Electronic Commerce, Inc. (ECI), a provider of web-based Human Capital Management (HCM) applications, upgraded their software,Empower Onboarding Solution. Onboarding software makes the process more user-friendly and efficient for the new hire and the HR manager. It decreases the time taken for a new employee to become a fully productive, well-adjusted team member and reduces the costs associated with manual and paper processes.

To read more, visit the following link: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1883047#ixzz30QwHqucB 

In an article by Anuradha Divakaran, ‎marketing executive at Harbinger Knowledge Products, we get some insights about how technology has radically transformed the way of human capital management. The inundation of technologies like cloud, mobile, social media, big data and analytics in various HR processes has streamlined and automated workforce acquisition and management. Analysis of crucial data on employee remuneration, performance, learning and development helps organizations to draw a connection between employee efforts and business success to enhance performance management.

To read more, visit the following link:http://blog.harbinger-systems.com/2014/05/technology-revolution-in-human-capital-management/

WORKTERRA (provider of Human Capital Management software solutions) partners with Premier Consulting Associates LLC, to deliver their clients best of online benefits enrollment and private exchange platforms. WORKTERRA BenAdmin and WORKTERRA Exchange has been designed to incorporate many benefits into a single mobile accessible application.

Read more about this aspect, visit the following link: http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/1894225

Infor, a provider of business application software, released two cloud based applications: Infor HR Knowledgebase and Infor HR Case Management.  These applications are designed to support shared services organizations with advanced human capital management (HCM) capabilities. Infor HR Knowledgebase 10.2 supports enhanced knowledge base portal analytics and reports. Infor HR Case Management 5.2 helps HR service representatives manage and track employee inquiries, offers users configuration of agent, manager, and administrator role-based dashboards and ad hoc email communications from agent case.

To read more, visit the following link:http://www.marketwatch.com/story/infor-enhances-key-human-capital-management-applications-2014-05-05

In an article by Nancy Duta (a health consultant with Sibson Consulting) and Christopher Calvert (a senior vice president and the Health Practice leader for Sibson Consulting), we get some insights about what employers must know in order to make informed decisions to chose a health insurance plan for his employee. Employers primarily collaborated with insurance carriers to provide health benefits to their employees. In order to make informed decisions, employers need to fully understand what exchanges are and how they operate.

To read more, visit the following link: http://www.sibson.com/publications/perspectives/Volume_21_Issue_1/private-health-insurance-exchange.html

Lean - a set of tool that improves efficiency and the most important - improves profitability. 

Nowadays, hospitals are also using lean tools. Hospitals and other healthcare institutions are required to spend considerable time with patients which keeps other patients in line waiting. To clear problems of all of them, is a stressful job for doctors who attend them. One way to solve this is to add more staff to your organization. But, this has a flip side also. It will add cost to you. So, you have to think in a different way. You have to think in such a way, so that you clear all your stresses without incurring any extra cost.

This is where the Lean comes handy. By streamlining your process, it will add efficiency to your healthcare institution. Some of the immediate outcomes include reduction of lab turnaround time, reduction of emergency department turnaround time, etc. Apart from this, with effective management, doctors, nurses and other staffs attending patients can ease their stress and also they do not keep other patients waiting. You do not have to add extra workforce. Your healthcare institution’s efficiency will improve and cost will reduce.

Located at Sioux Falls, United States, Avera Medical Group applied lean practices to improve efficiency. Read at http://www.argusleader.com/story/news/business-journal/2014/05/07/health-systems-learn-lean/8781179/  to know how the clinic did it.

What many social and marketing professionals fail to acknowledge is the reality of what can be called the coherent customer. As lines in between marketing and IT merge, the consumer has a huge head start in their daily lives. While device adaptation is a fairly blunt tool to gauge new coherent customer, studying consumer trends increasingly points to not only cohesive elements but to stratification as well. Marketing needs to play a bigger role in harnessing all that data and determining how to use it to drive customers through the purchasing life cycle.

To know more read the article by Phil Butler, editor-in-chief of Everything PR, follow http://socialmediatoday.com/philbutler/2368211/new-marketing-paradigm-coherent-customer-satisfaction

Digital technology has evolved largely over the last decade. It can change the future of a organization. For digitalizing businesses, companies should follow some necessary steps. To know more on the digitalization process of business, go through the article by Dion Hinchcliffe, an expert in IT and business strategy.

http://www.zdnet.com/businesses-have-digitized-but-not-transformed-7000027190/

The IT enterprise field is slowly going to a saturation point. But, this sector is still facing competition. To know more on the growth areas in IT sector, go through the article by Dion Hinchcliffe, an expert in IT and business strategy.

http://www.zdnet.com/the-enterprise-products-with-disruptive-potential-for-2014-7000027859/

Human element plays an important role in the application of big data. Though data science is based upon business analytics, it is different from business analytics. Data science collects data and other information from different systems and then asks many different questions. To know more about whether it is necessary to include data scientist when a company is deploying big data solutions or not, go through the article by Daniel Kusnetzky, software engineer and product manager in Kusnetzky group.

http://www.zdnet.com/the-human-element-is-critical-in-applying-big-data-7000028983/

