Papers in Business Issues

1. Best practices for cloud security
Rather than being an inhibitor to take up of cloud computing, the use of cloud services can actually improve an organisation's security stance. Cloud delivery is suitable for a range of security services from basic ones such as malware protection...
Published By: Bloor Research

2. 4 C's of social media: Community, connection, conversation or channel
The social network landscape is packed with choices and pitfalls for the unwary, so a careful, well thought out and appropriately nuanced respoonse is required.
Published By: Quocirca

3. Rethinking MPS: The independent approach
This paper outlines the need for MPS and why organisations that are operating a heterogeneous print environment should consider an independent MPS provider to proactively manage and transform their print infrastructure.
Published By: Quocirca

4. Managing expenses in the legal sector
One of the main headaches is the allocation of expenses to the right client while maximising the amount that can fairly be claimed from each client. Another is ensuring the expenses can be reported in a granular and auditable manner to those clients.
Published By: Quocirca

5. Closing the print security gap
This report provides an overview of the inherent risks when operating an insecure print environment and discusses the current market landscape while recommending some best practices for adopting an integrated information and print security strategy.
Published By: Quocirca

6. The data sharing paradox
This Quocirca small business report looks at the degree to which small businesses are sharing data today, the ways in which they are doing so and the real and perceived risks. It goes on to look at how these risks can be mitigated.
Published By: Quocirca

7. 7 Steps to BPM success
This paper provides the reader with a 7 Step model that seeks to suggest ways in which organisations can maximise their business returns. The model sets out to blend the benefits of non-technology approaches with the more technological...
Published By: Bloor Research

8. 7 Steps to Business Architecture
Business Architecture is the glue that links the pieces together as a coherent whole. It is the approach by which you can step forward and deliver the navigation system for business, enabling your business to ask smart questions and get intelligent…
Published By: Bloor Research

9. Innovator for Business Analysts
With Innovator for Business Analysts, MID offers a modern, forwards looking tool for the business analyst role-oriented towards business stakeholders (rather than mainly targeting IT). It helps the business analysts in a business to manage...
Published By: Bloor Research

10. Email archiving best practices
Email is of vital importance as a communications and collaboration tool as it is one of the prime ways that business information is communicated and shared. This makes its storage and archiving a necessity for maintaining and improving productivity.
Published By: Bloor Research

11. Managed print services: An SMB priority
This paper discusses the printing challenges faced by SMBs and how, by using a simple and flexible MPS, a business can save time and money whilst improving employee productivity.
Published By: Quocirca

12. Architecting the security of the next-generation data centre
This document is aimed at those looking at data centre builds, upgrades or consolidation. It provides an introduction to some of the new security challenges of such environments and provides recommendations for implementing security in...
Published By: Bloor Research

13. E-invoicing: Ready for Prime Time
Despite today's digital age, of the 30 billion invoices sent and received in Europe every year, more than 90% are in paper format. This is not only labour intensive and error prone, but comes at both a financial and environmental cost.
Published By: Quocirca

14. Taking back control in today's complex threat landscape
The security threats that we face are getting ever more harmful. Attacks launched en masse are no longer the order of the day. Rather, they are targeted, use a complex range of techniques, are sophisticated in their ability to defeat reactive...
Published By: Bloor Research

15. Uses and benefits of SaaS-based Enterprise Social Networking
This survey looked at the business arguments for using an enterprise social networking (ESN) system based on software as a service (SaaS). We also investigated decision makers' views on the comparative qualities of SaaS based systems and those…
Published By: Bloor Research