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How Can Managed IT Help with Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery?
Key Takeaways How can managed IT help with business continuity and disaster recovery? Managed IT service providers can provide key support to companies looking to safeguard their systems from cyberattacks, natural disasters, or unplanned outages. They take the labor of managing a business continuity and disaster recovery (BCDR) system out of house, so a company’s…
AI for Banks: What to Expect and How to Prepare
Financial Institutions, Take Note. AI Will Soon Transform Your Cybersecurity, Compliance, and Customer Service Recent statistics leave little doubt that AI has significant upside potential for community banks. Recent numbers from Accenture Consulting show that 68 percent of community banks are exploring or implementing AI solutions to enhance customer experience and streamline operations. The same…
How the Right IT Support and Tools Can Help Small Law Firms Compete against Bigger Firms
Key Takeaways: Law firms that invest in cybersecurity, IT support, and encrypted communications tools may have an edge over their competitors, with more than 40 percent of clients surveyed in the Integris 2025 Law Firm Report saying they’d be willing to pay more for firms with a secure IT architecture. Firms should consider: Case management…
The Future of Work Is AI-Driven. Are Your Systems Ready for the Ride?
The AI-enabled future of business is already here. AI chatbots interact with our customers. Employees use generative AI to write code, automate tasks, and handle everything from creating memos to creating presentations. Decision makers line up to use AI-generated business intelligence to monitor their KPIs. This isn’t just happening at large organizations with deep pockets,…
Bridging the Gap between Automation and Innovation
Automation and Innovation. Some people might say those two words cancel each other out. Yet, I believe these two concepts can create capacity for each other—if your business leverages the free time automation creates to foster innovation. Automation can be innovation’s best friend. It removes repetitive tasks, offering you more face time with clients and…
Microsoft Teams vs. Microsoft Outlook: Which One Is Better, and When Do You Use Them?
Microsoft 365’s Office Suite packs some powerful yet overlapping features. This is especially true in the debate between Microsoft Teams vs. Microsoft Outlook—both programs that allow your employees to communicate with others and set meetings. While Outlook is great for emails and setting meetings, most companies can increase collaboration and productivity by switching more messaging…
Top Microsoft Teams Integrations: What They Can Do for Your Productivity
If you’ve worked in Microsoft 365 for any length of time, you know the powerful chat and collaboration functions of Microsoft Teams. But did you know the Microsoft Marketplace has more than 2100 different apps and integrations you can use to increase the functionality of Microsoft Teams? Truly, the options are dizzying, ranging from…
How to Record, Transcribe, and Save Your Meetings with Microsoft 365
Have you ever wished you could record Microsoft Teams meetings you participate in, so you could refer to it later? Would it benefit your staff to be able to pull information directly from meeting transcripts when they’re working on their projects? For most organizations, the answer is yes. But who wants to take all that…
Hot New Ways to Customize Microsoft Teams for Your Industry in 2024
Nearly everyone with Microsoft Teams knows what a tremendous tool it is for chat, document sharing, and meetings between individuals or large groups. We’re used to using the tool as it appears on our screens daily. But did you know hundreds of integrations available in Microsoft Teams allow you to customize your Team experience to…
Hot Topics for Cybersecurity in 2024
As we go into 2024, Cybercrime now accounts for $8 Trillion US dollars—enough to make it the third largest “economy” after the US and China. As scary as that number is, it is the downstream effects of Cybercrime that are so serious. Hacked businesses experience the destruction of data, lost productivity, theft of intellectual property,…