Big data is one of the important buzzwords in technology world. Nowadays, in addition to traditional enterprise data, companies are collecting data from different sources. Though big data is being used in high pace, companies working with big data are only concerned about the best product. To know more impact of big data, go through the article by Natalie Gagliordi, ZDNet staff writer.

http://www.zdnet.com/the-impact-of-big-data-on-enterprise-apps-7000028994/

Though Red Hat, Ubuntu and Linux are rivals, yet all of them agree in one point - Docker, a container technology. Docker is potential as well as disruptive in different aspects. Now the question is- can containers with Docker be the next great revolution in virtualization and the cloud? To know the answer of this question, go through the article written by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writer of technology.

http://www.zdnet.com/red-hat-ubuntu-and-docker-container-virtualization-goes-mainstream-7000028610/

Enterprise portals provide semi-personalized access to important applications from a single screen. Liferay ( a Los Angeles-based company), provides portal technology to organizations, is observing a shift in its business as social, mobile, analytics and cloud is becoming the new foundation of enterprise computing. Building an open source community around its portal platform will deliver more long-term dividends than short-term profits. To know more on this topic, go through the article by Joe McKendrik, author, consultant and speaker specializing in trends and developments.

http://www.zdnet.com/what-happens-when-a-software-vendor-decides-not-to-follow-the-silicon-valley-path-7000028210/

OpenSSL is a software library which is used in everyday for proper functioning of internet. It is not only used for SSL by websites, but also for all sort of software with cryptographic need use it. OpenSSL is dependent more on API more than its OpenSSL library. Including both of this in the system may cause a risk for the major developers like Red Hat. For more information, go through the article written by Larry Seltzer, an expert in technology.

http://www.zdnet.com/is-openssl-secure-in-its-dominance-7000028644/

According to OpenStack user survey, Ubuntu Linux is the most popular OpenStack operating system. According to Mark Shuttleworth (founder of Canonical, Ubuntu's parent company), 55 percent of OpenStack operating systems are on Ubuntu. To know more about synchronization of Ubuntu and OpenStack, go through the article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, writer about technology.

http://www.zdnet.com/openstacks-top-operating-system-ubuntu-linux-7000027360/

It is true that cloud computing is rapidly changing the nature of businesses. Now, it is spanning across various industries. Even, the legal industry has adopted the cloud technology in recent years.

Though, it is a fact that cloud has brought in numerous benefits, but security and privacy are main concerns. Particularly, these are very much important in legal issues as they deal with clients which are privileged information. But does that mean that lawyers will stop adopting cloud technology? Definitely not. They have to use the technology in such a way so that they can realize maximum benefits of using it.

At a panel discussion titled “Privacy and Your Practice: Data Sovereignty for Lawyers,” held at CUNY Law School, experts discussed how lawyers can cope with the technology maintaining privacy and security simultaneously. To know the discussions, read them at http://venturebeat.com/2014/05/06/practicing-law-in-the-age-of-cloud-computing/ .

OpenStack, an extremely popular open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud program, has released its latest version: Icehouse. Approximately 350 new features and 2,902 bug fixes were added this time. The main focus was on testing, maturity, and stability. In addition, third-party continuous integration (CI) has resulted in 53 external systems testing OpenStack compatibility across broad sets of hardware and software configurations. Read more at:

http://www.zdnet.com/icehouse-new-openstack-cloud-arrives-7000028560/

Mobile phones have done a paradigm shift in marketing products and services. It has created an entirely new marketing channel which cannot be ignored. You, as a business owner, marketing manager or alike, have definitely noticed it.

Fixing budget for marketing your products or services is really a daunting job. With mobile marketing, this job has become more difficult. The growth of mobile usage will not make a halt and as technology will continue to make an upward slope, sophisticated consumers will purchase more through mobile interfaces. So, when mobile is the future, the key to a successful marketing campaign lies here and you must unlock it to make use of its full potential. For this, you will have to rethink over the budget you have allocated for your marketing campaign and you have to lay much importance to the mobile space and justify why you are doing so.

Having said that, are you confused about setting your budget? Here are some statistics on mobile marketing from which you can take cues: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2014/05/04/10-mobile-marketing-statistics-help-justify-budget/ .

If you are a startup and you are worried about your success, then wait. Big Data is here for you to predict your success in business.

To be successful in business, a lot depends on your employees. You need to have the best talents and also ensure that your employee turnover is low. In an era, where you have technology in your hands, and you are surrounded with social networks, looking for right persons for your company and ensuring their satisfaction are not difficult tasks. Also, the good thing is, it is not always that you have to pay for expensive tests and assessments to analyze your employees’ data all the time.

Read more at: http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2014/05/02/use-big-data-predict-success-startup/  to know how big data can help you in getting the right employees, reduce employee turnover, thereby predicting success of your startup.

In an article by Mary Shinn (a news reporter for The Cortez Journal), we get some insights about why some small business organizations across the state chose to sign up for health insurance through health exchanges.

To read more, visit the following link:http://durangoherald.com/article/20140422/NEWS04/140429885/Limited-participation-seen-in-health-exchange-