5 Pitfalls to avoid on your first Office 365 migration
You’ve read all the articles and watched all videos telling you the reasons why migrating to Office 365 would be of great value to you and your business. You’ve done your research and now...
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Budgeting. What I wish I knew earlier.
I have had the (dis)pleasure of being on both sides of the budgeting dilemma. Firstly as a consultant specialising in budgeting and forecasting software, secondly as a CTO. Get it together folks! As a...
The Undeniable benefits of using a SharePoint DMS
A document management system (DMS) will become an indispensable tool for any successful business in the future. With huge amounts of data that people have to manage and sift through, a DMS will be...
6 Factors to consider in a self-service BI tool
Data analytics over the past few years have been democratised and made accessible to everyone. You no longer have to acquire special skills just to be able to analyse and visualise your business’ data. All you need...
5 ways your employees put your business at risk
Majority of security breaches we have heard of recently were triggered by unpredictable behaviour of any organisation’s greatest asset – their Employees. Whilst the security veterans are working tirelessly to come up with strategies to mitigate these...
Are you ‘NDB and GDPR’ ready?
The frequency, scale, sophistication and severity of cybersecurity incidents has increased, with ransomware growing by a massive 2500% in 2017 according to a Carbon Black report. No – that’s not a typo, that’s two...
Meltdown and Spectre: High risk vulnerabilities you need to action now
Over the Christmas break last year, there were two new serious exploits announced that required patching across multiple areas: Meltdown and Spectre. These new exploits are the biggest and broadest vulnerabilities exposed for many years...
7 Things you’ll love about Microsoft Teams
John C. Maxwell’s famous quote, “Teamwork makes the dream work” is often easier said than done. Working on any collaborative project is often time-consuming and quite frankly, frustrating. Working remotely with your colleagues in...
Top 4 proposal management problems solved
In a highly competitive market, the first to get a quality proposal out the door and on time typically wins the deal. To make that happen 100% of the time, however, is often not an...
4 Tell-tale signs you need a self-service BI tool
You have probably reached this blog because you feel the need to validate your hunch that you need a better way to analyse your data. Nobody would just wake up one day thinking that...
Smart Systems for the modern-day Finance Team
The term Smart Systems is often thrown around by vendors, but what does it really mean for an organisation? To an organisation like Professional Advantage, it means having the right systems performing the tasks...
5 reasons to keep SharePoint on-premise
Going for cloud-based solutions has been all the hype in recent years and who wouldn’t want to head towards that direction? With cloud deployments potentially saving you money and resources and increasing your...