When you think about your company’s strategic priorities for the coming year, or even the next three or five years, where does IT rank? For a long time, executives figured IT wasn’t much more than glorified typewriters and photocopiers. Some techie looked after all that stuff, while top executives focused on Sales, Marketing, Product Development, and Finance. They […]
Data analytics is transforming many types of business, enabling companies to measure nearly anything. But as any manager knows, data is not the same as insights. You need to have the right information to understand business performance and make better decisions. Too much data can also cloud your thinking. As an ERP system, Prophet 21® has always offered […]
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The dust has settled on the latest major Internet outage — this one due to problems with Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage — and we’ve all moved on with our daily business. These things happen, right? Yes, unfortunately, they do. But we still ought to learn a couple of important lessons from it and get smarter […]
The latest reports about global cyberthreats are alarming. Ransomware is on the rise, and small and mid-sized businesses are the victims. Incidents of ransomware, which holds your data hostage until you pay up, increased a shocking 167 times in 2016. That’s 167 times (not 167 percent), from 3.8 million attack attempts in 2015 to 638 million in […]
Everyone knows they should have a disaster recovery plan for their business. Yet, it often gets shunted to the bottom of the To Do list. There are many reasons for this, but one underlying factor is that organizations tend to miscalculate the risk. There are two parts to this: underestimating the likelihood that a significant IT outage […]
A growing number of companies are turning to Microsoft Office 365. Organizations of nearly every size increasingly rely on Office 365 for storing, managing and sharing files and other data. This includes everything from Word docs and Excel spreadsheets to Exchange email, Outlook calendars and SharePoint. It’s easy to see why. As a cloud-based solution, Office 365 is incredibly […]