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Outlook on China From a Handful of Global Firms

The Global Small Business Blog

©iStock/zhang meng There's a largely cautious stance from major global firms – ranging from banks to chipmakers – on China business amid a frail recovery at the world's second-largest economy from a pandemic slowdown. Here are comments from firms on their China business during the latest reporting season (as of July 25, 2023).

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Discover How Louise Kraus Paves the Way For Success

Perficient Digital Transformation

At Perficient, we are proud to work with incredible people who give their time and talent to support our clients and communities. Through our People Promise , we strive to challenge, champion, and celebrate the difference that our colleagues are making. For Louise Kraus, a business coordinator based in New Jersey, each day offers the chance to discover new concepts and continue growing as a leader.

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Benefits of Accounting Outsourcing: Why it’s a Smart Business Move

Paysquare

Companies constantly seek ways to streamline operations and maximize efficiency in today’s highly competitive business landscape. One such area where businesses prefer to simplify processes is accounting. Managing financial records, bookkeeping, and tax compliance can be time-consuming and resource-intensive. This is where accounting outsourcing comes into play.

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A Pediatric Experience Success Story: Opening a New Digital Front Door

Perficient Digital Transformation

While entering a new and highly competitive pediatric market, our client needed to offer an excellent digital experience. The health system partnered with Perficient to build a frictionless and guided experience that patients and families both need and expect. Providing a Truly Patient-centered Experience First, we identified site KPIs, developed target personas, built a digital roadmap, and audited site content.

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How to Stay Competitive in the Evolving State of Martech

Marketing technology is essential for B2B marketers to stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital landscape — and with 53% of marketers experiencing legacy technology issues and limitations, they’re researching innovations to expand and refine their technology stacks. To help practitioners keep up with the rapidly evolving martech landscape, this special report will discuss: How practitioners are integrating technologies and systems to encourage information-sharing between departments and pr

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How AI & Digital Are Transforming Language Services

Future of Sourcing

Sorenson, a leading language services provider, offers a variety of technology solutions and tools for people with diverse communication needs. These include call captioning, sign language and video services for Deaf and hard-of-hearing people, as well as language translation and interpreting services. While traditionally focused on consumer markets, the company recognized that demand for its services was growing among enterprise customers.

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How AI is helping companies meet sustainability goals

IBM Business Partners

AI tools like ChatGPT are grabbing headlines, but other AI techniques and tools specifically designed for enterprises are quietly helping companies meet their sustainability goals. Classic AI is already being used widely today in various use cases, and generative AI is evolving rapidly to address new classes of use cases. I previously led technical teams that helped customers with their AI implementations.

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Safeguarding the Digital Era: Technology Adoption in Trust and Safety | LinkedIn Live

Everest Group

LINKEDIN LIVE Safeguarding the Digital Era: Technology Adoption in Trust and Safety View the event on LinkedIn, which was delivered live on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. As the internet becomes flooded with an ever-increasing volume of information, the universe of toxic content is expanding at an astonishing rate. Enterprises must be able to moderate content in real-time and provide adequate safety features on platforms to ensure a positive experience for users.

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HR and Talent in the Era of AI

IBM Business Partners

The emergence of generative AI and foundation models has revolutionized the way every business, across industries, operates at this current inflection point. This is especially true in the HR function, which has been pushed to the forefront of the new AI era. In recent IBV research , 36% of CEOs identified workforce and skills as the most important factor impacting their enterprise.

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Safety With ChatGPT: Turning GenAI Risks Into GenAI You Can Trust

Simplr

ChatGPT has undoubtedly taken the world by storm. Yet with the immense power to transform the CX landscape for the good also comes the bad and the ugly. We’ve all seen the stories – an attorney referencing made up cases, employees sharing confidential information, and the bot instructing people on illegal activities. These serious risks to a brand’s identity and reputation have caused numerous executives, analysts, and reporters to caution against using it directly on your company’s websit

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What is zero-based budgeting?

IBM Business Partners

Zero-Based Budgeting (ZBB) is like solving a financial puzzle. Instead of relying on the previous year’s budget, ZBB requires you to evaluate and justify every expense from the ground up, justifying its necessity and alignment with strategic goals. It’s like starting with a blank canvas and carefully selecting each budget item based on its value and contribution to your financial objectives.

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Global Hiring Guide for Startups

Grow your startup beyond borders and boundaries. Global expansion is the ultimate goal for many startup founders. However, to successfully enter new markets and grow internationally, you need a sound and scalable global recruitment strategy. In this eBook, you’ll discover how you can gain a competitive edge over your business rivals through the latest technology, harnessing global contractors, and using a global employment platform.

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Why TikTok’s Newly Announced Ecommerce Business Is a Big Deal

Perficient Digital Transformation

TikTok – a Chinese social media platform where users can watch and create short video content – has cornered social media over the last few years with an estimated 834 million monthly users worldwide in 2023 and more growth expected in the coming years. With that in mind, TikTok now has plans to launch a program in August that will bring products made in China to consumers in the United States.

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Safety With ChatGPT: Turning GenAI Risks Into GenAI You Can Trust

Simplr

ChatGPT has undoubtedly taken the world by storm. Yet with the immense power to transform the CX landscape for the good also comes the bad and the ugly. We’ve all seen the stories – an attorney referencing made up cases, employees sharing confidential information, and the bot instructing people on illegal activities. These serious risks to a brand’s identity and reputation have caused numerous executives, analysts, and reporters to caution against using it directly on your company’s websit

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What Makes Search “Search”? The Anatomy of Modern Search Solutions

Perficient Digital Transformation

Search is something we all use nearly every day, and it modifies our lives for the better. In less than 20 years since the public launch of Google, how we find information has changed dramatically. Thanks to modern search, we don’t have to remember facts as much because we know we can “Google it,” and we spend significantly less time researching questions because someone somewhere has answered it online.

