Tamara Scott

Humans make mistakes. They leave their phones in bars, they lose their laptops, and they hit reply all to company-wide emails. Humans also knowingly give away company secrets to gain favor or steal ideas to go out on their own. Even worse, they can expose personal identifying data (PID) to the public for money or […]

Building a call center in the 1990s was a huge undertaking: in addition to hiring your callers and finding lists, you’d need phone lines for each of those callers. Add in the stress of consolidating data from each individual rep, and even with computers, the amount of work would be staggering. ALSO READ: How Gamification […]

Sales departments rely on data and analytics to increase productivity and revenue. If your department plans to grow, it’s going to need to track and analyze data.  There are so many digital touch points in email alone that can tell us how warm a lead is, how much a particular user engages with our content, […]

Modern IT isn’t just about building networks and repairing computers; it’s about using technology to support business goals. Without the proper asset tracking software, an IT manager may spend more time logging and tracking devices than improving the overall IT environment. This day-to-day workflow can look more like a librarian’s than an engineer’s. If checking items in and […]

Configure, price, quote (CPQ) software helps sales teams build and standardize quotes across a company. To use CPQ software, your team will basically upload your entire catalog of products and set a few rules to standardize sales. When the sales team accesses the catalog, they can quickly pull a quote and deliver it to the customer. Many of these […]

Whether you’re a small startup or enterprise, everyone in your business should have secure access to necessary documents and files from wherever they work. In many cases, that means using a private cloud storage and collaboration tool. Dropbox been a household name and business go-to for cloud file storage, but it’s not the only option. […]

According to a 2016 GitLab survey, 98 percent of developers use open source tools, and 92 percent of developers prefer Git as their version control language. Despite the availability of other version control languages like Mercurial (Hg) and Subversion (SVN), the proliferation of Git continues, largely due to evangelistic GitHub users and the company’s own branding efforts. In […]

4 min read Updated July 25, 2018. While many of us want to compare Kubernetes vs. Docker, the two systems actually provide closely related but seaparate functions. Both of these tools provide extensive capabilities to build and manage virtual containers at scale, but the ways they go about it differ significantly. ALSO READ: Puppet vs. Chef: Comparing Configuration Management […]

We use Trello at TechnologyAdvice to organize our marketing team’s workflows, and I use Trello to Agile my household. I really love Trello for its simplicity and its scalability, so I was pretty skeptical when I first started comparing Redbooth vs. Trello–could Redbooth really stand up to the ease of use I was used to […]

In the financial software battle for supremacy, Netsuite vs. Intacct aren’t your usual match-up because of the difference in each of the platforms’ capabilites. Oracle’s Netsuite offers several different products from a full-service ERP to separate business modules like accounting software you can purchase separately if that’s all you need. Sage Intacct is a core […]

When it comes to collecting customer data and potential leads, your team does everything right: And yet, somehow, a lot of your data is still incorrect, outdated, or duplicated, even if it’s brand new. Marketo suggests that a 10 percent increase in a lead quality can lead to a 40 percent jump in revenue, but the […]

As you may have heard, Allscripts bought out free EMR-EHR software Practice Fusion in a $100 million deal in late February. An unfortunate outcome for many small practices is that come summer 2018, Practice Fusion will move away from their free model to a $100 a month fee per physician. This change is significant enough […]