5 Tips for digitization

The digital transformation requires a new corporate culture. Unify recommends companies to deal intensively with the new way people work. Increasingly, employees are mobile and go about their tasks from different locations after.

Unify communications specialist sees digitization as one of the elementary stages of development for companies. How strong this change embossing the organization in the company, shows a degree of digital association Bitkom see according to which around three quarters of the companies surveyed, an acceleration in communicating with customers (79 %), or its own employees (75 %). According to the investigation flexibility (63 %) and efficiency (55 %) are also rising.

However, most decision-makers are also aware that the digital transformation requires a new corporate culture. Traditional working models would increasingly call into question. Employees want to be more flexible in order to bring private and professional life better balance can. Teams, groups or entire departments can be internationally composed and distributed over several continents. If companies want to keep their promise of digitization for all employees and the economic benefit for themselves, they should, according to Unify note the following points.

The mobile payment solutions for commerce and service

A business cannot make too, because the customer does not have enough cash with you, is an annoying situation for each merchant or service. Similarly frustrating as the long wait for incoming payments after invoicing. One possible alternative is offered by modern mobile payment solutions.

Mobile Payment - i.e. paying the involvement of a mobile terminal - opened entrepreneurs new ways to meet customer service-oriented different payment options to offer and thus to obtain money quickly and safely. Solutions with mobile card readers on the dealer's own smartphone or tablet while offering an interesting alternative to solutions for Near Field Communication (NFC). These allow wireless paying smartphone to smartphone, but could not prevail so far in the market.

The motto "only is Bares truth" is in times of popular plastic money only limited validity, since most people wear less and less cash. According to a recent study by the Scientific Institute of trade (EHI study) is the cash share of the retail trade dropped to 55.6 %, while credit cards continue to grow - 2012 a total of 159 billion euros.

Following this development, even small merchants and service providers must be able to handle card payments quickly and easily. Stationary card terminals - as they can be found for example in department stores, or restaurants - but have the disadvantage of small businesses that they attract both high temporal and financial costs of acquisition, as well as monthly fees to be.

The market for identity management is booming

The topic of security is driving the global ICT market. It's a perspective not so much about the protection of individual devices as new management and analysis tools.

For their first published Security Vendor Benchmark took the Expert Group more than 450 active in Security providers under the microscope. After preliminary and detailed selection remained 138 who classified the team of analysts at research fellow Oliver Already Schek as relevant for the EURO market. In eleven categories - including Cloud Security, Mobile Security, Backup and Security Consulting - the vendors were then evaluated and ranked according to competitive strength and portfolio appeal. Overall, we have our review around 100 different criteria as a basis, says Even-shek.

So playing in the Identity and Access Management (IAM), surprisingly, in Leader quadrant cavort with the pink giant, IBM , Atos, Microsoft, Oracle, Dell, CA and other total even equal to 13 companies - a clear indication that the market for identity management solutions than ever booming.
We have not looked specifically at the history of the party, but we devoted its products and solutions, says Even-shek.