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There are many challenges to meet when you’re operating a business in the architecture or engineering industries, but technology shouldn’t be one of them. Your technology should help you to meet your challenges. However, you might not be getting all the benefits that IT can bring unless you have the right managed IT services partner.

Running a construction business is a complex affair. You have workers and materials spread out at multiple locations that are in varying stages of the building process. You’re using more technology to communicate, coordinate and keep track of everything.

If a phone call meant the difference between losing hundreds of thousands of dollars in a cyber attack, or avoiding one altogether, would you make that call? Of course, you would. Yet cyber criminals continue to divert payments from their rightful destinations because businesses don’t have a policy in place to validate requests for changes in financial procedures.

It happened again. Marriott had another data breach in June 2022. While the exposure of a reported 20GB of data isn’t anywhere near the 340 million guest records that were discovered breached in 2018, it’s pretty important to the 300 – 400 people whose information was compromised this time.

Think about the experiences that you’ve had with technology improvements. Did the IT projects you’ve been involved with interrupt business operations? Did they finish on time and on budget? Did they bring you the results that were promised?

If these questions are stirring up some bad memories, you’re not alone.

Lots of business leaders are more than willing to invest in technology. They just want to get the outcomes that are promised in return. Is that too much to ask? Previous experiences with technology investments that didn’t meet expectations would make anyone cautious about going down a road to nowhere a second time.

(June 30, 2022 – Ellicott City, Maryland) XPERTECHS is on Channel Future’s 2022 MSP 501 List for 2022. The list recognizes high performing managed IT service providers based on their growth and level of innovation.

Competition for a place on the list was higher compared to previous years because of a record number of applicants.

In a world where cyber threats are increasing every day, your business sustainability is in large part resting on your cybersecurity strategy. Yet, executives and even some IT managers don’t have a good handle on what it takes to build and maintain a strong cyber defense.

There isn’t a company out there that can be complacent about employee retention. You’d be surprised at how many of your loyal employees would be open to a new job opportunity if it was presented to them. In fact, one study indicates that 73% of potential job candidates are what’s considered passive job seekers.

You only have to do one automation project with Microsoft Power Apps to realize how taking the complexity out of your operational processes can improve your business. When you go into a project, you know you’re going to meet specific objectives, like reducing errors and speeding things up.