You might have heard the term, ‘big data’ and assumed it’s too complex to be useful to small businesses. In fact, it can be incredibly beneficial to your bottom line. What is big data? For such an important business resource, big data can be hard to define. Some people refer to it (somewhat light heartedly)…
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When a business expands from the first couple of employees to the first handful, everyone starts to notice that sharing and editing documents becomes a little difficult to manage. A growing business often begins to have concerns about how and where to securely store their data, not to mention the hours of research spent trying…
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Small business owners and managers have a lot of competing demands and priorities. In the daily competition between urgent and important tasks, it’s understandable that the less urgent jobs are left for another day. Ensuring your business systems have adequate backup and disaster recovery programs in place is one task that is often neglected. That’s…
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When you launch a start-up company, it’s a good idea to gather a strong and supportive team around you. Your internal team might be made up of employees, mentors and investors. Your external team might be made up of support services like accountants and IT tech support. Like everyone else you work with, the tech…
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Trying to find the right IT support partner to help your business can be daunting. There’s a lot to consider, and those considerations should go beyond the costs involved. While competitive pricing ought to be factored in, we’ve put together some other questions you should ask an IT support company before hiring them. Get to…
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The field of Human Resources is often viewed as a cost centre. It’s a department that is far less likely to see generous funding. HR can be viewed as an operation that supports the departments that add value to a business, rather than adding value in its own right. What if technology could change these…
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