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Small and medium-sized businesses face a relentless challenge: competing with industry titans while grappling with supply chain complexity. The good news is that the right technology is now more accessible and affordable than ever. This month, let's explore how you can strategically leverage tech to turn your supply chain from a cost center into a powerful competitive advantage.

Microsoft Excel is a powerful tool that businesses leverage every day to store, track, and report on data, but it can be tedious to work in the document without knowing all of its little tricks. Today, we want to share with you one that could save you valuable clicks and time spent copying and pasting values. You’ll learn how to enter the same data into multiple cells at once.

Your business technology is not just a tool; it's the very foundation upon which modern enterprises are built. From optimizing operations to enhancing customer experiences, strategic technology implementation is paramount for growth and competitive advantage. We invest heavily in it, pour resources into its adoption, and celebrate its initial successes. What happens when that investment starts to become a liability, however?

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has moved from science fiction to a daily reality, fundamentally reshaping how we work and communicate. Yet, behind every groundbreaking AI application lies massive infrastructure in the form of data centers. These sprawling facilities, packed with servers, storage, and networking equipment, aren't just filing cabinets for data; they are the engines that make AI possible. Today, we are going to look at the data center and the pros and cons society will see from the expansion of AI.

The shift to remote work has transformed business, yet the virtual meeting remains a point of friction. A poorly executed remote meeting isn't just a time-waster; it drains productivity and damages company culture.

With the right strategy and tools, your remote meetings can be even more effective and engaging than in-person ones.

If you’ve played with AI for any purpose, but particularly for your business’ benefit, you may have found your results less than impressive. One of the biggest challenges of working with artificial intelligence is our assumption that our instructions are sufficient, even when they are vague or non-specific.

A prompt of this caliber will not produce the quality responses that you need. Instead, you need to use “prompt engineering” to come up with a request that will. Fortunately, you can improve your prompts considerably by simply remembering three things.

It doesn’t matter how big or small your business is or which industry you fall into; communication is always going to be a major pain point that influences your technology investments. Thankfully, there’s a simple solution called Voice over Internet Protocol, or VoIP, that is a strategic and sound upgrade from your traditional telephone solution, and it’s one that can transform your communication infrastructure for the better.

Here are three reasons why you should consider a VoIP phone system today.

How effectively can you multitask in the office? Are you known to have multiple windows and tabs open at any given time? With so many windows, applications, and tabs cluttering your brain, it helps to have tricks to keep them all in line. Using Smart windows (or Snap windows), you can place two or more side-by-side to clear things up a bit and make working in multiple apps or windows easier than ever.

When was the last time you actually powered down your Android smartphone and gave it a much-needed restart? Chances are you go way too long in between restarts, but what if the reason you haven’t done so recently is because you can’t? Whether it’s wear and tear on your power button or some other issue, it’s good to have alternative ways to restart your Android operating system. Today, we want to show you how.

How do you approach decision-making for your business? While it might be tempting to forego critical thought and rely on your gut instinct for major decisions, we urge you to instead follow the data and observe what it’s trying to tell you. If data analysis sounds like pulling teeth, however, you’ll be relieved to know that AI tools have made it significantly easier to analyze large amounts of data and make more informed decisions.