WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

At the top of most organizations' priority lists right now is how to keep their workers productive and engaged. Except for in-person businesses and essential workers, the workforce has largely been physically disbanded until the pandemic comes to an end, one way or another. In unprecedented fashion, technology has suddenly become one of the single…

If this all seems like it’s cobbled together, that’s because it is. I’m currently going through the process of setting this stack up for my local deli and I can attest to how frustratingly high-touch and difficult it is. But if the dine-in experience means filling four tops with mannequins and separating diners with plexi glass and shower curtains, restaurants better start preparing for a world where takeout is the new dine in no matter how steep the learning curve.

Digital marketing leaders use multichannel marketing hubs to orchestrate contextually relevant experiences across complex journeys. Vendors emphasize unified customer profiles supported by predictive insights to drive personalized interactions. Use this research to evaluate suitable MMH solutions.

Planbox receives the highest score in strategy AND current offerings in the latest Forrester Wave report on innovation management platforms.

• New designs based on ease of use for simplification of host controls, quick joining to meetings, and integration to conference room systems.
• Blended asynchronous (messaging, content, scheduling, tasks, recordings) and synchronous (voice, audio, screen sharing) collaboration in persistent rooms or workspaces.
• Equal capabilities across diverse endpoint types, from group video system codecs to desktops, laptops (through browsers or clients), smartphones, tablets and so on.
• Transcription and language translation for delivering webinars, town hall meetings and quarterly business reviews.
• Artificial intelligence (AI)-influenced technologies that improve the videoconference room experience by automating the meeting join and content sharing processes.
• Optimization of delivery to enterprise networks — for example, by supporting security via VPN or broadcast via CDN.
• Visibility into the enterprise video estate, with integrated management and reporting software providing information on meeting solution performance and usage.
• Integration with related collaboration investments, including UCC and cloud office.
• Pricing models that span a range from low-end freemium to high-end premium services.

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7 steps, from communication tools and performance reviews to team morale and helping new hires.

Google Cloud was named a Leader and received the highest score across all 10 Forrester New Wave™: Computer Vision Platforms, Q4 2019 evaluation criteria.

From assisting in chronic disease management to gamifying aesthetic medicine, we look at Tencent-owned super app WeChat as a vital part of healthcare in China.

Discover popular no code apps that can help you build and automate your next startup — without writing a single line of code.

The tools you choose to support remote work have a significant impact on the levels of trust, productivity, and effective communication on a team, often in subtle and surprising ways. The number of software tools and services can be overwhelming—especially for the growing number of companies suddenly switching to a remote model.

eBook featuring the tools we think are essential for remote work, tips for using them with your team, and Zaps you can use right away.

Your website is your online store-front open 24/7. Learn how to come up with a winning website that attracts visitors and turns them into customers.

En réponse à la crise reliée au COVID-19, TechnoMontréal vous dévoile des entreprises, organisations et individus oeuvrant dans la sphère de l’innovation technologique à l’échelle du Québec et dont les solutions répondent de façon agile, rapide et immédiate aux défis auxquels notre société et notre économie font face actuellement. Cet effort collectif vise à mettre de l’avant un catalogue d’innovations technologiques gratuitement et disponible à tous !

By 2024, remote work and changing workforce demographics will impact enterprise meetings so that only 25% will take place in person, down from 60% today.

This webinar shares lessons learned and best practices for working remote to make this transition as easy and productive as possible.

The possibilities that technology affords us today mean that digital events, whether video on demand or live stream, are a readily available option. If you’ve decided that hosting a virtual event is the way to go, below is a downloadable guide you can use for making videos and hosting events on YouTube, complete with links to many more resources and video tutorials.

While no one knows how long the COVID-19 crisis will last, it seems inevitable that many of us will be working remotely for at least weeks if not several months. Productivity may take a hit, but it doesn’t have to hurt. An agile approach can keep remote teams functioning effectively and make them more resilient for the future.

This eBook will bring you up to speed on all things “programmatic,” including: the key actors and various ad formats that continue to unfold; different types of technological platforms and associated privacy considerations; and, measurement and pricing strategies that can help you to get ahead of your competition.

A comprehensive Guide to building, managing, and adapting to working with distributed teams.

SOC 2 compliance is an increasingly common framework and applies to many businesses today. Specifically, SOC 2 applies to any service provider that stores customer data in the cloud. It is quite relevant to SaaS businesses, but also to many others who store their customers’ data in this way. SaaS vendors in particular need to be SOC 2 compliant in many instances, especially when they sell to the enterprise. Enterprises are often beholden to a wide variety of security and compliance controls, and being demonstrably SOC 2 compliant as a vendor gives those enterprise customers the peace of mind they need to do business with you.

After considering more than 40 apps, we found the 10 best time trackers for freelancers and small businesses—they'll also work for personal time tracking.

1. Toggl for a free option
2. Harvest for tracking hours and expenses in teams
3. Everhour for viewing and managing team availability
4. FreshBooks for time tracking in your business software
5. Timely for using a calendar view
6. HourStack for visualizing time differently
7. Timing for automatic time-tracking on macOS
8. RescueTime for setting-and-forgetting
9. Timeneye for time tracking with light project management
10. TMetric for tracking time with lightweight invoicing

Expert data scientists and other professionals working in data science roles require capabilities to source data, build models and operationalize machine learning insights. Significant vendor growth, product development and myriad competing visions reflect a healthy market that is maturing rapidly.

Jumbo, an app for iOS and Android, launched in 2019 with the promise that it would cut through some of that confusion. The offer was simple: download the app, check a few boxes and it would automatically lock down your privacy settings on platforms including Facebook, Google, Twitter and Amazon. Rather than having to hunt down every individual preferences screen and decipher which settings were innocuous and which were merely deliberately phrased to sound innocuous, the app would do it for you.