Networking

Thee computer network is all equipment that allows the exchange of information within a company and the sharing of resources. That is to say the management of internet access, emails, access rights to shared documents as well as the provision of a collaborative work platform.

STILLFORCE TECH is your network installation specialist partner, we support you at every stage of setting up your local computer network, by offering you the solutions best suited to the needs of your business.

Our network installation services
  1. We help you determine the type of network best suited to your needs. Our technicians advise you on the choice of your network architecture and equipment: wired network or wireless network.
  2. We ensure the implementation of the chosen local network. Hardware is provided by STILLFORCE TECHNOLOGIES.
  3. We support you in the evolution of your current local network, as part of a renovation, a redevelopment or simply the arrival of a new collaborator.
  4. We set up protection for your network to secure your data.
  5. Once the network is installed, we carry out the tests to check that it is working properly.

The installation of a computer network cannot be improvised. If you want it to be efficient and meet the needs of your business, you have to go through a few mandatory steps, from auditing to securing of the network.

A few mandatory steps

1- Audit

Before purchasing equipment or sketching a layout of the network, we do a audit. This allows to assess your needs and measure your constraints. This audit gives rise to the development of a specifications.

2- The wiring

We use cables: these are them which connects servers and computers. This step can be problematic if your business is located in an old building. This difficulty can be overcome by choosing to equip yourself with wifi terminals or CPL adapters.

3- Installation and configuration of servers and network switches

You have to take care of the hardware that receives and distributes the data in the network, starting with the servers. It is by studying the topology of the servers that we can determine the number of network switches needed.

4- Securing the network

Securing the computer network is critical for a company, especially when it has opted for smart switches. To do this, it has several levers: setting up user access secured by a password and setting priorities between different users and/or services.

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IA

From software SIRI presented by Apple in 2011, to the self-driving cars already on the streets of Silicon Valley, artificial intelligence (IA) does not stop progress. Although sci-fi movies and books like to portray AI as increasingly human-like robots, this technology actually encompasses many other applications.

Artificial intelligence is developing so fast (machine learning, deep learning, bots, mixed reality…). Some companies fear the complexity of technologies and their implementation, not to mention the costs of investing in artificial intelligence solutions and software. However, the uses of AI are democratizing offering a different management of problems that is more efficient, and there are very simple apps to get started. And, in all sectors (commerce, finance, health, agriculture, banking, medicine, industry, etc.), the benefits are there: personalized and proactive commitment customers, better autonomy and collaborative work of employees.

What exactly is artificial intelligence?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technology that allows machines to learn from experience, adapt to new data, and perform human tasks . Most examples of AI making headlines these days (from chess-playing computers to self-driving cars) rely heavily on the deep learning and natural language processing. With these technologies, it is possible to train computers to perform certain tasks by processing large amounts of data and finding patterns.

Artificial Intelligence is no longer science fiction. Indeed, it is clear that Siri, Alexa, Cortana, chatbots or intelligent robots have invested in the real world</span >. With its ability to learn, AI is spreading in all activities of the company: from the production chain, to customer relations, including logistics, research, and even human resources.

Some applications of artificial intelligence
    1. AI at the service of customer relations

Let’s take the example of customer service: “in this context, AI translates into the implementation of typical virtual assistants Siri or chatbots to collect customer data by asking them about their problems, their frustrations or their level of satisfaction. Besides the debottlenecking of customer service.

1- Merchant sites

AI is also playing an increasingly important role for online sales sites. It suggests new articles to consult based on the user’s history, as well as the navigation of other visitors. Sorting centers, for the preparation of goods, are also managed by AI with the growing use of robots which, in an incessant ballet, transport products from one station to another.

2- Emails

E-mails rely heavily on artificial intelligence to optimize their operation and improve the user experience. Spam filters benefit greatly from AI.

3- Navigation apps

Artificial intelligence has changed our traffic habits, thanks to navigation apps like Waze or Google Maps. These determine the shortest route and estimate the arrival time. They can even take real-time traffic into account to automatically modify the trajectory to avoid traffic jams.

4- Search engines

Search engines could hardly function without artificial intelligence, given the colossal size of the web. AI is deployed in the form of robots that crawl sites to index them, but also to rank them and determine the order of presentation according to search terms.

It even allows you to customize the results according to the type of search: display the weather, the distribution of a film, or even perform calculations or currency conversions. Google also offers its Google Suggest feature, the predictive search that displays while typing the query, which attempts to guess the search based on its indexing, frequent searches, and user history.

