Category: Software Applications

  • What is SharePoint? A Plain-English Guide for Australian Businesses

    What is SharePoint? A Plain-English Guide for Australian Businesses

    SharePoint is the part of Microsoft 365 that holds your business’s shared files and intranet pages. Here is what it does, what it costs, where it fits with OneDrive and Teams, and how to set it up well.

  • Microsoft 365 for Professional Services Firms in Australia: A Secure Setup Guide

    Microsoft 365 for Professional Services Firms in Australia: A Secure Setup Guide

    A practical setup guide for Australian law, accounting, architecture and engineering firms: secure sign-in, protect client email, set retention by record type and back up Microsoft 365 properly.

  • Email Signature Management: A Guide for Australian Business

    Email Signature Management: A Guide for Australian Business

    Every email your team sends ends with a signature, and in most businesses nobody owns them. Here is what a good signature contains, and how to keep every one of them consistent.

  • Understanding the ROI of Business Intelligence Software

    Understanding the ROI of Business Intelligence Software

    Business intelligence (BI) tools collect and analyse large pools of data so you can make better decisions. They can be a game-changer for any aspect of your business that requires data-based strategic thinking, from marketing to financial management. However, many companies struggle to measure the return on investment (ROI) of BI tools because they don’t…

  • Why your company should take advantage of Microsoft Secure Score

    Why your company should take advantage of Microsoft Secure Score

    As cyber threats become more dangerous and sophisticated, Australian businesses must continually adapt their cybersecurity strategies to stay safe. You must implement advanced security measures and ensure your operations comply with data security regulations. However, achieving these can be challenging. Fortunately, Microsoft Secure Score makes it easy to measure and assess your company’s cybersecurity posture.…

  • Optimise your Sales Performance with OneDrive

    Optimise your Sales Performance with OneDrive

    Sales performance largely determines the success or failure of a business. You’ll have difficulty acquiring new customers and driving revenue if you do not have granular insights into market trends, demographics, and prior campaign performance. All this data must be easily accessible to your sales team so they can better understand the target audience and…

  • Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 End of Life: What You Need to Know

    Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 End of Life: What You Need to Know

    Microsoft Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 will reach their end of life on 11 April 2023. After this date, Microsoft will no longer provide security updates, bug fixes, and technical support for these products. This means that any new vulnerabilities discovered in these programs will go unpatched, making it easy for cybercriminals to exploit and…

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: What is it and How is it Different From Other ERPs?

    Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central: What is it and How is it Different From Other ERPs?

    Business as we know it is constantly changing. After global impediments, many small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) focus on developing profitable efforts. However, Smart SMBs are also taking this time to assess available IT solutions to improve their process. After all, the goal is to grow and embrace change. Changes such as how and where…

  • Chris21 and SharePoint Integration

    Chris21 and SharePoint Integration

    Often with larger clients, we find that the corporate intranet contact directory information is out of sync with the latest HR information in Chris21. As a consequence, when staff member accesses the directory, they find that their personal or colleague’s contact information is out of date. So how do you ensure that the latest employee…

  • Close More Deals with PowerApps Quote Generator

    Close More Deals with PowerApps Quote Generator

    Is your team spending a lot of time preparing customer quotations? Would you rather prefer your sales staff to utilise their time pursuing new opportunities and spend less time generating quotes? Are you having issues with incorrect automatic quotations? Would you prefer a mobile quote tool that enables staff to generate quotes while out on…