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Does Cloud Computing work for your business?

Posted by David on May 17, 2012 in Business, Cloud Computing | 0 comments

According to a recent survey only 19% of business applications in large American corporates (it was an American survey!) are clound-based. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest take up is in the technical and financial sectors, with health care and manufacturing showing a much smaller degree of interest. Some interesting ‘cultural’ points emerge, though, highlighted in an article...

The upcoming revised ‘cookie law’ – are you ready for it?

Posted by David on May 15, 2012 in General, Internet, News | 0 comments

You may have seen many and varied pieces on the internet about this new change in regulations, so I thought it was worth a bit of a look as it affects both sides of the browser divide – both website providers and users. Many of us, of course, fall in both camps. The full detail forms the substance of the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, the recent revision of which we...

So what does Business Process Management mean, then?

Posted by David on May 13, 2012 in Administration, Business Processes | 0 comments

Perhaps to the younger generation, the acronym BPM is more associated with the art of the DJ – ‘beats per minute’ – but to those who are perhaps better left near the bar than the dance floor, it means ‘Business Process Management’. It’s easy to see this as the province of the larger organisation, or the enterprise, but any operation can benefit from BPM....

Do you find describing what you do to be difficult?

Posted by David on Feb 23, 2012 in General, Networking and Social Media | 1 comment

“Well – tell me about it,” as the saying goes! In my case, it’s an IT thing – as soon as you stand up at a network meeting and mention IT, you are either in IT support or you are something to do with the web. Unhappily for me, I am neither of those things, so am not so easy to pigeonhole. As I have met with other business people for one-to-one meetings over a cup...

Issues opening Word 2007 documents in Word 2010?

Posted by David on Feb 13, 2012 in MS Office | 0 comments

This is another one of those problems that online forums suggest is experienced by a good number of people, but the same forums don’t seem very good at offering solutions. Therefore, having got to the bottom of it myself this weekend, I thought I’d share the outcome in case it helps anyone else. My son has a new laptop, and we had just set it up with a brand new installation of MS...