Network Support in Miami Explains No-Cost Ways to Keep Company Data Safe

network support in miami explains no cost ways to keep company data safe

Like any other small or medium business owner, you rely on such data as customer addresses, commercial transaction records, and supplier contracts, to keep your company humming.

You’ve no doubt implemented several software solutions to protect your network from hackers and malware. Such measures proved costly and time-consuming to implement. If you want to increase protection for your company information, follow these tips, which cost you nothing.

Turn Your Displays Away from Public View

If your monitors face windows, then passersby on the sidewalk outside, or spies using binoculars in the next building can observe you entering data. Displays visible from office corridors also suffer from the same visibility. To avoid this issue, position your screens so only the users can view them.

Avoid Logging In with Free WiFi Services

One way you save money and still remain connected to work is to use the free WiFi services available in coffee shops or public transportation, among other locations. Unfortunately, any hacker can use the unsecured airwaves to observe the data on your screen. To avoid this, do not use any websites that require logins, such as your personal email or company database.

Lock Up Unused Equipment

When you upgrade your mobile machines, such as smartphones, tablets, or laptops, what happens to the old devices?

You may just put them in an unlocked desk drawer or on your desktop, ready to be taken by thieves. Unused equipment must go inside locked drawers or locked cabinets, preferably inside a locked room where you and just a few trusted employees have the key.

Wipe the memories of such devices regularly to prevent hackers from taking the device just to access the hard drive.

If you want to know more about how to keep your company data safe, please contact us, your network support in Miami.

What is CRM Integration and What Are It’s Benefits?

what is crm integration and what are it benefits
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The whole point of CRM (Customer Relationship Management) software, is to keep all of your customer’s information organized so that you have no problem keeping track of it, while also managing customer activities and conversations.

This lends a helping hand, specifically, to the customer service, marketing and sales teams because with the information collected, they can better understand the wants and needs of your customers. Each day many businesses waste valuable time and effort, simply searching for information. That’s time that could be spent working on more important aspects of your business.

CRM Integration, simply speaks to a consolidation of all your company’s information into one centralized database, but ultimately means you’re not relying on an in-house data structure to carry out day-to-day tasks.

This way, you and your team can get any necessary work done, come rain or shine; while you’re in the office or out. As a bonus, integrating your website & marketing software means that your customer’s information goes right to your CRM.

Take for example, if a potential customer were to download a white paper or some type of informational guide from your website. If your maketing software is automated & integrated with your CRM, then a new log, or record, will be created of when the customer visited your website last; what pages the customer looked at; what information they requested and so on.

This log will then be sent to a sales rep for a follow up on that potential customer. Giving your sales team the best leg up in terms of converting a potential customer into a paying customer.

Lets consider some other benefits that CRM integration can offer your business:

  • It can improve communication & customer retention.
  • It can Enhance customer prospect tracking.
  • Makes it possible to deliver more targeted marketing, with higher quality leads.
  • More efficient workflow and customer processing.
  • You’ll save valuable time and effort because all needed information is at your fingertips.

Whether big or small, all businesses can reap the rewards of CRM integration. Giving them an invaluable edge as the need for organization increases.

You need a partner that ensures your success, not a run of the mill computer guy or IT Company benefiting from your problems.

4 Corner IT is the next level for your company, let us show you the why and how. Contact us to request a call or an appointment with one of our IT experts.

Investors file class action against HP

investors file class action against hp

A class action has been filed against HP after investors claim the firm violated federal securities law, following its acquisitions of Autonomy and EDS.

The case put forward at the Court for the Northern District of California in San Francisco said HP “concealed” the fact it had bought Autonomy. This was “based on financial statements that could not be relied upon,”. Additionally, it covered up “negative business trends” affecting the profits associated with its services business. Thus, incorporating the EDS asset.

The filing comes a week after HP wrote down the value of Autonomy by $8.8bn. Just one year after its $10.2bn purchase price was paid out. A statement from HP claimed former members of Autonomy’s management team had used “accounting improprieties, misrepresentations and disclosure failures” to inflate its figures. Thus, leading to a much higher selling price than the software firm was worth.

Response to Class Action Against HP

Mike Lynch, founder and former CEO of Autonomy, has denied the accusations. However, HP has forwarded its complaints to the UK’s Serious Fraud Office. Additionally they forwarded it to the US SEC for criminal and civil investigation.

HP was also forced to writedown the value of services firm EDS by $8bn this summer. It bought the firm in August 2008 for $13bn.

Investors believe HP traded on “artificially inflated prices” between 19 August 2011. Three days before it announced the EDS writedown – and 20 November 2012 – the day of the Autonomy writedown – and are claiming damages for all purchasers of HP stock in that time.

The only investor named so far on the filing is Allan J. Nicolow, but the defendants are named as HP, former CEO Leo Apotheker, current head of the company Meg Whitman, current CFO Cathie Lesjak and former chief accounting officer Jim Murrin.

Computer Weekly contacted HP for comment but a spokeswoman said the firm didn’t have an official statement at this time.

The deadline for investors to join the class action against HP is 25 January 2013. They are being represented by Robbins, Geller, Rudman and Dowd LLP.

Inter-network Exchange: Two Texas HIEs Join Forces

Health information exchange (HIE) continues to move forward in the Lone Star State. Two of Texas’s 12 regional health information networks, Healthcare Access San Antonio (HASA) and Austin-based Integrated Care Collaboration (ICC), have announced that they are the first in the state to establish the exchange of patient health information between their HIEs.
Through the connection and this inter-network exchange, physicians using the HIEs are able to reach providers in 89 counties. This includes Central, South, and East Texas. The ability of HASA and ICC to facilitate inter-HIE exchange is the end result of collaboration between their respective HIE vendors, Medicity and Centex System Support Services and their use of Direct exchange, the platform and standards for exchange established by the Direct Project with significant guidance by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).
Physicians often are limited to exchanging information within the boundaries of the HIE in which they participate. Physicians in the HASA and ICC networks can now communicate conveniently about their patients’ care regardless of these boundaries. The ability to share patient information across HIEs helps physicians coordinate care for their patients. As well as make more informed clinical decisions.
Participating providers able to send secure messages to each other. Additionally, they are also able to exchange patient summary documents. HASA intends to use the new inter-HIE connectivity to inform analytics projects aimed at quality improvements. As well as to support initiatives focusing on population health management. Additionally, the experience should serve as a means to connect HIEs and federal agencies in the future.

The Benefits of Inter-Network Exchange

The partnership between HASA and ICC is the latest health IT development in Texas that involves HIE. Last week, the University of Texas at Austin announced the opening of its HIE laboratory. Here, participants in its 9-week certificate program would have the ability to simulate and test HIE using real software. The software is provided by two major HIE vendors: Orion Health and Informatics Corporation of America (ICA), and several EHR developers.  “We’re trying to stay out in front,” UT Austin’s Dr. Leanne Field told EHRintelligence.com, “And our teaching and our hands-on experiences by design will help students be prepared for the latest technology that they may see in the workplace.”
The news of the connection between HASA and ICC confirms Texas’s place in moving HIE forward in advance of Stage 2 Meaningful Use, which is set to begin in 2014 for eligible professionals and hospitals in the EHR Incentive Programs.