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10 Reasons Why Companies Should Start Doing Business Online
With the rapid down fall of world economy and dot-com companies in recent years many brick-and-mortar companies and new start-ups ask themselves: To Be Online or Not to Be Online?
Not long time ago, I read a comment of a well-known industry...
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Conducting a job search using the Internet has definitely transformed how jobseekers contact hiring companies. The availability of copying and pasting a text version resume into a form at a company’s website has laid the foundation for an easier...
Keeping Your Business's Finances on Track
One of the biggest benefits of operating a home-based business is that it doesn't require any formal training or experience. After all, some of the most successful individuals never attended a single business-related class or workshop.
The only...
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Small business marketing strategies to generate cash flow during spring and summer.
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Small Business Loans for Women
The Small Business Administration states that business loans for women are on the rise, and will continue to be needed on an increasing basis in coming years. Business loans for women are more popular than ever due to a variety of factors.
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ERM Not Just For the "Big Guys" Anymore, Small Business Rights Management, A Reality
Small Business Rights Management (SBRM) is a term which reflects
the shift ERM (Enterprise Rights Management) technology has
taken as awareness of industry compliance issues and protection
of original works has evolved and become implicit within
businesses of under 50 employees. From published manuscripts to
original cookie recipes, protecting original works, customer or
patient records isn't just "good business," but in many
industries a matter of compliance. The question is how can small
firm businesses invest in ERM software at its current exorbitant
cost?
The realm of protected digital documents, like many business
solution advances has traditionally only been available to
privileged large corporate enterprise businesses. This is no
longer the case.
Technology mandates that it catch up with the populace. In the
early 1980s, first generation laptops are a far cry from the
lightweight Apple PowerBooks, or Dells. ERM software has itself
has begun to slim down and no longer appears like the bulky
over-priced, 24 pound Osborne1 (the first laptop computer).
Rights management solutions can now be for small to medium-sized
businesses or sole-proprietorships too. SBRM solutions provide
businesses of a smaller scale an equal level of user rights
management and encryption previously available to large
enterprise business.
Standard ERM or SBRM software gives content authors the power to
determine how recipients may use their email and documents. For
example, senders can prevent unauthorized distribution (no
forwarding, printing) and prevent unauthorized editing (no cut,
copy, paste) of content, i.e. copy prevention.
For some industries like finance, medical and legal,
keeping
communiqué, client/patient records and data is a matter of
industry compliance. In finance, Sarbanes-Oxley protects
investors and governs corporate responsibility. HIPAA the Health
Insurance Portability and Accountability Act not only protects
health insurance coverage for workers and their families when
they change or lose their jobs, but also dictates that patient
information be kept private. Compliance regulations in such
industries are a cost of doing business, and are often pricey
mandates. Government compliance issues for many industries often
becomes a burden, forcing small neighborhood clinics, firms and
businesses go under due the financial stress.
Compliance as it concerns digital data is finally catching up to
the widening commercial sector which is highly impacted by the
success of small businesses. Small firms dealing with compliance
issues can turn to SBRM solutions to bridge the gap between
staying current with industry regulations and staying in
business.
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Resources for further reading:
Privacy Rights - http://www.privacyrights.org
Wikipedia Articles: DRM - Digital Rights Management
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management Copy
Prevention (and DRM)-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_prevention
About the author:
Marilee Veniegas is an alumni of the University of
Washington she joined the Marketing team at Essential Security Software, Inc. in 2005.
She also serves as one of the ESS site editors for "I Want My
ESS!"
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