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In our latest Point of View, "The Dirtiest Word In Business," Airfoil has assembled a collective set of best practices to help technology marketers meet the communications challenges of a new digital decade.

As consumers are constantly bombarded with messages that their online security is threatened, they can be hesitant to trust any kind of online transaction. If online transactions are your goal, the solution is to add trust signals to your Web site, such as those outlined in this white paper.

Managing your network is serious business. It is absolutely essential that it is up and running since your critical business services depend on it — and so does your revenue stream. At the same time, your network continues to grow in size and complexity, with the addition of more devices and new technologies, in response to business growth and demands.

How to manage risk in outsourced applications.

"Information" is not always the first word that comes to mind when executives think about survival strategies. Yet according to the acclaimed business strategist Don Tapscott, having a strategy for managing your company's information is absolutely essential, not only for weathering the current economic crisis, but for positioning for future success.

Absolute Brilliance Inc. is a manufacturer and wholesaler of loose diamonds and jewelry based in New York. The 20 person company fulfills requests for special order jewelry pieces for more than 44,000 retailers across North America. Absolute Brilliance wanted to find a way to boost the productivity of their mobile marketing representatives and head office staff in order to make more time available for customer service activities. With their Microsoft Exchange server in place, Absolute Brilliance installed BlackBerry Professional Software and realized immediate productivity improvements among head office staff and within their mobile marketing team.

Proper research is time consuming but absolutely vital to your business. Download this free ERP comparison guide and the work is already done!

Return customers can account for up to 80% percent of sales. Use CRM to keep them coming back. Download your free research now.

The social media landscape is littered with band wagon jumpers, self appointed "experts," bold but baseless predictions and, don't forget the endless discussions that say absolutely nothing. Don't you think it's about time to End the Hype.

Customer serivce is the backbone of every successful sale. Personalizing the customer experience is critical to retaining clients, and in today's competitive marketplace it's absolutely vital to keep customers coming back. In this comprehensive Buyers Guide, Focus analysts have compiled a complete overview of what CRM can offer your company.

Often times hiring a professional to manage your PPC accounts actually saves you money. Check out our free whitepaper to find out why!

Download this free IBM white paper to learn best practices for outsourcing application development.

Whether your business is medium-sized or a conglomerate: Now more than ever, projects are a part of our everyday work, characterized by changing tasks, flexible working groups and the participation of external specialists. Project managers increasingly face the challenge of having to motivate and direct geographically distributed teams.

Keeping data secure in a mobile environment is not just a daunting challenge, but a critical requirement. Loss and theft of computers leaves sensitive data vulnerable, creating serious financial and legal risks.

In this whitepaper, the Ponemon Institute shares its findings on the use of encryption on laptops by corporate employees. It shows that many employees may not be taking the most basic precautions to secure their company laptop.

In this webinar, Jack Heine, Research VP, Gartner, and David Holyoak, CIO of accounting firm Grant Thornton, discuss how to facilitate mobility while minimizing the risk of data exposure using web-based management and anti-theft capabilities.

In the broadening data center cost-saving and energy efficiency discussion, data center physical infrastructure preventive maintenance (PM) is sometimes neglected as an important tool for controlling TCO and downtime. PM is performed specifically to prevent faults from occurring. IT and facilities managers can improve systems uptime through a better understanding of PM best practices.

More and more enterprises are being affected by poor economic conditions, and budgets are starting to get slashed. If the CFO walks into your office and asks you to cut IT spending, look to these eight tactics to slash network costs.

Does your PC lifecycle management (PCLM) reflect the issues associated with mobile users? Many organizations face expensive inefficiencies by not managing mobile assets effectively. These inefficiencies include dispersed and manual data collection, and inventory tools that are dependent on a connection to the company network.

Deploying patches in a timely fashion soon after they become available helps secure the OS and prevent the majority of data breaches. However, many computer systems are often not patched for months or not at all.

This whitepaper explains how organizations can reduce their energy bills by remotely regulating computers. Topics include typical workplace computer usage, how to calculate your potential energy savings, debunking power management myths, and how you can assign multiple power saving profiles to clients.

A majority of environments today are cross-platform, combining both PCs and Macs. The result has become a common IT challenge: How can you maintain Macs in a network environment with a PC-centric infrastructure and with Windows-based network services?

This whitepaper explains step-by-step how you can deploy a complete Snow Leopard disk image to a Mac OS X computer, even while it is being used. No immediate boot from a server, FireWire drive, or boot DVD is necessary, and no pre-configuration of the target computer is required.

Absolute Software has announced it has completed its acquisition of the LANrev systems management platform. Absolute plans to integrate LANrev's popular Mac and PC lifecycle configuration management technology with its flagship security and asset management suite, Computrace.

Efficient fleet maintenance is absolutely necessary given today's high equipment costs and climbing operating expenses. Whether you are involved in LTL, cartage, courier, direct store delivery (DSD) or field service operations, an integrated and cost effective fleet maintenance program is a prerequisite to increased profitability.