Technology drives everything in today’s Fulfillment Operations. The rise of eCommerce and the “Amazon effect” have dramatically shifted customer habits and expectations. Customer demand for faster delivery places warehouses and fulfillment centers under immense pressure to improve accuracy and speed in order to satisfy their clients’ requirements.

Quick Tip:  A password management solution simplifies compliance for HIPAA, SOX and more.

In our final blog in this series on how passwords help you protect your most important business data, we look at how rock-solid password management can also protect you from legal trouble and compliance.

Of all the senses in the human body, it can be argued that our sense of smell often evokes the strongest response in our minds.  The wrong smell can keep us from entering a room or trying a new food, but the right scent can be aesthetically pleasing and can trigger memories, evoking an emotional response to our environment in a way that no other sense can replicate.

Quick Tip:  Centralized password management simplifies access control

This blog gets at a really important topic for businesses, especially smaller businesses that don’t have a lot of extra resources for dealing with IT admin. Using a centralized access control system to make sure your systems aren’t accessible by people who have left your company is really important to overall security.

There is a fun feature in Outlook that allows you to set up Electronic Business Cards for your contacts.  This is useful because it enables you to see a picture of your contact—putting a face to the name.
Adding a picture to your Microsoft Outlook contacts is easy

Go to the Outlook navigation bar and click the “People” icon
(the icon looks like two people standing near each other).
Under “Current View” click on the “Business Card” view.

“I want it so bad I can taste it!”  Have you ever felt that way or said that?  Most likely, the answer is “yes.”  Many people feel that way about new technology.  The excitement of a new technology rollout causes many to stand in line for hours, even days, to be the first to purchase the latest iPhone or other new gadget.

Building a successful relationship with your MSP (Managed Service Provider) creates value for your business.Today’s businesses rely on a solid foundation of technology to bring innovative capabilities, speed and flexibility to their customers. Like any other relationship, the partnership between your organization and your MSP is based on trust.

Most people think of the keyboard and mouse as the only means to enter information into a computer, but the list of input devices is surprisingly long.  Inputs include voice, touch, optical, and even environmental (e.g., heat) and spatial technology.  Are you taking advantage of all these potential methods to interface with your computer technology?
Technology Interfaces Via the Senses
Let’s take a closer look at a few.