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Husch Blackwell Secures Precedential Decision at Federal Circuit on Patent Owners' Standing to Sue for Infringement
A Husch Blackwell appellate team secured a precedential opinion at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which held that clients A.L.M. Holding Company and Ergon Asphalt & Emulsions, Inc. have Article III standing to pursue their infringement claims for patents they own. Agreeing with Husch Blackwell’s arguments, the Federal Circuit reversed the District of Delaware’s prior dismissal.
Data storytelling for CFOs – from debits to dashboards
Stephen Howe | Director | Times 3 Technologies | mail me | The Chief Financial Officer (CFO) role has moved decisively beyond compliance. In a volatile, data-driven economy, finance leaders must now shape strategy, guide decisions and help businesses respond to disruption in real time. The shift is clear. CFOs no longer only report numbers. Instead, they interpret them and explain what could happen next.
The Snowplow
The jangly snowplow sounded like Doomsday And froze the frumpled dog-walkers as it passed, a riot of cold steel. They tightened their leashes and covered their ears and, finally, leaned forward into the salty slurry when the blade was well past. Plodding through the impossible whiteness of a blessedly silent snowfall, they tasted winter on their tongues.
Accounting software solutions for smarter decisions
Real-time financial insights have become crucial to both big and small businesses. Advancements in accounting software technology provide up-to-the-minute information. This innovation offers enhanced decision-making, better cash flow management, and greater financial accuracy. Tech research and consulting firm Gartner expects the global financial management software market to reach $24.4 billion (R423 billion) by 2026.
Building the Business Case for Cybersecurity Investment in SMEs: A Strategic Approach
Stephen Howe · Follow 7 min read · -- In today’s dynamic business environment and economic climate, UK SMEs face an unprecedented challenge: balancing increasing cybersecurity demands against constrained budgets. According to the UK Government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2023, 39% of UK SMEs identified cyber attacks in the previous 12 months, with an average cost of £15,300 per incident.
COLUMN: Picking the right software partner is crucial
The market for enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions is soaring in South Africa. Building on the 2022 base value of R25 billion, market analysis company Market Research Future projects that the country’s ERP software sector is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 7.5% through 2028. Growth is driven by numerous factors, including an increased demand for automation, a need to comply with regulations, scalability, and digital transformation to remain competitive.
Don’t discount the provider’s role in software appeal
The market for enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions is soaring in South Africa. Building on the 2022 base value of R25 billion, market analysis company Market Research Future projects that the country’s ERP software sector is growing at a compound annual growth rate of 7.5% through 2028. Growth is driven by numerous factors, including an increased demand for automation, a need to comply with regulations, scalability, and digital transformation to remain competitive.
Democratising Enterprise-Grade Threat Intelligence: How Google Threat Intelligence is Transforming SME Security Posture
Stephen Howe · Follow 6 min read · -- In today’s digital landscape, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) face sophisticated cyber threats similar to those larger companies encounter. However, SMEs often lack the resources to detect, analyse, and respond to these threats effectively. By integrating Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) into their security operations, SMEs can fundamentally change this dynamic, gaining access to advanced threat intelligence capabilities previously beyond their reach.
Optimising accounting software selection
Stephen Howe | Director | Times 3 Technologies | mail me | It is projected that the global accounting software market will grow to some R660 billion by 2033. The automation of accounting procedures and financial activities across industries has completely changed the international business landscape. In most large companies, manual data capturing processes have been relegated to the past, and it is only in the most extreme cases that these are still implemented.
Planning on global expansion? Do not rely on plug-and-play payroll and HR Original
Advertise your job vacancies 2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more When businesses expand internationally, they need to be cognisant of what that means at an HR and payroll level, as each country is governed by its own set of payroll regulations, compliance, tax and labour laws. This means that a solution that works in one region may not necessarily work for another.
Steve Howe on his new solo album, Guitarscape - 636
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: | Spotify | RSS Produced by Wayne Hall, Joseph Cottrell, Jeffrey Crecelius and Ken Fuller As always, it was a delight to welcome Yes guitarist Steve Howe back onto the show to talk about his new solo album, Guitarscape. It was a fun discussion during which Mark and I enjoyed asking some searching questions about the new record.
