Small and medium-sized businesses spend on average about U.S. $ 51,000 a year in information protection. The study is based on surveys conducted in May 2010-2152 SME executives and IT staff responsible for decision making in 28 countries in May 2010.

The study revealed that small and medium businesses (10-250 employees) are now making the information protection a top priority of IT, as opposed to 15 months ago, when a high percentage had been unable to implement the most basic protections.

This change makes sense given that Sees face greater threats of cyber attacks, loss of devices and loss of confidential data or protected.

Key aspects of the study:

* Sees surveyed showed greater interest and increased investment in information protection. Qualify data loss and cyber attacks as the biggest business risk, rather than the traditional criminal activity, natural disasters and terrorism.
* The critical data loss threat to Sees. Seventy-four percent of Sees surveyed are concerned or extremely concerned about the loss of electronic information
* Cyber attacks are a critical threat for Sees. Seventy-three percent of respondents were victims of cyber attacks last year. Thirty percent of those attacks were considered successful or extremely successful.

Symantec’s recommendations:

* Train employees: developing the internet safety rules and train employees on safety, security and the latest Internet threats.
* Protect important business information: the protection of information is essential for companies of all sizes and confidential information of Sees face greater risks.
* Implement an effective plan for backup and recovery: the protection of the information is not limited to implementing an antivirus solution.
* Protect the resources of the Web and e-mail: select a Web security solution and e-mail that can help mitigate spam and email threats for Sees to protect confidential information and spend more time with their daily activities.

Now you either by the INEGI, chaired Eduardo Solo, because although it seems to Ripley. Mexico did not have a reliable directory of companies and productive units, as they have failed all previous attempts as the SIEM, Business Information System of the former Department of Trade and Industry that, despite being supposedly mandatory registration for all companies in the country, became a dead letter because it was intended to carry through the chambers of commerce who never had the power to penalize companies or force them to pay their registration to the SIEM.

The new business directory that Solo has now formally present the name of medicine: UNSD, National Statistical Board Economic Units, but will become very useful for all companies and the government because it will really know the universe of productive entities in the country.

Since coming to INEGI, Solo had pledged to put pedal to the development of this directory, as the Law of the National Statistical and Geographic Information provides in Article 23, the creation of UNSD and its entry into force 1 August 2010.

In addition, solo is the first convinced of the importance of UNSD because as economy secretary SIEM found that it was useless and never fulfilled its role of being a reliable standard? The UNSD was developed with information from the Economic Census of 2009 with 4 million 331 000 962 203 companies grouped into different classes or economic activities. The total universe of companies, 47% is engaged in trade, services 39% and only 11% to manufacturing.

Obviously, the results of the UNSD reflect regional economic concentration and economic inequality in Mexico, as institutions, which offer the greatest number of companies is the Federal District, and Mexico, with 22%, while in Jellico, Vera Cruz and Pueblo concentrates 19% and 59% in 27 other states.

Similarly, it confirms that the majority of companies in the country, 88% are Sees because they have up to five employees, while only 0.2% had more than 250.

Another advantage of UNSD is the map with satellite tracking and up to 22 variables of information.

Information systems (IS) refers to a set of rules or principles in this case focused on management and have been linked to achieve the main objective of these solve business problems.

Information systems are today an essential part of most organizations, have good sources of reliable information, and offering an appropriate criterion for making the right decisions for the benefit of the organization is something every manager wants. Information Systems are responsible for the flow of information within the organization as appropriate, offer the possibility of having quality information, which generates a better development of all other components of the organization.

There are Four Levels of Information System:

Operational level: elementary activities such as selling, receiving, storage, payroll, claims are supported by the operating manager responds to routine matters such as payments to suppliers, inventory status, including payroll of the month.
Level of Knowledge: They have much more knowledge workers and information of the institution to improve production through the acquisition of new technologies.
Administrative Level: This level is responsible for comparing the results of the work day with the month last year, provides periodic reports instead of instant information on operations.
Strategic Level: Managers are able to devise long term strategies in all that concerns the organization, you can get to know where is located the company in the future, what your products and we will be making five years.
The Information Systems bring changes in business goals in relation to suppliers and customers by making workers take on a greater level of productivity. All this means that information systems are faced with five key remains to be implemented in companies such as:
1. Strategic business challenge: How can businesses use information technology to design institutions that are competitive and effective?
To remain competitive, they need the use of information technologies and telecommunications to simplify communication and coordination, and eliminate unnecessary work.
2. Challenge of Globalization: How can companies understand the business requirements and systems in a global economic environment?
Companies must face restrictive laws on the flow of information in more than twenty-five countries and should create cross structures accounting and reporting.
3. Challenge of the Information Architecture: How can institutions develop an information architecture that supports organizational goals?
The company must have a clear idea of their organizational goals and how they can be improved by information systems.
4. Challenge of investment to implement Information Systems: How can institutions determine the business value of their information systems?
A manager should imagine that the investment put into an information system you’ll see over time if you begin to achieve results beneficial to the company in the production and speed of it and of good quality.
5. Challenge of Accountability and control in designing information systems: How can companies design systems that people can understand and control? How can institutions ensure that information systems are used in an ethical and responsible?
Information systems should be designed for operating as desired and so that people can control the process. The institutions must take special measures to ensure accurate, reliable and safe.

