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  Are Employee Business Workstations IoT-Ready?

  IoT for SME, SMB, micro & SOHO business While a small business consultant or over-the-counter (OTC) software can help optimize connectivity or performance of legacy devices in a company network, there's no assurance that the network and its attached resources will be ready when business needs expand. Owners of small-to-medium enterprise (SME), small-to-medium business (SMB), micro-sized business or “mom-n-pop” small office/home office (SOHO) business can reap the benefits of transitioning to digital processes or the Internet of Things (IoT).

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  Employee-Based Workstations for SME, SMB, Micro & SOHO

  What is an employee role-based workstation? For owners or operators of a small-to-medium enterprise (SME), small-to-medium business (SMB), and micro-sized business or small office/home office (SOHO) business, some companies' very first computer may likely be the owner's personal laptop or desktop workstation. But if not already, owners need to plan ahead now for business expansion beyond the company's immediate needs.

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  Business Laptop vs. General Consumer Laptop

  When purchasing a laptop for business purposes versus regular home use, there are broad differences in what's available. Buyers should consider all the factors carefully. While a inexpensive laptop package may offer an attractive low buy-in appeal, in the long-term overall quality will endure the test of time.

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  The “Lost Laptop” as a High-Risk Security Endpoint

  IT enterprise information asset management includes lifecycle management, user authentication management, data storage security, and network security. IT staff need to track thousands of devices, manage installed applications, prevent unauthorized users from logging in, perform constant network monitoring. While staff also need to ensure both internal (such as firewall-based) security, relatively little consideration is given to ensure protection for endpoint resources is in place.

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  Top 5 Factors When Buying a Business Laptop

  When purchasing a laptop for business use, business owners can simplify the decision-making process by weighing five critical factors.

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  Resilience in healthcare: digital strategies for strong health systems

  The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged healthcare like never before. Across the globe, governments, hospitals, clinics and frontline workers have had to face added pressures of tracking and tracing new infections, treating COVID-19 patients on top of usual duties, maintaining the flow of medical supplies, respecting social distancing measures, and more – straining an already under resourced system.

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  The factory of the future: Unlocking Industry 5.0 for manufacturing resilience

  Like almost every other industry, manufacturing has been hit hard by the global COVID-19 pandemic. According to Kearney, more than 75% of the world's global manufacturing output has been directly impacted by the crisis. As the world faced rising cases, lockdowns, travel restrictions and more, manufacturers have had to grapple with unprecedented disruptions to production lines and supply chains.

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  Enable the future of blended learning with the cloud

  According to IDC, education is one of the sectors that will feel a lasting impact from COVID-19 on cloud enterprise infrastructure. The shift to remote learning during this time has proven to schools just how essential accessibility, connectivity, data privacy and wise technology spending are to create successful online learning environment.

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  Learning on the edge: How edge computing could benefit classrooms

  COVID-19 has reshaped global campus design with new testing, tracing, building-management and isolation practices to minimize COVID-19 outbreaks. With its range of option that enable work during the pandemic, migrating to the cloud can help school districts prepare for business continuity in times of crisis. More importantly, the cloud has shifted the IT emphasis away from operational objectives, such as running data centers and managing infrastructure, towards helping schools deliver on more strategic goals around teaching, learning and student engagement.

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  The future success of education technology lies in robust IT risk management

  The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift to remote, home-based learning. As restrictions ease around the world and in-person classes resume, educational facilities returning to the new normal need to update cyber and physical security defences to protect learners in a new, digital-forward environment.

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  From new retail to smart retail: how to build resilience in the new normal

  New retail has been in motion as far back as 2017. That was when Alibaba first coined the term to indicate the blending of online and offline commerce through the digitization of the retail value chain. The pandemic has only accelerated the trend, triggering a massive digital shift, in response to evolving consumer behaviour.

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  Bringing your hybrid workforce to life? Here’s what you need to consider

  The idea of a fully remote workforce was once considered a pipe dream, scoffed at by cynics who labelled it idealistic. Since the pandemic, however, remote work has become the norm, and this has consequently led to the widespread acceptance of hybrid work as people return to the office.