Keeping up with compliance: How to avoid falling foul of regulators Original
Advertise your job vacancies 2 days7 days30 daysBy Industry Show more Keeping up with payroll and HR regulatory requirements is an ongoing process - what is compliant today may not be tomorrow, and even minor oversights can lead to significant penalties.
6 payroll myths busted
Navigating payroll taxes can feel like charting uncharted territory, even for the most diligent earners. To dispel some commonly held misconceptions, let's delve into six prevalent payroll tax myths in South Africa. Image source: melpomen – 123RF.com Contrary to popular belief, the source of your income – salary, overtime, or commission – does not influence its tax treatment.
6 payroll myths busted
Navigating payroll taxes can feel like charting uncharted territory, even for the most diligent earners. To dispel some commonly held misconceptions, let's delve into six prevalent payroll tax myths in South Africa. Image source: melpomen – 123RF.com Contrary to popular belief, the source of your income – salary, overtime, or commission – does not influence its tax treatment.
Property tax
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How ERP systems can optimise distribution and wholesale processes
There is no getting away from the fact that challenges exist in distribution and wholesale processes. The ever-changing and interconnected nature of these processes makes them difficult to manage, even more so when customer demands and market conditions fluctuate and product lines diversify. There is a raft of criteria that need to be complied with in terms of effective distribution and wholesale.
Optimising supply chains with ERP Intelligence
Stephen Howe | Director | Times 3 Technologies | mail me | Allowing richer visibility and monitoring of performance, raw material availability, shipping and more. Findings contained in a new report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) indicate that Africa’s economies have the potential to become major players in global supply chains.
Exploring the interaction of viscosity and nipple design on feeding performance in an infant pig model
1 INTRODUCTION Infants suffering from dysphagia often perform unsafe swallows, where milk penetrates the airway or worse, the infant aspirates milk (Gould et al., 2015; Holman et al., 2013; Tutor & Gosa, 2012). This in turn can lead to serious side effects including potentially fatal aspiration pneumonia (Pavithran et al., 2019).
The foundation for organisational resilience
Stephen Howe | Director | Times 3 Technologies | mail me | Resilience is key to building a successful and sustainable organisation capable of withstanding internal and external shocks. Building resilience asks that the organisation bed down stable and agile financial foundations that are aligned with global and local governance, risk and compliance (GRC) mandates. This ensures that the business is operating within parameters that minimise errors, improve processes, and refine operational mandates.
Approaches for Understanding Data Quality in Ringgold Identify
Metadata Fitness Recently, my colleague, Laura Cox, Senior Director, Publishing Industry Data, spoke on a panel at NISO Plus 2023 to discuss our experiences and the challenges around metadata fitness. In this presentation, Laura and the other panel members described how metadata is all around us and has become one of the core tools in scholarly publishing workflows.
Building the Ultimate HR Tech Stack - part 2
Introduction The first article in this series discussed how HR tech can help drive the business strategy and that the Ultimate HR Tech Stack is comprised of two groups of tech working as one ecosystem. In this article, we will focus on the first group of tech – the ‘transactional HR’ tech group.
4 ways efficient payroll can benefit your business
In the past, payroll had negative connotations associated with it. It was simply number crunching. It’s just admin. It’s just a task that has to be done. This association has inhibited its potential within many organisations as they’ve not realised how positive an impact payroll can have on overall business engagement and strategy. Payroll can make a tangible difference to your business, and here are four reasons why...
Notes on the data quality of bibliographic records from the MEDLINE database
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Intelligent financial and operational investments have become competitive differentiators
Times 3 Technologies’ Stephen Howe explains that finance as a function has evolved right alongside technology. The shape of financial management within the organisation has changed. Thanks to the influx of artificial intelligence (AI), automation and machine learning technologies, accounting platforms have shifted from supportive resources to strategic and competitive advantages.
