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Voice Tech Could Shape the Post-Pandemic Workplace

As companies work to safely reopen offices, voice technology is about to make itself heard. When it comes to ensuring employees stay safe, the fewer touchpoints, the better. Over the past decade, voice technology has grown thanks to voice-activated systems like Alexa, Google, and Siri. The average ...

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Business Continuity Using Cloud Computing

It’s easy to agree that technology has helped businesses to continue working during the coronavirus outbreak. Without a doubt, cloud computing has been key to keeping business-critical services going. The benefits are well documented: cloud infrastructure provides companies the flexibility to scale ...

Ways to Improve Your Customer Service

Will this global pandemic improve #customerservice? I am personally experiencing improvements in customer services as a direct result of coronavirus. The “shelter-in-residence” and social distancing have limited businesses offering regular services, but the limited services that businesses are ...

Cyber Security

Before the internet, threats to #smallbusinesses were different. Today, it’s the criminals you can’t see that you have to worry about. Thanks to cybercriminals, 60% of companies they steal from go out of business within six months. Coupled with the outlook that 15% of small businesses doubt their ...

Best Practices for Cloud Migration Amid Covid-19

When Covid-19 was declared a pandemic, businesses quickly realized that secure cloud architecture was no longer just nice-to-have. Many organizations were caught off guard as employees began to work from home and students began to learn from home. As the situation continues to unfold, transitioning ...

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Companies weigh the potential of permanent work-from-home

When it comes to our workplace environment, it’s clear we’re not in Kansas anymore. And, it’s also becoming clear that we’re unlikely to go back to the way things were before the #COVID pandemic. If you transitioned to #workfromhome as the #coronavirus spread, you are probably thinking about and talking about how things will be different as we return to our office ...

Cyber Insurers Increase Scrutiny Amid Pandemic

Lately we’ve been having discussions with clients about how to mitigate the increased #networksecurity vulnerability that comes as more employees #workfromhome. Compared to mature processes and hardened systems for office locations, personal and home networks tend to be less secure and expose both companies and their employees to new risks and attacks. According to ...

Tips for Working Remotely During the COVID-19 Crisis

COVID-19 has sprung new challenges and hardships on businesses nationwide. Here are a few ways that businesses are leveraging technology in this trying time. If you have other suggestions, please share them in the comments. #wereinthistogether 1. Workplace Chat Programs: Slack, Flock, or Discord help keep communication between team members both consistent and instant. ...

Video Conferencing: Who’s really listening?

Hackers are selling two critical vulnerabilities for the video conferencing software #Zoom that would allow someone to hack users and spy on their calls. The two flaws are so-called “zero-days”, and are currently present in Zoom’s #Windows and macOS clients. Zero-days are unknown vulnerabilities in software or hardware that hackers can take advantage of to take control ...

Trellance (formerly OnApproach)

“Premier IT Minnesota is the most responsive IT group that I have worked with. They are very patient, capable, knowledgeable, and responsive – they seem to respond almost 24-hours a day.” Dianne Kruse Integration Executive, Trellance (formerly OnApproach) Owner, Alan Altepeter launched Premier IT Minnesota in 2017. Alan’s business of providing expert IT support was built ...