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No more spreadsheets: key considerations for SMBs adopting an end-to-end business management solution

For many small and medium-sized businesses, tracking financial and operational data is often done through a combination of complicated spreadsheets and basic accounting software. But as digital transformation gathers pace, and cheaper and easy to deploy cloud solutions hit the market, having a dedicated end-to-end solution for business management not only becomes more feasible, but a necessity to stay competitive. Chris Nichols, Microsoft Dynamics Consultant at Columbus UK, explains the...

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Global businesses struggling with soaring application security demands

Businesses across the world still struggle to understand, optimise, and protect their rapidly expanding application environments, according to new research from F5 Labs.

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Traxens trials Internet-of–Things (IoT) network in port environment

Pilot project from big data and fleet management specialist aimed at providing better overview of traffic at port for improved operational efficiency.

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New partnership set to accelerate UK data science and artificial intelligence

The Alan Turing Institute and the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Hartree Centre to forge links between data science and artificial intelligence research and high-performance computing.

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Arrow Electronics strengthens EMEA IoT portfolio with CymbIoT

Global technology provider Arrow Electronics has added CymbIoT to its “sensor-to-sunset” IoT offering. CymbIoT focusses on integrating and managing large-scale IoT and video management networks and deployments.

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How Suplari Leverages Machine Learning to Create a Smarter Procurement Process

Based in Seattle, Suplari aims to help enterprises better manage their procurement process by leveraging machine learning to drive cost savings. The startup does this by pulling together a company's spend data from across all its various systems, then running the data through Suplari to surface irregularities and inefficiencies. Per Nikesh Parekh, CEO of the Suplari, the benefits can be wide-ranging, including smarter spending, a reduction in risk, or the ability to drive better compliance.

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Docker on IoT devices

Docker is an open platform for developers and system administrators to build, ship and run distributed applications. With Docker, IT organizations shrink application delivery from months to minutes, frictionlessly move workloads between data centers and the cloud and can achieve up to 20X greater efficiency in their use of computing resources. Inspired by an active community and by transparent, open source innovation, Docker containers have been downloaded more than 700 million times and Docker is used by millions of developers across thousands of the world?s most innovative organizations, including eBay, Baidu, the BBC, Goldman Sachs, Groupon, ING, Yelp, and Spotify. Docker?s rapid adoption has catalyzed an active ecosystem, resulting in more than 180,000 ?Dockerized? applications, over 40 Docker-related startups and integration partnerships with AWS, Cloud Foundry, Google, IBM, Microsoft, OpenStack, Rackspace, Red Hat and VMware.

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