Tag: IT

Technical Debt

If you have been on LinkedIn lately, or read any articles about the insanely antiquated technology in the airline industry, you may have seen the

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July 3, 2017

Help Your IT Help You

“CRM is not working.” Says, Co-worker. This, or something like this, is usually what the IT department receives whenever a User is having some sort

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November 11, 2016
Jeff Chamberlain

What is Managed Services?

In the 21st century, all organizations need technology to run and operate effectively. The problem is that, as we continue to rely more and more on

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August 11, 2016

Get Your Self-Service On!

Do you need to make an immediate or occasional one-time backup of your Dynamics GP databases, or maybe run a SQL job that populates your BI360 Data Warehouse?  Occasionally, you may be performing some month-end closing procedures, post a large, significant batch, or perhaps you are about to integrate a large amount of your Dynamics GP data into your BI360 Data Warehouse.  It’s critical that you make a good set of database backups to use in recovery in case of a failure, in order to refresh your Dynamics GP data into your Data Warehouse without IT involvement.  There are several ways you can create a one-time backup or run other SQL jobs, like refreshing your Data Warehouse for month-end reporting.  Here are some easiest ways, with some of the tools most people are familiar with:

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May 11, 2016

Responsibility vs. Blame

In the many organizations and projects I have been through, I always hear someone saying these words, “We must have more accountability around here.” But, in reality what they ‘really’ mean is, “I want to know whom to blame when something goes wrong”. We assume that by early identification of a scapegoat you have put the fear of blame in you or at least the fear of consequences related to that blame and further assume that fear is an effective motivator.

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October 28, 2014

KTL-etc: Your Cloud, Your Way.

Over the last several years we have heard a lot about the cloud: How easy it is to move business applications to the cloud; how IT departments are making this part of their strategic business plans; and the different initiatives coming about on how to save companies money and gain efficiencies.  IT is now able to off load hardware and software administrative and resource overhead to hosting providers.  This is empowering them to not only concentration on, but to be a PART of, strategic technology planning efforts for their organizations.  This is an overall benefit to the organization, and I believe an unexpected but welcomed result of the cloud movement.  

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October 22, 2014