How to Support Mobile App Development in Your Organization

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	How to Support Mobile App Development in Your Organization As consumers eschew desktops and laptops for smartphones and tablets, organizations are increasingly tasked with developing apps for those mobile devices. These apps can be harder to manage than their Web-based brethren, but agile development methods can help ease the pain. Read More WHITE PAPER: Crittercism New Problems Require Innovative Solutions Crittercism surveyed over 250 technology professionals responsible for mobile apps from North American companies, across multiple industries, to understand their sentiments on Mobile Application Performance Management (APM) solutions. Read more! In this Issue How to Tell Whether an IT Vendor Sells 'Solutions' or Just Products How IT Pros Can Use Pinterest for Career Growth How IT Can Scare Off BYOD Monsters in the Closet 10 Back-to-School Laptop Buying Tips 5 Things PRISM Teaches CIOs About Doing Business in Today's World Why CRM Implementation Needs Training Wheels, Not Racing Gear Healthcare Industry Sees Big Data As More Than a Bandage WHITE PAPER: Navisite 7 Manageable Steps to a Cloud Security Plan These seven sequential steps enable organizations to structure security and compliance programs that take advantage of the financial benefits of managed cloud applications and services while meeting security and compliance goals. Learn More. How to Tell Whether an IT Vendor Sells 'Solutions' or Just Products There's a subtle but important difference between IT products and IT solutions. Both have their rightful place, but buying a product when you need a solution--and vice versa--can be costly. Unfortunately, product-pushers aren't always easy to spot. Read More How IT Pros Can Use Pinterest for Career Growth Pinterest has evolved to become more than a spot for food and fashion. It's a now popular place for businesses. Pinterest's head of infrastructure shares 11 tips on how technology professionals can get the most out of the online bulletin (or "pin") board. Read More How IT Can Scare Off BYOD Monsters in the Closet When it comes to security risks, BYOD is the gift that keeps on giving. But what about the devices that your employees used to use, gave up on and, months later, finally dug out of the closet to sell? That's another issue to wrestle with. Here are seven ways to beat the monsters. Read More WHITE PAPER: Citrix Empowering Information Security with Desktop Virtualization IT faces an uphill battle to manage and protect enterprise applications. To control risk across the diverse computing landscape, organizations must centralize control of enterprise Windows applications, ensuring that only authorized users have access. This paper describes how desktop virtualization offers IT a powerful solution. View Now 10 Back-to-School Laptop Buying Tips Today's students need a good dose of technology to do their best work. But the market for consumer tech is both crowded and confusing. Before you invest in a laptop--and, yes, you should get your student a laptop--here are 10 important considerations. Read More 5 Things PRISM Teaches CIOs About Doing Business in Today's World Revelations that the United States government is monitoring Internet data from tech giants such as Facebook, Google and Microsoft should make your company reconsider where and how it stores data--all while realizing that, at the end of the day, surveillance practices (usually) stay a secret for a reason. Read More Why CRM Implementation Needs Training Wheels, Not Racing Gear If it's true that the best CRM systems are built, not bought, then which features should you be building? And how should you build them? As with riding a bike, implementing a CRM system gets much harder once you take off the training wheels--or, in this case, the out-of-the-box features. Read More Healthcare Industry Sees Big Data As More Than a Bandage The promise of big data in healthcare--increased efficiencies, better outcomes, more personalized care--is undeniable. How the industry reaches the promise land will happen in many stages, but hospitals and insurers aren't wasting any time getting started. Read More
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