Why Ease of Use and Quality of User Experience Are The Most Critical Criteria for Successful Videoconferencing Deployments

It may be cost at first, but costs take a back seat once a selection is made 90-120 days after deployment. It may be technology and features, but more sophisticated features, bells and whistles, are quickly eroded if the basics are not met. We know that videoconferencing has been around for years, and yet we have all heard the stories of videoconferencing non-use more than often than not. So what are the two most critical factors that make for a successful videoconferencing deployment? Clearly it is ease of use and quality of user experience. Request Free!

Making Critical Connections: Predictive Analytics in Government

Predictive analytics helps your agency make critical connections between information from multiple sources, and provides a foundation for strategic and tactical decision making. Request Free!

MS in Public Safety Public Safety Leadership

With the field of public safety becoming broader and more complex, there is increased demand for public safety leaders who are knowledgeable on a range of public safety, criminal justice, and emergency preparedness issues, and have the business and human resources skills to effectively manage a complex organization. The master's-level specialization is designed to prepare you to handle the many facets of public safety leadership through course work that includes human development and behavior, organizational leadership, accounting and finance, and training and performance improvement. People who choose this specialization are often pursuing career advancement or consulting careers in law enforcement, fire services, emergency response, and other public safety professions. You will be contacted by an admissions representative from Capella University to discuss continuing your education. Request Free!

MS in IT Network Architecture

Develop the skills necessary to design, implement, and maintain diverse network environments that meet business needs. This Network Architecture master's specialization focuses on Internet, intranet, and extranet design, emerging network technologies, and the integration of divergent and disparate networks. The curriculum is based on the vendor-neutral concepts of network architecture, but also includes a Virtual Lab Environment that offers hands-on experience with vendor-specific network solutions. You will have the opportunity to acquire skills in designing, planning, and maintaining local and wide-area networks (LANs and WANs), and developing and implementing information security and disaster recovery plans. People who choose this specialization are often pursuing senior management or team leader roles in network management and administration, or network architecture and design. You will be contacted by an admissions representative from Capella University to discuss continuing your education. Request Free!

MS in ED Leadership in Education

Develop the skills and knowledge to successfully meet the rigors and enjoy the rewards of Pâ€"12 leadership, a field where retirements are resulting in a growing need for new practitioners. This online master's Leadership in Educational Administration specialization meets nationally recognized leadership standards, including the Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC). It is also one of very few online programs that is state-approved, which is a requirement for licensure in some states. You will have opportunities to apply theory to real-world situations and develop a professional portfolio that will enable you to demonstrate your master's-level competencies to current and future employers. People who choose this specialization are often licensed teachers or school administrators pursuing building leadership or district administrator positions. You will be contacted by an admissions representative from Capella University to discuss continuing your education. Request Free!

Cisco Reputation Filtering: Providing New Levels of Network Security

This paper, written for IT managers and executives, examines the new security risks for today's borderless enterprise networks, and describes how cloud-based Cisco Security Intelligence Operations and powerful, comprehensive reputation filtering capabilities built into Cisco security appliances and services can help one protect the network from known and unknown threats. Request Free!

Keyboard

The Keyboard Community is always searching for the latest developments in music and in music technology, and Keyboard magazine is their primary source. Keyboard delivers the technical information players and producers need, but more importantly, the editors and contributors dig deeper into the subject to provide the inspiration behind the music, as well as the techniques that help artists realize their creative vision. Request Free!

The Complete Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

This guide will teach you how to partner with reputable websites to bring up your page rank, find keywords to reach your market, and why blogging is important to double or triple your traffic in just weeks. Your website is only a few clicks away from mass exposure on the world wide web. The guide comes with price quotes from pre-screened and quality vendors so you can compare prices and find the company that best fits your needs. Request Free!

Is a Hosted Electronic Lab Notebook Right for You?