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  Switching to hybrid work: Here’s how SMBs can plan their digital strategy

  Technology will play a more crucial role than ever in a hybrid working world, shaping our workspace, work habits, and how we work together. And as more small-medium businesses (SMBs) ponder the switch to hybrid, they'll need to create a digital strategy that goes beyond digitizing business processes. This strategy needs to pave the way for a full digital transformation to allow SMBs to reap the benefits of tech-powered solutions in hybrid work.

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  Hybrid learning: Taking education to the next level

  When the pandemic started in 2020, schools were forced to shut and send 1.2 billion students in 86 countries back to their homes and continue their learning remotely, using virtual platforms for lessons. While schools have already adopted some form of online learning pre-pandemic, lockdowns globally underscored the importance of education technology. It's enabled schools to continue lessons amid one of the biggest crises in the world's history.

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  The future of work is hybrid. What does this mean for Small Medium Businesses?

  For many of us in 2020, the year of the pandemic has begotten new work practices as we adjusted to remote work. From how we've collaborated to how we've conducted meetings, COVID-19 has made us learn to adapt. And adapt we have. The pandemic has shown that it's possible to get work done outside the office, five days a week, thanks to technology. And it has shifted the global mindset about how and where work gets done. In many studies on work arrangements over the past year, the flexibility of working from home has consistently ranked highly among those surveyed. As companies navigate the future of the workplace, hybrid work – a blend of on-site and remote work – is expected to replace remote work as the new status quo.

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  Creativity is Evolving: Let Your Business Technology Evolve with It

  Creativity is evolving. There is more possibility for everyone from a solo creative all the way up to full design agencies to create incredible productions, from video to 3D graphics and beyond. The possibilities are endless, and this explosion in creativity is due in large part to the rise of powerful, innovative technologies.

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  How ASUS Drives Creative Education: An Insight into the ProArt Range and the Creative Professionals Involved

  Creativity isn't solely hardware-driven. While anyone can head to the ASUS store and purchase any product from the ProArt range, it won't make them a creative professional; they're powerful tools, but only those with the skill and experience will understand and appreciate the possibility that these products afford them.

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  ProArt: Power Up Your Imagination

  As an artist, game developer, architect, or engineer, you hold the power of creativity in your hands: the power to make dreams real. Whether you're fanning a spark of inspiration, carefully refining your concept with a client, or unveiling your next masterpiece, the foundation of your work is in your tools. We build ASUS ProArt products to break down the barriers that stand between you and your vision. Our laptops, workstations, monitors, and more enhance your flow and channel your passion with incredible performance and precision. ProArt lets you devote yourself to what's most important: just creating.

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  Growing Your Online Business: Small IT Changes That Make a Big Difference

  With more of us working remotely and starting new businesses, it's important to know how to scale your business productivity and performance. Whether you're a consultant fielding calls from clients or a creative professional delivering award-winning artwork, there's a range of tools that can improve your workflow and deliver the best possible experience for your customers.

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  Accessible Home Education with ASUS: Learning from Home for Less

  The state of UK education is in flux, with no definitive return to school for students. Teachers and students alike are having to adapt to constantly changing circumstances. While there is an end to the current situation in sight, it is important that students continue to maintain their education, even while studying remotely.

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  The Future of Digital Education: What Will Learning Look Like?

  It's no secret the landscape of learning has changed. More than ever, students of all ages are learning digitally, and looking to alternative methods of studying and seeking further education.

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  Upgrading Your College or University Facilities: The Evolution of Higher Education

  When it comes to higher education, technology plays a huge role throughout student's time learning; from learning in sixth form and other avenues of higher education, all the way to university and attaining a degree in their chosen subject(s).

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  Why You Don’t Need to Blow Budgets Taking Your Business Remote Long-Term

  As many businesses make the decision to take their business permanently remote, questions naturally arise around the topic of providing staff with equipment and budgeting for supplies.

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  Why your business should embrace remote working

  When you tell someone that you're working from home, the usual response is a raised eyebrow and having the words “working from home” repeated back at you with an accompanying David Brent-style air quotes gesture. Remote working is still stigmatized by many who believe that it's only ever requested by those who want to skive off and watch daytime TV in their dressing gown, instead of doing actual work. However, companies and managers who think this way are missing opportunities to not only get more from their workforce, but improve morale, reduce staff turnover and attract new talent. Remote working is rising in popularity. According to figures from the TUC, there were 400,000 more people working remotely in 2017 than in 2005, putting the total figure at just over 1.6 million. However, a staggering 4 million more UK workers would like to work remotely at least some of the time, but do not have the opportunity to do so.

