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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.

The Managed Service Model Offers Some Good Benefits

The Managed Service Model Offers Some Good Benefits

How has your company managed its technology in recent years? Depending on the way you have done so, you could be unnecessarily throwing money down the drain when you could instead be reinvesting it into your business. If you are ready to take your operations to the next level, consider changing your approach to your office’s technology management with managed services.

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The Most Valuable Parts of Utilizing Managed Services

The Most Valuable Parts of Utilizing Managed Services

Every expense that your organization takes on requires consideration. When you are looking to keep your company productive, you need to focus on keeping downtime to a minimum. In order to do that you need to have tools that don’t take a lot of work-time maintenance and have professional perspectives available that can help keep operations running when problems with your business’ technology do happen.

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Automation can Benefit Your Business

Automation can Benefit Your Business

One of the primary ways that today's companies work to improve efficiency is to ease the workloads that their employees have to contend with through automation. Automating certain processes frees up the time these processes would otherwise take to devote to revenue generation. This approach has worked for decades, and modern businesses have access to more automation-focused technology than ever.

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Explaining the Zero-Trust Model

Explaining the Zero-Trust Model

Considering what the modern cyberthreat environment looks like, more and more rigorous cybersecurity is strictly needed. One way that businesses can accomplish this is a cybersecurity practice known as a zero-trust model.

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Six Variable to Contemplate on Technology Moves

Six Variable to Contemplate on Technology Moves

Technology spending is an issue that every company has to confront. There are a lot of options out there and a lot of promises made of which many won’t ever come to fruition, so it’s critical to know exactly what it is that your business needs before committing to any technology investment. Listed below are six variables to consider when deciding on your next technology move. 

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Communications Tools that can Help Your Business

Communications Tools that can Help Your Business

Digital communication is a critical part of running any business, so you need to do your part by equipping your employees with the tools they need to communicate effectively both in and out of the workplace. Listed below are three of the most effective tools that will enable your business to flourish.

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4 Tips to Enhance Your Home Office

4 Tips to Enhance Your Home Office

With so many employees working remotely, it’s imperative that you do all you can to ensure they have set themselves up for success with their home office. To this end, we have put together a list of suggestions you can use to help your employees build the most comfortable, and productive, home office possible. Here are four tips you can implement for a more comfortable workplace.

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Consider Employees' Reactions to Returning to the Office

Consider Employees' Reactions to Returning to the Office

You may or may not have already made the transition back to the office, and this especially applies more to those who haven’t yet. That being said, even those who have may find some utility here, specifically in determining if a push to a full return to office was the right move.

Let’s explore how modern employees may react to the news that remote work will no longer be an option.

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5 Advantages of Proactive Managed IT

5 Advantages of Proactive Managed IT

Technology is one part of your business where you would rather take proactive measures than react to problems that arise. After all, preventing some of the disasters and problems which surface could save you so much time and resources. Listed below are five of the best reasons why you should take a proactive approach to your business’ technology infrastructure.

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How to Remove Duplicate Values in Excel

How to Remove Duplicate Values in Excel

Microsoft Excel is a valuable tool that offers lots of value to power users, but oftentimes users just don’t have the knowledge to make the most of it. Fortunately, you have power users like us to guide you through some of the more intricate processes in the spreadsheet software. Listed below is a look at one such process: removing duplicate values in columns.

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Network and Data Security Tips

Network and Data Security Tips

Modern Businesses have to deal with more potential problems than in any time in history. These problems include cost increases at every turn, personnel shortages, and a regulatory landscape that is always evolving. One of the biggest issues that can have a negative effect on a business is not having the processes and resources in place and working to secure its data and network. Listed below is a look at five suggestions that can work to help your business keep its network and data more secure. 

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The Phenomenon of Technology Innovation During Hard Times

The Phenomenon of Technology Innovation During Hard Times

As the saying goes, necessity is the mother of invention. This is clearly demonstrated in the perceptible phenomenon of technology advancement and innovation being enhanced in tough economic times. Whys is this the case?

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4 Cybersecurity Training Tips for Your Staff

4 Cybersecurity Training Tips for Your Staff

Security is an incredibly critical part of running a business, but it’s extremely easy for busy employees to fall short of the security expectations you might place on them. This is why it is so imperative to train your employees on the many facets of cybersecurity. By training them, you are preparing them to tackle the variety of challenges they will encounter throughout the workday.

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Proactive Maintenance Can Help Your Business

Proactive Maintenance Can Help Your Business

If you want to limit costs, being proactive can go a long way toward this goal. Your organization's technology is one such area where proactive maintenance can allow your business to save countless dollars and hours of downtime. If you haven’t implemented a proactive maintenance platform yet, then you might be putting your business at risk.

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The Analytics Baseball Strategy that can Also Help Your Business

The Analytics Baseball Strategy that can Also Help Your Business

It’s almost summer, which means baseball is in full swing. The sport that many of us grew up on has recently gone through a major shift, one which small business owners can replicate to help their organizations. It came about via the use of data and today we’ll discuss how the national pastime has changed and how you can use the same strategies to help make your business better. 

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How to Use Technology to Better Manage People

How to Use Technology to Better Manage People

Being a manager is a far different experience than being an employee. So, when you promote one of your team members to this position—or perhaps you’ve recently been promoted to management yourself—it is critical that a few practices are incorporated into their new workflow. Let’s go over these practices, and how the right IT can help.

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Percussive Maintenance is Not a Good Strategy

Percussive Maintenance is Not a Good Strategy

We’re all familiar with the old, cliched joke where someone needs to give their technology a good whack in order for it to work right—and by some miracle, it works. The thing is, it isn’t a miracle, and can sometimes be effective. However, this is not a strategy that we would recommend.

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Examining the Four-Day Workweek

Examining the Four-Day Workweek

The workspace is consistently changing these days, with remote work being commonplace, along with resignations in the face of a return to the office becoming more of a regular occurrence. Employees want more control over their work schedule so they can balance their personal responsibilities with their professional. A shorter workweek might be the key to making this happen.

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Benefits to Using Chromebooks

Benefits to Using Chromebooks

Every organization wants to make smart technology decisions. For the small business looking to get their workforce the affordable workstations one modern option that you have is utilizing the budget Chromebooks that are available. Listed below is a discussion about what the Chromebook can bring to your organization and how it can help you reduce your hardware costs and get your staff the resources they need to be productive. 

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Technology that can Help Your Organization Grow Faster

Technology that can Help Your Organization Grow Faster

There are many ways that you can invest in your business. You can hire more people with a strategy to get more done; you can diversify and try to cultivate different types of revenue; and you revitalize your business via the use of technology. Below is a discussion on how deploying certain technologies can help grow your business fast. 

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