Friday, May 17, 2013

Friday Roundup: Taking Your Enterprise Mobile: An Executive Checklist

Cloud Hosting Providers: Make the Right Choice

Taking Your Enterprise Mobile: An Executive Checklist

Testing The Requirements: Detect Problems Early On

Live Online Seminar: How to Take Advantage of FileMaker

Welcome to this week's Friday newsletter. In this issue you'll find out how to take your business mobile and also learn how to start testing requirements. This week Europe cut its interest rates to a record low of 0.5% and pundits suggest the Eurozone is on the brink of collapse. The scramble is on to find new markets and the African continent has long been on investors' radars.

Read this blog for an interview with Rashed Ahmed about the spirit of opportunity & incredible potential in Africa.

How to Choose the Right Cloud Hosting Provider

Cloud services can offer enormous economic benefits. However, concerns about security, compliance and data privacy can impact its uptake. This white paper can help your company make pragmatic decisions when selecting a provider. It details specific areas of security risk associated with enterprise cloud computing and evaluates the providers capable of addressing them. Get it now and find out how to choose a cloud hosting provider with confidence.

How to Take Your Enterprise Mobile

Becoming a mobile enterprise means new opportunities for your organization. Employees are happier and more productive when they have mobile access to their email, apps and data on tablets and smartphones. Companies running their businesses on mobile workstyle solutions gain competitive advantages and drive top-line growth. Yet letting employees choose their own devices and then access corporate resources, apps, and data is a risky proposition. Find out the three primary factors that contribute to enterprises' security concerns.

Learn How to Start Testing Requirements

It's hard to visualize how a system will function just by reading the requirements specification. Tests that are based on requirements help make the expected system behaviors more tangible to the project participants. And the simple act of designing tests will reveal many problems with the requirements long before you don't execute the tests on an operational system. Find out how to detect problems early to save expenses.

iPad in Business: Create Custom Solutions

Join Apple Business Experts for a free Online Seminar and Q&A - "iPad in Business: App Focus - Filemaker" (May 30th). In this seminar, you see how to take advantage of 16 business-ready starter solutions to better manage contacts, projects, digital content, equipment and more. Register now to get a chance to have your questions answered by the Filemaker team.