Posts for small-to-medium business users facing questions about their technical environment.
Your small business IT budget: Do more with less With year-end just around the corner, companies are thinking about their business strategy, marketing strategy and IT budget for the coming year. Your IT budget should reflect your priorities, and align with your overarching business strategy – and that means you need to have an IT…
Is QuickBooks Your Main Source of Customer Information? Small business owners and managers need to be able to answer questions like: Who are your best customers? What’s your average customer sale: What’s the lifetime value of a customer? If you’re like many small businesses, you may go to QuickBooks or your accounting system to find…
What is Two Factor Authentication? The most common form of multi-factor authentication is two-factor authentication (2FA). We will get into the benefits of two factor authentication after you learn what it is. As its name suggests, two-factor authentication combines two different methods to confirm a user’s identity. In order of security levels, 2FA will ask…
Phishing detection is becoming harder Recently I’ve noticed an uptick in very legitimate-appearing phishing emails. One came in as an email from “someone I knew” saying they had a task for me and to send them my personal number so they could reach me. My alarm bells went off because: The real person already had my…
Once upon a time… MS Access databases were everywhere! In fact, Microsoft Access databases are still used in lots of small-to-medium businesses because the applications developed years ago still work. The obvious question then is… If your MS Access application still works, why would you change anything? Because old technology – even if it’s technically…
In the not-so-distant past, the standard way to buy small business software was to buy the number of licenses you need, install the software on a server or on all the company’s workstations, and periodically upgrade the software to a new version. That model is quickly becoming obsolete as more software vendors have moved to…