IT industry experts say that the volume of data is doubling every two years. Three-fourths of that data is “unstructured,” meaning that it’s not stored in a database. Unstructured data includes word processing documents, spreadsheets, PDFs, videos and a host of other files. These files play a critical role in the business processes of most [...]
Many organizations don’t realize that their processes and technology are having a negative impact on business operations until they start to grow. For example, manual data sharing practices involving email and USB sticks may have been adequate for a while, but the inefficiency and errors that often occur become magnified with growth. Operational bottlenecks caused [...]
The development team at BUMP and FLOCK, the mobile apps for sharing photos and contacts via iPhone and Android devices has decided to join Google. After January 31, 2014, these apps will not work and according to their website, all data will be deleted. The relationship with Google was originally announced in September 2013, but [...]
