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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How to Remotely Collaborate More Efficiently

How to Remotely Collaborate More Efficiently

Collaboration is imperative for a business’ success, but with more teams than ever divided up amongst their homes, it is arguably even more imperative to their operations. Listed below are three ways that your team can collaborate more effectively while maintaining remote operations. 

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VoIP > Traditional Telephone System

VoIP > Traditional Telephone System

Businesses of all kinds rely on their telephone systems. There is a modern option that can revolutionize any business’ communications platform, and do so for a fraction of the cost of a traditional telephone system: VoIP. 

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File Sync and Share is a Critical Resource for Businesses

File Sync and Share is a Critical Resource for Businesses

As the coronavirus outbreak continues creating global health concerns, Macro Systems wants to address how it could affect businesses that lack the preparations required to account for such an event. More specifically, we wanted to discuss why events like these add even more reasons that a file share and sync solution is a critical addition to your IT resources.

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Technology that Fuels Necessary Business Collaboration

Technology that Fuels Necessary Business Collaboration

For small businesses and startups, it is extremely imperative to select the collaboration tools your business needs to meet consumer demand. It is often the case where members of your team are going to be asked to work together toward the successful conclusion in the delivery of a service or the creation of a product. Listed below are some considerations that decision makers need to sort through in order to find collaboration solutions that will help meet their business’ goals. 

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Collaboration Tools can Innovate Your Organization's Functionality

Collaboration Tools can Innovate Your Organization's Functionality

Collaboration is imperative to the success of your business; productivity can rarely happen without it. Some modern collaboration tools have enhanced operations so much that they have completely altered the workplace dynamic, making meetings easier to manage, clients easier to communicate with, and managing in-house processes in a more productive way. It’s not surprising that the proper collaboration tools can help your business overcome just about anything.

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Collaboration Solutions can Help Your Organization

Collaboration Solutions can Help Your Organization

Innovation has many forms, whether it’s implementing automated solutions to ensure tasks are accomplished or implementing new methods to get work done by your in-house staff. Collaboration is one of the ways that your organization can benefit from innovation; the right solutions can make quite a difference. Let's highlight some of the more innovative collaboration solutions that you can implement for your business.

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Explaining How Backup and Recovery From Collaborative Cloud-Based Platforms Work

Explaining How Backup and Recovery From Collaborative Cloud-Based Platforms Work

As the cloud is being used by more people and businesses to meet their computing requirements, more critical data is hosted outside of local computer networks. As a result, individuals use cloud storage for their backup and recovery strategies. In fact, it has become the primary use of cloud-hosted platforms, but just how does backup and recovery from these collaborative cloud-based platforms work?

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Technology Allows for Better Communication and Collaboration in Our Modern Era

Technology Allows for Better Communication and Collaboration in Our Modern Era

Is anything more imperative to the success of your organization than strong communication? If you’re not prepared to communicate, it becomes hard to collaborate and make strides on critical projects. Fortunately, like many topics in business, technology permits for more effective communication and collaboration than ever before.

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Recognizing These 4 Behavioral Types Will Help You Network More Efficiently

Recognizing These 4 Behavioral Types Will Help You Network More Efficiently

Nearly everyone, at some point in time, has been involved in a situation where personalities clash. This is natural; different people are born with different predispositions and are raised in different environments. Still, in the business world, one should do their best to keep personal differences from affecting their necessary professional relationships.

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For These Updates, Collaboration is Imperative

For These Updates, Collaboration is Imperative

Collaboration is a critical aspect of business these days, which has led to many developers and providers entering the business of collaboration. These developers are in extensive competition with each other trying to update their offering so it's better than the others. Recently, Facebook Workplace, Slack, and Google’s Gmail each received collaboration-boosting updates.

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How To Co-Author A Microsoft Word Document

How To Co-Author A Microsoft Word Document

As one would expect, a business will run a lot more smoothly when its employees have the resources to work cohesively toward a common goal. This is why collaborative solutions are becoming a staple in many office environments. Today, we’ll examine how one of these solutions, Microsoft Office 365, can help a workforce to achieve its goals.

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Is Lame Technology Killing Your Company’s Collaboration Efforts?

b2ap3_thumbnail_frustrating_old_tech_400.jpgCollaboration. It’s a buzzword that managers talk about all the time, yet few organizations will claim that they’ve mastered it. It’s often a company’s misuse of technology that attributes to their collaboration shortcomings--which is ironic because utilizing the right technology is the surest way to improve collaboration.

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Herding Cats is Harder Than it Looks [VIDEO]

b2ap3_thumbnail_cats_cats_cats_400.jpgHerding cats is a business term used to describe the task of organizing and controlling entities like people and systems known for being uncontrollable and even chaotic. Due to the unpredictable and independent nature of felines, cat herding captures the idea of controlled chaos perfectly. Does running your business feel like you're working on a cat ranch?

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Outsourcing Your Intranet Can Benefit Your Company

b2ap3_thumbnail_your_business_intranet_400.jpgA basic Intranet can be an invaluable tool for a budding company, and can help connect your employees over your own network. However, that's not all that an intranet is good for. It can also save you a lot of money in the long run by streamlining operations and decreasing downtime!

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Find Out if Microsoft SharePoint is Right For Your Business

b2ap3_thumbnail_introduction_to_sharepoint_400.jpgThere are several options on the market that you can deploy to securely store, organize, share, and access your information for your staff. SharePoint, Microsoft’s intranet solution, is worth considering for your data access and sharing needs.

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