Question: How long will it take to transition my on-premises server to the cloud, and what’s the process? Answer: Our process involves a proof of concept which collects data tests prior to moving. The process can take a month with the actual switch over taking minutes.
Unfortunately, the IT consulting industry (along with many others) has its own share of incompetent or unethical people who will try to take advantage of trusting business owners who simply do not have the ability to determine whether or not they know what they are doing. Sometimes this is out of greed for your money; …
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Customer Service Q1: Do they answer their phones live or do you always have to leave a voice mail and wait for someone to call you back?Our Answer: We answer our phones live from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. and give all clients an emergency after-hours number they may call if a problem arises, including on …
Technology – it’s all about choices It was close to nine years ago that I wrote about the fact that there is always a choice to make when it comes to Information Technology. What was true then is still true today and while the choices might not always be to our liking or centered upon …
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1. We Respond Within 13 Minutes Or Less. The average amount of time it takes for one of our clients to get on the phone with a technician who can start working on resolving your problem is 13 minutes. We know you’re busy and have made a sincere commitment to making sure your computer problems …
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In these times that we find ourselves, as business owners, realizing there’s a lot of change and pivoting quickly. We’re realizing that things we’ve thought about doing with our businesses, we’ve been forced to accept. One of the largest of which is working remotely, having our staff not be physically in our office spaces. They’re …
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COVID has harshly illustrated the costs of staying the course with Information Technology (IT). We are all seeing the results of fiscally responsible actions like: • Putting a freeze on spending • Keeping current working systems in place • Not addressing changes in the market • Avoiding the whole work-from-anywhere thing
Potatoes in Teams? Meeting online has many positive qualities and certainly in times of challenges can be very helpful. For our team at Lead IT Consulting we have a new cadence of meeting online twice a week. As a result, we are staying connected, keeping up on what is new plus knowing what is happening. …
Bliss and IT the saga continues. Everything is very serious now. Read More »
When it becomes clear that your IT staff is just too overworked, one common solution was to bring in outsourced labor as an extra pair of ‘hands.” These IT consultants, for instance, may be relied upon to lend a hand to overwhelmed IT employees on a temporary basis.
Remember the old days and the old ways of doing business when only sales contributed to a company’s profitability? When progress meant minimizing costs on everything else required to support sales? And as for IT, once we became convinced we couldn’t function without at least some technology, we accepted living with the costs while keeping them as low …