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According to research reports from Barclays, business information technology spending is expected to rise 6.7 percent between 2015 and 2017. Among the technological priorities of business owners are improving security, addressing network performance, lowering costs, moving data to the cloud, training IT professionals, and improving applications to better fit business processes.

Abraham Maslow's theory of needs attempts to identify the internal factors that motivate an individual. According to him, individuals are motivated by unsatisfied needs. From his theory, those needs create internal pressures influencing a person's behavior. The needs must be met in a strict sequence starting with the ones at the bottom of the pyramid.

CIeNET, a leading global technical consulting, software engineering and technical solutions provider, today announced that it has been successfully re-certificated to Capability Maturity Model Integration DEV 1.3Level 3. It is the 4th time for CIeNET to obtain the certificate since 2006. This assessment continuously validates CIeNET's software development process maturity and excellent improvements.

Al Thuraya Holdings (www.althurayaholdings.com) and EventPro Slovakia s.r.o. (www.eventpro.sk) announced today that they have entered into a definitive merger agreement under which Al Thuraya Holdings will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of EventPro. The transaction was unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies.

United Sales Resources (USR) announced today that it has teamed up with Dylan Gray Consulting, LLC (DGC), which will make it easier than ever before for clients to implement its recommendations.

Altitude Web Consulting, an online marketing business in Scottsdale, AZ, has announced that they have recently launched their free audit tool. This tool can be used by anybody and delivers free and no obligation results. It is designed to show people what the current status of their website is, and what they could do in order to improve it. Altitude Web Consulting encourages everybody to use it.

T3 Advisors, a global real estate services and consulting firm, today announced the addition of new real estate and workplace professionals to its team. Hailing from leading companies in both the Bay Area and Boston, each brings a unique set of skills and expertise in support of T3 client needs:

With more than 25 years of industry experience, AAA Public Adjusters is the leading Philadelphia and NJ public adjuster. The company represents both home and business owners, and their wide range of expertise includes handling damages from fire, smoke, water, wind, vandalism, burst pipes and much more. AAA Public Adjusters is headquartered in Philadelphia, PA, but they also have additional locations in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and New Jersey. Their longstanding and continued success owes to their commitment to giving every case the unique, personal attention that it deserves, and always fighting for the rights and interests of their clients to make sure all clients receive sufficient payments to cover the losses they've suffered.

It is difficult for managers to attain an accurate picture of how their employees really feel about their experiences in the workplace. Most employees are reluctant to give negative feedback to their superiors, meaning that issues that lead to dissatisfaction or high turnover may go undetected and unaddressed.

Having someone say "yes" to your ideas ranks among the greatest achievements in the business world. But persuasion requires intellectual heavy lifting, and part of that heavy lifting entails making a solid business case for what you're proposing.

The most important asset to a company is having knowledgeable, motivated and experienced employees who are happy to be with their employer. For both the employer and employee, finding the right fit is often challenging and time-consuming, yet trusting someone else to do it for them can be distressing. That's where CRG steps in. They are a professional search, staffing and consulting firm recently established from three different companies with more than twenty years of staffing experience. The company's focus is mainly in information technology, accounting, finance, executive administrative and human resources,

If you're trying to secure a promotion, make a sale or rally support for an idea, Mark Rodgers can help. The persuasion expert and author of "Persuasion Equation: The Subtle Science of Getting Your Way" (AMACOM) will be featured in an interactive webinar on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at noon (EST).

YogaMidlifePainRelief.com latest book YOGA Midlife Pain Relief Secrets: Discover Ancient Yoga Poses & Meditation Techniques To Create A Holistic Mind-Body Medicine Routine, Relieve Stress & Achieve Pain Relief Even For Yoga Beginners by acclaimed yoga and meditation instructor, international best selling author, and workshop leader Catherine Mazur. Catherine Mazur, an acclaimed yoga and meditation instructor, as she calls herself, has written a new e-book, use the techniques in this book to heal your body and transform your life! Whether the reader is nineteen or ninety, midlife can be a place where one can find themselves stuck in the middle of their own life, no matter what their age. This book will show those seeking change and revitalization of their life, truly a way out of struggle. This book will lead one back to their authentic self, that part of each of us that is alive, healthy, powerful and filled with courage, purpose and passion. Remember that person?