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10 ways the oil and gas industry can leverage digital twin technology

IBM Business Partners

The oil and gas industries have been the backbone of the global economy for decades. However, market volatility, environmental concerns and operational inefficiencies have also challenged these industries to adapt and innovate. The use of digital twins is one such innovation. In the era of digital transformation, digital twins are emerging as a potent solution to energy production challenges.

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ABM Evolution: How Top Marketers Are Using Account-Based Strategies

In times of economic uncertainty, account-based strategies are essential. According to several business analysts and practitioners, ABM is a necessity for creating more predictable revenue. Research shows that nearly three-quarters of marketers (74%) already have the resources needed to build successful ABM programs.

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Embracing the AI Revolution: How AI Tools are Transforming User Experience Design

Perficient Digital Transformation

The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) has revolutionized various industries, and experience design is no exception. AI-powered tools, such as OpenAI and others, have opened up new possibilities and are transforming the landscape of user experience design. In this blog post, we will explore the profound impact of AI tools on this domain and delve into the opportunities and challenges they bring.

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Australia announces amendments to the Superannuation fund rate

Mercans

Effective from 1 July 2023, the government of Australia has increased the Superannuation Guarantee rate from 10.50% to 11%. Employers in Australia are mandated to contribute 11% of their employees’ “Ordinary Time Earnings” into their super account at least 4 times a year. This contribution is for the benefit of employees to build up savings for retirement.

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Healthcare Meets Digital Technology

Perficient Digital Transformation

Wild tribes join with age-old enemies to fight the night king and his zombie legions. Nomadic hordes swarm across the sea with their dragon queen to enter the fray. Kings in the North set aside family squabbles to defend their fortress in a moment of peril. Is this a model for healthcare transformation through digital technology? There are messages in George R.R.

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Bangladesh Income Tax Law Amendment

Mercans

Effective from 1 July 2023, the government of Bangladesh has announced amendments to Income Tax law as per below: Amendment of Tax-exempted amounts Taxpayer Category Annual Tax-exempted Income 2022-2023 Annual Tax-exempted Income 2023-2024 General taxpayer Tk. 300,000 Tk. 350,000 Women and Senior citizen above 65 years age Tk. 350,000 Tk. 400,000 Physically Challenged persons Tk. 400,000 Tk. 475,000 War-wounded gazette freedom fighter Tk. 475,000 Tk. 500,000 Third gender taxpayers Tk. 350,000 Tk

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Top 7 Global Employment Challenges

The benefits of expanding internationally are endless, especially if you approach it the right way. However, there are pitfalls along the way that can slow down progress. Global expansion brings many opportunities for companies —business growth, brand-building in new markets, and access to diverse talent pools worldwide. However, international growth can come with challenges.

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Perficient Quality Assurance Directors Present at the 2023 QA or the Highway Conference

Perficient Digital Transformation

I am Latha Rao Uppugonduri, Director from the Detroit BU. Last month, Sylvia Sesostris, Director of QA, and I gave a presentation on Perficient’s journey with continuous improvements in Quality Assurance using Predictive Analytics and real-time dashboards at the 2023 QA or the Highway Conference in Columbus, Ohio. QA practitioners from across the country came together at the conference to network and share thought leadership on a variety of topics ranging from QA fundamentals to the latest techn

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?How a system-based modular approach minimizes risk and accelerates SaMD go-to-market?

Capgemini

​ How a system-based modular approach minimizes risk and accelerates SaMD go-to-market​ Capgemini 27 Jul 2023 Facebook Twitter Linkedin In the field of healthcare systems compliance, the difference between 99% and 100% is a chasm. ​ “Software defect.” “False upstream alarms.” “Firmware error.” “Login error.” “Software bug.” “Sensor failure.” “Cybersecurity vulnerability.

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Hosting a Static Website using AWS

Perficient Digital Transformation

Services used – Amazon S3 AWS Cloud Front Route 53 Creating the bucket – Login to AWS account in the AWS Management console – [link] Sign in using the valid credentials if you already have an account, else you can create a free tier account by signing up. Once logged in to the account, you can locate Amazon S3 in the services listed out, Or you can search Amazon S3 using the Search option in the left top corner of the AWS Management console.

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Unleashing Your Data Potential: Why Fusion Analytics Warehouse Might Be The Perfect Fit

Perficient Digital Transformation

In today’s data-driven world, organizations face the challenge of efficiently managing the mountains of data gained over their years of operation. This has led to the emergence of advanced analytics solutions that can turn raw data into actionable intelligence. Oracle’s answer to this call of action is Fusion Analytics Warehouse (FAW). In this blog post we will explore why Fusion Analytics Warehouse might be exactly what you need.

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ABM Success Recipe: Mastering the Crawl, Walk, Run Approach

Shifting to an account-based marketing (ABM) strategy can be both exciting and challenging. Well-implemented ABM motions build engagement with high-value accounts and drive impactful campaigns that resonate with your audience. But where do you begin, and how do you progress from crawling to running? Watch now as Demand Gen experts delve into the essentials of each stage of the ABM process.