I speak to Steve Howe about Lunar Mist and the 2022 US Tour - 554
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: | RSS Produced by Ken Fuller, Wayne Hall and Jeffrey Crecelius What a week it’s been in the world of Yes. Thanks to friend of the YMP Roie Avin, I managed to speak to Steve Howe about his new album with his late son Virgil, Lunar Mist as well as the US tour which began yesterday with a preview concert.
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Analytics Starts with a Question: How to Better Understand Your Data
As the power of computing and access to information has increased, data, and the knowledge derived from that data, has become an increasingly important driver for organizational decision-making. In almost every position in today’s world, decisions are made based on compiling and analyzing data and implementing strategies based on the data findings. In my world, there isn’t a day that goes by where I am not doing something with data. The scholarly publishing community is certainly not an exception.
Behind the Scenes: Building CCC Expert View
Since May of 2020, we have seen over 2000 articles per week published on COVID-19. That’s a lot of new information to absorb and digest. And of course, with COVID, we have not only the problem of too much information too quickly, but the urgency–especially back in Spring 2020–to find answers and experts now. It was this context that provided CCC the impetus to take some experimental work we were doing in-house on data pipelines and build a COVID author graph.
On-premise ERP is as much a trend as the cloud
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems have undergone significant evolutions and revolutions over the past few years. From increased capacity, scale and agility to refined business functionality, ERP is changing how companies manage disruption, business continuity, growth and long-term success.
Using a Knowledge Graph to Identify Researchers & Key Opinion Leaders
Whether working in business development, human resources, medical affairs, clinical affairs, or competitive intelligence teams, people need to identify researchers and key opinion leaders (KOLs) in different therapeutic areas.
The business value of holistic solution providers
Stephen Howe, Director at Times 3 Technologies. The value of outsourcing services and solutions to optimise the business and its bottom line can’t be understated. With a trusted service provider taking the helm, organisations are left to focus on customers, their own products and platforms.
“Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl”: a fast paced, highly competitive “Smash Bros.” alternative
Courtesy Nickelodeon “Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl” is a more than worthy addition to the ever-growing pool of platform fighters inspired by “Super Smash Bros.” Stephen Howe, Reporter November 23, 2021 Have you ever wanted to see Spongebob duke it out with Aang from “Avatar: The Last Airbender” in a fast-paced brawl set in the Ghost Zone from “Danny Phantom?” “Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl” gives you the chance in a new Smash Bros.-style platform fighter released Oct.
Oliver Wakeman’s Tales - 508
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: | RSS Produced by Wayne Hall and Jeffrey Crecelius It was a great pleasure to welcome back to the show former Yes keyboard player and prolific solo artist, Oliver Wakeman. We asked him about some of his latest releases including Dark Fables, Tales From Gaslight and his soundtrack to Yendor.
Shone Farm closed due to weather conditions, food distribution postponed
Stephen Howe, Reporter October 24, 2021 Santa Rosa Junior College’s outdoor learning lab Shone Farm will remain closed through Monday Oct. 25 due to weather conditions and increased risk of flooding, according to an email SRJC President Dr. Frank Chong sent Sunday evening. All other campuses will remain open until further notice.
SRJC PEERS' Well-Being Wednesday kicks-off for Fall semester
Stephen Howe, Reporter October 14, 2021 The Santa Rosa Junior College PEERS coalition hosted this semester’s first Well-Being Wednesday on Zoom on Oct. 6 to talk about positivity, thankfulness and good memories of 2021. At one point, the group wrote thank you notes to people they were thankful for. Quinn, from PEERS, wrote a thank you note to her family on an Etch-a-Sketch, and Jeane Erlenborn, a PEERS supervisor, wrote one for her sister.
The Oak Leaf Guide to SRJC, Fall 2021: Petaluma campus edition
Stephen Howe, Reporter September 30, 2021 Whether you’re taking classes on campus or online, COVID-19 has complicated the back-to-school experience. To continue your smooth transition into the semester, The Oak Leaf staff prepared this guide with tips for the Petaluma campus. Check out the Santa Rosa and online-classes guide here. Getting Started The entrance to SRJC’s Petaluma campus is quiet thanks to COVID-19 protocols and reduced enrollment.