The Cabled de Tenerife allocated 220,000 euros to launch 100 new business initiatives through the annual call for grants and to allow the creation of 233 jobs, as reported in a statement insular institution.

The counselor island of Economic Development, Trade and Employment, Refrain Medina, said that “now more than ever we must support the implementation of new business initiatives that pique the entrepreneurial spirit to develop the island’s economy.” Precisely, and as a means to support the creation of new businesses, the council convenes every year a line of support for the financing of entrepreneurship, “thereby facilitating the generation of stable employment and productive innovation insular.”

The projects presented are related to different economic sectors, but predominantly in the field activities of the services and retail. In particular, they highlighted the number of enterprises run by the catering sector (cafes and restaurants), retail, business services (consulting, advisory services) and people such as hairdressers and beauty centers, alternative therapies, sport or training. Also have been other industry-related projects such as the establishment of enterprises manufacturing wooden toys, gofer mill, fruit packaging, among others. Most of these companies constitute the legal form of the individual entrepreneur and to a lesser extent, as limited partnerships.

The Cabled of Tenerife has earmarked this year a total of 220,000 euros to finance part of the cost of providing, commissioning and initial start-up companies. The amounts to be charged amount to a maximum of 6,000 euros to finance current expenditure and the same amount for investment, although such subsidies may be increased in the case of employing people with disabilities.

As specified in the rules of the call could be eligible for such assistance to new firms that generate stable jobs, which have economic and financial viability and that the case of companies with fewer than 50 workers.

Each office ACEDE central server, which consolidates the information. Upon receipt of the delivery note is scanned and extracts the most important information. The set is recorded and stored in the database.

Invoices received by the office supplies company are in print while the bills are received computer equipment telemetric as electronic invoices. To unify the process transform paper invoices into electronic format and by electronic means are kept in electronic form, so it is still possible to query and printing at any time. Telemetric Invoices are processed automatically, extracting information and data transmission by transferring the whole database.

So, once registered telemetrically, the process contrasts automatically defined the content of the invoice with remittance information and if there are no discrepancies, the bill states that telemetric is correct in the database and sends a notice to appropriate department so that it can process the payment.

Now suppose the company wants to know at any given time or a time of office equipment expenditures. Now, so quick and easy, please visit the online registration of your bills to know the cost of the company.

After several months, the company decides to make a profit and loss balance; this requires a flexible access to all company documents, including invoices.

These documents, digitized and Online Register at an early stage, streamline the work of the finance department, may well make the balance proposed by the senior management of the company.

So far, we have seen the process of receiving and paying bills, but in the same way, egg in case of a manufacturing company, we could integrate the billing process with other company departments, such as stock control, if both recorded the movements of a telemetric in a database.

The new technologies provide significant benefits to the company, streamline work processes, increase savings and ensure the safe storage, copying and retrieval of business documents and generate greater access to data when carrying an audit or track them.

When choosing a management solution for telemetric bill is important to note the ease of integration it has with our processes and existing applications.

The Office for the Reorganization of Transport (Porte) states that until 31 May this year had spent more than RD $ 3.349 billion to build the first faze of Line its ambitious road system Metro de Santo Domingo.

This amount is far from released by the same institution on 10 March, when a document delivered to the medium said that until then had only “used” $ 10 million dollars in “the documentary and the preliminary work” that at the current rate is equivalent to RD $ 368.6 million.
From two statements that, in less than three months, that entity paid nine times what it had invested since construction began work in 2009 until March this year.
The amount of resources (RD $ 3.349 million) also exceeds by a wide margin the amount of planned expenditure for the State in the Second Line of the Metro, it was a game of 6% of the total expected cost.
As Porte estimated a total investment of $ 750 million ($ 27.645 million pesos), the State would only have to pay $ 45 million, i.e. RD $ 1658.7 million, and the concessionaire would provide the rest.

That is, public investment made so far is double the total amount expected in the original plan, although it still lacks two-thirds of the civil works (66%), according to Lionel Carrasco, assistant director of the Porte.
According to a list of contracts by which this entity has delegated the work, the RD $ 3.349 million has been paid to 68 companies that received grants to work on diversions, fences, walls, earthworks, drainage, civil works and prefabricated, both in the path of the train or Perimeter Avenue or Del Rio.
Among firms with greater amounts contracted are Constructor Faced, who until late last month had signed 19 contracts for a total of RD $ 296.6 million; Updates Technology in Construction (Attic) contained five agreements for a total of RD $ 260.5 million; clearing Task Force, which had signed nine with awards totaling $ 186.9 million and RD Male spin with 18 for a total of RD $ 153.9 million.

However, officials lacked data accuracy, because even if the institution determined that the report includes the complete list of its contractors and subcontractors omitted the names of some companies are also involved in the construction of this arm of the Metro, as the Modesto and Cytec Group.