Thought you couldn't afford or support an Electronic Lab Notebook (ELN)? With the advent of cloud computing, there's an alternative to traditional, on-site software installation: Remotely-hosted and managed software available for a fixed-cost annual subscription. This white paper can help you make the right ELN decision. You'll learn: What business analysts say about cloud computing trends (Hint: It's not just hype!) The pros and cons of on-site vs. remotely-hosted ELNs Seven questions to determine if a hosted ELN is right for you Download this free white paper today! Please forward this to colleagues who might be interested in learning more. Request Free!

Looking for a New Postage Meter? Free Comparison Guide

Using a postage meter is one of the easiest ways to streamline your mailing efforts. Postage meters work like an in-office shipment center - you can pay for postage, shipments, and even advanced mailing options such as receipt of delivery and COD verification without a trip to the post office or maintaining an account with a private shipping company. Receive this FREE "Postage Meter" Buyer's Guide along with complimentary, no obligation price quotes (via phone and email) from pre-screened and industry-certified Postage Meter providers. Request Free!

Gear Up for Success: 8 Steps to Get Sales & Marketing Cranking in Unison -- Free 27 Page eBook

To date, sales and marketing have managed to get by, largely by doing end runs around each other. But changes in the B2B selling environment â€" namely that the buyer is in control and holding sales reps at arm's length â€" have made it more urgent than ever to get sales and marketing truly working as one. The classic lack of alignment between sales and marketing is threatening the livelihood of many B2B organizations. That's because today's buyers are seeking more than solution providers â€" they're looking for trusted advisors who understand their challenges and goals and can help them move smoothly down the path to purchase. Sales and marketing need to sell the way their target audience wants to buy. And achieving complete sales and marketing alignment is the key to connecting with today's prospects. In creating this eBook, Stephanie culled insights from blog posts and articles online, and interviewed leading experts for ideas and recommendations you can put into play today. Discover concrete ways you can better align your sales and marketing teams â€" and engage prospects and convert them into customers. Request Free!

Call Centers Are The Right Call For Any Size Business

Whether you need someone to forward calls, answer questions about product upgrades, or simply to guarantee that your consumers have the help they need, this guide has all the information you need. What do you need a Call Center for? Answering services, customer services, IT help lines â€" and much more. Call centers work for companies 24-7, usually for hourly or set prices so your consumers can reach your brand anytime and anyplace. The "Calling You Back" guide provides answers, tips, and tricks â€" as well as price quotes from pre-screened and quality vendors. Request Free!

How to Cut Expense by Choosing the Right Copier

This free guide will explain the tips and tricks to finding the right copier for your needs and explains the technical jargons you will run across in your search for the best office copier. Copiers these days are more than just copying devices. They can hold important information, as well as save energy on your electric bill. Making copies can be quick and efficient with the new technology available. The guide comes with price quotes from pre-screened and quality vendors so you can compare prices and find the company that best fits your needs. Request Free!

Using the Magic Pocket: A Dropbox Guide

You're at the coffee shop and you need to access a file that has information about your work, but as you attempt to find the file you realize that you've made a mistake. You saved the work on your desktop computer, but you only have your laptop with you and you have no way to access the file. This problem, and others like it, are increasingly common today. It isn't unusual to own both a desktop and a laptop computer, and a smartphone on top of that. Dropbox solves these issues by making it easy to synchronize files between computers. One of the greatest strengths of Dropbox is the large number of platforms it supports. Computers running Linux, OS X and Windows are all supported. This would normally be considered very good, but Dropbox takes things a step further by offering support for mobile devices. Also with this free guide you will also receive daily updates on new cool websites and programs in your email for free courtesy of MakeUseOf. Request Free!

iPhone and iPod Touch Essential Training - Updated for iOS 4 Free Video Training Tutorials

This live-action tutorial includes hands-on demonstrations of how to accurately type and efficiently use finger gestures, and includes tips for setting up the iPhone and iPod Touch so they behave as expected. An extensive section on troubleshooting helps when the occasional glitches happen. Topics include: A tour around the iPhone and the iPod Touch Running apps and multitasking Using FaceTime for video calls Along with the free video training tutorials you will also receive monthly offers, tips, and insider information you won't hear elsewhereâ€"including special discounts extended to newsletter subscribers. After taking advantage of the free video training, you can access all of Lynda.com's video tutorials by becoming a member of the Online Training Library®. Membership plans start at $25 per month, and require no long-term commitment. Request Free!

