Data backup, recovery, disaster; three of the most sensitive topics for business owners and executives. Questions that are being raised more and more, due to the accessibility and affordability of technology in small to mid-size enterprises, include ‘How much time does it take for my business to go back to normal in case of data loss caused by a natural disaster or hardware malfunction?’ and ‘what is the committed response time of IT professionals in case of a disaster at my company?’ The goal of course of every executive is to reduce business losses (revenues, data, time) by having the quickest recovery possible. Read more

Enterprise Mobility has been trending for the past couple of years and it doesn’t seem to be slowing down any time soon. However, its popularity is only just beginning in the smaller businesses as more and more solutions are becoming affordable.

Our team stumbled upon this great infographic by [x]Cube Labs about the major trends and developments in Enterprise Mobility. We figured this is a great way to share with our readers the advantages of implementing business mobility solutions. Enjoy! Read more

We love giving you inside glimpses into NAMTEK’s fully integrated business software suite, erpWizard. For a company to be efficient, it needs a fully integrated system with all the necessary sections. In today’s blog, we will take an inside look at the Sales Orders Maintenance section, which can be found in the Sales and Distribution menu under Sales Processing, Entries and Processing. Read more

Happy Friday Readers! Everyday this week, we shared on our social media pages a great infographic published by the BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada). The informative image is about the top trends that are shaping the future of Canadian business. Today’s blog will be a summary of this infographic.

The BDC states that Canadian businesses can benefit from many new and exciting opportunities by adapting and leveraging the following 5 trends: Read more

In this article I would like to share our experience with mobile business applications development and deployment. There are some terminologies that are becoming more and more popular as of today, so I wanted to make sure we address these terms, and explain what they mean in the business mobility world. I will not tackle comparisons between different mobile platforms (i.e. Apple, Samsung…), since I have already addressed this in a previous post Mobile business applications: Apple vs Samsung Tablets comparison, which I invite you to read and share its content. Read more

Whenever a project to implement a mobile business application within an enterprise comes to the surface, executives, IT personnel as well as operation managers, start debating about which option would be the best suited for their business. This is a valid question, but unfortunately there is no one single answer. It all depends on the business needs, the requirements, the compatibility of the mobile device with the features requested and obviously the budget that the company has to spend on equipping its personnel with such devices.

The debate within the enterprise, about which one would be the best, Apple versus Samsung tablets (since these are the major players in the mobile market) or any other brand is primarily based on each person’s own experience with one or the other. While all opinions and arguments are valid and impossible to contest, the last word in such projects is the cost and the different IT parameters required to maintain the pool of mobile devices that will be deployed within the enterprise. Read more

Happy Friday to all our readers!

As many businesses use Facebook as a great marketing tool by creating company pages, we found this infographic from Optify, which highlights the many types of Facebook users. It gives us a pretty funny but sometimes accurate view of the different styles, ranging from the Baby Boomer, to the Newbie, to the Brand Promoter.
Namtek has a style all its own – the Informative Content Sharer (yes, we made that style up). Check out the infographic below and let us know which Facebook style you fall into!

Hurray! Yesterday marked the first official day of spring. It may still be cold or snowing out but it does mean warmer weather is near (hopefully!). Another great thing about this time of year is that we can finally leave work and still get a glimpse of sunlight.

As it is Friday again (TGIF!), our FUN Friday blog will get back to the basics of what our team does here at Namtek Consulting Services and what IT firms, departments and staff can really do for businesses of all sizes.


Question of the day: What does Information Technology (IT) do for a business?


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My team and I often receive the following questions by IT staff and business executives of small to mid-size businesses:

  • “What are the dangers that we aren’t aware of by using the backup and restore solution we currently have in place at our company, i.e. tape drive, storage device, etc?”
  • “How can a business continuity solution handle our backup needs better than my current backup solution?”
  • “What are the differences between these two solutions; backup and restore versus business continuity?”

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