Many of today’s small businesses were formed long before Microsoft released Office 365 to the public in 2011. Those businesses are working from a desktop version of the software, costing hundreds of dollars per workstation and requiring manual installation. In 2013, as those businesses see their versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access becoming outdated,…
April 30, 2013 – 10:00 am
You need email to run your business. It’s most likely integral to your daily operations, so the solution you choose matters. You need the service that delivers the features you need, the storage space and the integration’s. Let’s take a close look at some options of the best email service for small business, how much they…
Microsoft Office 2013 is coming, leaving users of Microsoft’s Cloud-based office suite, Office 365, wondering what changes they will see. Whether your small business is considering switching to 365 or you’re already using it, there are some exciting new features that could help automate some of your more time-consuming activities. As EnPoint points out on…
October 2, 2012 – 11:21 am
When computers first entered the office environment, there was one way to get Office products. The office spent hundreds of dollars per license for each user and someone installed it individually on each PC. But in recent years, the office environment has changed, with many workers needing to access files on tablet PCs and smartphones….
It’s clear that Microsoft Office no longer has a LOCK on businesses – small businesses or big businesses. It’s clear that the online world of collaboration and communication has challenged traditional software, where Microsoft has been a leader, in favor of nimble and low cost online services. Hence the explosion of Dropbox, Carbonite, Quickbooks Online,…
There is nothing more frustrating than sitting down to give a presentation to a perspective client and realizing that you have left your product presentation file on your desktop at the office with no way to access it. Now what do you do? Fortunately, you can avoid this problem with an on-demand cloud desktop solution-…
January 13, 2012 – 12:00 pm
Cloud computing is where the big players are headed. When Hewlett-Packard is facing hard competition in manufacturing personal computing devices, enterprise, and industry standard servers, storage devices, networking products, software and a diverse range of printers, and other imaging products, it is probably a wise move for the company to seek other business opportunity. In…
January 3, 2012 – 2:00 pm
Wired reports that the University of California at Berkeley, in the latest battle of cloud based email and collaboration services chose Google Apps over Office 365 for its students. What’s revealing about their choice is that the IT department detailed why they choose Google but also shared that Microsoft’s Office 365 had several things going for…
December 22, 2011 – 3:08 pm
Yep, Christmas is only a few days away and New Years is soon after that. If you celebrate Chanuka or another holiday around this time of the year then your “day” (or days) are very near or just about over as well. There are lots of great online tools for small businesses to use to…
November 15, 2011 – 12:00 pm
Cindy Bates, Vice President of US Small and Medium-Sized Business and Distribution at Microsoft, discusses some of the cloud, server, and hybrid options from the tech giant in this video below. These options include Microsoft Intune, the upcoming Windows 8, and Office 365, and others that are specifically geared toward small businesses and boosting productivity….