Here is a quick roundup of what’s new and noteworthy on our blog in the past week

InformationWeek Reports and Interop Select VDI-in-a-Box as Leading Innovation at Interop Las Vegas

Citrix Systems, Inc., today announced that Citrix VDI-in-a-Box™ has been selected as winner of the 2012 Best of Interop Award in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization category. 

The winners for the 2012 Best of Interop Awards were hand-selected by award-winning editors and analysts from InformationWeek Reports. There were more than 130 candidates for Best of Interop consideration in eight different technology categories.

The term ‘business competency’ denotes a range of broadly business or commercial-oriented skills. ‘Technical competency’ encompasses accounting and IT skills. There is not a total divide between business competency and technical competency. Change management and risk management skills for example both represent an ‘intermediate’ competency.

While Europeans have long had to adapt to working in many languages, currencies and legal jurisdictions, a generation ago most midsize companies in the United States did all their business in their home country and in U.S. dollars. Today, though, the relentless globalization of the world economy means that an increasing number of midsize companies in North America are functionally multinational and face the challenges of managing a more complex and demanding accounting and financial management function.