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Cloud Migration Requires a New Monitoring Strategy

The mixed environments businesses are supporting today are difficult to monitor. This complex environment makes monitoring complex, as well. In many cases, businesses should build out a new monitoring solution more capable of monitoring their mix of technologies.
ERP Functionality and Usability

Functionality and Usability: A Perfect Pairing for User Adoption

As we begin to wrap up our series on the realizations you may have when outgrowing entry level accounting software like QuickBooks, we would today like to turn our attention to two critical factors in getting users to embrace a new software—functionality and usability.
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Getting Your House in Order as You Move from Recovery to Operations

Smart decisions early on can go a long way in establishing resiliency at your business. Today, we discuss some of the steps you can take to fortify your business against present and future threats.
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Gaining Momentum before the Recovery: Preparing for a Safe Return to Work

Despite the move from lockdown to reality looking less like flipping the switch and more like accelerating, resilient businesses who turned to the cloud either before or during the lockdown have been reaping the rewards.
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Summer Storms Shouldn’t Take Down Your Servers

Summer means power outages. That can mean a data center outage; but it shouldn’t. All businesses should have appropriate disaster recovery plans to keep them functioning through power outages and other incidents that take down systems.
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Searching the Dark Web Should be Part of Your Information Security Strategy

Every business is vulnerable to attack, but it isn’t always obvious that an attack was successful. Because hackers often post stolen data on the dark web, finding it there confirms that you’ve been attacked and lets you know what sensitive data was taken.
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Decision Maker’s Guide to Vetting and Selecting an ERP Solution

Following our articles discussing the challenges that growing businesses face when using desktop accounting software when they should be embracing ERP, we would today like to explore a few tips to make the selection and decision process easier.
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Avoiding an Implementation Plot Twist: Beware the ERP Predator

A recent report from Techventive, Inc. set out to show you some of the best and worst practices that potential technology partners may practice so that you can enjoy a plot twist-free ERP project.
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Two Numbers to Keep in Mind When You Think About Information Security

Can you afford to lose more than eight million dollars in under a minute? No matter what your business is, it’s at risk, and protecting networks, data, servers, and other corporate IT resources need to be a priority.