SQLite 3 with PHP Essential Training Free Video Training Tutorials

This tutorial covers the fundamentals of SQLite, including a thorough overview of its unique data type system, expressions, functions, transactions, views, and event triggers. A functional CRUD application and web site testimonial engine are demonstrated, and a quick-start guide is included to get experienced developers up and running fast. Topics include: Using the exercise files Creating a database Storing text Reading data from multiple tables with JOIN Matching patterns with LIKE Changing parts of a string with REPLACE Using transactions in SQLite Searching within a result set Automatically updating a table with a trigger Along with the free video training tutorials you will also receive monthly offers, tips, and insider information you won't hear elsewhereâ€"including special discounts extended to newsletter subscribers. After taking advantage of the free video training, you can access all of Lynda.com's video tutorials by becoming a member of the Online Training Library®. Membership plans start at $25 per month, and require no long-term commitment. Request Free!

Ruby on Rails 3 Essential Training Free Video Training Tutorials

This course explains the complete processâ€"from the fundamental concepts and best practices behind the Rails framework, to how to build a complete application with dynamic, database-driven content. Using a content management system as an example project, this tutorial explains how to structure databases, build database-driven, object-oriented models, route incoming requests, render pages with dynamic content, and to process and validate form data. Previous experience with Ruby is recommended, but not required. Topics include: Using the exercise files What is Ruby on Rails? Why use Ruby on Rails? Understanding MVC architecture Terminal and Unix setup RubyGems Text Editor Creating a project File structure of a Rails application Rendering templates View templates Instance variables Along with the free video training tutorials you will also receive monthly offers, tips, and insider information you won't hear elsewhereâ€"including special discounts extended to newsletter subscribers. After taking advantage of the free video training, you can access all of Lynda.com's video tutorials by becoming a member of the Online Training Library®. Membership plans start at $25 per month, and require no long-term commitment. Request Free!

Finding a Low Cost Point Of Sale (POS) System for Your Business

POS Systems are a great way for any business that sells goods or processes orders. No matter if you are a restaurant who needs to have more efficient ticket times, or a retailer looking to get detailed reports on inventory, POS Systems help you identify your signature products, peak selling hours and seasons, and staff budgets. These reports will help your business save money by controlling inventory and managing efficiently. You will also receive by phone and/or email several price quotes from pre-screened and quality vendors so you can compare prices and find the company that best fits your needs. Request Free!

Time and Attendance System Comparisons for Your Business

Keeping track of 15 employees is hard enough, let alone 500. Time and attendance systems are a cheap and effective way to manage your staff. These time clocks are small enough to be credit card machines but capable of doing much more â€" all with wallet sized cards that can fit in an employee's wallet. Monitoring hours can be done easily and efficiently from each employee's own computer, where a simple IP address can help monitor who punches in and out, from remote locations as well as from authorized cell phones. The "Around the Clock" guide also comes with price quotes from pre-screened and quality vendors. Request Free!

Linux LPIC 102 Free 15-Minute Guide

This free 15-Minute Complete Study Guide builds a solid focus, while revisiting key examination topics. Whether you are just starting to study, cramming at the last second, or simply looking to refresh, this free download could prove to be a lifesaver! It is presented in an easy to read, easy to navigate PDF. Print it out, mark it up, do whatever it takes to vitalize your confidence. Exam 102 is the second of two system administrator certification exams offered by the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). Your 15-Minute Guide includes: "Must Know" Terms and Topics Clear, Concise, Complete Easy to Understand, Remember Printable PDF Format Try it on your iPhone! Get Certified Easier, Faster Request Free!