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Business Intelligence

In today’s data driven world, businesses face an overload of data and businesses that want to work smarter are investing in ways to control and understand that data.

Business intelligence, also known as “business intelligence” or “business intelligence” refers to all the solutions using information technology (IT) allowing companies analyze data for the benefit of their decision-making.

Business Intelligence at the service of your company

Business intelligence programs can have many benefits for the company. They enable accelerate and improve decision-making, optimize internal processes, increase operating efficiency, generate new revenue, and gain a competitive edge. BI systems also help businesses identify market trends at identify issues that need to be resolved and make both tactical and strategic decisions.

BI can help you:
  1. Find where and how to increase profits
  2. Analyze customer behavior
  3. Compare data with competitors
  4. Track business performance
  5. Optimize operations
  6. Predict the chances of success of new initiatives
  7. Identify market trends
  8. Identify business issues
Examples of BI:
  1. Data mining
  2. Reporting
  3. Performance indicators and benchmarking
  4. Descriptive analytics
  5. Queries
  6. Statistical Analysis
  7. Data visualization
  8. Data preparation
BI steps:

1. Data collection

This involves extracting data from the company’s various sources (production systems), transforming it, and loading it into the database. data.

 

2. Data storage

It is about centralizing structured and processed data so that it is available for decision-making use, easy to analyze.

 

3. The distribution or restitution of data

It consists of using different tools to restore information in a usable form for decision-making.

 

4. Data Mining

Cleaned, consolidated, accessible, and stored data is now ready for analysis by end users or analysts.

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Cryptography

Cryptography is the science of encryption and decryption of data. Cryptography is used to ensure integrity, confidentiality and authenticity of data. Integrity means that the data has not been modified. Confidentiality means that data is not readable by other users. Data authenticity means that what was received is what was sent. User authentication means that the user has provided one or more proofs of their identity.

Authentication mechanisms mathematically check data source or the proof of identity. Encryption mechanisms scramble data</span > so that the data is not readable by an observer. Cryptographic services provide authentication and encryption mechanisms to applications and users.

Cryptography at the service of your business

Cryptography dates back to the great history of secret messages and other codes. Closer to home, cryptography is making its mark today in the digital and business space. Today, you don’t have to be a spy or a secret agent to use cryptography.

Cryptology today is the subject of a strong market demand: it is no longer just a matter of marginally using a cryptographic process to ensure a specific function, such as access control, but of designing a global security architecture with cryptology as the cornerstone.

The more we advance in time, the more the threats multiply and diversify</span >, so the risk of compromising of files or messages is growing. Hence the importance of cryptography, whose mission, viewed very broadly, is that only the initial recipient of a message or document can read it . In the event of a data leak for example, or the interception of a confidential email, encrypting your emails becomes essential and can avoid the sometimes dramatic consequences for the company.

Cryptography can receive many applications within your company. Two use cases are generally applicable: on the one hand, the protection of the company against various cyber threats, and on the other hand, a obligation to secure data imposed by the GDPR. In both cases, encrypting data becomes essential .

Protection against external threats requires protecting your communications, whether they are messages sent between teams or to destination from third parties (customers, partners, suppliers), but also from the storage of your files on cloud applications, these, which are increasingly used by companies, only offer security fairly weak to their users and the files stored there. Again, it is then necessary to use a third-party cryptography solution to ensure the Cloud encryption.

Your data travels, but not your security!

La sécurité informatique consiste traditionnellement en une «protection périmétrique» comme un antivirus, des pare-feu, etc. Cependant, comme il s’agit de données partagées, ce type de protection n’assure pas leur sécurité à toutes les étapes de leur parcours, ce qui constitue un risque de confidentialité pour votre entreprise.

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Digital Marketing

Marketing is one of the most important things a business can do. work. Marketing not only builds brand awareness, it can also increase sales, grow business and engage customers. There are so many basic business functions that flow from a good marketing plan that any SME would be foolish not to give it strategic importance.

Digital marketing, web marketing, e-marketing: how to navigate today in such a wide field of names ? With the digital explosion of the last twenty years, the concept of digital marketing has greatly expanded and now includes all practices related to marketing that use media and web channels.

