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How Flexible IT Contracts Can Change Your Business

From frustration to fulfillment: Flexible IT contracts focus on relationships and your success, not only transactions Driving rapid business changes, emphasizing the need for adaptability and flexibility in IT business operations, and the terms of your managed IT services contract can give you a competitive edge or see your need to catch up.  It’s time …

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Best Practices for Incorporating AI Technology in IT Recruitment

The human element is still essential, but AI improves candidate sourcing, interviewing, and hiring. It’s difficult to go a day without hearing about artificial intelligence (AI) and its many applications. In human resources, it’s being employed to recruit and hire the best and the brightest without the usual substantial time investment of the traditional process. …

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Agile Software Development: Embracing Efficiency Through Continuous Integration

The Agile methodology enables rapid response, faster time-to-market, and greater profitability for software development Agility is the ability to move quickly and easily with skill and talent. As applied to software development, the Agile method has flexibility built in through its pragmatic approach, breaking projects into phases and emphasizing continuous integration. With continuous integration, code …

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Avoid Business Disruptions with SOP Development for Knowledge Transfer in IT

Successful business continuity depends on a culture of knowledge sharing and collaboration.  Continuity is vital for every business. Disruption comes in many forms, and while you might think of natural disasters, fires, and other external forces, the elements for disruption may be internal, lurking in your IT department. All it takes is one key person …

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Ensuring 5-9’s Uptime: Maintaining System Availability and Reducing Downtime

The system downtime and availability relationship Uptime, downtime, system availability, and Five9’s uptime are intertwined in a complex and interdependent relationship. Each business network is distinct, interrelated, and extremely important in this digital age.  How long a business network is non-responsive, slow, or completely unusable impacts end-user productivity and experience. Customers left hanging on a …

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Knowledge Transfer and the Importance of Allari’s SOP Development Approach

SOP development and knowledge transfer Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are a means of transferring or sharing knowledge across an organization over time. SOPs are living instructions that document essential procedures step by step. They can be time-consuming to create initially, but their ROI over time makes the effort time well spent.  Quality SOPs enable knowledge …

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The Importance of a Comprehensive Technology Strategy to Manage Costs

Technology cost management for business IT cost management today is a strategic and proactive method of increasing revenue growth. With a proactive approach to managing costs for technology, businesses can increase potential opportunities and open pathways for greater innovation. More opportunity and innovation provide the potential to improve profits by reinvesting costs.  The old form …

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How to delegate tasks to bridge skill gaps with the right people at the right time

​Build competitive strength with delegation. How do you delegate IT tasks when you’re providing IT services? Having the right people ready and able to provide IT support is critical. Ensuring your workforce has the skills and continuously learns new ones is essential to remaining competitive. An effective strategy or practice allows businesses to leverage employees’ talents while providing further skill development.

Automated Requisition Release to Purchase Order

Business Problem — Personnel originate requisitions that travel through the approval routing process. Once there is final approval, originators release requisitions to purchase orders. The Finance Department would then print all purchase orders and distribute them as required.
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Guide to Calculating the ROI of Enterprise Technology Investments

ROI and enterprise technology investments Companies continuously spend on improving enterprise technology as well as investing in tools and apps for improving employee productivity or enhancing collaboration and communication. In 2020, the COVID pandemic forced many businesses on the proverbial technology fence into digital transformation to keep pace with the competition.
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For High-Performing IT that Aligns With Business Goals, You Need a Strategic Partner

Staff augmentation results in IT alignment with a business strategy that spells success Your business doesn’t operate in a vacuum, externally or internally. Business and technology objectives are closely intertwined, and aligning IT with business goals is essential for organizational success, increasing competitiveness, informing decision-making, and spurring innovation.
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Using Intelligent Automation to Streamline Operations and Enhance Efficiency

By using intelligent automation to perform time-consuming, repetitive IT tasks, businesses can reduce costs and lessen the strain on IT resources. This guide defines low-level IT task automation and provides suggestions for choosing tools, identifying tasks, and implementing task automation successfully. Benefits of task automation.
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Outsourcing IT Talent Provides a Path to a Successful, Thriving Enterprise

Get the expertise you need when you need it while saving money and gaining a competitive edge. When you navigate to a news or technology website, you may see a headline touting emerging new tools that are revolutionizing the way your organization can operate on a day-to-day basis. These tools are said to propel business …

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IT Capacity Planning Essentials

Accurate and efficient IT capacity planning tips Capacity planning helps identify underutilized resources and potential savings opportunities in your enterprise business with the help of AI advanced technology.    Analyzing a business’s technology infrastructure can support production needs effectively and efficiently. Capacity planning is a series of analytical steps to enable business productivity and profit …

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Only Pay for What You Need – The Benefits of Not Having Fixed Fees

It’s not just about dollars and cents. It’s about innovation, resiliency, and service. Every business or IT leader knows that, at some point, they will have to hire help with their tech stack. You might not have full-time IT help or you may be saddled with a staff that’s stretched to its breaking point. If …

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