Industry News
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The Retarus Emoji Christmas Quiz
Read moreThere’s only 24 days until Christmas: To shorten the remaining time until December 24, we will present you each business day a different Christmas song on the Retarus blog – expressed in Emojis. Get into the spirit of Christmas by riddling, challenging your family, your colleagues and friends, hum along, get into the swing of…
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Digitalization: Opportunity or risk for banks and insurers?
Read moreIn view of strict regulatory requirements, low-interest politics and intense cost pressure many finance institutes are neglecting a crucial challenge – the ever accelerating progress of digitalization. However, in order to fulfill the individual needs of their customers and to stay competitive over the long term, banks should start to develop appropriate digital strategies as…
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Gartner Hype Cycle: When a trend is really a trend
Read moreFor more than 20 years the analysts at Gartner have been using their “Hype Cycle” to throw light on the development of technological trends. But what do Gartner’s experts say about cloud fax services? Have they already arrived at the “Plateau of Productivity” or is the “Trough of Disillusionment” just around the corner?
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Retail sales success: The means of communication makes all the difference
Read moreIn order to keep all staff up to date regarding sales and marketing campaigns, retailers must rely on communication channels that function effectively. But which channel is most suitable for this task? How can the company ensure that all branch offices are informed simultaneously and dependably? Multi-channel messaging platform Retarus WebExpress is able to cover…
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Retarus opens new data center in Frankfurt: Expansion of the infrastructure
Read moreWith the goal of continuing to ensure maximum control over sensitive data and the highest levels of availability for the future, Retarus is committed to the ongoing expansion of its global infrastructure. That’s why it recently decided to expand its existing hub in Frankfurt into a fully-fledged, autonomous data center. In addition to this new…
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Personally via all channels: trends in customer communication
Read moreCompanies wishing to inform customers or employees in an up-to-date manner nowadays rely on more than one means of communication: the keywords in this regard are multi- or omnichannel. In order to not only reach recipients reliably, but also to gain their attention, a personalized form of address is essential.
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Email: Business communication with a future
Read moreIn 1971 Ray Tomlinson sent the first email. Today, email has become the most important business communication channel of all – despite the growth of social media and new collaboration tools.
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Precise to the millisecond: NTP services in the “Internet of Things”
Read moreThe “Internet of Things” is growing at an astounding rate: Therefore, an increasing number of applications which require precise and synchronized time information in order to perform their tasks reliably. Retarus now offers reliable, fail-safe and future-proof NTP services, which allow businesses to control and monitor the time synchronization of client devices flexibly via the…
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Machine to machine and person to person: This is how Industry 4.0 can succeed
Read moreDigitalization is making its way into factory halls. Keywords such as “the digital factory” and “industry 4.0” are heralding the implementation of an increasing number of “smart” machines. In order to encourage the necessary acceptance of automated systems, it is, however, important to integrate them as seamlessly as possible into the human work processes.