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The cloud has become a foundation that enables digital transformation, market differentiation and competitive advantage for all types and sizes of businesses. As businesses continue to leverage th...

Consider these seven steps to maximize your investment.

Privacy laws in the United States are constantly changing, especially as pandemic-related privacy breaches and data leakages become more frequent. We’ve provided brief overviews of several key p...

We have long left the era of traditional IT, an era where a small internal IT team was mostly capable of handling a variety of IT challenges. Internal IT alone is challenged to meet the expectatio...

Businesses face disruption on multiple fronts, and they are struggling to get things done.

Windows 10 feature updates can help employees work more efficiently by allowing them to customize their PC preferences, increase security structures, and get more creative with their software tool...

As CFOs continue to focus on resilience, data-driven decision making and analysis will be critical.

In the final installment of a three-part series on what’s next for work, we break down the big trends powering productivity growth.

Amid COVID-19, companies face the challenge of providing a safe working environment for their employees while continuing to maintain productivity and efficiency. The pandemic has forced the busines...

Download PDF Version Digital transformation is heralding the next era in supply chain management, in which suppliers and customers come together in entirely new ways, blurring the lines betwe...

What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malware designed to provide an unauthorized actor access to an organizations’ systems and to deny the use of those systems until a ransom is paid. Per...

2020 brought many changes. We  launched BDO Digital  in January with the goal of helping middle market organizations harness innovation and capture the full power of technology. At the time, no on...

Throughout 2020, BDO Digital worked with Microsoft to produce a number of informative webinars to help companies meet the challenges of this tumultuous year. Webinars covered topics such as Managi...

Digital transformation has gone from buzz word to best practice to baseline, especially during these uncertain times. As businesses continue to struggle with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemi...

According to BDO’s latest white paper, Getting from A to AI - The Path to Data Analytics Maturity , organizations need a combination of the right architecture, analytics, and artificial intelligen...

In a crowded Silicon Valley auditorium, two opponents met on stage to debate. On one side of the stage stood Harish Natarajan, world record-holding debate champion. On the other was “Miss Debat...

January 1, 2020, ushered in a new era for data privacy in the United States when the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) took effect, with enforcement beginning on July 1, 2020. If it wasn’t en...

The abrupt shift to remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced insurance companies to overhaul their cybersecurity strategies almost overnight. Companies in every industry have faced an inc...

As industries and businesses continue their journey through Digital Transformation, a new set of technological requirements has emerged. 70% of today’s companies are either in the process of develo...

How are you planning for your next move? What’s the difference between identifying a strategic opportunity and seizing it? How you plan for it. Are you following the below steps to re-tool ...

On September 23, 2020, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published SP-800-53 rev. 5, titled Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations . The pu...

How do you free up working capital in your supply chain? For the first few months of the pandemic, most businesses prioritized de-risking their supply chains—even at the expense of higher cost...

Data analytics combined with artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way businesses understand their current performance, plan for future growth, and most importantly, react to crises. Check o...

Businesses have faced many acute challenges in 2020, and cyber threats rank high on that list. The COVID-19 pandemic brought abrupt business interruption and drastic revenue changes for many indus...

Which bricks do most to hold up your company’s fort? In 2004, LEGO was on the brink of bankruptcy. They had expanded into clothes, theme parks and other products tangential to their iconic plas...

The technological revolution has elevated “data” to one of the most contested and vital resources in the modern global economy.  Data driven business models necessitate the collection of vast amoun...

What inefficiencies could you tackle now that you couldn’t at full tilt? Once we see it in hindsight, the “great pause” may be end up being a great business gift—for those who don’t squander t...

Businesses have faced many acute challenges in 2020, and cyber threats rank high on that list. The COVID-19 pandemic brought abrupt business interruption and drastic revenue changes for many indus...

Can you scale up or down as fast as you need to? In a recession, fixed costs are a liability. The more you have, the more revenue is needed to break even—and the harder it is to rapidly scale u...

A gray day provides the best light - Leonardo Da Vinci We stand at a once-in-a-century moment in time for middle market organizations to topple the biggest behemoths from their thrones and sol...

The onset of the global coronavirus pandemic coincided with a sharp rise in the number of cyber-attacks that have impacted organizations of all sizes across industries. Private equity firms are inc...

Here are several key areas where the application of blockchain can revolutionize the future of asset management by improving speed, efficiency and security, while also creating new vehicles for inv...

The California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) went into effect on January 1, 2020, with the California Attorney General beginning enforcement on July 1, 2020. The CCPA represents a historic shift ...

Introduction In the span of just a few short years, digital transformation has gone from buzzword to best practice to baseline. No longer confined to Silicon Valley or corporate giants with botto...