In 2005, the Chilean market for call center promised to grow at rates of 20% annually, while dramatically increasing the number of companies competing to offer specialized services telesales, marketing, retention, collections in the form of outsourcing, relying on sophisticated technology tools and in a workforce prepared to meet the demanding needs of customers.

Five years later the scenario is changing dramatically. The Federation of Call Center Workers of Chile on the red light to warn that the costs are becoming less competitive local industry and that this would be driving to various Chilean companies to migrate their call centers to other countries in Latin America such as Peru and Colombia, where the price of labor is less tied to the service.

The competitiveness report 2009 World Economic Forum supports the concern of the Chilean union because it was determined that Chile had fallen two places in their competitiveness, moving from number 28 to 30, while Peru and Colombia rose five positions . The result is that from 2009 to date has already lost 1,500 jobs in India, recently announced the Federation of Workers Call Center in the country, detailing to hire phone operators in Peru is up to 25% cheaper than in Chile and in Colombia, up to 17% cheaper.

“The hour of Chilean operator call center actually is superior and has an average cost of $ 4.82 while in Colombia the cost is $ 1.10 and Peru is $ 1.03, according to data published in the local media, “says Juan Fernando Guzman, a professor of Human Resource Management, Faculty of Economics and Business and Universidad Andres Belo Consultants CMG consulting partner, Chilean consultant specializing in strategic management of people. These figures, he says, clearly show why Chile platforms customer are moving to neighboring nations.

Moreover, in his view, there is great similarity between this phenomenon developing in Chile and what happened a few years ago in the U.S. call center industry, where many multinational companies staged an exodus of its call centers in Mexico, India, Philippines and South Africa, encouraged mainly due to lower labor costs. According to data published by the magazine in 2003 Call Center Magazine, a U.S. company could save up to 40% of their costs in personnel, if you operate your customer platform in those nations.

The business unit Mobility Solutions for Government and Business of Motorola, Inc. (NYSE: MOT) today announced the launch of its newest addition to its portfolio of mobile computers, the global Enterprise Digital Assistant (EDA, for its acronym in English) ES400. The features integrated voice and data ES400 unleash the full potential of mobile professionals by providing information and interaction they need to transform their operations, increase business profitability and perform their duties at any time, anywhere.

Both workers and business executives from various industries will benefit with the ES400, which offers the unique combination of features most powerful mobile computing with features “Push to talk” in a compact and lightweight.

The EDA equipment more compact and lightweight Motorola combines elegant design with advanced performance, enabling the mobile workforce with complete success meet any challenge that may arise productivity and securely access critical business applications while moving from a place to another. Built on the Microsoft Windows mobile 6.5, the ES400 EDA allows workers in the areas of field service, field sales, retail, healthcare, utilities, manufacturing and transportation / distribution as well as Sees, gather information and to access administrative systems and business applications wherever they are.

The ICT sector offers more and better development of software solutions and programs that provide many companies. Ceresco In the case of a purely Austrian capital firm founded in 1969 and is headquartered in the region offers its clients business management software, payroll, and human resources.

Apart from Asturias, Ceresco also operates in Madrid, Barcelona and Galicia. The company has focused its business in consulting and software, turnkey projects. Furthermore, its activity is focused on infrastructure services and systems, as well as training, mapping and cadastre: The fifth area is the payroll and business management.
In terms of management, explains that Reyes Palo mares Ceresco offers two programs to their customers. On the one hand, the distribution of software called SAP. Second, a product developed by the company, which also sells, called Melina Management. Ceresco supplies this program to many companies in various sectors, but where it was found to have more functionality is adapted to distribution companies and frozen wood.

In addition, the area director of Payroll and Business Management Melina Personal details, the program provides Ceresco for managing payroll and human resources, “is a closed software package we use for the outsourcing of payroll services and is our main area of business.”

The Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment and President of the Corporation has announced the general lines that mark the restructuring project. The remodeling of the business sector Aragon allow a reduction of 53 companies attached to the Corporation, from 107-54

The adjustments and changes that apply to the Public Business Corporation of Aragon, and explained that this morning at a press conference the Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment and President of the Corporation, Alberto Lara, aim to further professionalize the structure and greater efficiency in the management of public corporations.

During the presentation, which was accompanied by the CEO of the Corporation, Jose Luis Murillo, the Minister of Economy explained that, of all public companies that make up the public network of the Autonomous Community of Aragon 13 remain inactive or in liquidation, will be dissolved in March, June will integrate into the Body and 31 will be subject to prior sale or divestiture.

Lara, who has not ruled out further possible concentrations because of new moves, has developed the outlines of the restructuring plan, which will focus on distribution businesses into six groups of activities: promotion of private initiatives, tourism, real estate, infrastructure and technology parks Motor City as well as companies with snow.

In his capacity as chairman of the Corporation, the Minister of Economy, Finance and Employment has sought to highlight the fact that the companies included in the Public Business Corporation of Aragon are responsible for promoting change in the economic model, moving from an economy obsolete to a more sustainable, which are very important issues related to the environment, snow, logistics or business initiatives, thus enabling the transformation of the economy on a more sustainable future

Public Business Corporation of Aragon brings together a total of approximately 1,500 workers on average, 1,000 million euros in total assets and debts of around 28%.