The market researchers and consultants at Gartner estimate that over the next five years the shift towards cloud computing will directly or indirectly impact on more than a trillion dollars of IT expenditure.
Tags: Cloud Services // Gartner // Outlook
The trend towards outsourcing is still on the rise according to Deloitte – but far from just looking to cut costs, companies are now focusing on bringing more innovation into their businesses.
Tags: Cloud Services // Outsourcing
This month marks the fiftieth anniversary since Charles Kao had a brainwave without which today’s broadband communications would be inconceivable – and Retarus, too.
Tags: Cloud Services // Infrastructure // innovation
As the US market continues to be significantly important to Retarus, new additions to staff, office space, and data center developments has been added to support growing sales and operations. In addition, Steve MacDiarmid has been appointed as the new CEO and President of Retarus Inc. to spearhead further growth initiatives.
Tags: retarus Inc. // Steve MacDiarmid
Now that the excitement of the news, the $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft is behind us we have heard the pros and cons of the deal. The purchase will allow Microsoft to pair its “professional cloud” with LinkedIn’s professional network. This move will accelerate Microsoft’s shift from traditional software to the cloud, where it will go head to head with technology giants Amazon.com, and Google.
Tags: acquisition // IT industry // LinkedIn // Microsoft
Market researchers are predicting that the number of email users around the globe is set to rise from 2.6 billion today to over 3 billion by the year 2020. And this calculation does not even include mobile usage.
Tags: Cloud Fax // Cloud Services // Email // Email Security
Cloud first has long since become more than a marketing buzzword: ever more companies are now first asking whether they could use the cloud for their technology projects, rather than investing in their own costly infrastructure.
Tags: Cloud Services
One does not often consider the behind-the-scenes IT processes taking place to order a taxi ride on a crowded street from your smartphone. What about considering what exactly is required on your tablet or desktop computer to order food from your favorite restaurant. Finally, how about the steps for checking on the availability of a product you ordered in a store or online. How do businesses streamline their processes to make transactions seamless and simple for users, partners, and themselves?
Tags: API // Cloud Fax // digital economy // Food Delivery // Internet Economy // Retarus for Internet Economy
Although alternative short messaging services (“messengers”) are gaining in popularity all the time, a good old-fashioned SMS is still the only choice if you want to make sure your message is received by all cell phones.
Tags: Enterprise SMS
Particularly in the ordering process, there is inevitably some unwanted media and integration disruption. Many retailers simply do not have the technical capability and financial means to transmit data in a structured way. As a result, they use template-based paper order forms or unstructured electronic forms. Entering such orders manually in an ERP system is always time-consuming for employees. Retarus EDI Cloud Services can facilitate the automation of manual order processes to a significant extent.
Tags: Digitalization // EDI // ERP // OCR // order forms // order processes // Retail // Wholesale