Understanding PaaS Market Confusion

The Platform as a Service (PaaS) market is maturing. There are many PaaS service offerings now, so many are getting confused about what PaaS is and isn’t.

We can get some help from the internationally accepted NIST definition of cloud computing (pub 800-145). NIST defines PaaS as the capability “to deploy onto the cloud infrastructure consumer-created or acquired applications created using programming languages, libraries, services, and tools supported by the provider.”

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7 Sales Force Development Trends

What changes are you already seeing in the sales landscape in 2013? Forum’s research shows there are 7 major marketplace trends facing sales organizations today. Download the 7 Sales Force Development Trends Handbook to:
• Discover the trends and how they could impact your company
• Get tips on how you can prepare your sales team to face these hurdles head on

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7 Leadership Development Trends

Talent shortages. A shift to collective leadership. These are just a few of the trends Forum’s research shows will be facing organizations in 2013. Download the 7 Leadership Development Trends Handbook to:
• Discover the top leadership development trends
• Get insights into how to face them head on and prepare your leads at the top, mid and first line levels.

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Cybersecurity Takes Forefront at RSA Conference

It’s an exciting time to attend the RSA Conference next week in San Francisco. With a theme of Where the World Talks Security, RSA realizes cybersecurity has never been more important in our world than it is now. Even the mainstream media is taking notice of major data breaches.

Companies, as well as government agencies, all face a questionable budgetary future and have to take a different look at cybersecurity. It’s become a vital issue organizations have to balance, finding better ways to stay safe while at the same time being pushed to the limit financially.

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