ITBE Staff

This year presents an interesting — and relatively new — opportunity for brands to increase their direct-to-consumer relationships. Limited retail floor space and an increasing number of online-only shoppers means a brand’s website has a much greater influence on sales and brand loyalty than most people think. And the reality is that when the website […]

Even the most experienced agile IT teams have a hard time keeping up with the rising demand for new business applications. When it comes to supporting these teams, Jeff Sutherland – co-creator of the widely adopted Scrum development methodology – says “it’s all about adaptability.” The problem is simple: Yesterday’s enterprise technology is too rigid […]

MeriTalk, a public-private partnership focused on improving the outcomes of government IT, recently announced the results of its new report, “Cybersecurity Experience: Cybersecurity Pros from Mars; Users from Mercury.” The study, underwritten by Akamai Technologies, Inc., compares what cyber security professionals report about their agency’s security with what end users – federal workers – actually […]

Job Description: Information Specialist / IT Business Analyst The Information Specialist/IT Business Analyst assists in planning, coordination and documentation of design and functionality for modifications or enhancements to software products. Assists in planning, coordinates and documents design of functionality for modifications or enhancements to software products by performing the following duties: maintains functional specification documents […]

The debate over the Affordable Care Act has made one thing perfectly clear – America’s health care industry is undergoing massive changes. Specialized health care applications are playing an increasingly important role in helping health care providers reduce costs and increase the quality of patient care. For health care software developers, this spells opportunity, but […]

The job interview is arguably the most important step in your job search. Once you’ve gotten past the applicant tracking system, it’s your time to truly shine. It’s your opportunity to say, “I am the best candidate for this job and here’s why.” Unfortunately, the job interview is also a step where many candidates fall apart. When you enter […]

Tick tock. Six months. That’s equivalent to 181 days; 4344 hours; 250,640 minutes; or 15,638,400 seconds. Are you counting the days until extended Windows XP support expires on April 8, 2014? If you fall into the 18 percent of companies that Forrester Research Inc. has identified as not having yet migrated from Windows XP, read […]

BYOD is now a staple in the workplace, forcing IT managers to think past the typical problems (upgrades, training, apps management) first associated with the trend. While some still struggle to integrate smartphones and tablets into operations, smart IT managers are using the BYOD trend to create innovative new business processes, like using BYOD as […]

Many of today’s most destructive advanced persistent threats (APTs) were conceived a decade ago, so enterprises that rely on most traditional approaches to cybersecurity are unlikely to succeed against the next generation of attacks. This is one of the cautions in a new book published by global IT association ISACA in cybersecurity awareness month. Advanced […]

Gartner, Inc. has revealed its top predictions for IT organizations and IT users for 2014 and beyond. Gartner’s top predictions for 2014 combine several disruptive topics — digital industrial revolution, digital business, smart machines and the Internet of Things — that are set to have an impact well beyond just the IT function. “Gartner’s 2013 […]

Now that we’re getting into the holiday shopping season (so hard to believe!), many retailers are preparing for the challenges showrooming will present, while others are trying to ignore the potential issue. Showrooming is basically when a consumer goes into a physical store location to check out a product, looks it up online from their […]

Microsoft released eight patches this October Patch Tuesday – four critical and four important. The vulnerabilities in IE have been patched thankfully and the bulk of the October issues do not impact the current code base. Paul Henry, security and forensics analyst at Lumension, provides more on the updates. Click through for a rundown of […]