Even though we are just at the beginning of a new business-focused, user-controlled era of IT, there are some principles that will characterize what IT is going to become.
If they know they are going to be focused on the mainstream business end-user, not on the IT geeks, the way they are going to have to test the product is going to be different.
Toshiba's got an Ultrabook hybrid on the way for general consumption, and now it's targeting the business-savvy Windows 8 user with its WT310 tablet (a product code borrowed from an old Windows 7 model).
If you are an active user of business-oriented social networking tools, you may often get requests directly from interested parties and customers who come across you online or at some event.
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While it would be nice to see a better diagramming input solution for the average business graphics user, add-on graphics tablets, such as those from Wacom, make the most sense for professionals.
So while big companies like HP are "excited" about the possibility of putting small PCs in America's homes, we think they're going to have to do some serious revamping (and possibily a bit of innovating, too) before they're going to be able to cannibalize their own laptop business and convince the end-user that small and chic is de rigueur.
The Teradata Aster Discovery Platform is easy to use by any SQL-savvy analyst or business user, as well as powerful and flexible enough for the most sophisticated data scientists, Teradata said in its announcement.
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By Empowerment, we mean the following: Groundbreaking consumer experiences that harness existing data to empower broader, better-informed choice through business-class decision tools and game changing user experiences.
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The transition from CDs to digital files coupled with the rise of social networking has transformed the music business from a push economy to a user-curated, pull economy.
Analyst 2.0 will have arrived when vendors and IT make analysis easy enough that a typical business user can conduct analysis entirely by themselves, returning them to a state of user-driven innovation, Oh says.
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While a keyword job search for "certified public accountant" might turn up ads seeking a small-business chief financial officer who is also a CPA, semantic-search software would intuit that the user is looking for accounting jobs and list only those openings.
Even more impressively, you can join user-created campaigns to boycott business practices that violate your principles rather than single companies.
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From their books to their blogs, their philosophy of providing simple, user-friendly software and practical business-building strategies is woven into every product like DNA strands.
In our business model, historically clients have paid for two user-initiated views in order to generate one earned media view.
Unless you are a business user you can safely ignore the BitLocker and Hyper-V stuff.
The company seems to be getting basics right by improving customer service and going forward, its pay-TV business success will depend upon how it enhances the user experience and gives the term TV Everywhere its true meaning.
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Like much of the entertainment business, network executives are talking about creating their own "user-generated content" offering, although it's not yet clear what form that will take.
While the most convincing testimonials are unsolicited, adding a tab to your web site reserved for nothing but testimonials and endorsements from ANY source not only makes your site user-friendlier, but can also result in more business through search engine placement.
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But even that really does serve the long-term goal of the company being a streaming-only provider with very low operational costs and a simple business model and user interface.
Moreover, the 2010 study "Staying Connected on the Go: A Look at In-Vehicle Smartphone Integration Systems" conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association reports that 55 percent of smartphone owners prefer voice commands as their user interface for in-car smartphone integration, making the business case for SYNC and AppLink even more compelling.
Whether it's a parent at home running around the kitchen or a young entrepreneur running their new business, Talking Point provides the crystal-clear hands-free phone solution for any user.
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So, I hope you can understand my passion as a form of disappointment with the business community to abandon repeated failures and adopt more reliable processes, such as User-Centered Design or Value Innovations.
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The sensible thing, in my view, would be to end this user-fee proposal once and for all, so all these business people can get back to work and be productive, and the government can find something more worthwhile to do.
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And while it may still cause wrinkled brows and sleepless nights for IT pros, those of us in the software business are hearing more and more from CIOs and tech decision-makers that they want to support user choice.
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This task is so complicated that it requires an ISstaff member to register each end-user machine, says James Mascaro, network architect for Xcelerate, an e-business consultancy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
Always-on, device-independent, multi-channel, anytime-anywhere access to business information and transactional capabilities is rapidly becoming the key differentiator for both customer and user experience.
To really win at the game of cyber-security, you must tackle really hard problems such as usability, business process maturity and consistency, user training, network design, and optimization of your portfolio of applications.
The simple, but powerful QUE user interface is uniquely designed for functionality in the day-to-day world of the business professional.
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