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  • Monday Musings: Why Use CRM?

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    A few of years ago, a long-time customer of ours came to us for help in replacing their aging CRM system with something newer and more powerful.  At the time, CRM wasn’t something that we did, but we knew businesses that would be able to help, so we invited several of them in to bid [...]

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  • Monday Musings: The Evolution of QRCard

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    We’ve been busy on the local business-to-business networking schemes recently.  If you’re an attendee of the local BNI or 4N meetings, you will have seen Managing Director Stuart Burgess peddling our wares to all and sundry.  Without going all “American Psycho”, one of the key ways of getting yourself remembered at these meetings is by [...]

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  • Monday Musings: Cloud Files – A Practical Example

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    As more and more of our day to day business operations are going digital, we are hearing increasingly from business wanting to: The first two points are very common requests and Cloud Files easily addresses these, but have you thought of the third and fourth points?  Consider the following scenario: you are a bookkeeping practice [...]

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  • Monday Musings: Bad Cloud vs. Good Cloud

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    As our regular readers should know, we are big fans of Cloud Computing here at Agile IT and we practice what we preach; in fact we have a hybrid-Cloud solution – we have on-premise servers for our CRM and accountancy packages and Cloud-hosted Exchange and SharePoint for our email and files.  I doubt we will [...]

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  • Monday Musings: When technology works (and when it doesn’t)

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    My friends and I had a bit of a technological “eureka!” moment this past weekend; the YouTube app on the PlayStation.  I should preface this with the information that my PlayStation is a media device first and a games console second.  I store all my photos, pictures and movies on a NAS (network attached storage) [...]

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  • Monday Musings: A Day on the Helpdesk

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    I’m sure you’ve all heard of DVD Drives being used as cup-holders and the like, so I thought I’d run down the more interesting work we get through on an average day on the Helpdesk: The broken laptops/mobile phones Now I’m not saying that people get a little reckless over the weekends, but we seem [...]

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  • Monday Musings: Progress in Pictures

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    As I’ve still not got my hands on a BlackBerry Z10, I thought I would gather up some of my old tech and do a side-by-side with my current tech so we can see just how far the world has moved on: Laptop Hmm, the Dell Latitude D800 vs. the Dell Vostro V131.  At a [...]

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  • Monday Musings: Quick Online Security Tips

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    Just a quick one for today, here are three steps that you can take right now to ensure you are staying safer online: Update then disable Java Java is a wonderful software tool that allows applications to be written for multiple-platforms.  In lay terms, a Java developer can write his program once, without have to [...]

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  • Monday Musings: Getting Your Credentials In Order

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    This week is sort of an addendum to Monday Musing # 15.  Someone recently pointed out to me that often remembering your password isn’t the problem, it’s the username/userid bit that causes the most issues.  When you think about it you can see why this is, as with passwords there is almost an “unofficial” standard [...]

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  • Monday Musings: Data vs. Information

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    It’s normally around this time of year that I get very smug and point out that there are lots of remote access solutions available to help keep your business productive when the UK gets a dusting of the white stuff, but not this year though.  Well OK, maybe a little, but I promise I’m not [...]

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