In 2019, digital B2B sales from all electronic channels—ecommerce sites, log-in portals, marketplaces, e-procurement systems, electronic data interchange, and other online buyer/seller networks—grew 10.9% to $9.00 trillion from $8.10 trillion, according to data and analysis in the 2020 B2B Ecommerce Market Report, a newly published research report from Digital Commerce 360. As COVID-19 has caused…
A typical IT technology purchase process for many companies begins by building a spreadsheet with a list of required features. The list consists of your understanding of both the features your current solution offers, along with the additional items you wish your current solution offered. It might also involve some level of begging the CFO…
Many companies experience disruption in 2020 that is very different from the normal disruption see in IT. The disruption meant sending everyone home to work for a year. Covid-19 did more to shake up the technology landscape than just remote work. The pandemic also drove many companies to reshape how they look at running their…
An SD-WAN uses a centralized control function to securely and intelligently direct traffic across your wide area branch office network (WAN). This increases application performance and delivers a high quality user experience, resulting in increased business productivity, agility and reduced costs for IT. But what does that mean exactly? What can it actually do for…
Connecting business networks securely to mission critical applications and company data can be a difficult challenge. Today’s networks continue to expand, further fragmenting the traditional edges at the data center, WAN, and LAN with things like off-network devices, distributed compute, multi-cloud, converged OT networks, LTE and 5G, the internet, and most recently, the home edge…
Remote working has caused employees to rethink and better accommodate their priorities in life and employers to rethink operations regarding how they can best work with professionals and create teams. More than two-thirds of professionals were working remotely during the peak of the pandemic, according to a new report by work marketplace Upwork, and over…
Software‐Defined WAN, or SD‐WAN for short, is at the leading edge of software‐based networking deployments. SD WAN simplifies branch networking by automating deployment and improving performance. SD WAN can be provisioned over private connectivity(MPLS), Internet connectivity and LTE links for today’s increasingly distributed networks. SD WAN offers enterprise-grade connection to cloud and enterprise applications, software…
Cybersecurity Awareness Month is recognized as an opportunity to double-down on security awareness efforts. This year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month is different from previous ones. Many people are still working from home and spending more time online. This situation makes it especially challenging for people to protect their personal information and devices, let alone all the…
VoIP Service allows you to drop your old telephone service, reduce dial tone costs and offer plans that allow you to only pay for what you use. Of all the employees, office managers and business owners of various small business can be the most critical when it comes to technology solutions. Whether onboarding new employees,…
We’ve all experienced the challenges that come with traditional conferencing equipment and unreliable systems. This past year many companies scrambled to get anything they could in place to set up remote employees and now you have the task of building something more permanent, with advanced features and simple management. Your business needs the right video…