Our Thoughts on GrrCON 2018
Earlier this month, Worksighted sent team members to attend the well known GrrCON event. GrrCon is an annual conference that gathers hackers and IT security professionals from all across the country to come and learn more about their passion. This includes a handful of presentations from security and hacking experts, along with hands-on activities that test your own ability to hack. We asked our team to review their notes and share some thoughts on this year's event.
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Technology for Long-Term Care: 4 IT Challenges and Solutions
The healthcare sector is set up to benefit from recent advances in technology. From online chat forums making it easier for patients to access medical advice at home to apps that track heart rates between medical appointments, the potential is vast.
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Managed Services vs. Professional Services: What’s the Difference?
Many businesses are investing in new digital technology to empower their employees and evolve into a modern business fit for future growth. However, a lot simply don’t have the expertise or experience within their personnel to do this effectively.
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Building Smarter Factories: Digital Transformation in Manufacturing
Digital transformation has become a must for businesses that want to increase productivity, stay competitive, keep their customers happy, and attract and retain the best talent. An industry that is seeing real change from this is manufacturing. The emergence of cloud computing, Big Data, and IoT solutions can enable dramatic change for manufacturers of all sizes; improving planning, logistics, product development, and more.
Customer Relationships in IT: 5 Foundational Building Blocks for Success
Whether they are managed service providers, systems integrators, or IT consultants, today’s IT service providers are successful thanks to the mindset of solving their clients’ problems rather than merely reselling vendor solutions license by license. To successfully build the right type of relationship, service providers need to act as an extension of their customers’ business.
Worksighted Ranked Among Top 501 Global Managed Service Providers by Channel Futures
Holland, MI - Worksighted ranks among the world’s 501 most strategic and innovative managed service providers (MSPs), according to Channel Futures 11th-annual MSP 501 Worldwide Company Rankings. This year, Worksighted earned the 105th spot out of 501 companies.
Understanding the Cloud: IaaS, PaaS & SaaS Explained
For people without a background in IT, the cloud can be confusing. The language of IT has always been overly complicated and jam-packed with acronyms and jargon. The cloud has added a whole host of new terms to this ever-growing list of vocabulary.
4 Reasons Why Microsoft Teams Is the Best Collaboration Software for Businesses
Over a third of employees want a more flexible approach to work. Every day we are moving further away from the idea that work must be carried out at a specific time and place (for example, at a desk in the office from 9AM-5PM) to a reality where, with the right technology, your employees can get their work done anytime from anywhere.
Our 4-Step Approach to Implementing New Technology
Change is the only constant in business, as it is said to be in life. Currently, many businesses around the world are in the process of digital transformation – i.e. introducing new digital technology to replace old legacy systems and moving their IT assets and infrastructure to the cloud.
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The energy was unmistakable. Scanning the room, there was hardly an empty seat. The line stretched to the door. Baristas were everywhere, taking orders, preparing drinks, and answering questions. College students were collaborating on projects. Retirees were catching up on the latest news. Coffee fanatics were analyzing the taste of their beverages - and it was only 7:30 a.m.
Weighing up the Pros and Cons of vCIO Services
In the age of digital transformation, technology, servers, and even job roles are being virtualized. This new kind of job role is gaining traction as a cost-effective way to provide smaller companies with the senior experience and expertise of an executive role like the CEO, CTO, or CIO. Today, we’ll be covering the latter to help you decide whether vCIO services might be right for your company. To do that, it helps to know the role inside out.
Is Your Data More at Risk From External Cyberattacks or Internal Security Threats?
If we have learned anything from the recent Facebook data mining controversy, it’s just how far some companies will go to harvest this precious marketing resource. It may not be surprising then that data has been called the new oil. From recognizing customer trends to gleaning insights into greater operational efficiency, data is what companies in every industry are using to get a step up on the competition.
Driving Digital Transformation: Should You Prioritize Technology or Culture?
The reality is that the digital workplace is no longer something that companies should think about for the future. It’s well and truly here. And organizations who are already driving digital transformation have a clear advantage. Meanwhile, the window is shrinking for the rest to begin their digital transformation journey. Soon they will be too far behind their competitors. So, what’s stopping companies from driving digital transformation?
Using Microsoft Flow with Outlook and Forms
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The Evolution of Document Collaboration Tools
Document collaboration tools have played a vital role in our changing workplace. Previously, working together on a document was a case of passing around hard copies and performing edits by hand. Today, we have the tools that enable the simultaneous co-editing of documents in the cloud. This is key to digital transformation.
Microsoft Forms Explained in 4 Minutes
Getting information from people can really be a hassle. Perhaps you have a signup or a survey or even a quiz that you wanna send out, gather the information, and put it into something like Excel. Microsoft has a product called forms and it’s exactly what you’re looking for. Let’s go ahead and take a look.
Microsoft Flow Explained in 4 Minutes
What Microsoft Flow gives us the ability to do is take something that’s monotonous and repetitive, and automate it. For example, we may have a series of events in our Google Calendar that we need to sync to our corporate outlet calendar.
Your Digital Transformation Strategy: No Longer a Question of ‘If’, but ‘When’.
Digital transformation is when a company integrates digital technology into all areas of their business as a reaction to the growing digital climate. Culturally, however, it’s a steady evolution that requires companies to experiment with emerging technologies and processes.
