Knowing what to do faster than the next guy is one of the things that gives best performing companies an important competitive edge. That’s the take-away from a benchmarking survey by SAP on business intelligence and analytics.

According to the data provided by more than 400 businesses, firms that are truly embracing the value of advanced business intelligence and analytics are out-performing their competitors significantly. What makes the difference?

Business agility is the ability for a business to be able to rapidly make informed decisions in order to react quickly and cost effectively to changes in their environment. In previous decades, business agility was a “nice to have” function, but today’s real-time environment requires that even the largest enterprises operate nimbly.
Modern enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions allow for businesses to increase their agility by, “providing the ability to close gaps at all levels of business,” and ultimately getting the right information into the right person’s hand at exactly the right time. Modern enterprises can suffer from this greatly.

The consumer electronics market is inundated with countless mobile devices with flashy interfaces, sleek profiles, and names that are more ridiculous than most car makes. Understandably, it's hard to keep up and when picking out a smartphone for yourself or your business, the demos at the store don't give you much of an insight.  Here's an extensive cheat sheet on what to look for when making a new smartphone purchase.

No matter what your mobile management policy – whether you prohibit, permit, or encourage employees to use their own mobile devices at work – the phenomenon of 'outside devices' is here to stay and growing rapidly.

Ever since the Internet became a household commodity, many viruses and malware have donned a social mask; causing harm to computers and data but doing so by deceiving the user. One form of this is ransomware, a type of malware that locks users out of their computer until they pay a toll.

Technology - enabled trends are making this a challenge and exciting time to shop for distributor ERP (enterprise resource planning) software.

Knowing what to do faster than the next guy is one of the things that gives best performing companies an important competitive edge.

There comes a time when you are looking at a new laptop and you are asked the question: Do you want a Solid State Drive, or a traditional Hard Disk Drive? Well here is a quick run-down of both technologies in the hopes of shedding some light on the issue. By the time you are done reading this article, you will be better able to answer that question.

Microsoft Office and Windows 7 provide many keyboard shortcuts that can improve your ability to multitask and get things accomplished quickly. Most of these shortcuts will work in previous versions, like Windows XP, Vista and the Microsoft Server Operating Systems as well. Give them a try, and the next time your tech comes by, be sure to show off your new skills.

SAP Business One OnDemand is the new cloud-based platform providing all of the demonstrated capabilities you've come to know from SAP Business One.