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4 Tech Trends Sweeping Small Businesses in 2018
As 2018 takes off for small businesses, the tech landscape is evolving more rapidly than ever before. If tech investment hasn’t yet been on the top of your list, 2018 will be the year you take a closer look at what tech it takes to win in your space. We have narrowed it down to…
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4 Tips to Get Started with Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence or BI is a practice that empowers small businesses to make better decisions by tracking, processing, storing, and analyzing data to turn it into insights. It almost sounds too good to be true, but today we track and store huge amounts of data. If applied correctly it can serve a very important purpose…
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5 Reasons You Need Network Monitoring
Your network is comprised of your routers, switches, virtual servers, wireless devices, and applications. Your network technology is all linked together to create your tech environment. This network requires constant monitoring to ensure your critical devices are never down, which could mean lost productivity and end-user dissatisfaction. Monitoring your network means keeping tabs on your…
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Personalization in Marketing Made Possible by Tech
Today, personalization is the name of the game for marketers. From a Coca-Cola bottle with your name on it to a Facebook ad directly related to your last Google search, almost every piece of marketing is getting personalized. For a small business marketer, that can be hard. You may not have the means to get…
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7 Simple Tips to Improve Data Security
Everyone knows security is no joke, but just to put it into perspective, the average cost for a small business that suffers a cyber attack is $9,000, according to the National Small Business Technology Survey. If that sum would threaten your small business, use these 7 simple tips to protect yourself. Antivirus & Antispyware Make…
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More than Storage: Explore the Cloud
The cloud is for more than storage. Although it remains a mystical unknown land to many small business owners, it’s really quite simple. Cloud storage is data stored on the internet in secure locations. On-site data storage is slowly being fazed out as the more agile and reliable cloud storage takes center stage. So what…
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Alert Fatigue – Finding the Signal in the Noise
Last week, we talked about vendor sprawl, and a landscape of increasing complexity in number of tools and capabilities. Many IT departments and service providers are using a suite of tools designed to detect and alarm on suspicious network and server activities. The increase in toolsets creates an exponential increase in alert fatigue and actions…
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Business Intelligence Contributes to Profitability
There was a day when the only profit driver in construction was efficiency in the field. With advanced technology, that has all changed. Now, profitability relies more on integration and less on field efficiency. Why? Because corporate efficiency and resource allocation are playing larger roles in the bottom line. Integration isn’t just a great value-add…
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Vendor Sprawl and Inflated Promises in Cyber Security
What is Vendor Sprawl? The cyber security space is experiencing vendor sprawl and inflated promises. This has a detrimental impact on small to mid-sized businesses. There are several factors that contribute to this environment, but more importantly, it leaves small to mid-sized business leadership overwhelmed and with many questions that need to be answered. Before…
