The special case of special characters: How to prevent losing half the available SMS characters

160 is the number of characters that fit into a regular SMS. The established SMS standard is employed in the autometed transmission of messages in M2M communications and Industry 4.0: When these messages are sent internationally, it can very quickly happen that a message is restricted to only 70 characters due to the usage of special characters. The solution for this dilemma is called “Smart Replacement”.

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Finance: What are the top 3 challenges IT decision makers must overcome in 2016?

The year draws to a close. Not only the increasing regulatory demands at national, European and international level have been presenting challenges on banks and financial institutions in the past year; customer expectations and their communication methods have also fundamentally changed. But which are the challenges that CIOs and IT managers have to expect in the coming year?

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Experton Security Vendor Benchmark 2016: Experton Group evaluates IT security market

Be it due to increasingly sophisticated cyber-attacks, high cost pressure or strict legal guidelines such as the EU Data Protection Regulation or the new German IT Security Act – IT security stands alongside cloud computing, big data, social business and mobile enterprise as one of the topics to which the ITC is currently paying most attention. In its annual survey the Experton Group examined the offerings of 138 service providers who currently play an important role on the security market. Retarus has immediately achieved inclusion in the quadrant “Product Challenger” being positioned as one of the strongest cloud service providers in the category “E-Mail / Web / Collaboration Security”.

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BITKOM Study: Digitalization as an Opportunity?

While BITKOM confirms that 95 percent of all companies see digitalization as providing opportunities, many companies still have great difficulties in implementing their digital strategies. But in order to remain competitive over the long term in the age of digital transformation, companies urgently need to implement a holistic digital strategy which takes changes in technology, competition and staffing requirements into consideration.

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Innovative since 1992: How Retarus enables new business processes

Taking a closer look at Retarus’ comprehensive portfolio, it doesn’t take long to notice that a whole raft of communication channels are on offer for the flow of essential information. At the end of the day, it is actually not the medium itself that occupies center stage. A look at the history of the company shows that the innovative developments over the years have generally kept a close eye on the business processes of customers – regardless of which channel is finally employed to meet the customer’s needs.

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