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Back then – before the Internet and digital imaging, or even Personal Computers – high technology wasn’t the focus because it didn’t exist in the realm of business in general. I suppose you could call busin Read More

The question begs to be asked “how did we get here?” (with “here” being the current state of information technology and the accounting industry). There is confusion in the market; there is still significant debate as to the underlying value of Internet technologies and online application services, Read More

A 2010 information technology report by IDC (International Data Corporation, a global provider of market intelligence) provided a few interesting predictions for Information Technology in these changing times. Not surprisingly, many of the predictions centered around the same “ingredients of IT in Read More

Is your cloud solution or hosting service HIPAA compliant? This is among the most frequently asked questions from professionals shopping for cloud hosting service. Unfortunately, it is also among the questions most frequently answered with ambiguity, or with naiveté. Read More

IT managers, CIOs and business owners must be realistic about the information their enterprises generate and store, including being realistic about the risk potential that duplicated and mobile data represents. It is not that the enterprise should be afraid of allowing mobility and providing remot Read More

No industry is immune to the security and access considerations surrounding a cloud computing model. Particular those lawyers involved in e-discovery (all of them) have recognizing the potential benefits – and tradeoffs – of the model. This reality was clearly revealed at the ILTA (International Read More

holistic: a. Emphasizing the importance of the whole and the interdependence of its parts.

The Internet and cloud computing solutions can help businesses create an environment which allows team members and clients to work together more efficiently; where information can be generated once and use Read More

For as long as there has been high technology use in business, there has been a struggle between the enterprise CFO and CIO for the power to make IT purchase decisions. It isn’t rocket science… the reasons for the challenge are fairly straightforward. The CFO wants to know what the expected retu Read More

Few problems in business are truly solved simply by throwing more money and resources at them. Certainly, having the people, tools and supplies to get the work done well is a business requirement, and many organizations take a “building out” approach to addressing growing workloads and customer de Read More

If you see it through the eyes of the business owner, accounting = paying taxes. It's a tough value proposition for the accountant, when you think about it. The business owner has to pay someone to figure out how much they have to pay someone else. Yeah, try to sell more of that, and good luck. Read More