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  Small & Medium Business Solution Guide

  Technology is rapidly changing the way business users work. Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) have a strong need for innovative solutions to adapt to change and to compete. Digital transformation, Remote working, Data protection, and Flexible workplace are just of the few of the challenges and opportunities facing SMBs, with many more besides. The good news is that ASUS is here to help companies deal with testing times and harness emerging trends. Ultimately, our solutions are designed to boost productivity, improve customer satisfaction and drive your profits — so read on to find out what you need to know, and how ASUS can help.

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  Education Solutions Guide

  Technology is rapidly changing the way students learn and the way educators teach in the 21st century. Remote Learning, Mobility, Cloud Collaborative Learning, STEAM Education, and Cybersecurity are several trends and recent chal¬lenges that face modern education institutions. Education administrators increasingly require innovative education solutions to adapt to change.

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  ASUS BU400 impresses at trials by the China Machinery Industry Federation

  The China Machinery Industry Federation (CMIF) is a national-level grouping of diverse enterprises, government agencies, trade associations, research institutions and consultancies dedicated to furthering the interests and development China's burgeoning machinery industry.

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  ASUS ultrabooks are reliable partners in the Petrochemical Industry

  Besides producing the fuels that power our world, the petrochemical industry is also behind myriad compounds and plastics, without which our modern world would have been inconceivable.

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  ASUS BU400 takes on the Gobi desert with flying colours

  Used in various applications from mapping to natural resource locations and infrastructure construction, geodetic data is a three-dimensional representation of the earth that is more precise than flat, two-dimensional maps.

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  ASUS notebooks play vital role in safe conduct of Maritime Traffic

  Maritime pilots are specialists who rely on their local knowledge to guide ships through harbours and congested waterways.

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  Hardwearing ASUSPRO Ultrabooks boost productivity and safety in a Tangshan Steel Mill

  The common perception of the steel mill is that it's an industry that has not undergone much change in a hundred years, relying on heavy machinery, and much labour. This is partly true, the essentials of the industry remain unchanged

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  ASUSPRO BU400 reinvents the independent garage

  “There are some 15,000 garages that Carstar manages, and some 1,500 car models being driven by our customers – as long as the garage is a Carstar member, any questions about the car can be called up through our database with the laptop, to identify problems and find answers,” says general manager Huang Yuanming.

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  Total e Golf

  On June 23, 2011, Total e Integrated Inc. launched the Total e Golf Tablet, which utilizes the ASUS Eee Slate to streamline golf operations at Coppinwood Golf Club.

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  Williams Illustration, LLC

  Freddie E. Williams II, DC Comics illustrator, piloted the ASUS Eee Slate B121 to meet his need for a portable yet powerful graphics art slate tablet.

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  CME Group Estimates Productivity Gains of 10 to 20 Percent with ASUS

  Auditors at CME Group have the crucial job of confirming the financial health of the firms that clear trades for its members. But the auditors' laptops are often too bulky or distracting for effective use.

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  ASUS the worry-free choice for top engine manufacturer

  As one of the largest engine producers in the world, Beijing Foton Cumins Engine Co. exemplifies a business corporation on the cutting edge, using the most contemporary tools and systems to achieve more, while leveraging on them to adapt its own thinking and practices to maintain competitiveness in the global market.

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  ASUS a partner in education: Longman Schools

  The information age affects every aspect of how we live and work. This includes collection of data, and managing this information. Companies that are successful at leveraging information technology in this respect have become more adaptive and responsive than they have ever been, delivering the products and services their customers want, efficiently and effectively.

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  Ericom AccessNow™

  With the growing trends toward BYOD and mobility, Ericom AccessNow helps businesses and organizations empower end-users with simple and secure access to all the applications, desktops and data they need to work, learn and be productive, while moving down the virtualization path

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  From STEM TO STEAM: How technology will bring the future of education to life

  Education is under pressure to respond to a changing world. We've discussed at length how the COVID-19 pandemic has propelled educators to reimagine new ways of learning for students displaced from their classrooms, and the role that CTOs in education must play to facilitate the shift.