ITBE Staff

Jobvite, a leading recruitment platform for the social web, recently announced the results of its annual Social Recruiting Survey. Now in its sixth year, the Jobvite annual Social Recruiting Survey was completed in July 2013 by more than 1600 recruiting and human resources professionals. “It’s no longer a question of ‘are recruiters using social media?’” […]

TRUSTe, a leading global data privacy management (DPM) company, recently released findings from its “2013 U.S. Consumer Data Privacy Study: Mobile Edition,” conducted online by Harris Interactive on behalf of TRUSTe among more than 700 U.S. smartphone users between June 12 and June 19, 2013. The study provides a valuable barometer on current consumer perceptions […]

In today’s Big Data-driven world, knowledge is everywhere. But it’s also increasingly hard to manage, as most companies are challenged with the proliferation of data in multiple systems, communities, social, on-premise and in the cloud. In fact, Gartner has predicted that data will grow by 800 percent in five years, with 80 percent of it […]

Recent reports have found that cyber attacks against U.S. corporations are on the rise, along with an increase in international threats, especially from China, and emerging threats to small businesses. Today, it’s not a matter of if an organization will be the victim of a cyber attack, but when. If you knew you were going to be attacked, what would […]

When a record that’s stood for 15 years in tech employment statistics is broken, people take notice. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in the month of July, 3,600 jobs were created in data processing, hosting and related services. That’s the single best month of job growth in this category since June 1998. The […]

Electronic Authentication Guidelines Remote commerce and personally identifiable data (PID) management requires a level of e-authentication that often goes well beyond the simple password. This research note looks at approaches that rely on users knowing “secrets.” 1.1 MB | 3 files |  DOC, PDF Electronic authentication (E-authentication) is the process of establishing confidence in user identities […]

BYOD continues to remain top of mind in the workplace. While many in IT see BYOD as a necessary (and that’s debatable) evil that opens the network up to incalculable security risk, users see it as the next logical step for their productivity and efficiency. In some cases, users even go around IT altogether if […]

Companies that hold any amount of data on their customers must now — today — begin thinking very seriously about what will happen to their reputations and their businesses if they do not take immediate steps to reassure customers their data is safe and private. Questions about who actually owns, and therefore controls the rights […]

Unlocking Your Brilliance This excerpt provides insight from personal experience, as well as smart strategies for women to thrive in science, technology, engineering, and math. Even though Karen Purcell excelled in math and science in high school, nobody ever talked to her about a career in the STEM fields. Finally, in her senior year, when […]

Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the world on January 10th, 2007. In the five years since the initial launch, the iOS operating systems – phone and tablets – have redefined the entire world of mobile computing. In fact, Apple recently reached its 50 billionth download, while Google is behind at 48 billion. Today, mobile […]

Over the last decade, CEOs, investors, analysts and business advisors have fallen in love with the recurring revenue model. And why not? Recurring revenue models provide for: more predictable revenue streams the ability to scale costs with revenues a lower cost of sales, and higher lifetime customer value benefit to customers due to lower up-front […]

A huge shift is taking place in the complexity and composition of today’s enterprise communications. What was once fairly straightforward — fixed phone and data connections — has evolved to include large data pipes, a plethora of mobile connections, laptops, smartphones, tablets, machines, telematics, cloud services…and more. Each of these “connection points” has helped enterprises […]