1st March 2024
Technology has become indispensable for small to medium businesses (SMEs). Last year, the rapid advancements of technologies such as cloud computing have given SMEs capabilities once limited to large corporations.
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21st December 2023
When Tim-Berners Lee modelled the structure of the World Wide Web, he visualised it as a series of connections through which data is freely shared and safely consumed. However, connecting the world has created dangers Lee failed to foresee. “If you’d asked me 10 years ago, I would have said humanity is going to do a good job with this. I was wrong,” says Lee.
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11th December 2023
Collaboration tools are deeply intertwined with the way we work. There’s an application for every function imaginable. Hop on Zoom for a conference call. Jump over to Slack, and there’s a channel for everything, from projects to casual chats. Pull up Microsoft Teams or Google Docs to work together on files in real time.
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2nd November 2023
Although nearly phased out at home, traditional phone systems still run communications at many an office. Around 70 percent still use landlines.
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6th October 2023
Organisations deal with tremendous streams of information. As the volume of information grows, these islands of data become increasingly abstract and harder to parse. Without a way to contextualise the information, it’s meaningless. Gathering these disparate data sets and giving them context as a cohesive whole is the job of business intelligence tools.
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15th September 2023
Data loss is an omnipresent risk. Cyber criminals never let up: 83 percent of organisations experienced more than one data breach in 2022. Natural disasters and accidents can level offices without warning. Even Google’s data centres can’t evade lighting strikes.
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18th July 2023
In the last 12 months, 32% of businesses in the UK reported a cyber attack. An estimated £21 billion is lost every year in the UK to cyber crime. The ubiquity and the cost of cyber crime demands that organisations make cyber security a top priority, especially when we are only becoming ever more reliant on technology to operate.
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14th June 2023
In a tech-first world, IT has become the single business function that links and powers all others. Look into the inner workings of any department–whether HR or logistics–and you’ll find a network of devices and applications quietly processing the information that keeps small businesses and conglomerates alike alive.
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11th May 2023
Hardware is one of the largest expenditures you’ll have as a business and will usually account for the majority of your IT spend. The average business spends 30 percent of its IT budget on tech alone.
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