Why Healthcare should Evaluate Biometrics for Patient Identification 

The Future is Now
Once upon a time, using biometric technology for identification was strictly relegated to science fiction. Hollywood movies depicted scenarios where iris scans opened doors, or fingerprint-started cars, or someone’s voice or palm print provided access to clandestine information. Moviegoers marveled at how biometrics was portrayed, and wondered how soon this technology would jump off the screen to become an identification reality in their everyday lives.

 
Well, the future is now. All over the world, governments, corporations, military establishments and others are using biometric technology for identification across many different verticals for a multitude of objectives. There is biometric identification for workforce management to help stop time theft, build accountability, and reduce payroll inflation and error rates. Biometrics is used extensively in public safety to avoid duplicate booking entries, eliminate identity fraud, track inmate movements and increase security. The financial industry has adopted biometric technology to reduce password expenses and protect customer data. Retail point-of-sale establishments use biometric identification to reduce false returns, helping improve loss-prevention strategies.

Email Signatures: Compliance and the Power of Marketing

Your brand is more than your logo, letterhead and website. It is the standards set forth by management and carried out by every employee in the organization.

However, in today's digital age it has become increasingly difficult for corporations to align their brand standards with their employee's electronic communication practices.

This challenge is highlighted by the variations in a company’s email signature.  A company with 500 employees may have 200 different email signatures.  

Emails.  We send a lot of them.  Every day you probably send dozens of emails from your personal inbox and the signature at the bottom of your email says a lot about you and the company you represent.   Is your signature compliant with your company’s branding standards?  Does your company even have a standard for email signatures?

The Social Sale: Don’t Underestimate the Value of a Social Lead

Sales and marketing professionals have heard it all before - the doom and gloom statistics that make most think they have to reinvent the wheel to grab the attention of prospects and keep that of customers. For example, "80% of marketing leads are ignored," or "Sales reps stop trying after three attempts." Thus, some companies scramble to stake a space in the 20% of leads that are paid attention to, often investing more than they should in marketing gimmicks. 

While some of these marketing dollars may indeed see some return on investment, there is a subtler, somewhat less expensive way to generate leads. Drum roll please ...

Initial Tips to Reaching the Necessary Startup Gold at the End of the Rainbow

Today, new businesses are popping up all over the place, as entrepreneurship is becoming ever more popular. Even though starting your own business can yield numerous benefits, it can also be extremely costly. And, unless you have a family trust fund, odds are you do not have mounds of cash sitting around. Therefore, devising a solid fundraising plan is essential to the livelihood of your startup.

At first glance, raising capital might seem like an easy task. Many people might think “what’s the big deal? All you have to do is ask people for money!” While some get lucky and the money falls into their hands, successfully raising ample capital becomes a job in and of itself for others.

Fine tuning your fundraising skills and polishing your pitch is important. But, there are a number of other things to consider, as well. Here are a handful of tips to consider before you hit the pavement.

The Big Debate: Do I go offshore or stay close to home?

Over the last few decades, companies have been faced with a difficult decision. Do I outsource my technology and/or product development?  Do I send it offshore or keep it close to home?

The answer is multi-fold and depends heavily on how mature your System/Product Development Life Cycle is and what stage you are in.  There is often confusion between the different decisions of outsource/insource and onshore/offshore.  There are multiple combinations that should be thoroughly evaluated – again depending on criticality and maturity.  When exploring the options, we strongly encourage clients to keep their development onshore (whether insourced or outsourced) while development efforts are still in prototype mode. Platforms that require extensive interaction with business users that all too often have ill-defined parameters should remain close to the business.

Aventis Systems is proud to be a Gold Sponsor of the five-week CapVenture program presented by the Technology Association of Georgia. We will be writing about some of the lessons learned in these sessions over the next few weeks. CapVenture is a “unique and powerful training program to educate and equip early stage company executives for smarter and more productive capitalization of their business.”

Since our founding in 2008 by serial entrepreneur, Hesam Lamei, the Company has maintained ongoing efforts to learn and grow within a sustainable community of entrepreneurs. Our goal is not only to be a strong resource for the technology infrastructure that runs small businesses, but also to give back to the community in which we’ve thrived, and share our entrepreneurial spirit with other growing businesses. For these reasons, Aventis Systems is currently sponsoring CapVenture, a five-week Georgia startup program presented by the Technology Association of Georgia....