Right now there are 7 billion mobile phone users worldwide—about 95.5% of the world’s population. More time is spent every day on text messaging than is spent on phone calls, emails, instant messaging, and even face-to-face communication. SMS texts from your business number can greatly improve communications and responsiveness from your customers. You can push…
After a relentless year spent supporting remote workers and surviving the Covid 19 pandemic, IT departments are now gearing up for another boom. According to Gartner worldwide IT spending will increase by 9% and reach $4.2 trillion driven by the need to accelerate companies’ digital transformation. The reason for this 2nd wave of IT…
It is clear that leveraging cloud-based communications and collaboration tools has inherent advantages over legacy PBXs and even modern, on-premises unified communications systems. Traditional hardware-centric carriers are bound by the limitations of their infrastructure in terms of features, flexibility, and scalability. A hardware-centric approach also leaves customers at the mercy of their hardware platform vendors…
You’re traveling to another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. You’re moving into a land of substance and flexibility, of anywhere access. You’ve just crossed over into the Cloud! Application migration is the process of moving a software application from one computing environment to another. You might, for instance,…
Most companies have servers for email, ERP, practice management software etc. Most of the time those are in a corporate data center or other data center and the branch offices connect to those servers via private MPLS connections for security and performance. Internet is typically managed from a secure location such as the data center…
A pioneer in remote work technology and a driving force behind today’s work-from-anywhere movement, LogMeIn has become one of the world’s largest SaaS companies with tens of millions of active users, more than 3,500 global employees, over $1.3 billion in annual revenue and approximately 2 million customers worldwide who use its software as an essential…
Zoom was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, California, with offices around the world. They have become a household name during the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Following stay at home orders throughout the USA and the world to combat the pandemic many people have turned to Zoom’s video conferencing solution to stay…
In 2019, digital B2B sales from all electronic channels—ecommerce sites, log-in portals, marketplaces, e-procurement systems, electronic data interchange, and other online buyer/seller networks—grew 10.9% to $9.00 trillion from $8.10 trillion, according to data and analysis in the 2020 B2B Ecommerce Market Report, a newly published research report from Digital Commerce 360. As COVID-19 has caused…
A typical IT technology purchase process for many companies begins by building a spreadsheet with a list of required features. The list consists of your understanding of both the features your current solution offers, along with the additional items you wish your current solution offered. It might also involve some level of begging the CFO…
An SD-WAN uses a centralized control function to securely and intelligently direct traffic across your wide area branch office network (WAN). This increases application performance and delivers a high quality user experience, resulting in increased business productivity, agility and reduced costs for IT. But what does that mean exactly? What can it actually do for…