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Fortunately, Gmail has a feature that allows you to address these fears by scheduling a time for these emails to be deleted automatically, while also barring them from being shared.

Confidential Mode in Gmail

Gmail’s Confidential Mode basically gives the user the capability to set an expiration date for the emails they send. Plus, you can even lock your message behind a passcode that can be shared via text to the intended recipient.

Using Confidential Mode

With the Compose window pulled up, look next to the Send button for a little icon that looks like a padlock and clock. This is the button that toggles confidential mode. Clicking it will pull up a window in Confidential mode.

This window will let you set your message’s expiration date, ranging from one day to five years, and the aforementioned passcode. Setting the passcode will prompt you to provide your own phone number and the one you want your code shared to.

If you’re using your mobile device, you can compose a confidential email by opening the three-dot menu and selecting Confidential mode, setting your preferences accordingly.

While this all can help boost your email’s security, it won’t necessarily guarantee it, of course.

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Point-of-Sale (POS)

While seemingly a very front-facing system, the POS can help fulfill a key back-end role for many businesses operating in retail and service while helping to keep the entire organization coordinated. For the benefit of inventory and retail management, a modern POS system can now alert your team when your business runs low on certain items. With this information, your team can act in such a way that keeps your customers satisfied.

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

RFID systems assist you and your team members in tracking your resources by using small, inexpensive microchips. The sensors on these microchips are picked up by RFID readers, allowing you to follow your supplies around your business. With a complete record of the movement these resources follow and when they are in use, your business is in better shape to succeed.

Inventory Management Software

In terms of properly managing your business’ inventory, a dedicated inventory management system (IMS) is the creme de la crème that is available to you. Using many of today’s leading business innovations, this end-to-end solution can help you accomplish efficiency that otherwise couldn’t be.

Cloud-based IMS also makes a lot of tools available to businesses, with the benefit of constant upgrades as the integrated solutions are improved. These platforms can also be customized, enabling your business access to precisely what is needed. A modern IMS provides a variety of essential benefits and features, like:

• Traceability—Today’s expectations demand that orders are received quickly and in good condition, and today’s tools enable these expectations to be accounted for.
• Automation—Modern IMS solutions can be used more efficiently thanks to the involvement of automated solutions like AI and machine learning. With sufficient repetitions and the right reporting, we’ve reached the point where automation can be automated.
• Scalability—Certain businesses need different tools, in different amounts. Smarter businesses use their tools to waste fewer resources.

We get how critical proper inventory management can be. Let us help.

At KB Technologies Managed IT, we respect how much of an impact your inventory can have on your business’ success. Reach out to find out what our team can do to support you with the IT solutions you need to ensure that success. Give us a call at (954) 834-2800 today.

How Business Computing Has Changed

Not all that long ago, businesses had much more limited options in terms of their network infrastructures. To expand, a small business would need to purchase an entirely new server for each specific purpose they wanted to fulfill. While this did provide the business with more control, it also limited those businesses that couldn’t handle these financial investments with their available budget.

This led to some significant waste, as it prevented servers from being used to their full capacity and resulted in a lot of resources going unused. When virtualization is employed, on the other hand, the same hardware can be utilized to support multiple processes. This can help decrease a company’s need to invest in more infrastructure by a significant and impactful margin.

How Virtualization Works

Basically, rather than necessitating a fresh server to be used for each hosted application, a single server can be divided up to take on multiple different tasks. Considering the cost that each server could incur to acquire and maintain, this reduction of hardware can translate to significant financial savings.

Don’t get us wrong—initially implementing virtualization can be a sizable investment to make. However, the long-term reduction in hardware acquisition and maintenance can make this investment a worthwhile one, and that’s before you consider how it helps to increase your IT’s accessibility. Such implementations can also help to reduce your need of a centralized workplace environment… and reduce your hardware costs, management costs, utility costs, and maintenance costs by a significant margin.

These savings can then be reinvested into other initiatives as the business enjoys the capabilities that a virtual environment can enable. With minutes standing between new environments and consolidated security features, businesses can operate far more efficiently.

Cloud-Based Benefits

Virtualized environments can now be hosted in the cloud, now accessible thanks to their improved security and affordability. Putting the benefits of these approaches together can—in exchange for some reduced control of your data—give businesses more advantages than ever. One way or the other, your company’s finances can be better spent using virtualization.

Interested in finding out more about virtualization and what your company’s options are? Give KB Technologies Managed IT a call at (954) 834-2800 today.