Mark Burdon

Got money? Need to transfer it to a loved one, friend, or supplier in another country? Wouldn’t it be great to eliminate the stress of turbulent foreign currency exchange rates, and be able to lock in at a given rate for multiple transfers, for as long as twelve months?

There are lots of reasons people send money across borders and around the world. We’ll list several of them here.

Ever feel like there aren't enough hours in the day? Here’s a scenario which will undoubtedly resonate with you if you are like several of our clients. You’re a senior app developer for a provider of data management solutions for the insurance industry.
There are two weeks left before you head off for vacation. Your team is working on UI and code fixes which arose out of UAT on your company’s latest major upgrade cycle.

Newly-minted entrepreneurs just starting a small business and accomplished business owners who have built successful companies experience many common challenges. Case in point – though traditional banks offer a broad spectrum of business services, they aren’t always as accessible or affordable as entrepreneurs need them to be.

As an entrepreneur, you wear many hats: CEO. Vice President of Sales. Marketing Director. Caterer. Custodian. There often isn’t enough time in the day to complete everything that needs to get done.

For the roles and responsibilities that go along with each hat, you need to allocate time, for which there are always opportunity costs. Entrepreneurs must be as productive as possible using the tools and resources they can source online, buy from local retailers or barter for with fellow small business owners.

Cyber attacks usually make headlines when they impact large businesses or government, just because of the sheer scale of such breaches. Rarely do you hear about the small business that went under because opportunistic hackers breached their data, but it does happen; and too often, these businesses do not have the technical or financial resources to fight back.

It doesn’t have to be app launch day for Internet latency to affect your business negatively. On a standard day, poor bandwidth throughput disrupts your whole team’s performance, ultimately impacting the bottom line. Productivity for employees working in graphic design, application development, sales and project management, in particular, can come to a standstill. An article about fast, reliable internet access for startups and small businesses.

In this era of fierce competition among cloud and Software as a Service (SaaS) providers, and digital consulting firms, the decision to pursue public or private sector RFPs is one which you shouldn’t take lightly.

Key Points:
– AI is not only helping enterprises empower customers, it’s making the omni-channel experience, personalization and self-service competitive imperatives
– Only about 7 percent of Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) surveyed found their digital transformation initiatives were exceeding their expectations
– AI can help companies to get better insights from a multitude of applications, and enable their employees to better serve customers, and understand their buying behaviors
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I created an ebook to promote how Firmex' Virtual Deal Rooms can help pharmaceutical companies to store and share unstructured files and data about clinical trials.

Oracle was looking for a thought leadership ebook to inspire sales managers to build high performance sales teams. Topics included how gamification, coaching, territory assignment and other tactics

A whitepaper on how customer experiences are improved as companies move their business processes to digital channels like the cloud, VoIP the internet, their intranet and Software as a Service.

A research report on the adoption and use of social media by Fortune 500 CEOs. An annual report sponsored by Domo, published by CEO.com

The financial services industry is highly regulated, and businesses within this sector need to meet strict compliance requirements—managing unstructured content like contracts, bank statements, insurance policy documents, and investment certificates.

The gaming industry can be a dog-eat-dog world.

With a market estimated at $23.5 billion in the U.S. alone, video-game studios are perpetually locked in a cutthroat battle to produce the next big thing — the best graphics, the best storytelling, the best soundtracks.

Let’s say your business has reached a growth phase, or requires a skillset or extra set of hands, feet and brains beyond that of the founding partners. Let’s also say you’ve got limited finances at the moment to bring on that extra help. What should you do?

You could hire a fulltime employee, and cross your fingers the demand for your products or services continues to grow to a stage where you can sustain their salary and related expenses. Or, you could hire a freelancer or contractor, and ho...