What Is Managed IT Support?
For mid-sized St. Louis businesses, implementing strategic IT solutions can be a challenging endeavor. Most mid-sized firms have at least one or two internal IT employees. The problem is that these employees almost certainly feel that it’s enough to deal with IT issues on a day-to-day basis. Just putting out the fires that arise each […]
How Cybersecurity Programs Are Keeping Businesses Safe in 2020
Cybersecurity, like Covid-19, tends to be exhausting to most people. We are on information overload with these topics, but that does not make them any less important. According to Crowdstrike, a cybersecurity technology provider, there were more intrusion attempts in the first six months of 2020 that in all of 2019. The fact that businesses […]
Stepping into the Cloud
In 2011 when Office 365 first launched, I remember talking to prospective customers about the power of this tool. The conversation always started with email and getting it out of a small business environment. Most companies were scared by placing their email into the “cloud” and most IT providers feared the lost revenue that came […]
How Strategic Technology Advice Helped St. Vincent Home for Children Win a $92,000 Grant
When Steve Martinez saw ATB’s state-of-technology report in the early stages of 2020, he knew that St. Vincent Home for Children could do better. The Background: Outdated Technology in a Pandemic Steve is the Chief Development Officer at St. Vincent Home for Children, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping youth facing significant life challenges through […]
3 Ways We’ve Used Microsoft Teams to Transform Organizations
Your organization has probably had to figure out new communication channels this year. You may have been incentivized to make file access easier. You might have felt pushed to streamline your operational workflows. These things are all part of the normal progression of running an organization, of course – but, this year, the level of […]
How Does St. Louis IT Support Impact Cybersecurity?
A few years ago, cybersecurity was kind of a buzzword. Now it’s just a fact of life. It’s become absolutely foundational to business IT strategy, which is no surprise given that 62% of businesses report experiencing phishing attacks and hacks are attempted every 39 seconds. Cybersecurity increases productivity by minimizing occurrences of downtime. It protects […]
Do You Need Onsite IT Support or a Helpdesk?
IT support can feel like a complicated consideration. There are constantly changing technologies to keep up on. There are multiple engagement models and varying forms of support. The end goal of IT support, though, is simple: to turn your business’s technology into an advantage. With that goal in mind, let’s take a look at two […]