Hyperpersonalisation (and increased customisation) reinvigorates ERP
Stephen Howe | Co-Founder | Joint CEO | Times 3 Technologies | mail me | The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation and now industry is leaning into technology that increasingly automates, integrates and harnesses collaboration between disparate business operations. As it does, IT leaders are putting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) firmly back on the boardroom table in large enterprises.
Interview Special with Yes guitar legend, Steve Howe - 486
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Subscribe: | RSS Produced by Wayne Hall, Jeffrey Crecelius and Preston Frazier In a special, extra episode, I have the pleasure of talking to the man who helped Yes to transform their sound and approach in 1970, Steve Howe. He told us about his time in Asia and how the band got back together in 2007 with its original line-up which is featured on the latest release, Asia, The Reunion Albums, 2007-2012.
Leveraging FAIR Data Principles to Construct the CCC COVID Author Graph
This is the first of two posts I’ve written for Velocity of Content, both about transforming data into actionable information. This one is adapted from my presentation at the NISO Plus 2021 Conference in February and focuses on the role of FAIR data in analytics.
Population One: Review
Stephen Howe December 10, 2020 When I first heard about “Population: One,” a new virtual reality battle royale developed by BigBoxVR, I was very put off. I thought to myself, “Battle royale in VR? This sounds like super janky.” But then I decided to pay the $30 and give it a shot, and I was swiftly proven wrong.The game plays surprisingly very well despite being VR. It took some time to adjust to the gameplay, but everything eventually felt natural.
Verso
In this provocative study, Stephen Howe traces the sources and ancestries of the Afrocentric movement, and closely analyses the writings of its leading proponents.
Summer Rep Theater Postponed
Stephen Howe, Staff Writer May 14, 2020 The Santa Rosa Junior College Summer Repertory Theater Festival is one of the many programs affected by the pandemic, and although we won’t be getting to see any plays this summer, SRT is not gone for good. It has been postponed to next year. That way, students who were cast for roles can still keep them for when programs return to normal Summer Repertory Theater Festival was founded in 1972 by “Uncle Frank” Zwolinski.
Review: Roy's Chicago Dogs at The Yard
Stephen Howe, Staff Writer May 12, 2020 Roy’s Chicago Dogs at The Yard | 84 Corona Rd, Petaluma | (707) 774-1574 | Most entrees under $10 4 of 5 Oak Leaves Signature Dishes Chicago-style Vienna beef hot dogs and Italian beef sandwiches Review Chicago-style hotdogs taste unique, and Roy’s really nails it. You wouldn’t expect some of the best Chicago style food to be located at a livestock auction yard, but that’s where it is.
e-commerce frustrations
Stephen Howe, Staff Writer April 17, 2020 I ordered an Oculus Quest in mid-March around the time that the quarantines started. I’ve wanted a virtual reality headset for a long time, and I felt like this would be a pretty good time to get one. The only problem was that Amazon, Target, eBay and most other online sites were either sold out or they were price gouging their VR products.
No need for social distancing; Three video games to keep you connected during shelter-in-place
Stephen Howe, Staff Writer April 9, 2020 It’s been a month since quarantine started, you haven’t seen your friends in forever and you’re probably bored right out of your mind. So what kind of games would be good to play in a time like this? Here are three recommendations to keep you virtually occupied and social. Sea of Thieves Ever dream of being a swashbuckling pirate with your friends? Sailing the open seas, ripe with adventure and opportunity around every corner?
“Sonic the Hedgehog”: Forgettable but fun video game adaptation
Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Arthur Gonzalez-Martin and Stephen Howe March 12, 2020 From “Prince of Persia” to “Assassin’s Creed,” video game film adaptations are notoriously bad, but “Sonic the Hedgehog” is an odd surprise. The film concerns the inter-dimensional blue anthropomorphic hedgehog named Sonic, voiced by Ben Schwartz. Sonic had fled to Earth because of an unnamed evil trying to get his super speed powers.
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