Why The Good IT Guide?
The hidden pay-back of making expensive mistakes can be summed up as “you live and learn – older and wiser – once bitten, twice shy”. How many times do you see someone making what you know is a mistake and you think ” but you DO need to do this so that you have properly learned that lesson”?
Failed or underachieving IT projects cost SME businesses millions of pounds per year in the UK and our aim with this guide is to make a difference by helping you, the business decision-maker to bypass the time and money costs of making some of the basic mistakes.
It’s brought to you by the UK IT Association and its members who represent the best of the IT, web and digital media companies in the UK. This makes it the genuine insider’s guide telling you how to get the best from us – your suppliers and to shortlist the ones that are less likely to turn out to be the cowboys. UKITA’s aim is to find, recognise and promote The IT Good Guys … and Girls!
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Green IT for SMEs
Green IT is normal IT but using green stuff, right? No, Green IT is ensuring that your IT is environmentally sustainable, insofar that IT is environmentally sustainable of course, but let us take that a stage further and say that: “By Green ICT we mean, the tools, techniques and approaches that reduce the material impact [...]
Read More...Is cloud computing ready for primetime business?
“Cloud computing may be the hottest thing in corporate computing right now, but two IT disasters – at Amazon and Sony – beg the question: Is cloud computing ready for primetime business?
It’s a nightmare moment. You are under pressure – to meet customer orders, finish a project, execute a deal – and nothing. Your computers, servers or network are down. If you are lucky, a few nail biting hours and a reboot or three later, you and your IT team have restored services.
What if your IT infrastructure goes down and there’s nothing you can do because your computing power sits in the cloud, provided over the internet by another company?
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Is cloud computing ready for primetime business?
November 2, 2011 By Shaun Carvill Leave a Comment
“Cloud computing may be the hottest thing in corporate computing right now, but two IT disasters – at Amazon and Sony – beg the question: Is cloud computing ready for primetime business?
It’s a nightmare moment. You are under pressure – to meet customer orders, finish a project, execute a deal – and nothing. Your computers, servers or network are down. If you are lucky, a few nail biting hours and a reboot or three later, you and your IT team have restored services.
What if your IT infrastructure goes down and there’s nothing you can do because your computing power sits in the cloud, provided over the internet by another company?
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Business Intelligence? Or Business Intuition?
November 1, 2011 By Peter Dean Leave a Comment
How do you make your business decisions? Facts or intuition… How do measure performance? Actionable metrics or gut feel… Do I have good business intelligence? What is it? If you Google ‘Business Intelligence’ the top search Wikipedia offers this insight: “Business intelligence (BI) mainly refers to computer-based techniques used in identifying, extracting, and analyzing business [...]
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CRM – Customer Relationship Management
November 1, 2011 By Catherine Carlyle Leave a Comment
CRM, or Customer Relationship Management, is one of the most talked about and influential
communications tools any business has as it helps to drive audience loyalty, increase awareness and
ultimately drive sales by using the latest database technology. To many people, CRM is a daunting
prospect, so… Phil Callaghan – managing director of Batley based Caltech, one of the UK’s leading
suppliers & implementers of customer relationship management systems – outlines his Top 10 Tips
on what to look out for and what to do!
Green IT for SMEs
November 2, 2011 By John Booth 1 Comment
Green IT is normal IT but using green stuff, right? No, Green IT is ensuring that your IT is environmentally sustainable, insofar that IT is environmentally sustainable of course, but let us take that a stage further and say that: “By Green ICT we mean, the tools, techniques and approaches that reduce the material impact [...]
Read More...Explaining website security certificates (SSL)
November 2, 2011 By Shaun Carvill Leave a Comment
I often have to explain why many websites, particularly ecommerce websites need added security.
I thought therefore that the following extract from our certificate provider Thawte, would be interesting.:
“An SSL certificate is a bit of code on your web server that provides security for online communications. When a web browser contacts your secured web site, the SSL certificate enables an encrypted connection. It’s kind of like sealing a letter in an envelope before sending it through the mail.
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