Business Technology Insights

No matter how successful your small or medium-sized enterprise (SME) is, there’s always an opportunity to optimize how you’re currently working. Cutting expenses and improving internal efficiencies can drive up those profits even higher. 

When most companies think of reducing costs they think of cutting rent costs, reshaping the way they employ staff members or ending partnerships with vendors. What they don’t realize is that these drastic changes can all have a negative impact on the results achieved by the business.

There’s no doubt about it, every small, medium and large enterprise needs to print and copy documents on a regular basis. What you might not know as a business owner or office manager, however, is just how much print costs are eating into your company’s revenue. 

In fact, the average employee printing habits cost a company $725 per year, per employee. That means if you have 10 employees, you could be losing a staggering $7,250 from your bottom line each year simply from poor control over your organization's printing.

The primary purpose of technology in the business world is to make our lives easier by enhancing how our employees perform daily tasks. There’s no doubt about it, your IT strategy has a direct impact on the productivity and efficiency of your employees. 

Don’t get us wrong, building a team that is collaborative, efficient and productive is still challenging for any business, but technology advancements over the past few years have made it significantly easier.

Documents are an essential component of any organization, but managing these documents in a way that ensures operational efficiency and business security is more complex than it seems. 

A huge amount has changed for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) over the past year, with many making the transition to remote and flexible work schedules. With employees now based outside of the physical office for many Ontario-based businesses, IT solutions and technology choices are becoming increasingly important for business success.

Following the sudden shift to remote work for many businesses in 2020, organizations are planning to spend even more on communication and collaboration tools in 2021 to support their remote workers.

That’s because remote work is here to stay. A survey from Pew Research Center found that more than half of respondents (54 percent) want to continue working from home “all or most of the time” when the coronavirus outbreak is over, while a third say they want to work from home “some of the time.”

Improving the day-to-day operations of your business through technology and IT solutions can be incredibly complex, it requires the deployment and optimization of technology solutions that are perfectly designed to help your business meet its unique goals.

After a three-year warning, Adobe’s Flash Player has finally reached its “end-of-life” date. Adobe officially dropped support for Flash on January 1, 2021, and that means it’s crucial to your IT strategy that you uninstall it from your company's computers right away. 

 By now, you are likely aware of the SolarWinds hack, but why is it significant for the cybersecurity of small and medium-sized businesses and how can we learn from this event?

In this blog, we’re going to take a look at what actually happened in the SolarWinds hack, why it’s a watershed moment for the cybersecurity industry and how small and medium-sized businesses in Ontario can make sure they are taking the appropriate steps to protect their data from hackers.

Are you looking to save money on your business’s printing and copying but don’t know where to start? There’s a better way to print, and cost recovery software solutions are here to help your organization achieve that.