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Tamara Scott

Tamara Scott, M.A., is a Managing Editor for TechRepublic where she guides content strategy that balances search awareness with audience needs. With a background in English education, she writes clear and instructive business, technology, and marketing articles for readers of all skill levels.

What Doctors Want from Medical Technology

It’s been 10 years since the initial push for electronic health records (EHRs) and electronic medical records (EMRs) via the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, first passed in 2009. Part of the plan to shake the...

3 Must-Have Security Protocols to Protect Your Small Business Data

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...

7 Vendors to Consider for Predictive Dialing Software

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,...

9 of the Best Email Tracking Software Tools

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...

6 Asset Tracking Software Tools That Outmode Spreadsheets

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...

CPQ software: Top 6 Solutions and a Case Study

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...

7 Dropbox Alternatives for Business Cloud Storage

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...

9 GitHub Alternatives for Source Code and Version Control

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...

6 Skype Alternatives for Modern Business Conferencing

When I was in high school in the late 90s (we still watched laserdisc videos in some classes, and everyone rushed home from school to sign in to AOL via dial-up modem), I remember seeing pictures of videophones in my French textbooks and feeling awed by...

Kubernetes vs. Docker: Comparing Containerization Systems

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...

Redbooth vs. Trello: Which PM software is up to the task?

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....

Netsuite vs. Intacct: A Financial Software Faceoff

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...

4 Data Enrichment Tools for Lead Generation

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...

7 Practice Fusion Paid Alternatives for Your EHR

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...

7 Best POS Software Choices for Customer Rewards

Customer rewards are great! They bring people back to your business, give you contacts for your marketing efforts, and help you judge your customer sentiment. A good rewards program is great for analyzing who your most frequent and high-value customers are....
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