Small businesses’ challenges consultants can help to overcome

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We live in interesting times, especially for small businesses. Consider that, in just less than 10 years, businesses have had to adapt to entirely new marketing channels through Internet as social networks, decide how to invest in and utilize new technologies, and compete on a local and now on a global stage — things that were barely imaginable to just a half generation ago. The small business yesterday is the new big online business today.
Obviously the rapid changes and growth is that no single

Small Business Survival Guide

Only 10% of small businesses survive first five years, and again 10% of them will survive between next five years period. This data underscores that small business ownership is no cakewalk.
Beyond the classic entrepreneurial challenge of making and sustaining a profit, small business owners now struggle to find time and resources to adapt to new technology, say experts.
The pace of technological development is as staggering as the ever-changing ways that consumers engage and utilize it. To stay competitive to consumers and to employees,

Remote Workplaces and the Cloud Technologies

Remote employees are no longer a future project – they are a reality for the last two decades. Despite an abundance of scepticism (and a few outright bans like Yahoo), researchers keep finding that remote workers are more productive, less likely to quit, and generally better at their jobs. While some still find it hard to cut their ties to the office, the trend toward more remote work is clear. You can save commuting time and costs and spend with a family instead.

Business value in IT outsourcing

In simple language, outsourcing is the contracting out of a business function to an external supplier, involving the transfer of people as resources and capabilities, processes and assets. This contracting out can be undertaken at either an on-shore or off-shore location, and to one (single-sourced) or more (multi-sourced) outsourcing partners. Outsourcing is most mature in the Information Technology sector although it is increasingly developing to include a wide range of business processes.

Outsourcing of IT Managed Services

Challenges and Solutions

Threat to Security and Confidentiality
The vital asset of any business is the information that keeps it running. Whatever you have as information assets, intellectual property or any other confidential information that would be exposed to the outsourcing organisation, there is a risk that the confidentiality may be compromised. If the outsourced function involves sharing proprietary company data or knowledge, this must be taken into account. Evaluate the outsourcing organisation carefully and prepare NDA to make sure your data is protected and the agreement has a penalty clause if an incident occurs.
Do you have action plan and implemented process prior of the incident? Communication plan?

MailStore Home - Tips and Tricks - Part 4 - Manual repair corrupted MailStoreFileGroup.fdb files and .fdb backup

Problem:

"The problem occurred when moving my back-up to a new location. Somehow the MailStoreFileGroup.fdb file got corrupted. To cut to the chase is there a way to manually repair the file for my latest database back-up is to old for my comfort. I would rather repair the database and have excess to all my archived mails including the including the possibility of it going wrong. Then on forehand back up from an older back-up and missing those essential mails."

Resolution:

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MailStore Home - Tips and Tricks Part 3 … in the Cloud

Problem:

Actually there is no problem just considering the possibility and ways to move/sync my portable MailStore Home folder to the Cloud Drive

Resolution: