2020 is right around the corner. Your business may be up to speed, or it may need a few upgrades. Use our checklist to make sure you’re investing correctly in your business technology. Switch to Office365 Being able to do business from anywhere can come in handy, especially with unforeseen circumstances and the remote [...]
Why are business leaders outsourcing their IT services? With the business world becoming rapidly more digital, the success of your business may ultimately rely on the ways in which you implement (or fail to implement) new technologies in comparison to your competitors. When it comes to determining what tech you [...]
If your business stores credit card information (PCI), works with sensitive health care documents (HIPAA), or works with personal financial information (GLBA), you have business compliance regulations to abide by. These can be tricky to navigate, especially when you’re running a small-to-medium business while wearing multiple hats. Even more complicated - compliance isn’t simply a “one [...]
When it comes to running a small business, there are a million things to manage. What do you keep in-house? What can be outsourced? Internal employees have a stronger connection to the company but they cost more in overhead. Payroll is the largest expense in business, which brings us to the in-house versus outsourced IT [...]
We’ve talked about how proactive services are an important component to IT business health. As technology continues to evolve, it’s only going to become more complex and more ingrained in business. Can you manage all of your tech? If you have an IT person in your company, can they handle all of it alone? [...]
The new year tends to bring resolutions, reflections, and if you’re in business, a time to really examine if the systems and providers you’re utilizing are doing the most for your business. We’ve put together a few key questions to ask your IT provider (or if you don’t have one, things to ask potential candidates) [...]
In business, every company has a different level of maturity, falling on a scale of 1 to 5. To find the right IT provider for your business it’s important to know where your level of operational maturity falls. This is an often overlooked component of finding the right provider for your needs, but here’s why [...]
What does outsourcing IT services look like? Finding the right reasons to outsource your IT services can be complex. While outsourcing can have a positive or negative reputation depending on who you ask, outsourced IT services (or Managed IT services) help to mitigate risk and manage costs where your business's technology is concerned - and they [...]
Threats litter the cybersecurity landscape, and they’re not going away anytime soon. From personal computer hacks to enterprise level wrecking ball attacks, simply having a firewall or an anti-virus program in place isn’t enough to keep your data safe. It takes extensive training at all levels of an organization to appropriately prepare your employees [...]
Part of any successful partnership is a shared understanding and clear communication. But often, things get lost in translation. What one party hears and what the other party means may not be the same, and this can easily happen in the world of IT where there are many foreign terms thrown around (like what is [...]