Many businesses are moving into the cloud, and with good reason. Cloud infrastructure and apps can make businesses more agile, cost-effective, and efficient. The cloud can reduce and even eliminate the need for servers. Yet there are still a few business functions that keep the need for servers alive. One of the main cases is the […]
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Spreadsheets can be crucial to any business, with the potential to simply house a company’s financial data, or run complex calculations based on fluid data. If your business uses spreadsheets, you likely utilize either Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, depending on if you are already subscribed to Microsoft 365 or Google Workplace. If you are not a
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced employees to work from home, but the show had to go on somehow. Overnight, videoconferencing platforms turned into the lifeline that held businesses together. Even as operations return to normal, videoconferencing providers are pouring resources into their products. The two main collaboration suites, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace offer videoconferencing capabilities,
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How much do you need out of a word processor? With Microsoft Word or Google Docs, it depends on what you are trying to accomplish. When considering whether your business should use Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, the difference between each’s word processing applications could be the make or break factor. Microsoft Word and Google
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The world at the beginning of 2021 looks a lot different than the world at the beginning of last year. Although a new, hopefully less chaotic year is upon us, the impact of the pandemic in the previous year will continue to shape the near future. The world of technology has played a key role
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We’ve come a long way since the early days of Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) in the 1980s and the instant messaging craze of the late 1990s with ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). Today’s businesses have the ability to collaborate on documents, make video calls, share files, and communicate in real-time from anywhere on Earth
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Anyone that uses a computer knows just how frustrating it is when that computer doesn’t function as intended. For a business, it negatively affects profitability. If you don’t have the support structure in place to mitigate your technology problems, you could be spending a whole lot of money on nothing. In this post, we talk
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Small business owners are always looking for a way to shave some of that overhead off of their budgets. While this is probably true for most business owners, the more capital a small business can save, the more it can do. Outsourcing its IT management is one way to either cut down the company’s technology
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Many of us remember Hurricane Irma which rocked the South East United States in 2017, potentially disrupting 2,108,378 (yes – 2.1 million) businesses in Florida alone. Of these 145,415 businesses were located in Hillsborough County. While some business survived unscathed, many were not so lucky. Businesses experienced downtime that lasted days or weeks. Without power, phone
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The small business owner wears a lot of different hats. The smaller the business, the more hats he/she has to wear. One hat many small business owners wear is that of CIO or CTO. Short for Chief Information Officer or Chief Technology Officer, respectively, these positions typically make technology decisions for the company they work
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