Manual performance reviews are rarely a welcomed activity for managers. Not only are you under the wire to submit all your employees’ reviews on time, but you’re also faced with hours and hours of recalling each employee’s performance details throughout the last few months.

For many medium size businesses, finding the time to proactively manage employee performance is difficult. The emphasis is more often on increasing revenues and achieving stability, especially in the early days. However, as businesses grow, the need for improving staff engagement, productivity and loyalty becomes increasingly important.

We’re amidst disruption in the way people work and learn. Learning and Development as a function must adapt and go beyond the “check the box” approach, putting the learner experience front and center. Employees are now sitting in the driver’s seat when it comes to their career path. Forward thinking organizations must move from simply managing training to creating a […]

Employee management tools that are paper-driven and spreadsheet-oriented are no longer viable workforce development strategies. The modern worker wants performance evaluations to be goal-oriented and feedback-focused, with learning opportunities that are self-driven and personalized to their own career aspirations. Combining Performance with Learning helps employees and managers create meaningful career-building plans that lead to bottom line growth.

Download Gigamon’s white paper, Harnessing the Power of Metadata for Security, to see why metadata is the new security super power. Metadata is data about data or put another way, a kind of summary or high-level view of data. By providing security tools with summary takes of the packet data traversing networks, metadata becomes a powerful weapon for enterprises looking […]

Our 4th annual State of Application Delivery survey results are in. After hearing from over 3,000 of your peers, we saw some distinct trends, confirmed many theories, and learned some surprising facts.

In ecommerce, a variant is a product that has attributes, and each attribute is represented with a different identifier, or SKU. For example, if you have a small, orange shirt and a large, gray shirt, each of these products is a variant and each has a different SKU. Unfortunately, most online marketplaces and stores organize variants differently, which makes selling […]

The world of online selling is full of folks who thought it would be the easier, softer way to run a business. The unspoken fantasy sounds something like “I’ll work in my pajamas at home, click a few buttons, get a PayPal account, build a website in five minutes, and the money will start rolling in.” And it’s true, it’s […]