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If you or your team are still running Office 2021, which houses the standalone perpetual-license versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, mark your calendar.

From sales figures and customer interactions to website traffic and support tickets, every business generates a vast amount of data. Business intelligence (BI) provides the tools and practices to turn raw information into actionable insights for decision-makers.

Relying on manually created tracking tools often leads to formatting errors and broken data connections across your organization. Discover how the latest processing capabilities shift software from a passive database into an active, self-correcting partner.

Disaster recovery (DR) is an essential safeguard, yet it frequently gets brushed aside. Common assumptions give business owners a false sense of security, making it dangerously easy to delay planning. Let’s clear the air and take a look at six persistent IT myths that might be putting your day-to-day operations at risk.

Android tablets are powerful work tools, but many businesses only scratch the surface of their capabilities. Implementing the following tips and tricks can help you maximize your productivity on these devices.

Choose the right productivity apps

The apps employees use can have a huge impact on how productive they are on an Android tablet.

NameDrop makes it easy to trade contact details by holding two compatible Apple devices close together. Here’s how the feature works, what information it shares, and how to control it.

What is NameDrop?

NameDrop is part of Apple’s AirDrop system and is specifically designed for sharing contact information between iPhones and supported Apple Watch models.

Silence, looped music, and outdated recordings can make a business seem inattentive. But with the right approach, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) on-hold messaging can become a polished part of the customer journey instead of a forgotten phone system feature.

Most laptops and desktops now feature high-definition cameras built right into the bezel or connected via universal serial bus ports. Unfortunately, this convenience introduces distinct vulnerabilities, as malicious applications can attempt to hijack these peripherals to spy on sensitive workspaces.

For the past year or so, it’s felt like every Windows update came with three new AI features attached.

Some of them are genuinely useful. Some feel like they’re there because they can be.

So, it’s interesting to see Microsoft take a slightly different tone with recent Windows 11 preview updates.

There’s an interesting disconnect happening in the business world right now.

Most IT leaders say data security is their number one concern when upgrading or modernizing systems.

In fact, nearly seven in ten rank it at the top of the list.

Yet only around a third say they feel extremely confident they would pass their next regulatory audit.