Definition of digital marketing

Digital marketing refers to all marketing techniques employed on digital channels to promote your offer. It also includes the entire technical ecosystem that allows you to personalize an offer. It could be:

  1. Optimizing a website to be effective
  2. ​​Mobile app development
  3. ​​Of the use of social networks
  4. Social selling
  5. Online Advertising
  6. ​​Natural referencing (SEO) to gain visibility
  7. Inbound marketing to attract Internet users and turn them into prospects and then into customers
  8. Digital Stock Analysis
  9. Setting up a business blog
  10. ​​Etc…
Why is digital marketing useful for your business?
1. Because digital marketing makes business accessible to everyone

Previously, marketing campaigns were reserved for companies with a big advertising budget, to multinationals. Today, digital marketing has redistributed the cards. The company that starts up and has little means rivals with the biggest. She no longer has any complex to have and takes her share of the market.
With digital marketing, even a freelancer starting a business can implement a simple business process that was previously impossible. No need for a call center, you can communicate easily and efficiently with several customers, who are sometimes at the end of the world.

 

2. Because your consumers are now digital

93% of consumers who purchased a product from a major retailer did a search on the Internet before (source: Mappy/BVA barometer). Hence the importance of being well positioned on the requests of Internet users: this is called the SEO. So for your business, you no longer have a choice, you must make visible and establish a digital strategy that goes beyond a simple presence on Facebook, a strategy that will turn Internet users into customers.

 

3. Because digital marketing is cheaper than traditional marketing

It is estimated that a small business can grow to no less than 1,000 people for only $3 thanks to social media and the digital space. For the same audience, contact by post or television advertising would cost between $28 and $57!

 

4. Because ROI is perfectly measurable

All actions performed on digital are traceable and measurable. ROI of your marketing actions is finally identifiable, and your efforts recognized!

 

5. Because actions are flexible

From planning to execution, everything happens before your eyes and you keep track of every activity. You can stop or pause your digital actions from an unsatisfactory first intercourse, which will allow you to save time and money.(unlike a regular billboard which will be paid for in advance with no guarantee of payback).

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Big Data

Cevery second, we procreate approximately 29,000 Gigabytes (GB) of data worldwide, or 2.5 trillion bytes of data every day. It’s the information from everywhere: messages we send to each other, videos we post, weather information, GPS signals, transactional records of online purchases and so much more. This big data is called Big Data.
The concept, as it is currently defined, encompasses a set of technologies and practices intended to store very large masses of data and analyze them very quickly.

The use of big data brings new horizons in many areas: marketing, finance, politics, commerce. Thanks to analytical tools and data modelling, we perform trend or predictive analysis, draw up profiles, anticipate risks and monitor phenomena in real time.

Big Data at the service of your business

Big Data is a revolution for marketing departments. We are talking about predictive marketing, predictive marketing will allow process the data collected on the habits of your customers and their future needs. This anticipation of behavior will become a real asset to best meet their needs and thus produce more efficiently.

Big data opens up new horizons in marketing. Companies are using it to personalize messages to the extreme and reach the right people at the right time. The objective, an optimized return on investment of advertising campaigns.

Other big data applications

1- Big Data & HR

HR departments receive thousands of applications, thanks to Big Data, they can target behaviors and identify potential candidates ahead of recruitment .
They sort the most interesting profiles using data collected on social networks and online databases.

2- Big Data & financial services

Determine a person’s ability to repay a loan: This is a concern as old as banking. And it is a subject on which appear new actors who work using Big Data.

3. Predictive maintenance

Predictive maintenance makes it possible to reduce the maintenance costs of industrial installations thanks to Big Data. Indeed, thanks to the implementation of sensors on machines, companies can now use the data to plan machine maintenance.

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Although initially the prerogative of large groups such as Google, Facebook or Amazon, Big Data allows SMEs to make them more productive, more profitable and more powerful. SMBs are generally more agile and are able to act faster on data-driven insights. In addition, they can have access to this data.

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Network Security

Whether you are building an enterprise web portal or a state-of-the-art website, you always need the right modern tools. Well-built and maintained PHP frameworks provide those tools in abundance, allowing maintained PHP frameworks provide those tools in abundance, allowing developers to save time, re-use code, and streamline the back end. As software development tools continuously change to follow the latest. Despite the competition from startups and the ever-present economic challenges, the banking industry is gradually adopting what the latest technologies have to offer.

From cloud technology to cyber risk management to machine learning in investment banking, join us as we explore the banking industry trends for 2019 and beyond. Cloud is one of the current banking industry trends as well. It is expected that the technology will serve as a foundation for core modernization of banking organizations.

