When it comes to business communication, few categories of software have more buzz than Team Chat tools. The prominent example is Slack, a hot Silicon Valley startup. But many enterprise vendors have also unveiled similar services for businesses, including Cisco, Google, IBM and even Facebook. Cloud-based project management tools, like Atlassian and Basecamp, have also incorporated […]
5 Important Questions for a Better Network Strategy
Does your office or facility suffer from network issues? You are not alone. Unless your company hired a professional to carefully create a network strategy, intermittent problems will almost certainly occur. Networking requires a certain level of specialized knowledge, as well as the right hardware. Many customers who come to us are relying at the […]
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5 Guiding Principles for Planning a Practical IT Strategy
Technology has woven itself into nearly every aspect of business today, powering organizations’ productivity and competitiveness. Despite IT’s important role, many organizations never get around to planning a real IT strategy of any kind. And as a result, IT infrastructure becomes hard and costly to maintain, and incapable of adapting to business needs. (We’ve touched on this before in our […]
How to Protect Your Business from the Rise of Ransomware
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 […]
How to Simplify P21™ Reports to Generate Timely Business Insights
As an ERP system, Prophet 21® clearly offers wholesale distributors a lot of value for many different reasons. The platform creates the central nervous system for these types of businesses, enabling them to manage incredibly diverse inventory. But to really get the most out of P21™, you need to customize it to your company’s requirements—and that requires highly […]
How Strategic Is Your IT Plan?
How will your organization use information technology in 2020? That question was once the stuff of science fiction, but now it’s just three years away. While technology can change quickly, there’s no excuse for not having sketched out what kind of technology your business will likely need next year, three years and even five years down the road. But a […]