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Why is WordPress Such a Popular Platform?

9 years ago By Peter Sampson

WordPress is the most well-known and successful content manage systems ever made. With over 26% of the world’s websites using it, there’s gotta be some kind of secret we don’t know about, right? How could something be so popular after all this time? It’s not a secret at all, actually, WordPress is just a perfect storm of features and usability.

Join us as we look at the characteristics and design choices that led WordPress to take the throne as the most popular CMS in the world.

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Cyber Security is a People Problem Says Survey

9 years ago By Real Wire

20 April 2017: Over 80% of security professionals identify "people" as the industry’s biggest challenge compared to technology and processes, according to the results of the second annual survey from The Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). The survey also indicates that while 60% of respondents still feel that investment is not keeping pace with threat levels, there was a modest 5% increase in businesses that feel better placed to deal with a breach or incident if it happens. In real terms, spending does appear to be on the rise with 70% of companies seeing an increase in budget, up from 67% and only 7% reporting a reduction, which is down from 12% last year.

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SandSIV Announces Release Of Enterprise Customer Experience App For Salesforce

9 years ago By Real Wire

Zürich, 20th April 2017 - SandSIV, the European leader of integrated Customer Experience (CX) and Voice of the Customer (VOC) enterprise solutions, today announced the release of ECX for Salesforce, a powerful Customer Experience Management app which integrates SandSIV’s CX functionality into Salesforce’s operational environment.

SandSIV provides a superior CX platform “VOC Hub™” which allows organisations to manage the end-to-end customer experience across multiple departments and lines of business and enables them to connect disparate customer experiences into a consistent, seamless and personalized customer journey.

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Consulting Mergers & Acquisition volumes reach a 9-year high

9 years ago By Real Wire

The year 2016 reached a nine-year high in consulting M&A volumes, according to Equiteq’s Global Consulting Mergers & Acquisitions Report 2017. Despite deal activity falling in the quarter prior to the US Presidential election and the UK’s Brexit vote, deal volumes were up 1%.

Outperforming the S&P 500, the strength of the consulting sector was further demonstrated as the Equiteq Consulting Share Price Index ended 2016 up 14%, a 10-year high.

The top consulting segments for deal activity were the rapidly evolving Management Consulting, IT Services and Media segments. Management Consulting saw a 2% growth in deal volumes and a huge 32% increase in the share-price index.

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As Facebook Fights Fake Accounts, Black Market Prices Go Up

9 years ago By Bryan Ruby

NBC News recently posted an interesting article where the author notes that the spam industry follows the same Law of Supply and Demand as any capitalist-loving business does. As social networks crack down on fake accounts and fake news, the spam industry is able to charge their customers more to establish such inauthentic accounts.

Facebook shut down as many as 30,000 fake accounts in the past week — but that's unlikely to hurt the multi-million-dollar spam industry.

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FESPA 2017 – OKI Europe’s Large Format Printer Offers Affordability Without Compromising Quality

9 years ago By Real Wire

Egham, 18 April 2017 – OKI Europe Ltd says that large format printers such as its newly-launched, award winning, ColorPainter E-64s, offer sign makers, exhibition services providers, screen printers and others the opportunity to move away from low-margin vinyl and banner printing into more profitable applications, giving their business the boost needed to drive future growth and success.

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CMS Report is now socPub

9 years ago By Bryan Ruby

We're no longer yesterday's CMS Report. Less than ten days ago, I started the process to migrate this website's content management system from Drupal 7 to Drupal 8. During the migration I decided it was also time for a rebrand by listing the site under a new name and a new domain. We're now socPub and registered under the domain socpub.com.

What does socPub mean? Absolutely, nothing.

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What Does the Future Hold for Mobile App Marketing And Mobile Advertising?

9 years ago By Jazz Gill

Smartphones have changed our lives in a big way and mobile applications have become an important part of our work. Smartphone industry and mobile application industry have witnessed a huge increase in the usage of the mobile devices and mobile applications, respectively. And, the number of users are expected to rise each passing day. The usage of mobile applications has made people rethink about how they operate and interact.