Cloud Technology as New Foundation

Cloud has become the new normal for nine of ten enterprises across industries. The average IT environment in both SMBs and larger companies is becoming increasingly cloud-based. Companies also diversify their delivery models, with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS) gaining more and more traction. Plus, a slew of new job positions have emerged to manage different aspects of cloud in the enterprise, including architecture and safety.

One of the new trends in the banking industry, ensuring fail-safe security will also be a core question regardless of the type of a cloud solution and its scale. Cloud is one of the current banking industry trends as well. It is expected that the technology will serve as a foundation for core modernization of banking organizations.

Risk Management Banking Industry Trends

Existing risk management systems at banking organizations might not be ready to face the challenges of the rapidly changing world. Poised to become the top banking industry trends for 2019 and years to come, AI-driven solutions with machine and deep learning algorithms provide a solution. As for cyber risk management, experts at Deloitte point at the following trends in the banking industry:

  1. Strengthen basic controls like IT asset, patch, and vulnerability management to identify and manage risks related to implementation of cloud and migration to open architecture.
  2. Use analytics tools and AI with security in mind.
  3. Build an IT infrastructure with security as a top priority: it should be able to withstand systematic attacks and long stress periods.
Risk Management Banking Industry Trends

Fintechs and nonbanks now have a substantial influence in the banking industry. They are highly agile, innovative, and aim at exceeding the demands of modern customers in banking services and experiences. Established retail banks need to compete and often play catch-up. Still, they acknowledge the need to change, and change fast.

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Thus, adopting the same approach is a potent solution for retail banks that aim at adopting the latest trends in the banking industry quickly and impactfully.

Desktop Development

Itis inevitable, computing is increasingly present in all sectors ! And this is very often because it saves considerable time compared to the old management systems. For this, all domains require adapted software allowing automate certain tasks and thus gain in profitability. This is why we offer our customers the development of applications fully adapted to their needs and their situation.

For a growing percentage of users, the desktop app is already dead. Most of the needs of desktop application users have been met in web applications for years now. And more and more desktop apps are being replaced every day as browsers become more robust, more powerful and offer more features. Do all applications have to be web applications? Of course not. There will always continue to be exceptions and software sets that have nothing to do with the web

Your desktop app

The evolution of programming languages, web browsers and the smartphone revolution have upset our consumption usages applications. Uses are changing and so are end-user expectations. Some use cases cannot be replaced entirely by a web application or mobile (Banking, VOD, Industry, B2B, computing power,) The team STILLFORCE expert is able to support you in the complete development of your desktop application.

The OSes We Manage
1- Microsoft Windows, market leader

No need to introduce Windows from Microsoft, version installed on more than 90% of personal PCs worldwide. Developing an application on this platform requires extensive knowledge of the Windows ecosystem in order to guarantee the quality of development and compliance with current standards.

2- MacOS

Mac OS X is Windows’ main competitor. Developed and marketed by Apple, it is present on every Mac. The strengths of this system remain its intuitiveness as well as its reliability and power. A macOS application requires a certain expertise to make the user experience exceptional. We will thus combine UI quality, performance, stability and security.

Native approach

The first approach to creating a desktop application is to use so-called native technologies. Namely, Swift/Cocoa for Apple macOS systems and C# .NET/WPF for Microsoft Windows. The advantage of these is a high quality of rendering, performance and B2B deployment facilitated by compliance with current IS standards.

WebApp approach

The second approach is to use hybrid applications using ElectronJs. If your application does not require specific functionality, this approach is the most suitable. WhatsApp, Slack or even Visual Studio Code are perfect examples of what using this technology can give. So there’s no reason not to get started.

Windows specifics

In order to accelerate the number of applications on the Store, Microsoft proposes to create Universals Apps. What is this ? It is very simple ! Since Windows devices have the same set of APIs, developing an application available on all devices requires managing a common code part and a specific part. This last point targets the management of screens which will surely be arranged differently depending on Windows Phone which is a 4, 5 or 6 inch device or a desktop station which is 13 inches.

The unification of the platforms makes it easy to take the plunge, by submitting a Windows 8.1 application and a Windows Phone 8.1 application to the Store.
Another novelty: the possibility of developing applications on Android and iOS. The Visual Studio 2015 release redistributes the Android SDK and an Android VM as part of running tests. It is integrated into Xamarin to create applications on different phones, in C# programming, without having to develop on Java for Android or Objective-C for iOS.

