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Performance reviews are a fact of life in human resources. Every company does them, and nearly everyone involved dreads them. All too often it seems to the participants that it is a waste of time at best—management has to take time out of “work” to compile a year’s worth of observations and go over them with employees, while employees have to take time out of their day to go in and be confronted with everything they’ve done wrong for the past year, making excuses for whatever sub-par performance they may be ambushed with during the meeting. Sound familiar?

Nearly two-thirds of small businesses and organizations are expected to buy new IT equipment this year, replacing one in four office computers.  Vendors now offer powerful computers at discounted prices, but what will this equipment really cost you in the long run?  Whether you purchase a PC, notebook, server or other network hardware, you will likely experience sticker shock once you factor in the total cost of ownership (TCO).

In the weeks since COVID-19 cases soared and forced a lockdown across the world, many companies have had to transition to operating remotely. For many people — and companies, the transition is rather abrupt and daunting, and every useful tip helps.

Microsoft’s Power BI service can visualize a lot more than chart data; from asking questions to analyzing the services you use, here’s how to make the most of it.

Power BI is a powerful data analytics and visualization tool that allows business users to monitor data, analyze trends, and make decisions. In this post, we will focus on the front end of the Power BI application—the dashboard—where users interact with charts and graphs that communicate trends in their data. 

Meta Tags are bits of data, noticeable to the search engines. The main objective of this is to make it simpler for them to discover pages, relevant to a searchers inquiry. These are a fragment of the HTML of your web pages and are included in your code as your site is built up. Most of the CMS (Content Management Systems) will give you with the choice to include and alter your Meta Tags with no improvement work.

So, you settled for outsourcing your software development. A big decision is made. Where to start? What to do first?

There’s so much been written, so many best practices established, numerous consultancies are always ready to advise on the optimum ways for your best value. This part, though the most profound, can be addressed in various ways.

Emerging competition and fierce financial pressures are driving businesses to embark on a digital transformation journey. A new Harvard Business Review Analytics Service survey revealed that data-driven enterprises are better positioned to manage this disruption and become market leaders. In this survey, 87% of the respondents believed that analytics proficiency will be a competitive differentiator in their industry over the next two years.