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After dealing with months of terrible news, a lot of businesses are trying to find the right strategy to navigate all the challenges their road ahead presents. With increasing costs and diminishing revenues there needs to be a strategic urgency that will allow your organization to sustain operations when other companies are laying off their workers and folding into obscurity. Below is a look at some of the technology services that you can use to keep your business afloat during the economic downturn. 

When we think of modern cybercrime, most people’s minds go to one of two places: some think about the annoying, misspelled emails that are clearly scams, while on the other can’t help but think about the hacks that we see in movies, where a cybercriminal manages to overcome the best the government can incorporate into their defenses.

The COVID-19 pandemic has every business on edge and looking for ways to mitigate some costs without directly impacting their ability to put out the product or service that their customers expect. When you begin to look at your IT, and try to establish what your IT support costs are, you may find that you are paying a lot more than you might like to keep your organization's IT running properly. This is where Managed IT services come in.

Many businesses have found it very difficult to cope with restrictions levied by lawmakers because of the COVID-19 situation. This pandemic has sent business owners and decision makers searching for solutions to their revenue problems. The most popular solution is to automate some of the work that was usually done by human resources to try and slice some of the demands on their capital. Automation is here to stay in business. 

When the stay-at-home orders came down in March, no one was sure just how long precautionary measures would last. Now that a large percentage of the workforce is either out of work, just returning to work, or working remotely after nearly 100 days, it has proven to be one of the most challenging periods for businesses in contemporary business history. Listed below are three technology solutions that can fix some of your organization's issues in a time when there are plenty to fix.

Businesses are in the process of reopening. While there are going to be growing pains and setbacks, this also provides an opportunity for these businesses to make many adjustments and improvements to their operations. As you resume your operations (or make the preparations to), it will help to do so with the support of modern technology and the processes it enables.

Many small businesses in the United States are in a catch-22 due to the current pandemic. While reopening too soon could contribute to a COVID-19 infection resurgence, there is also a very real risk associated with reopening too late. To help avoid either scenario, the right technology solutions will prove to be indispensable.

As time marches on and new technology arises, a lot of the processes that organizations rely on become more efficient and stand to deliver greater benefits to the businesses that use them. These benefits are accessible to businesses of all sizes, including small businesses. 

Large data, or enormous data sets that can be utilized to make inferences and reveal patterns, has become an increasingly critical part of today's business and can be leveraged in many different ways. There are a few different options for storing this data available, which the use case for the data will dictate. Below we will evaluate whether a “data lake” or a “data warehouse” would better suit your needs.

Organizations are looking to technology more than ever in a constant attempt to enhance productivity and efficiency. One issue that some businesses face is that their staff isn’t exactly technologically savvy, making them difficult to communicate with about technical concepts. Macro Systems' aim is to help you do a better job of communicating with those workers who don’t know much about technology.

You might be familiar with a situation where your technology is malfunctioning and someone says to you “Why don’t you turn it off and turn it back on?” What you have no way of knowing is that by turning it off and turning it back on, you aren’t getting the same result you would if you simply restarted the machine.

All businesses require a certain amount of technology in order to push their organizational profitability forward. Whether they invest in proven technologies or they use their capital a more innovatively depends on how decision makers’ forecasts of those investments help the business become more productive or efficient. Below is a look at five of the most important technology trends for SMBs in 2020.

It’s not difficult to ignore the printers around your office... until they run out of toner/ink, or jam, or just disappear from your network for seemingly no reason. Okay, it’s actually very easy to ignore printers most of the time. Alas, business owners do tend to ignore their printers, and this can get really expensive over time.

New technology can be exhilarating, but for any business, it can also be scary. Implementing technology that isn’t completely established is a serious gamble that could have a negative impact. However, sometimes early adoption of emerging technology will give a business just the boost it needs to blow past projections. Below is a look at three emerging technologies that the small to medium-sized business will have to consider in the near future.

Davis was looking at a business card while sitting at his desk. He watched the snow fall outside his window. He was the last person left in the office, as he usually was this time of year. He put down the business card, got up and walked over to the large pane of glass that was the only insulation from the harsh, cold wintery night. He placed his hand on the window and felt the bitter cold meet the palm of his hand. He stood there for a minute; maybe more than a minute. He began to cry. He was so angry at how things were going.

You probably need to purchase some helpful technology for loved ones or co-workers during the holiday. Below is a look at four gadgets that are sure to make even the biggest technophile smile.  

Email is obviously an incredibly useful tool in the business setting, helping with a wide variety of communication needs. On the other hand, in order to make the most of your emails, you need to have an email client that allows you to do so. Below we’re pitting two major email clients against each other to see which one offers the features that best suit your business and its needs.

It wasn't too long ago that we had to haul a computer into the shop to get it fixed if there were problems. However, with the pace that modern business is conducted, this approach just isn’t effective for businesses any longer. Today, with the support of a managed service provider, support is available much more efficiently and affordably than ever.

Technology is trending, but if you are a decision maker at a small business, technology solutions aren’t usually developed for your business in mind. As a result, it can often be hard for the SMB to get tools that are scalable enough to make sense for them, while also getting powerful options that will actually work to enhance some part of the business. Listed below is a look at three trending technologies that small businesses are starting to utilize regularly. 

People have been talking about the oncoming AR trend for almost a decade now. Google Glass was supposed to dramatically alter technology, but because of security and privacy concerns, it has never come to pass. On the other hand, AR (Augmented Reality) is a growth market and applications for the technology are rapidly increasing. Below is a look at AR and what to expect from the technology in the coming years.