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How your company’s IT group must change to support digital transformation

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The digital transformation of your business can be a difficult endeavour, but well worth the effort, especially in digital readiness.

In his Forbes article entitled “How Your Company’s IT Group Must Change To Support Digital Transformation”, author Peter Bendor-Samuel says in a recent study of over 200 companies on their digital reediness, IT organization restructuring has a big impact.

Companies still immature in IT restructuring efforts were effective digital transformation partner with the business only 43% of the time.  Companies that made the investment to restructure IT for digital transformation capabilities were effective partners 86% of the time.

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Results Matter Cloud Services wants your organization to be digitally ready for whatever comes your way.

Cloud services can help your business become more productive, agile, and reliable by integrating scalable infrastructure and simplified management capabilities.

Contact us today to learn more about supporting digital transformations.

Using Cloud Services to Gain a Competitive Advantage – SitePro Customer Story

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SitePro is a digital oilfield solutions provider focused on developing real-time, cloud-based software solutions to optimize the full life-cycle of your fluid management operations.

SitePro gained a competitive advantage by combining onsite sensors and data collection with online data processing and management using Microsoft Azure.

By combining what used to be multiple systems, each operated by a third party, they were able to provide faster and more effective service to their oil and gas customers. This in turn strengthened the offerings of their customers. It’s a win for everyone.

Contact Results Matter Cloud Services to learn more about finding your competitive advantage.

Is Cloud Hosting the Best IT Solution for Your Business?

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If you are a small business without dedicated IT resources, you need to plan carefully what and when you move to the cloud.

Moving email and collaboration to the cloud is a no brainer small business. It is easy to outsource the setup and management of this solution for a very low monthly cost.

Considerations for moving computing to the cloud need to be evaluated on a case by case basis.  Make sure you look at the hard and soft cost of moving to the cloud.

Whether it’s being able to access a rich ecosystem of supportive apps or having immediate knowledge of your finances, the cloud can offer a wealth of benefits.

At Results Matter Cloud Services, it’s important to us that our clients have the support and knowledge they need as they make decisions and upgrade their IT infrastructure.

With our customer support focus, we will provide your company with the resources and knowledge of our industry experts so you can achieve more with your transition.  When you are ready reach out to learn more.

Streamline Internal Platforms and Processes – RLH Corporation Customer Story

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Business applications are key to successful operations. But disconnected solutions can compromise productivity, overwhelm employees, and frustrate customers.

With siloed systems and “Frankensteined solutions,” RLH Corporation, a hospitality company, faced the internal and customer-management challenges that many modern businesses face. But using Dynamics 365 and Office 365, they have consolidated systems into one platform, empowered employees, and improved guest satisfaction in the process.

Simplified operations and digital transformation are also within your reach. Reduce the number of emails you get and improve collaboration. Let Results Matter Cloud Services show you how. Contact us to learn more.

How You Work Together Is How You Win Together

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Think communication within your team could be better? Location, connectivity, and infrastructure all play a part in how efficiently your team communicates.

“When it comes to groups and teams there are three practices each must do to produce work: meet, communicate and decide. That’s it. Simple, yes. Easy, no.” says Jeff Boss.

Results Matter Cloud Services wants to help your team get the tools they need to communicate well. With Office 365, your employees can connect with the right people, share information across teams, and organize around projects so they can go further, faster.

Contact Results Matter Cloud Services and read Jeff’s full article at Forbes.

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Family food business spices up operations, reduces new device implementation time by 50 percent

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How does your business improve teamwork? Garner Foods, a 4th generation family owned and operated business, integrates Microsoft 365 Business so their employees and sales representatives all over the US have the tools they need to make the dream work.

With Office 365 you can host online meetings with audio and video, screen sharing, and HD video conferencing.

There’s an unlimited amount of potential with Microsoft 365 Business.  Results Matter Cloud Services wants to help you foster that same high level of teamwork. Contact us for more information and check out this video.

Encouraging and Enabling Collaboration in the Modern Workplace

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Is your IT department the gatekeeper or the enabler of collaboration? All too often, IT falls into the trap of giving permission to use productivity tools instead of finding out what employees need to work together better, then facilitating those capabilities.

In this article, the author poses the important question: “Are we the gatekeeper to employees collaborating or are we enablers and champions?” and discusses the benefits of moving IT to an enabler-focused mentality.

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The Importance of a Basic Backup Strategy

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Are you prepared with a basic backup?

It doesn’t always take someone malicious to hack your computer system, but regardless of the reason, if a business is shut down for any matter of time, revenue is lost. The first step in running any business is ensuring there are basic backup plans in place.

Picture this; a freak September snowstorm sends the city into panic. Tree branches are breaking from the weight of the snow, and one just happens to fall on the power line closest to your downtown office. The power goes out and your building is plunged into dark.

Power goes out, operations stop. All your files are now gone and without any way of getting them back, you’re starting at the bottom again.

When breaches occur, for any reason, operations and finance are the first things to be affected, and the network outages caused usually have long-lasting impact. Most businesses cannot come back from even three days spent at a standstill.

So what can you do?

By following the 3-2-1 rule, when it comes to a basic backup strategy, your company will be laughing during the next storm.

Your backup plan should be thought of like this; there should be 3 total copies of data, 2 of which are local, but on different mediums, and at least 1 copy that is offsite.

The local copy is what users rely on for primary access.

  • One of the easiest ways to create a backup is to store copies on any network attached storage, an external hard drive, or a USB drive.

Backup local copy to a local avenue.

  • Gives user immediate, instant access to whatever data needed, despite if it’s been deleted, overwritten, or lost.

Store a copy of all files securely offsite.

  • This helps in the aforementioned disaster. Regardless if something happens to the physical place of business, all data is still safe and secure.
  • There are many cloud-based solutions, which store information on remote servers which are accessed through the Internet.

Regardless of how you are backing up your data, the first step in protecting your business is having that backup plan. Every minute your team is without access will cost more than just revenue.

Take a look at how much it would cost your business if your systems were unavailable.  Try our online calculator yourself or give us a call 403-455-5969. The results might surprise you.