Just about anyone who's spent some time with spreadsheets has some kind of horror story, whether it involved making the graph that ruined a corporate presentation or simply falling asleep during the tedium of entering data in hundreds of fields.

Given the complexity of today's retail environment, which includes online and in-store channels, businesses need tools like cloud ERP software that can help them manage their supply chains and achieve greater flexibility and visibility in their operations.

Today's businesses have to reach out and interact with audiences on social media platforms, and, unless they're in the pet business, they'll need a more tailored strategy than posting cat videos and hoping for the best. That means using a modern cloud CRM solution with social media integration. And to use CRM effectively, businesses will want to ensure they have a tool and a vendor partnership that are oriented toward their specific needs.

The expanded functionality of today's customer relationship management (CRM) systems is leading to a variety of business benefits as companies use software tools to boost sales, but the use of cloud CRM solutions is also helping educational institutions realize a different type of ROI as they reinvent many of their strategies for recruitment and student engagement.

As companies apply more cloud solutions for business problems, the value and dynamic of IT outsourcing arrangements has consistently evolved.

Developments concerning social media, mobile devices, cloud computing and big data will have a lot to say about how the modern office operates in five years time.

When SMB IT professionals were asked to identify the greatest challenge currently facing their department, nearly 30 percent of the more than 220 survey respondents cited "keeping up" with emerging technologies.

Executive boards aren't so sure they have the technological foresight to guide IT operations any longer.

Big data analytics seems to be the trending technology every executive knows they need, yet very few understand.

Arxis has been chosen as a Top 100 VAR by both Accounting Today and industry insider Bob Scott.

With a new menu of possibilities in their hands, small and medium-sized businesses no longer have to decide between cost and performance.

While most business departments are being told that they have to do more with less as companies ride out the recession, IT investment is as healthy as ever.

As more and more technology companies are moving their enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems from server-based to cloud-based infrastructures, many small and medium-sized (SMBs) are reaping the benefits.

For many corporate executives, a full-blown leap into cloud integration is a daunting prospect. In this way, many executives are choosing to put one foot in the pool at a time and are making sure that cloud technology is right for them.

According to a recently released report, cloud technologies have the potential to become a larger job creator in the United States than the internet was during its developmental years.