Companies which operate in highly commoditized markets, consumer packaged goods, pharma, and banking, for example, have begun to demonstrate they can really pull away from their competitors using social innovation tools. They’re the ones who understood first that crowds can help them in a way that their old-paradigm research and development functions couldn’t. Our observation is that most other industries have begun to follow their lead now that results are coming in. Not only does social innovation encourage engagement at scale it also gives the employees a sense of purpose which increases productivity. Read Interview>>

Signature and statistical-based security technologies, operating on assumptions of either a need for attack foreknowledge or using a narrow scope of analysis always will be chasing the attacker. Even so-called “malware protection systems” simply employ basic techniques to look for certain behavioral attributes in a sandbox and create IPS signatures, but they too miss many types of attacks. Security must be data-centric to be effective both today and in the next three years. All network-based security will operate from the perspective of full access to all network traffic and the ability to perform various types of real-time and specialized analysis. Read Interview>>

As companies continue to embrace cloud applications and cloud deployment strategies, the need to port their ERP systems from an on premise to an on demand environment quickly and without risk, will become increasingly important and a competitive differentiator in choosing an ERP provider. QAD is pleased to be the only company, we believe, to deliver both deployment independence and deployment portability. QAD Enterprise Applications’ scalability allows companies with as few as five users and as many as thousands to use the same applications and levels the playing field for local companies to operate the same as global organizations. Read Interview>>

Insider threats are on the rise. Insider breaches are a result of an individual – usually a current or former employee, vendor or contractor – with improper access controls. The scary truth is many government agencies and organizations haven’t invested in adequate technology to manage insider threats. As a result, they’re falling victim to unnecessary breaches. WikiLeaks is a perfect example of a breach that could have been prevented with proper access controls. Access controls are critical to fighting insider threats. Least privilege and roll-based access controls, logging and policy enforcement technology all help detect malicious insider activity before it’s too late. Read Interview>>