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How HR can make the case for workforce analytics

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 07:55:46 +0000

Once known for its online job boards and newspaper classified ads, talent management is now a $4 billion industry. Helping to redefine this age-old HR practice is workforce analytics, a powerful combination of highly sophisticated computer algorithms and predictive models. However, HR professionals face an enormous hurdle: how to make a business case for a high-priced technology that can often lead to IT headaches, hardware expenditures, and overturned HR processes. Linking these workforce analytics to business success can help HR professionals convince corporate bean counters to bankroll the crunching of human-capital data.

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Why mobile devices need single-sign-on technologies

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:02:28 +0000

As the iPad’s popularity continues to grow and security concerns increase, providers of cloud-based single-sign-on (SSO) solutions face a prime business opportunity: to make their tools the weapons of choice for next-generation mobile identity management and authentication. By replacing multiple user names and passwords with one-click access to cloud-based apps like Google Apps and Microsoft’s Active Directory, cloud-based SSO solutions have earned a reputation for enhancing end-user convenience, easing the pressure on IT administration, and cutting help-desk costs. Not all cloud SSO technologies, however, come with the same platforms, standards, and feature sets. The following is a breakdown of some of the key players and what each is doing to raise the bar on authentication, mobile, and otherwise.

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Why mobile devices need single-sign-on technologies

Wed, 19 Sep 2012 16:02:28 +0000

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The economics of clean-data-center innovation

Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:55:45 +0000

Around the world, data centers consume around 1.5 percent of total electricity demand, a figure that’s expected to increase significantly. Greenpeace predicts power consumption will grow 19 percent by 2013 to 31 gigawatts. To cut power and, with it, costs, tech titans like Google, Apple, and Facebook are aggressively pursuing strategies to cut electricity use by greening their data centers. But do energy-efficiency gains justify huge capital outlays? This report attempts to answer that question by looking at the ways in which companies are greening their data centers and attempting to achieve social, economic, and environmental value.

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The race for cost-effective and efficient solar power

Wed, 09 May 2012 18:55:09 +0000

The U.S. solar industry witnessed record-breaking growth in 2011, increasing by 21 percent in the third quarter of the year. Yet there is still not a solar panel capable of displacing electricity from fossil fuels. As is the case in any market, disruption calls for smart innovation, and several companies are rising to the task. Challenges await, including trade wars, funding shortages and other roadblocks to commercialization. The clear winner will be the solar-energy player that breaks new records in solar efficiency without the breaking the bank.

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