Business Technology Insights

When it comes to maintenance of your IT hardware, your business has two primary options. The first is to be reactive and respond to issues as they come up. But this is expensive. In fact, the Uptime Institute’s 2022 Outage Analysis Report found that over 60 percent of outages cost more than $100,000, with 15 percent of outages costing more than $1 million.

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Printing is an essential function for most businesses, and it’s often more expensive than most business owners realize. This can have a significant impact on a small or medium-sized businesses bottom line. 

Thankfully, there are different approaches for how an organization can manage their printing. The approach chosen will impact how much printing costs your business, what responsibilities your IT team will have and how efficient your company’s printing processes are.

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Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is an emerging technology that enables organizations to automate manual and tedious back-office processes. RPA uses intelligent automation technology to perform repetitive office tasks of human workers.

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It has been more than a decade since the 2008-2009 “Great Recession” in Canada, which impacted the entire world and was driven largely by the United States’ housing market crash. 

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So, you’re looking into your business’s IT Infrastructure for existing weaknesses and areas of improvement? That’s fantastic! Having a proper IT infrastructure is imperative to business growth and success, especially in today’s tech-centric world. 

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There’s no doubt that the future of work will be different. It’s going to be more advanced, more efficient, and more productive. Most importantly, it’s going to be more human. And all of that is thanks to the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace. Read More

Regardless of the industry you’re in, your business most likely relies on data in its daily operations. In fact, a report from business intelligence and analytics firm, MicroStrategy, found that 94 percent of companies believe that data and analytics is essential to the growth of their business.

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Data is the lifeblood of most modern businesses. Just think about the time you spend collecting information, creating documents and generating data. If this information were to go missing, it would heavily disrupt your business operations and would potentially take a lot of time to recreate. 

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Technology is at the center of almost every business. When properly connected and integrated, technology can help save time, reduce repetitive and monotonous tasks, increase productivity and improve your bottom line. 

But with an improperly managed IT infrastructure the benefits of technology can become a productivity and security issue. Getting your technology right can be a huge asset, but getting it wrong can seriously hamper your ability to complete work and grow.

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All businesses want to spend money wisely, improve efficiencies, minimize downtime and ensure the successful adoption of new technologies by employees. Is your company performing a business situational analysis (or a business IT infrastructure assessment), to make this happen?

If not, your business is, more than likely, suffering from the wasted time and increased costs associated with downtime. The 2017 Veeam Availability Report revealed that enterprise organizations lose an average of $21.8 million (USD) a year due to unplanned downtime.

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