How to Select the Right Business IT Services
As a business owner, you understand the importance of computers and computer-based products. You use them to track account receivables and payables, maintain inventory, complete payroll, and communicate with employees, vendors and contractors. In short, computer-based products are the lifelines of your business. With so much riding on them, how do you know whom to entrust with their upkeep? Here are a few tips on selecting the right company to provide your business IT services.
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IT Support: Help When You Need it Most
The prospect of hiring a full-time IT support staff doesn’t make sense for many businesses. They simply don’t need someone onsite every day. However, that doesn’t mean that IT support isn’t needed. IT support personnel, whether full-time, part-time or on call is an essential component of nearly every business. After all, our businesses run on desktop computers, tablets, and mobile phones, among other computer-based devices. We need them to work quickly, efficiently, and consistently well. When they don’t it results in loss of productivity, man hours, and revenue.
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Benefits of Software Development
Whether you own a chain of warehouse distribution centres, a car dealership, or a dental office, you understand the importance of having the right software for your business. Often, business owners will try to save money by trying an out of the box software program, instead of investing in software development designed exclusively for their business needs. But, when the out of the box program that they have chosen for their business ends up not fitting all of their needs, they are forced to make accommodations, perform workarounds and change their practices. It is all a big, time-consuming hassle, not to mention a waste of money and resources.
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The Benefits of a Disaster Recovery Plan
In order to assess whether or not your business would benefit from a disaster recovery plan, you really just need to answer one question: What would the impact on the business be if all data were lost? For most businesses, the answer would be that the loss of data would be crippling, and business would be at a virtual standstill. If that is the case for your business, it’s important to put a disaster recovery plan in place now.
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Network Security and Solutions: An Unfortunate, Critical Necessity
Our business computer-based systems are the very heart of our businesses. When they go down, it can cause everyone’s work to abruptly halt. This leads to lost revenue in terms of man-hours, lost production time, and the cost of system repairs. When you have a network security and solutions plan in place, and a qualified time to implement the plan, you go a long way in preventing system down time in the first place.
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Cloud It Services
Cloud services are nothing new, but still many businesses have not yet taken advantage of the many benefits offered by them. It’s possible that the fear of not being able to manage the service gets in the way (that’s what cloud IT services are for!), or it could just be that businesses are comfortable with the status quo. Whatever the reason is though, businesses that don’t use a cloud service for their data needs are really doing themselves a disservice. How? Read on for a few benefits of utilizing a cloud service for your business.
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