traces Interacting With an e-Learning System
Many research works are carried out on the analysis of traces in a digital learning environment. These studies produce large volumes of usage tracks from the various actions performed by a user. However, to exploit these data, compare and improve performance, several issues are raised. To remedy this, several works deal with this problem seen recently. This research studied a series of questions about format and description of the data to be shared. The authors goal is to share thoughts on these issues by presenting their experience in the analysis of trace-based log files, comparing several approaches used in automatic classification applied to e-learning platforms. Finally, the obtained results are discussed.
March 12th, 2012 by World Academy of Science, Engineering and TechnologyOracle Exadata eBook
Check out the new Exadata e-book packed with the latest real-world examples, insights, and tips for IT professionals. This interactive e-book experience features customer success stories and video interviews, analyst commentary, a 3-D demo, and more. Download the e-book today.
March 1st, 2012 by OracleSuccess and Failure of e-Learning Projects: Alignment of Vision and Reality, Change and Culture
Online education is fast developing in the education system and is widely used in many universities and research areas. Jordan is a developing country with limited natural resources, a fact that has led the country to depend heavily on its human resources. This has encouraged the Jordanian government to implement a number of ICT-led development initiatives since the succession of King Abdullah II to the throne in 1999. Furthermore, to achieve excellence as qualified human resources who are able to compensate for the lack of natural resources, Jordanians have been oriented towards education. This has resulted in high literacy rates in the country.
February 1st, 2012 by Journal of Computing