The intersection of digital transformation and data privacy will be critical for middle market organizations as they continue to expand their digital capabilities. Data privacy is no longer an amo...

Innovation remains imperative. While it’s difficult to predict the near-term market and economic landscape, it’s clear that consumers and businesses will need new methods, ideas and approaches. ...

As the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has spread worldwide over the past few months, two global megatrends have emerged in the data privacy arena: contact tracing and working from home. Both bring s...

Salesforce.com (SFDC) is investing in its already market-leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform by focusing on data analytics and artificial intelligence. In 2016, Salesforce beca...

The global healthcare industry faces unique challenges because it deals with human health, safety and mortality. Healthcare organizations amass huge amounts of confidential and sensitive personal ...

For many years now, the cloud has become an actively discussed topic in boardrooms around the world. Businesses are eager to capture the speed and scalability of cloud computing, while avoiding di...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights  ("Customer Insights" or "CI") is an intuitive and flexible customer data platform that can unlock insights and power personalized customer experiences. I...

Family Offices outsource their information technology (IT) services to either local small IT firms or large professional services companies. As a result, the level of cybersecurity expertise availa...

IT organizations recognize that they need to move to the cloud for better scalability, mobility and security. Often, this means partnering with a service provider who has the depth and breadth of e...

Coronavirus (COVID-19) protocols are being implemented across the board ranging from temperature checks to wearing masks to collecting contact information before you can enter a venue. Whether you ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the health of our communities, businesses and the global economy. The stakes are too high to allow room for error when decision-making is often a matter of l...

These are trying times for real estate investors, landlords, and tenants alike. The COVD-19 pandemic has undoubtedly introduced financial stress to all, but from many different perspectives. Prio...

All too often companies move to digitally transform data without a strategic or proactive approach to cybersecurity and data privacy. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a dramatic...

Businesses, their partners, vendors, and end users have been forced to rapidly change the way they work and utilize technology in response to the work from home mandate imposed by the COVID-19 pand...

How the Middle Market Is Tackling Disruption Today We surveyed 600 C-suite executives at middle market organizations on their plans for digital transformation. This survey was conducted prior to...

Due to COVID-19 and the shelter-in-place policies, organizations are implementing remote work where possible, but for some, it’s not sustainable. The common reaction to the economic downturn tends ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) generally receives notice from its usual users - government, large tech organizations and academics. However, researchers and developers are increasingly using AI and...

Prior to COVID-19, your organization may have had long-term transformation plans that are likely no longer applicable in the current environment. Rather than pushing through with an irrelevant stra...

As a result of the COVID-19 virus many organizations have mandated a remote work policy, making it hard to imagine a world without modern technology and cloud services. The demand for instant avail...

In response to COVID-19, organizations across the globe adjusted their operations and core business functions due to mandated remote work policies. To maintain stability, when adapting to rapidly c...

Digital Transformation in the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era If there were any lingering doubts about the necessity of digital transformation to business longevity, the coronavirus has silenced t...

Given the rapid rise of the inter-connected, digitized global economy, where data is the new oil, the ability to readily transfer personal data is imperative in maintaining and enhancing strong tra...

The COVID-19 pandemic has compelled many organizations to adapt to the new normal of a remote workforce. This new environment brought on additional challenges that IT, legal and compliance and remo...

Application consolidation is not likely to be a top of mind item to consider in the middle of a global pandemic such as COVID-19. However, coming out of the current state, organizations will need t...

The demand for virtual communication is at an all-time high with COVID-19 as many organizations have moved to remote work policies. Working from home has employees communicating virtually through a...

COVID-19 has rapidly and irrevocably reshaped the global business climate. Virtually overnight, restaurants and bars have shuttered their doors to customers, transitioning to delivery and take-ou...

While video conferencing is not a new concept, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has caused the demand for virtual communication to be at an all-time high. As a result, many organizations had to man...

With the rapid spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) worldwide during the past few months, more than ever, people are working remotely or exercising “social distancing.” As a result of an incr...

Automation is no longer just for data sciences, it’s for every industry. Thanks to advancements in modern technology, such as Microsoft Power Automate , Incorporating automation into your st...

The spread of COVID-19 has pushed many organizations to adopt remote work policies. This influx in remote work has created a gap in cybersecurity standards and it’s becoming a growing concern. Cybe...

Cloud computing is by far the most popular infrastructure in all IT sectors. According to Leftronic , 90% of companies use some type of cloud service and 77% of enterprises have at least one appli...

With the current rise of work from home given the COVID-19 crisis it’s important to be sure your sales team is leveraging the proper tools to help facilitate CRM use and tracking of leads and pipel...

