Helping you get better IT, without the costs and worries. We implement and support online email, collaboration and CRM solutions
Let us start by saying that we like Google Apps, it has a lot going for it and has been a leader on a number of fronts like its Apps Marketplace, strong authentication and more. But while Google spends an lot of time developing new features and cool tools we would like them to acknowledge a [...]
Office 365 is the successor of Microsoft’s BPOS suite for email and collaboration. In this post we will walk through Office 365 and have a look at its new features. Installation When starting with Office 365 you are politely being asked to Install Lync 2010 and to set up and configure your Desktop Apps. The Microsoft Online [...]
We don’t have to tell you that choosing a strong password is important for your online security. We will show you how easy it is to pick a strong password and explain some of the magic behind them too. Choosing a password Pick a random set of pronounceable characters and mix upper and lower case [...]
Microsoft recently launched its new and improved Dynamics online CRM 2011. It’s aggressive price-tag and impressive features shows that Microsoft means business. We will find out if it’s an attractive product for smaller businesses too. Microsoft has been active in the CRM space since 2003 and that Dynamics CRM is already a popular CRM in enterprises. It [...]
Hosted Exchange and Google Apps Gmail are both increasingly popular email options for small businesses. We will give you a summary of the most striking differences for small business users and hopefully make the choice a bit easier. Tasks and Notes If you are a fanatical user of Outlook Tasks and Notes you might want [...]
Most of us know Skype as a great application for free audio and video conversations to family and friends all over the globe. But according to the company, about a third of all the usage is business related and it is looking to increase this percentage. We will have a look at some of the [...]
Are you paying too much for your business IT? We know that many businesses are, they have been ill advised (or not advised at all) and are maintaining an industry that thrives on confusion and over-engineering. We will show how to get better IT at better prices. The technology sector is extremely dynamic and where [...]
Security is always a talking point when it comes to Cloud Computing. After all, you are hooking up your IT systems and data to the web, right? We will show you why you shouldn’t be afraid of web hosted IT and that using it can even improve your data security. My IT linked to the [...]
The empire strikes back: Microsoft recently announced the release of Office 365 in early 2011. Office 365 is Microsoft’s on-line business suite for email and collaboration and a direct competitor to the Google Apps suite. Office 365 will replace Microsoft Business Productivity On-line suite (BPOS) and will be based on their 2010 series of server [...]
We love all things green. Being green is a fashionable statement these days, so how does Cloud Computing fare? With Cloud Computing data and functions are hosted in large data centres hooked up to the web. These data centres contain thousands of machines running day and night. Obviously, this requires a lot of power with [...]
