For a growing number of businesses, switching to Microsoft Office 365 is pretty much a no-brainer. Subscribing to a suite of always-up-to-date cloud-based versions of familiar communications and productivity software is cost effective, easier to manage, and automatically preserves your data offsite. (Although you should still make a separate backup.) There’s just one problem: you have to migrate […]
Why You Need Hard Drive Encryption
What steps have you taken to secure the data on your laptop or desktop PCs? Unfortunately, crafting a tricky login password will only protect you from the most casual of data thieves. Anyone with even a modest knowledge about PCs knows workarounds to crack into your hard drive. If your computer falls into the wrong hands, your […]
How Ready Are You for Digital Business Transformation?
Business leaders across nearly all industries see the changes daily: Digital processes are seeping into almost every corner of how they operate. As I wrote about recently, digital business transformation is one primary reason that growing numbers of CEOs now make IT a strategic priority. But if change is hard, transformation can seem downright daunting. Is your company doing enough to embrace digital […]
Alert! Set up P21 notifications for almost any scenario
As an ERP platform for wholesale distributors, Prophet 21® offers many powerful features and digital tools for managing your business. One often-overlooked but extremely valuable capability is adding alerts. Let’s take a look at a few scenarios, and how this kind of automation could help your business become more efficient. P21 alert basics Prophet 21 manages alerts […]
6 Key Lessons from the WannaCry Ransomware Cyberattack
On Friday last week, a ransomware cyberattack dubbed WannaCry began infecting thousands of PCs around the world. At last tally, it had locked up an estimated 300,000 computers in 150 countries. It is the latest in a long line of ransomware exploits, which encrypt a users’ data and holds it hostage until you pay up — in this case, the […]
CEO Survey Reveals Why IT Strategy Needs To Be A Priority
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 […]