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There is perhaps no area within database administration more time-consuming or fraught with difficulty as the need to accurately shepherd the varied and ongoing vectors of change across an ...

Over the past seven years, almost all large companies made substantial progress in implementing digital transformation across a wide variety of functions. At the core of those enormous investments and ...

CEO of Acumatica, a fast-growing cloud ERP company. John has nearly 30 years of industry leadership in cloud services. A growing company often reaches a point of organizational evolution where it ...

Change management deals with how changes to the system are managed so they don't degrade system performance and availability. Change management is especially critical in today's highly decentralized, ...

Change is difficult, and the reluctance to change, often on the part of end-user employees, has been at the heart of countless failures of new technology deployments within businesses. Such failures ...

Upgrading software can be a major step forward for a nonprofit, but without proper planning, it can also become time-consuming and costly. Katrina Olson Whether replacing outdated accounting software, ...

Mark Karasek, executive vice president of engineering and chief technology officer of The Chamberlain Group, teaches students the fundamentals of changing processes within organizations. When an ...

Manufacturers are dependent on automated assets such as programmable logic controllers (PLC), PC control systems and computer numerical controllers (CNC). As vital as these devices are to the ...