Today's Technology for Tomorrow's Firm.
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16 February 2015 • www.CPAPracticeAdvisor.com TECHNOLOGY IN PRACTICE By Roman H. Kepczyk, CPA.CITP CES 2015 It's All About the Gadgets! CES 2015 was yet another record b r e a k i n g y e a r w i t h m o r e t h a n 170,000 participants and 3,600 ven- dors converging on Las Vegas for the annual geek confab. We spent three days atending product briefngs and perusing exhibition space, which this year covered more than 2.2 million squa re feet (about t he size of 38 football felds), with a focus on trends and technologies that could impact the accounting space. Below we discuss f ive business trends and a glimpse of emerging products that give us all something to think about and be excited for in the future. MICRONIZATION: 2015 is the 50th Anniversary of Moore's Law which basically states computing power (the number of transistors per square inch on a chip) will double every two years, which continues to be true today with some chips having more than 4 billion transistors onboard. Micronization means not only fting more capability into a smaller package, but also less energ y uti l ization wh ich ex tends batery life where laptops such as the new Dell X PS 13 (which won the award for the most innovative com- puter technolog y at CES), can get close to 15 hours of batery life. Del l also rol led out its Inf init y display on this laptop which mini- mizes the bezel on three sides of the screen so it runs almost to the edge, again making the most of the available space. Dell also claimed the title of the world's slimmest tablet with its Venue 8 7000 series Android which is 6mm t h in. T h is tablet a lso has an 8.4" OL E D I n f i n i t y s c r e e n a nd h a s 2560x1600 resolution. M ic ron i z at ion a l so i mpac te d storage capacit y w it h Sol id State Drives (SSD) such as the Samsung T1 fting 1 terabyte (1,000 gigabytes) of storage onto a business card sized drive weighing less than an ounce. Another Laptop of note was Lenovo's LaV ie HZ750 wh ich is a 13 inch convertible laptop with a keyboard that can fold completely around so the device acts like a tablet, weighing in 1 6 F e b r u a r y 2 0 1 5 • w w w . C P A P r a c t Roman H. Kepczyk, CPA.CITP, is Di- rector of Consulting for Xcentric, LLC. and works exclusively with accounting frms to implement today's leading best practices and technologies. Roman re- cently updated his "Quantum of Paper- less: A Partner's Guide to Accounting Firm Optimization," which is available at Amazon.com and a Certifed Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. E ach January, my colleagues a n d I c o n d u c t o u r p i l - grimage to the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) which displays the latest electronic technology and trends for the world to see and decide if they are a "hit" or a "miss." DELL XPS 13 VENUE 8