Business Solutions & Software Group Blog

For the past six months, the social media giant Meta (AKA Facebook) has attempted to take advantage of the perceived instability at X (AKA Twitter) and create a microblogging community in the same vein, called Threads. Today, we thought we would take a look at Threads and how it is similar to X, and how it aims to pull users away from the microblogging giant. 

Even the best-laid plan can be disrupted, and any business needs to understand that going into these types of situations with limited knowledge is also risking the plan falling apart. Business technology needs to be cost-effective, and if you don’t have a plan, you could wind up paying far more than expected. It helps to have a professional on your side who can help you make these decisions.

In our rapidly evolving society, very few things are as they once were. One thing that feels a lot similar to the past is the Christmas holiday. Sure, it’s more commercialized than ever, but by-in-large many of our holiday traditions stay the same. People make a point to get together and exchange gifts and eat too much; and they tend to do this every year. 

With Business Intelligence (BI) platforms at your disposal, your organization can use data analytics to make better decisions regarding its future. However, using business intelligence platforms requires certain steps so that you can make the most of it. Here’s what you need to do to make proper use of your data.

Psychology, the systematic examination of the mind and behavior, can offer profound insights into optimal actions for your company. From crafting compelling client messages to building a strategy of team motivation to better meet your organizational goals, this understanding has a lot to offer your organization.

Technology has assumed a central role in the operations of most businesses. You may already consider yourself well-versed in various aspects of business-related technology. Today, we'd like to explore five cutting-edge technologies that not only happen to be trending but also offer significant benefits for businesses. 

When you think of innovation, data backup isn’t always at the top of the list of subjects that come up. As the demand for data security and redundancy grows, however, we are beginning to see some interesting innovative features being added to data backup. Let’s take a look at three interesting new features future data backup systems will include. 

Every business faces two crucial IT decisions: selecting the appropriate hardware for its operations and determining when it's time for a hardware upgrade. In today's landscape, there's a plethora of choices available to decision-makers that were previously unavailable. While this provides more options, it also makes hardware decisions both easier and more complex due to the numerous factors to consider. Let's take a look at some of these factors today.

Technology plays a dual role within your business—it's not only indispensable for its well-being—it’s also a facet that remains under your complete control. Of course, this is a progressively rare attribute in business. To maximize the potential of your business technology, adopting a proactive management approach is paramount. In this blog post, we'll delve into the reasons why maintaining a proactive stance in technology management can yield substantial cost savings for your business.

How successful your business is will ultimately be determined by its sales team. Your sales team, as talented as they are, will also be at the mercy of the technology they use to convert your qualified leads into paying customers. Let’s go over how you can use technology to support your sales team and ensure they reach their goals.

Technology plays a big role in most businesses, but its single most important role is to support the people that work for you. Many employees have demands when it comes to the technology that organizations provide for them. If these demands aren’t met, they are more apt to move on to a company that will meet them. In this blog, we discuss how technology works to reinforce your employees’ productivity. 

How do you stand out in your industry when your customers expect a top-tier experience at every turn? One way businesses can get a huge leg up on the competition is through the use of the latest technology solutions, like online ordering, mobile apps, and e-commerce platforms that make accessing services and products easier than ever. Let’s look at how your business can use the latest technology to overcome the odds stacked against it.

Technology plays an incredibly important role in any business venture, and if you don’t invest in it properly, you’ll face stiff competition from other companies that do. Today, we want to explain the importance of technology investment and some of the common issues businesses might encounter.

Your business creates a lot of data and smart businesses can use that data, through business intelligence and data analytics platforms to help them prioritize tasks and streamline their operations to help them be the most effective business they can be. This week, we thought we would go through some of the things any business that seeks to use its data productively has to do. 

If you’re not careful, inefficiency could become a serious problem for your business. While a certain level of it is inevitable, you can do quite a lot to keep technology from impacting your business’ productivity. Let’s go over some of the solutions you can implement to make processes easier and more efficient.

With technology, you can take just about any facet of running a business and make it more efficient, including your sales processes. Let’s look at some of the ways that businesses can utilize technology to give their sales teams a boost.

Technology has changed countless aspects of both everyday life and business operations. In today’s blog, we want to share one peculiar aspect of technology development that you might not have considered: infrastructure. How has IT allowed for greater delivery of services and utilities? Let’s explore this topic in greater detail.

The IoT—the Internet of Things—has proven itself to be valuable to various industries in equally varied ways. This value comes from the increased insights into the business’ utilities and how cost controls can be implemented to improve the management thereof. Let’s discuss how this works.

When it comes to your business and its technology, you want people managing it who know what they are doing. Enter the IT technician, a person who has dedicated themselves to learning the ins and outs of your technology solutions. Employing individuals who are both certified and knowledgeable comes with many benefits. Let’s go over some of them.

When a business needs to improve processes, they might turn to technology as a means to solve specific operational challenges. However, the implementation of technology is only as effective as the technology is at resolving the aforementioned problem, and if it doesn’t solve the specific challenges of the business, implementing new tech could potentially hold a business back. Let’s look at how you can implement the right technology for your organization for long-term success.