Entries by Tatyana Vandich

The Recent Wave of Retailers Moving to an Online Presence

Recently, all we keep hearing about are the bankruptcies of reputable, well-established retail businesses and the closing of brick and mortar stores. The most recent examples include Mexx Canada, Boutique Jacob, SmartSet and many others. Most of these big-name companies seemed to have struggled to keep up with the changing retail environment causing them to […]

The Importance of Strategic Planning

Strategic Planning is often a process that is pushed aside by many business owners. Most of the time, many complain that they don’t have the time as they get caught up in their daily tasks. However, it’s essential to take some time every so often to analyze your company and plan for the future; define […]

The Perfect App for your Mobile Workforce

What better way to improve overall business efficiency than to equip your field workers with a mobile business application that they can access from their personal mobile devices, on Android or Apple operating systems. This will allow for better visibility into their projects, all in real-time. By getting rid of all of this paperwork, fieldwork […]

EDI 2 XML: How it Works

EDI communication is known to be complex and expensive. In recent years however, many small and mid-size businesses are looking into EDI in order to do business with major retailers, like Target, Wal-Mart, Sears, etc., or simply to gain a competitive advantage. It is one of the best ways to exchange important business documents, such […]

Evolution of Technology & its Effect on Businesses

Technology has always played a central role in the evolution of businesses. From the industrial age to today, technological advancements have constantly reshaped how businesses operate, produce, and interact with their customers. In this article, we will explore the evolution of technology and its impact on businesses. The Industrial Age: The history of modern industry […]

Why EDI is in such demand

One of the goals of business executives is to increase efficiency while keeping costs low. Of course this can be difficult without the proper tools in place, which many businesses in Canada still do not have. Fortunately, it seems that in the last decade more and more companies have been leveraging IT but this growth […]

Mobile Predictions

A recent article in Forbes, written by Maribel Lopez, included several predictions on mobility in the business world. Some of them have already been written about in many of our previous blogs. Here is a short list of Lopez’s mobile predictions for the coming year: