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‘Creating Charts to Present Your Data’ Book Chapter Microsoft Excel charts can either be pretty boring or an enormous boost to your company’s reports, depending on the knowledge users have of the spreadsheet software’s charting features. This book chapter offers a visual guide to both basic and advance chart capabilities in Excel 2010. Microsoft Excel has […]

Visio 2010 Quick Reference Guide Visio makes designing and sharing a flowchart of any business process or technical architecture much easier. This quick reference guide will bring even the novice user up to speed on the visual drawing tool from Microsoft. Microsoft Visio has become the default application for diagramming everything from business processes to […]

Given the overall state of the economy and the rapid pace of change currently taking place across all of enterprise IT, there is no doubt that the times IT people live in have never been more scary. People wanting to bring their own device to work and job skills becoming outmoded are particularly troublesome, but […]

Safe Social Networking Guide The more you come to rely on social networks for business, the more hackers are motivated to attack your accounts and steal your private information. This guide highlights the main security threats you need to worry about as you navigate the social Web. Everybody is on a social network these days. […]

Competitive pressure, the need to improve efficiency, the quest for agility and the need for compliance are all big drivers right now for business process management (BPM). BPM can help structure an organization with process governance and protocols that alleviate redundancies and create a more streamlined and efficient environment.   But not all BPM is […]

While no official date has been announced for the launch of Microsoft's Windows 8 operating system (OS), hardware running on it is widely expected to debut before the holiday season in 2012. In the run-up to the release of Windows 8 next year, the Redmond-based software giant has already started generating buzz for Microsoft's next […]

When it comes to saving IT budget dollars, there is a tendency to start with consolidating the IT infrastructure largely because it’s the most visible and frequently expensive component of any enterprise IT environment. But a new survey of 230 enterprise IT architects conducted by Architecture and Governance Magazine and Troux Technologies, a provider of IT […]

Home Router Security Guide Organizations of all sizes continue to rely on consumer networking equipment, despite the well-documented security and management risks such hardware poses. This guide will help you safely trim a few dollars from your networking budget by using “home” routers. “Home” routers pop up everywhere, from the actual home to good-sized organizations […]

Paul Mah dabbles with a large number of software applications in the course of his work, either to review them or in a bid to find better tools for his personal use. Given the versatile nature of the iPad tablet, he’s decided to compile a short list of his favorite apps that the iPad-toting worker […]

Anti-fraud consultancy UKFraud.co.uk has published a list of 10 common early warning signs that could alert management that fraud may be occurring in their organization. The list draws upon UKFRAUD.co.uk’s substantial experience across an international client base, ranging from major financial institutions, public sector bodies and corporations to SMEs and non-profit making organizations. The list […]

Cloud Computing Basics If you are doing business these days, you are most likely using some form of cloud computing service. But do you fully understand the security and performance issues that come with relying on the cloud? This paper will walk you through the basics. Cloud computing is touted as the solution to every […]

Gartner, Inc. recently highlighted the top 10 technologies and trends that will be strategic for most organizations in 2012. They define a strategic technology as one with the potential for significant impact on the enterprise in the next three years. Factors that denote significant impact include a high potential for disruption to IT or the […]