What Is IT Support?
High-level summary: IT support is help with the development, maintenance, and use of technology. It includes services like network monitoring, helpdesk assistance, onsite support, technology consulting, cybersecurity strategy, disaster recovery, and technology planning. IT support is most often delivered via managed services as part of a fixed retainer, or at an hourly rate, or on […]
How St. Louis Businesses Should Set an IT Budget
Budgets are crucial planning tools in any area of operations. As you plan for the strategic support of your business’s IT systems, an IT budget can help you to prioritize the things that matter, delineate areas where efficiency can be improved, and turn technology into an advantage. But setting an IT budget can be complex. […]
Why Your St. Louis IT Support Should Include Managed Backups
Managed backups are an important component of IT support in general and a key in cybersecurity preparedness in particular. As a concept, backups are fairly straightforward: they’re multiple versions of the same thing so that if one version gets destroyed or compromised, there’s still an undamaged version. In IT, this idea is referred to as […]
The Top 5 Manufacturing IT Challenges
Manufacturing companies face a unique set of IT challenges, and the ways they’re addressed have real, physical ramifications that impact business’s bottom lines. For manufacturers, IT isn’t some abstract system that enables a service. It’s the tangible architecture that makes producing products possible. While manufacturing IT issues are often straightforward to diagnose, they can be […]
How to Create a Manufacturing IT Policy
An IT policy can play a critical role in improving systems efficiency and security at your manufacturing company. Here’s how a policy can benefit your manufacturing IT. What is an IT policy? To begin, let’s define the term “IT policy”. A policy is a set of rules, principles, and guidelines formulated or adopted by an […]
The Top 8 Trends in Manufacturing IT
Manufacturing is changing – and it’s being driven by technology trends. Is your company ready to capitalize on these innovations? Here are eight areas to watch. 1. IoT The Internet of Things became a buzzword a few years ago for good reason: experts estimate that there will be 25 billion connected things in use by […]