Linux LPIC 101 Free 15-Minute Guide

This free 15-Minute Complete Study Guide builds a solid focus, while revisiting key examination topics. Whether you are just starting to study, cramming at the last second, or simply looking to refresh, this free download could prove to be a lifesaver! It is presented in an easy to read, easy to navigate PDF. Print it out, mark it up, do whatever it takes to vitalize your confidence. Exam 101 is the first of two system administrator certification exams offered by the Linux Professional Institute (LPI). Your 15-Minute Guide includes: "Must Know" Terms and Topics Clear, Concise, Complete Easy to Understand, Remember Printable PDF Format Try it on your iPhone! Get Certified Easier, Faster Request Free!

27 Tips for Getting Started in IT

There is a ton of great reasons to want a career in IT. Right now you probably know more than a few people who have done very well for themselves with a job in technology. (How many old friends have you caught up with on Facebook who are making a killing as Network or Security Admins?) Salary, job security, career satisfaction and stability are just a few of the compelling reasons to desire an IT career. But for you the burning question is "how do I get started?" You find yourself saying "I have the drive and the will to work hard and succeed, but I just don't know where to start." The first step is PrepLogic's full-color PDF 27 Tips for Getting Started in IT. Download this free tips sheet now and get the inside scoop on what you need to land the job you want. Request Free!

OS Interaction Free 17 Page Chapter

If you have programmed with Windows or used a Windows-based operating system for any length of time you will see that it is really an all-encompassing OS. Unlike with other types of software development, we don't need to interact with device drivers or create three dimensional graphics for our users. Most of what we need to do involves integrating with the file system; that is searching for files or folders and running external applications. Occasionally, we may need to go a little deeper than that. There may be instances where we need to check the user's environment, query the registry, or check for specific administrator permissions. These can all be performed within NAV, although many require a little outside help from a built-in or custom automation control. As Windows is such a large piece of software, it already contains ways for us to do these things. As a result, the recipes in this chapter are not very lengthy or complicated, but that does not make them any less useful. They explore the basics of what you can do with the OS and it is up to you to decide when and how to make the best use of them. Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript. Request Free!

Debatching Bulk Data Free 33 Page Chapter

Debatching data is the process of turning one huge pile of data into many small piles of data. Why is it better to shovel one ton of data using two thousand, one pound shovels instead of one big load from a huge power shovel? After all, large commercial databases and the attendant bulk loader or SQL Loader programs are designed to do just that: insert huge loads of data in a single shot. The bulk load approach works under certain tightly constrained circumstances. They are as follows: The "bulk" data comes to you already matching the table structure of the destination system. Of course, this may mean that it was debatched before it gets to your system. The destination system can accept some, potentially significant, error rate when individual rows fail to load. There are no updates or deletes, just inserts. Your destination system can handle bulk loads. Certain systems (for example, some legacy medical systems or other proprietary systems) cannot handle bulk operations. As the vast majority of data transfer situations will not meet these criteria, we must consider various options. First, one must consider which side of the database event horizon one should perform these tasks. One could, for example, simply dump an entire large file into a staging table on SQL Server, and then debatch using SQL to move the data to the "permanent" tables. There are, of course, multiple tools for debatching large bulk data loads including BizTalk Server and SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). One can use such tools to break up large batches of data, manipulate it as needed, and send it on to its next reincarnation (for example, into an API, a relational database, or a text file). In this chapter, Packt Enterprise will take a look at options for processing large data sets. Packt Enterprise books can be summed up through the tagline "Professional Expertise Distilled". They take in-the-trenches knowledge from experienced software professionals, and distil it into a single, easy to follow manuscript. Request Free!