The COVID-19 outbreak is affecting every sector of organizations. An increase in the remote workforce has created capacity and skillset challenges in mid-market organizations’ IT departments, inhib...

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak spreading around the world, many companies are seeking to understand how they can enable their employees to work from home while weathering the outbreak. Wh...

The COVID-19 outbreak could have a direct and lasting impact on organizations of all sizes. As the number of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases continue to climb both in the U.S. and across the...

Entering the new decade, you may have heard some chatter about digital trends and how the workplace is evolving – especially within the role of the CFO. According to a recent Forbes article,  New ...

Is your company prepared for new CMMC requirements from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)? This article provides an overview of the changes, the implications for U.S. Defense Prime Contractors ...

CFOs are expecting bold moves for growth in 2020. Research from  BDO’s 2020 CFO Outlook Survey  predicted that digital transformation will grow 54% within the next year.  Increasing automation of ...

Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm and has expanded rapidly in recent years. Today, a growing number of industries are expanding their workflows and solving complex problems with...

Building applications to automate processes and advance functionality was once a time consuming and expensive processes reserved for professional developers. Today, business leaders with a vision f...

The potential to create, edit and duplicate application workflows and functionality with greater speed and agility has put advanced automation – including pre-build AP components – into the hands o...

The potential to create, edit and duplicate application workflows and functionality with greater speed and agility using Power Platform has put advanced automation – including pre-build AP componen...

In our digitally-driven society, cybersecurity is an essential element in ensuring both data integrity and privacy. Nearly every organization is going through some form of digital transformation to...

What is Microsoft Power Automate? Microsoft Power Automate is an Online Workflow Service that automates actions across common workplace applications and services to make your life easier. When c...

As the year comes to an end, most companies are making plans to improve their business in 2020. In the spirit of the New Year, we thought we’d share some exciting technology resolutions you may wa...

Why Privacy Compliance Matters? New regulations bring new demands to organizations of all sizes; it is necessary to properly allocate time, resources and budget to comply and remain in compliance...

Part 4: Accelerating Adoption Digital transformation can feel like a leap of faith—a bet against the odds that your company’s investment will pay off in full. And yet, the alternative is unpalata...

Companies are beginning to place a bigger focus on team performance and productivity. New findings reveal that there has been a 50% increase in “collaborative” work over the past five years. Whi...

About Microsoft Compliance Manager Microsoft Compliance Manager is an ongoing risk assessment tool that centralizes compliance activities. Keeping compliant is easy with Compliance Manager’s dash...

This year's Microsoft Ignite Conference revealed many new features for Microsoft Teams! These features were designed to respond to evolving business needs and help increase productivity. The upd...

About Business Application Modernization (BAM) Organizations are dependent on applications to run their core business and many of these applications have become the lifeblood of the business. Eve...

Companies sustain more annual growth when they are guided by data-driven insights. In order to unlock the full power of your data across all business processes, you need holistic enterprise informa...

Running Windows 10 in kiosk mode is a great feature if you need to lock down devices to only allow one or a few applications to run while also preventing end users from accessing anything else on ...

Microsoft Teams is a unified communications and collaboration hub that includes messaging, guest sharing, bots and a dynamic user experience. The goal of Teams is to allow users to centralize thei...

About the BDO Middle Market Digital Transformation Survey The 2019 BDO Middle Market Digital Transformation Survey was conducted by Rabin Research Company, an independent marketing research firm,...

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) has deprecated their hybrid mobile device management (MDM) feature and many companies have yet to move over to Microsoft Intune for MDM to cont...

In Part 1 of this Auth0 series, you went over the basics of creating a tenant, adding some users, and hooking into common social providers for identity federation. Here in Part 2, we’ll extend that...

These days there are a lot of tools and services which can be used to supply identity-related information in the cloud. For example, some of the most common providers are: Azure AD, Microsoft Acco...

Part 3: Fortify Your Digital Backbone The human spine is a remarkable feat of evolutionary engineering: 33 individual bones cushioned with fibrocartilage discs, bound together by interlocking jo...

Have you ever put a username and password in plain text of a script file? Have you thought about the impact this could have if someone found a username and password together in that script? Common...

System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) can be a great endpoint management solution for your on-premises IT infrastructure. Yet as many SCCM admins can attest, the software is quite complex, an...

System Center Configuration Manager ( SCCM ) can be a great endpoint management solution for your on-premises IT infrastructure. Yet as many SCCM admins can attest, the software is quite complex, ...

After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will end support for Windows 7 . To date, there is still a paid support option for the operating system, but all complimentary updates that come as a part of th...

Innovative Business Models for the Digital Era Looking toward the digital economy of the future—one dominated by services and ideas rather than goods—the greatest opportunity for value creation...