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Listen to Heather R. Younger, podcast host of Leadership with Heart, experienced keynote speaker, two time author and CEO and founder of Employee Fanatix, interview Apps Associates’ Steve Baines, Vice President of Salesforce Practice and Salesforce Certified Technical Architect in episode 224: Leaders with Heart are Honest. His leadership style is definitely unique – take a…

Traditional vs. self-service business intelligence doesn’t have to be an either-or choice. Both bring different tools and benefits to organizations. Many organizations are leaving value on the table by solving problems through conventional methods, which can take months or years to resolve. Business intelligence helps companies extract actionable insights from their data much quicker —…

Robotic process automation is typically used to streamline mundane and repetitive business processes to gain efficiency and free up workers’ time for more meaningful tasks. Tasks that can be accomplished using RPA run the gamut, from data entry and tracking orders to sending emails and making phone calls, to filing paperwork and sequencing basic mouse…

IT departments enable analytics in organizations by ensuring that the data architecture is in place, including tools, processes and procedures. As organizations become increasingly digital, there has been greater collaboration between IT and the business — a necessary partnership when it comes to enabling successful data analytics. Modern IT departments need to be data-savvy and…

Careers shouldn’t always be viewed as ladders to climb to higher positions argues Apps Associates Lydie Fox. Sometimes a new opportunity to learn and grow can make all the difference. Since the start of “The Great Resignation,” we’ve seen millions of employees around the world transition jobs, titles, and careers at rates never before seen….

Leading experts offer a glimpse of how the core IT sectors will evolve in the near term future. You might think it foolhardy to make predictions about something that changes as furiously fast as emerging technology. Driven by massive investments, competing for a market that appears limitless, thousands of companies innovate constantly, sometimes at cross…

With 2022 just around the corner, IT professionals are wondering whether the new year will remain as challenging as this year and last. In a word, yes. CIOs will face a tricky juggling act, with talent retention and future-proofing key among them. Forrester predicts that cloud-first and platform-based architectures will be adopted, along with low-code/no-code solutions to reduce the need for advanced technical skills. Other projects this…

The COVID-19 pandemic challenged companies to remain operational under daunting conditions. Many moved to an all-remote workforce, while others moved to a hybrid workforce. Some companies had to lay off employees and reduce their workforce to stay afloat. Now that the initial effects of pandemic on work are waning, many employees previously hesitant to quit…

2021 certainly had its ups and downs, but the ongoing rapid transformations we saw take off last year will continue to shape the long game impacts for years to come. As we head into 2022, here are a few trends from the enterprise application services leaders at Apps Associates, who foresee continued and accelerated growth…

Applications and data analytics service provider Apps Associates revealed this week it has been acknowledged by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading AWS Partner Network (APN) Premier Consulting Partner. This marks the seventh year in a row that Apps Associate has received this recognition. As managed services continue to skyrocket in popularity among businesses…