6 Easy Steps to Implementing Business Process Changes

January 8th, 2018

When we look to develop or change processes in our business how many of us get Sold Told Or do you just find it’s easier to put things ON-HOLD? Making decisions on processes should never be put off. Why? It’s simple, businesses need to have the correct processes in place to ensure that they stay […]

Tales from the Document Storage Crypt Scanning Vs Paper Storage

January 8th, 2018

In the last 30 years or so businesses have surrounded themselves with billions of paper documents. Some of this information, once created has never seen the light of day. Others have been used some many times the history of time is ingrained in their physical form. In that time the world and communication has changed […]

Using Clouds

January 8th, 2018

Since time immemorial we’ve had clouds. Clouds help transport the life-giving water every living thing needs. Clouds have been used to gain an advantage, fighter aircraft during the first and second world wars used clouds as cover. We have even generated our own clouds – cloud seeding. But clouds can also bring some negatives cold […]

Suppliers and customers – tap, tap, tap, on the keyboard

January 8th, 2018

I look forward to the day when suppliers and customers alike can pass orders and invoice data directly into each other’s systems with little effort. With suppliers receiving email PDFs with lists of items they want, why do they have to be retyped into the suppliers’ system? Surely with all this digital data stuff floating […]

The most boring subject in the world – Document Management

January 8th, 2018

I happen to have spent quite some time in an industry that whilst massively important to how we work every day, is still considered by some to be unimportant, or at very least a necessary evil. However, without the information contained in billions of ‘documents’ we’d never know who was number 1 on the 19th […]

Drop Box – friend or foe?

January 8th, 2018

The growth of file sharing solutions such as Drop Box has been quite incredible. The driver for this has been the need to share and store larger amounts of information with multiple people without the constraints that come with email or internal systems. Our understanding however of what we are really doing is less clear. […]

Internet Ransomware – The perils of not keeping up-to-date

January 8th, 2018

My experience over the last 25 years of providing all sorts of business systems has provided many frustrations. Some with technology but by far the most with people and their inability to look further than their own desk. Recent virus attacks across the world have used older and out dated technology to get a foothold. […]

How can Cloud computing ‘level the playing field’ for SMEs?

January 8th, 2018

As technology continues to evolve, the competitive business landscape is changing. Traditionally, large organisations have dominated with the advantage of the available funds and resources to purchase and maintain the latest enterprise-grade software and IT infrastructure. Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) were unable to utilise the same technology, severely limiting their growth and ability to […]

New payment reporting rules for large companies and LLPs

January 8th, 2018

Large companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (LLPs) will be required to publicly report about their payment practices twice a year, from 6 April 2017. The report will include details about their payment terms, the average time taken to pay invoices from the date of receipt of invoice; the percentage of invoices which were paid in […]

How safe is your Cloud data?

January 8th, 2018

So, you are thinking of moving your data to the cloud. But how secure will it be? There are many myths circulating that the cloud is much less secure than traditional methods of storing data. Would you feel more confident about storing your data on servers and systems that you own and most probably keep […]