Katsof Consulting, a company established with the aim of bridging the gap between fund managers around the world and institutional investors led two U.S. Commerce Department Certified Trade Missions of U.S. private equity, venture capital ,real estate and hedge fund managers to meet with Institutional investors from Canada's largest insurance companies, pension funds, institutional investors and family offices. The Trade Missions visited both Toronto and Montreal, Canada, and were attended by no less than forty six representatives from Canada.

In Home Usage Testing has become an important tool for product development and market research companies. Canadian Consumer Panels, one of the most respected consulting firms that specializes in product testing and product development work has announced they are offering free consultations.

With the launch of its new Amazon Handmade marketplace, select artisans and designers have been given the opportunity to use Amazon's powerful retail platform to showcase wares made in the spirit of sustainability, resourcefulness, and imagination. The invite-only program allows for small-batch creators to expand their customer base while keeping their unique processes and design aesthetics; this makes high-quality handmade items accessible to a greater customer base while encouraging local production. Oat Foundry, a Philadelphia-based agency of engineers, tinkerers, inventors and innovators, has recently been highlighted as an Amazon Handmade Featured Artisan, shortly following its induction as a Handmade Launch Partner.

An Act! E-Marketing webinar will be held on Monday, November 14, 2015, from 12:00 PM. to 1:00 PM. EST. The event, sponsored by Tech Benders, will feature a presentation on the Act! E-Marketing product by Karen Fredricks, the woman who wrote the book (actually 7 books) on Act!. Admission is $15 and includes a utility to scour your database for bad e-mail addresses (retail value $199). All attendees will also receive a slide deck of the presentation.

Mobility has become fundamental to the way organizations conduct their business by empowering their employees and customers as well as laying the foundation for the next Innovative Disruptive Technology - the Internet of Things. The recent partnership between REALTECH and enosiX allows them to offer the quickest time-to-value for enterprise mobility and integration in the market.

Kirk's Consulting Services is currently seeking host sites to conduct 4-day Introduction to Grant Proposal Writing & Funding Research Workshops via the Get Grant Ready series for the 2016 calendar year specifically designed for faith and community-based nonprofit organizations nationally . These workshops are specifically designed for organizations in need of starting new funds development initiatives, and community-based organizations (with a 501 © 3 tax exempt status) in need of enhancing existing funds development efforts. This 4-day training teaches program participants how to find public and private grant funding, develop private and public grant proposals, submission processes, data research in preparation for grant development activities, and much more. The training is taught from a federal grant reviewer's (or grant funder's) perspective.

XA Systems, LLC is an industry-leading information technology (IT) management consulting company that also delivers IT Service Management (ITSM) training and certification services. Some of the best practice frameworks that they provide training and certification services on include, but are not limited to, the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL), RESILIA, COBIT and ISO/IEC 20000. To help clients better understand the benefits of ITIL, the company is eager to announce that they have just released a new blog post that sheds light on the importance of the framework's Service Strategy phase.

The variety of mobile apps available for smartphones and tablets has increased exponentially in recent years. It's become essential that companies need to have apps developed for their business if they want to stay abreast of their competition. But calculating the estimated mobile app development cost is not a straightforward process.

Anita Moorjani, best-selling author of Dying to be Me, joins Speakers Connect, Asia's leading International speakers bureau.

NYC Tech Firm Stride won three Stevie Awards at the 12th annual ceremony in New York City on November 13th. The Stevie Awards for Women in Business are the world's most coveted honor, chosen among more than 1,300 nominations from 26 countries.

Recent Google statistics indicate that ninety-three percent of people launch their online sessions by using a search engine. In addition, three-quarters of those who do use a search engine will never scroll past the first page of results in order to find something they're searching for. This means that the websites that appear on the first page for a relevant search term will get seventy-five percent of the traffic, and those who ignore search engine optimization are left scrambling for scraps.

G&L Training are a specialist training provider based in Carrara. The company provides expert training solutions for both small and large businesses. Their training experts are also safety consultants and qualified to teach their skills to others.