Meet CFUS
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Joseph C. (Joe) Hibbitt
Principal, President
Los Angeles, California |
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Manny Mangahas
Principal,
VP -East Coast Operations
Clifton, Virginia
(Washington, DC) |
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Burnie Reed
Principal,
VP - Midwest Operations
Dallas, Texas |
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| CFUS Update! |
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| Industry: Insurance |
Service: IT Infastructure - Network Architecture |
Expanded existing network infastructure to support corporate expansion to branch offices.
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| Industry: Retail |
Service: IT Support |
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Provided IT "expert"support in the evaluation and eventual selection of organization's new Finance and HR systems.
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How To Protect A Company's Data
Enterprise security isn't working. As companies install ever more advanced firewalls and anti-virus software, the outpouring of sensitive data goes on and on.
Last year, 446 companies suffered data breaches, up from 312 the year before, losing a total of 127 million individuals' records, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center. This year may outpace even those grim numbers, in quantity of breaches if not in volume of records lost: 224 companies lost consumer or employee data in the first four months of this year, a total of 11 million records by the ITRC's count.
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Selecting an ERP system: Build or buy?
Many business executives and IT managers rely on prepackaged enterprise resource planning (ERP) solutions for all aspects of their businesses from manufacturing to accounting. The philosophy behind many ERP systems is that a suite of software tools can quickly integrate all areas of business administration. Major vendors such as SAP, Oracle, and PeopleSoft offer integrated tools for the task.
While many businesses choose one of these off-the-shelf ERP solutions, there are advantages to building an ERP application in-house. Often, businesses prefer to have in-depth institutional knowledge of how these systems work and how they interface with the various business areas. Managers faced with evaluating any enterprise-wide IT system must make the build vs. buy decision early in the process. This article will give an overview of key issues IT managers face when considering an ERP solution.
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Could I lose weight just by eating slower?
For decades, dietitians, doctors and nutritionists have made the link between eating speed and weight. People who eat slower tend to eat less and weigh less. The slower you eat, the less food it takes to get you full. The commonly stated reason for this is that the feeling of satiety doesn't really come from your stomach. Like every other feeling you experience, it comes from your brain. It takes time for your body and your brain to complete the communication exchange that finally tells you to stop eating because you're full.
In the last couple of years, science has backed up this common knowledge with experiments that test eating time, amount eaten and the feeling of satiety. The results are consistent: Eating slower means eating less and still feeling "full." A study presented at the North American Association for the Study of Obesity in 2004 had 28 overweight subjects eat a meal at varied eating speeds, always eating as much as they wanted. In one meal, the subjects ate as quickly as they normally would; in another meal, for the first half of the meal they could only take a bit of food when they heard a beep, and for the rest of the meal they could take a bite whenever they wanted; and in the third meal, they had to match bites to beeps for the entire meal (the bites went on indefinitely, so they could still eat as much as they wanted). Invariably, the subjects ate less during the beep-mediated meals than in the free-form meal.
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