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2017-09-11 08:45:53
### How Should a Small Business Prioritise IT Spend?
With so many new technologies on everyone’s radar at the moment – the Internet of Things, Big Data, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence – just how can you be sure your IT budget is being spent wisely?
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2017-09-04 07:30:25
### 4 Benefits of Microsoft SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint allows organisations to create websites as part of the Microsoft Office 365 service.
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2017-08-28 07:30:51
### The Impending SME Security Crisis
The brutal fact is most small businesses are not spending enough time or money on cyber security – leaving them exposed to ransomware, severe regulatory fines, reputational damage and lost business opportunities.
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2017-08-21 08:56:12
### Cloud 101: SaaS, PaaS & IaaS Explained
There has been a seismic change in the way IT is delivered over the past decade – and the hype about our continued move to “the Cloud” seems to continue unabated. What does it all mean?
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2017-08-14 07:30:40
### Comparing the Advantages with the Pitfalls of BYOD
Research from Gartner has shown that 39% of employees surveyed rely on personally owned mobile devices in the workplace. Use of corporate owned devices was minor in comparison – just 10%. There are of course obvious reasons for the decline of corporate devices – primarily being the high cost burden...
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2017-08-07 07:30:02
### How Technology Can Help You Grow Your Business
Technology is about innovation and innovation in business is all about doing things differently in order to provide better products and solutions, and an improved service to customers.
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2017-07-31 08:31:01
### We support campaign tackling employment barriers for disabled people
Grant McGregor was featured in Friday 21st July's edition of the Edinburgh Evening News, regarding the Scottish Government's campaign to encourage businesses to recognise the benefits of employing people with disabilities.
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2017-07-25 11:29:39
### What is the "right" level of security for my business?
So far, 2017 has been the year of the cyber-attack. Cases of cyber-crime and cyber-terrorism are on the rise, but never before have the general public seen the scope and scale of cyber-crime committed by groups on the government and public services.
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2017-07-17 07:30:50
### The 7-Step Plan for Small Businesses for Essential Cyber Security
We discussed in an earlier blog how 80% of cyber-attacks could be prevented, simply by putting simple cyber security controls in place.
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