Category: Automation

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: Hannah Herman; Today’s job market is one of the most competitive in history. The unemployment rate in the U.S. has hit an historic low of 3.7%—the lowest rate in 50 years. At the same time, however, hiring is on the upswing: in 2017, LinkedIn predicted that hiring volume would increase by 58% nationwide. For companies, this means that they have to do more to retain talent. Making sure the employee journey is smooth and enjoyable from Day 1 is crucial: whether you’re organizing a company-wide fun run or conducting annual performance reviews, you want ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; Good product photography isn’t cheap, and cheap product photography isn’t good. DIY product photography can be a false bargain because less-than-stellar photos of your products can drive customers away (and end up costing you sales).Great photos, on the other hand, generate revenue because 93 percent of customers consider visual appearance to be an essential part of purchasing decisions. One study found that images have a strong influence on price sensitivity.When you need to hire a professional to take care of your eCommerce product photography, it’s important to know what questions to ask. Once you ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Todd Terwillegar; With eCommerce, you can turn a humble website that’s dependent on advertising for profit, into a digital storefront and burgeoning business of its own.This glossary is a complete collection of terms, concepts, products, and services you should know to master dropshipping.What is Dropshipping?Traditional eCommerce typically sees retailers maintaining the inventories used to fulfill their customers’ orders. Dropshipping is a different strategy for eCommerce. Retailers don’t actually maintain inventory for the product or products that they’re selling. Instead, the dropship model means the retailer passes incoming orders to either a manufacturer, supplier, or distributor to ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Lucy Wyman; Alex Dreyer and I, both engineers on the Puppet Bolt team, demoed an advanced Bolt plan to configure and deploy metrics visualization using Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana, all via Puppet Modules. We were lucky enough to be able to share this awesome demo with a variety of folks during our #vBrownBag session.In case you missed it… After showing off some of the more powerful Bolt features, we took a step back and explained all of the Bolt components that came together to create the plan, including apply blocks, inventory files, and hiera data ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Nisheedh Raveendran. In this blog post, we’ll show you how to use new capabilities of AWS IoT Device Management fleet indexing. Starting now, you can use aggregation queries in conjunction with AWS Lambda and Amazon CloudWatch to automate fleet monitoring.When managing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it can be challenging to monitor the state of the fleet. The complexity is due to many factors: the number of devices, number of dynamic states to monitor, and number of notification mechanisms for fleet state change. AWS IoT Device Management is a ... Read More

Feed: The Connector by Workato. Author: James Furbush; This is a guest post written by Fab Capodicasa, CEO of Hoosh Marketing When the job market swings in favor of employees, it can make finding and recruiting talent more difficult on companies. That’s what’s happened recently in the United States, where unemployment is historically low and hiring volume is extremely high. As a result, it’s no surprise companies are looking for every advantage they can leverage to quickly and efficiently find the right candidate — including turning to AI phone screeners to automate the initial vetting of candidates. Unfortunately, it seems that job candidates don’t appreciate being vetted by a computer. But I ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Chris Lema; The world of eCommerce has evolved.More and more retailers have jumped onto the eCommerce bandwagon which in turn, has created more competition for consumer transactions. As a result, we’ve seen new models of online retail emerge, such as dropshipping.Maybe you’ve even heard of it before, but does dropshipping work? And is it a good business decision?What is Dropshipping?Dropshipping has emerged as an alternative to conventional eCommerce that allows retailers to collect orders from customers before passing those orders to distributors and suppliers for fulfillment.Basically, the use of dropshipping gives retailers a workaround, saving them ... Read More

Feed: Cloudwards. Author: Jacob Roach; The UK offers some of the best free content of any country in the world. Between the BBC serving shows such as Sherlock and MasterChef to UK-exclusive media such as Channel 4, there are a lot of reasons why you’d want to appear as if you’re in the UK. Of course, buying a plane ticket isn’t the only way to stream everything Britain has to offer. In this guide on how to get a British IP address, we’re going to show you a workaround for accessing all the content the UK has to offer. Over ... Read More

Feed: Liquid Web. Author: Jake Fellows; No one has to tell you that it takes money to run a business. But, not all expenses are the same. When it comes to TCO (total cost of ownership), your numbers people (not to mention the IRS) are going to categorize spending in one of two ways: CapEx or OpEx.Knowing what expenses come under what category is not only important in terms of taxation (and itemization), it makes it easier to forecast your TCO month to month and year to year. However, IT can complicate things a bit.With so many available vendor options ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; Earlier this week, TechCrunch reported that Meditab, a California-based software company, leaked thousands of doctor’s notes, medical records, and prescriptions daily after a security lapse left an Elasticsearch server without a password.  This is the 7th time in 2019, we have written about a company exposing data via a misconfigured Elasticsearch server. Here are the six other orgs this year that have misconfigured Elasticsearch servers: What happened this time? Meditab, who describes themselves as a secure online electronic medical records & practice management software, processes electronic faxes for healthcare providers.  However, according to TechCrunch, their ... Read More