Telecommunications 101
Today’s business environment relies upon constant connectivity. Your business can have the most advanced facilities or production equipment in the world, but without a telecommunications network to provide connectivity to the world around it, your business may struggle.
Process Automation Workflows for Business
For many of us, automation still conjures up images of automobile assembly lines or old reel-to-reel films highlighting the marvel of modern industrial food production. For others, it also brings up understandable fears about job security and wages. While it’s tempting for busine…
Everything You Should Know About Backing Up Your Data
In this day and age, most businesses are careful with their data...or at least, they think they are. Hard drives fail, software gets buggy, and ransomware attacks are rampant; having a reliable backup of all of your data and infrastructure is an elegant solution. But statistics s…
What is Enterprise Content Management (ECM)?
Enterprise Content Management (ECM) refers to a system of curating, storing, protecting, and delivering content to your employees, business partners, and customers. In essence, ECM includes most of the duties and responsibilities of a library, but for your business. As businesses…
Improve Collaboration from Anywhere with Cisco's Solutions
If your staff is working remotely all or part of the time, you may be familiar with the odd phenomena known as Zoom fatigue. A wealth of online productivity and collaboration tools have handily proven the case that work can be completed just as quickly and just as well from anywh…
How to Improve Network Connectivity in a Hybrid Workplace with Cisco
While there’s been quite a bit of talk about employee preferences, it’s only recently that businesses are assessing how hybrid and remote workplaces have actually affected their bottom line. A recent Accenture report indicates 63% of high-revenue growth companies are committed to…
Video Conferencing Simplified for Today's Business
Even before remote work became so common, video conferencing has been incredibly important to enable immersive, face-to-face communication with key business partners, while reducing travel time and expenses. Video conferencing can also be used to facilitate more effective communi…
Five Reasons Telepresence Isn’t Going Anywhere
Remember when the pandemic was only going to last a few months, and everything would go back to normal? Those precious phrases, like "In these challenging times" and "Now more than ever" started being replaced by "the new normal," and cries for resiliency. Recently, even that lan…
Business Enablement that Extends Beyond Technology
Trendy business language like "siloed," "drill down," and "put a pin in that" may set your teeth on edge, and you're not alone. But hear me out on making room for just one more bit of verbiage. You may have already heard the phrase “business enablement” getting tossed around, and…
5 Questions to Determine if Sourcewell Cooperative Contracts are Right for You
It usually takes a few sentences to explain to people what Sourcewell is, but trust me, it’s worth it. First, it’s an organization set up to help state and local agencies, nonprofits and school districts expedite purchases. The organization does all the leg work for purchases, in…