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Preventing Your Files from Never Being Lost

According to the EFSI, there are more than about 51,000 fires that take place every single year in a home in America. There are also more than about 1,400 people who end up getting severely injured and there are also more than $1.3 billion dollars lost in property damages caused by electrical fires. Fires and natural disasters can take place anytime and if you are not careful, you could end up losing all of your most prized possessions. You could also lose the most important documents that you have in your possession. Keeping backed up files of your documents are critical to prevent you from losing them for good. If you are a small business owner, then it is especially critical for you to utilize resources out there to help back up your company files. If you are running your company from your own home because you may be a startup company, then consider finding a way to prevent your important documents you have in paper to never get lost. Having your documents all scanned and backed up on a drive that can be accessible anywhere is the best way to preventing your files from being forever lost.

According to Fit Small Business, there are more than about 28 million small startup companies around the country, but only half of these small startups will end up surviving the first few years and later being forced to close the doors for good. There are many reasons that small companies are forced to shut down. The most common reason that these small companies are forced to shut down have a lot to do with how they are running their business. Perhaps, these companies don’t have the proper strategies and or methods in running an efficient business, which later causes their … Continue reading >>>

Melinda Skinner by — November 16, 2018 in Computer Security
Creating Improvement in Your Workplace Among Staff

According to Fit Small Business, in the United States, there are more than 28 million small startup companies that currently exist throughout the country. Many of these startup companies get started with almost little or no financial funding backed up. Many of these small business owners end up making the decision to open up a small company because they are confident that their company will succeed and be financially successful. What many small-business owners fail to realize is that opening up a small business is very possible with little or nothing. However, maintaining a small business requires a bit of effort as well as using the right type of resources to keep your business up and running. The reason that it is so important to utilize the right type of resources for your company is because you need your company to run efficiently. Keeping your staff happy and engage in your small company will allow your company to thrive and be as efficient as possible, thus allowing your company to be able to create a significant amount of revenue and growth for the company.

According to Forbes, studies that have been conducted in the United States show that employees that are found to be very happy with the company are 20 percent more productive than unhappy employees. In addition, if your company has salesman employed for the company, happy salesman are found to be more than 37 percent more productive than those who are not happy with the company. Promoting happiness in the workplace is extremely important when you are trying to run a solid business. Your employees are actually the bread-and-butter other company when you think about it. It is your employees who are truly responsible for the outcome of your company. If you feel that your … Continue reading >>>

Melinda Skinner by — November 15, 2018 in Industrial Computer
What to Know About Tech Rental

With all the new technology that’s on the market, we are more than likely finding ourselves overwhelmed. That’s said, you may opt to rent instead of buy your technology devices that you’ve come to depend on. Technology has push the limits to where we understand and know that we can obtain any device that we want. The issue comes in when we have to decide how long we want to keep that particular item. Here are some things to know when you decide to rent from a tech store for your electronic devices.

Hardware

In this day and age, you’re able to rent pretty much any type of technology hardware that you desire. Equipment hardware is evolving year after year. Corporations have great options on whether to go with high-end large equipment to fill their entire building at an expensive cost or consider renting on contract. Most rental technology businesses offer year long, if not more, agreements for companies to use office equipment during peak and slow seasons. Here are some of the different types of office equipment many businesses have rented: Laptops, desktops, portable palm monitors, monitors, and full computer systems, just to name a few.

Benefits

Depending on what you plan on doing with the devices, can determine whether you rent or buy. If you are a new start up business and want to reduce costs, rental might be your best route. This allows you to have professional office equipment that can play into your overall image. It allows your staff to effectively carry out duties in a reasonable time. It also gives them the chance to experience new technology at their fingertips. Technology rental does not mean you own the equipment, but that you have it for a period of time. It gives you an opportunity to … Continue reading >>>

Melinda Skinner by — November 14, 2018 in Computer Programming
Make Money Management Easier

Isn’t everyone having a crisis with managing their personal financial business and tracking their mileage? We are at a time and age where money moves so fast, it comes and goes out of our hands in a pace we can barely attempt to control. For the most of us, we would need someone responsible enough to keep track of our spending and mileage. You can always do the manual and traditional and keep a log book to account your expenses and mileage on the daily, per transaction basis. Which might be a bit tedious, but it will get you what you need to see from your spending and mileage.

But of course, with the evolving times, the world is literally on the palm of our hands – but with transportation vehicle system providers it might be a little different from the usual. They always have to keep both hands on the wheel at all times, that’s where technology comes in. The transportation vehicle system providers might need a little bit more help from application that help them track their mileage along with their spending. These applications must be effective and efficient for transportation vehicle system providers that do not have time to log their mileage and spending manually in their log books. What are the best apps to track your mileage? For one these applications need to first accurately and effectively track, analyze and record your mileage, that’s the first basic requirement of all.

Next, in addition to this, a characteristic of a good mileage tracker is that it can also track your expenses like gas receipts, payment for toll gates and everything in between – anything that concerns your self-employed expenses need to be accounted for in these mileage and spending tracking applications. Moreover, a good mileage and spending … Continue reading >>>

Melinda Skinner by — November 13, 2018 in Computer Technology In Business
The Process of Analytics and What it Does

Analytics refers to the interpretation, discovery, and overall communication of data patterns that have meaningful applications those patterns in a business’s decision making. It essentially applies statistics to recorded information to optimize the performance, sales, and operation aspects of a company. Analytics are gaining popularity in the business world with more and more companies using them for performance improvement. Analytics have a variety of special areas that benefit business. When using analytics, you are taking part of a threefold process.

Predictive

Predictive Analytics uses aspects like data mining, machine learning, and other predictive models to anticipate future events. It can be used to assess trends for retail or predict the function of new ventures. Business use predictive analytics to appropriately plan for the future. As they can be very accurate, they can boost the success of decision making. They take numerous factors into account such as: customers, employees, patients, vehicles, products, machines, and components. Predictive analytics is good for any business practice and can be beneficial to the start of any endeavor. From employee initiatives, to product launches, to consumer service having an accurate outcome already predicted can spell much success.

Descriptive Analytics

Descriptive Analytics looks more at the past than the future. They take all the data a business has generated and uses it to look at the changes the company has undergone. Such data is found in year-over-year price changes, month-to-month sales growth, number of users, increase or decrease in growth, and the total revenue of the company year-to-year. This allows companies to measure their performance, pinpoint problems, and log success. A great tool for strategizing optimization.

Prescriptive Analytics

Prescriptive analytics is the last phase of an analytics program. It prescribes the best course of action a business can take to optimize its performance. This is based off … Continue reading >>>

Melinda Skinner by — November 12, 2018 in Computer Technology In Business