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Web Development

Every time you browse the web, whatever application or site you go to, there is a web developer behind it who designed its architecture. In the digital era, any idea must be transformed into website or web application. To offer you quality applications or websites at the top of technology, Stillforce ensures the creation of web platforms, through the best open source platforms such as Django, Laravel, CodeIgniter, React JS, Angular JS, Joomla, WordPress, Drupal, and symfony.

Whatever your project idea, whether it’s an education, commerce, transport, project management, catering, online game, forum, webmail or blog project, a web application or a website should help you materialize your project.

What is a By Fact web application?

A web application is “a program that runs on a PC with a web server while users interact with it from a web browser”, regardless of whether the browser is on a PC, tablet or smartphone.

You use web applications constantly. Email services like Gmail and Yahoo or cloud-based document management products like Google Docs, for example. But also Facebook games running from the browser like Candy Crush or FarmVille.

Stages of web development at STILLFORCE
  1. Specifications

    The quality of everything else will depend on the quality of this step. Our advice: get professional help. It is better to take a day of advice now than to lose 10 times more in the graphic part or on the returns of validation.

  2. The wireframe

    here we determine the mechanism that will give a ergonomic site here the objective is to draw the interfaces and define how we go from one page to another.

  3. The model

    Here we go from wireframes to models made by a graphic designer on ​​Photoshop or Illustrator

  4. Integration

    Here we go from wireframes to models made by a graphic designer on ​​Photoshop or Illustrator

  5. Development

    This is about writing the source codes of your application or website.

  6. Internal testing

    Here we run your site in all intended browsers and test functions, displays, and then fix any discrepancies.

  7. Customer receipt

    It’s finally the day when you receive your new working tool, you’ll have to triturate in all directions in order to be on that it corresponds to the initial brief.

  8. Putting it online

    We recommend not to choose your host lightly because there is everything. Choose a host with good quality solutions, especially for protection against external attacks.

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Community Management

The community management has now become essential. Community management represents a real opportunity for brands by providing them with visibility at a controlled cost.Nowadays, community management occupies an increasingly important place in communication and its growth will not stop there. Consumer behavior has changed over time: they find out more about products and companies before buying. It is therefore essential for companies that have not done so yet, to be able to integrate a social media strategy in their communication.

The importance of e-reputation and community

After-sales service for certain companies, reports and analyzes related to digital marketing or publication management: community management handles many tasks. If notoriety and visibility of brands and companies are our main objectives, we also know how to sustainably unite a community of connected people and Internet users via the tools provided by growth hacking. Our tasks are then to ensure a digital audit then to define a strategy according to the positioning and the objectives to be achieved .

We carry out actions aimed at strengthening the image and identity of your company. Compliance with a clear digital editorial line must be ensured and our responsiveness is assured. In line with the techniques of digital marketing, we are in a way influencers and trend setters. The goal is then to generate more leads and E-reputation, promotional campaigns, contests, advertisements and animations: everything is good for branding your company a real spearhead in terms of digital marketing.

What is your community?

Your “community” is not in one location, but actually your community is spread over the internet. Your community is on Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, forums, and even the comments section of ‘articles. Your community consists of your current customers, your target audiences, and everyone who interacts directly and indirectly with your brand online.
Brands that don’t have a community management plan are missing opportunities to:

  1. Handle customer complaints
  2. Turn customers into loyal fans
  3. Winning influencers and potential customers
  4. Network and partner with other brands
  5. Get valuable feedback on your products
  6. Being the coolest voice in a comment section
Community management vs social media marketing

It is important to understand the difference between community management and social media marketing, because they each have their own priorities.

Social media marketing is the production and distribution of social content to reach new customers and communicate with your current customers. Here you can focus on things like the reach, engagement, and traffic a post drives to your site.

Community management is what happens after and beyond your posting on the social networks. This is part of customer service, listening to the internet, and actively participating in discussions about your brand.

While social media marketing broadcasts a one-to-many message,</ span>community management often begins on a smaller, more intimate scale. But it can boost your brand presence both on and off your social media pages.

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Community management presents your brand to the world as a friendly and knowledgeable personality that others can’t help but want to engage with.
Invest in a strong community and you will build a fan base loyal who will defend your name and brand and even come to your aid when you need it.