The IT Experts

Detect Problems Early On

With a proactive approach, managed by solid IT professionals, you can keep most issues from advancing into bigger and more dangerous problems. This isn’t a difficult task, either; you just need monitoring systems to keep track of your infrastructure and detect potential symptoms of problems, like a slow computer or a sneaky-looking file. Combine this approach with regular updates and clean-ups, and you have a solid approach to keeping your technology working the way it should.

Minimize Security Risks

Network security can be tough for businesses who don’t have the resources to hire a full in-house team of cybersecurity professionals. In reality, you just need IT resources, like our technicians at KB Technologies. We like to recommend you implement layers of security rather than just one.

Here’s what we recommend:

• A good firewall.
• Protection on each computer.
• Scanners for emails.
• Making secret information unreadable to thieves.

Make it more difficult for hackers to get in, and you’ll experience fewer attacks. It’s not rocket science.

Plan for Anything

Bad things happen to good people, and they can happen to you, too, if you’re not careful. Whether it’s a power surge or a cybersecurity breach, you can never be too careful with your data. You need to have a plan to back up and restore your data at a moment’s notice so that the unexpected doesn’t sink your business preemptively.

Data backup and disaster recovery is only the first step, though; you need to routinely test your backups and the recovery process to ensure it works should the need arise. This kind of comprehensive backup solution is available through KB Technologies, and we’d love to help you implement it.

It Doesn’t Take Much to Mitigate Problems

While it might seem like we’re dismissing the amount of work that goes into keeping your business technology problem-free, the fact remains that, if your business is handling it all properly, it shouldn’t be a lot of effort on your part. That’s why you have us to help handle the technology problems and implementations, all the heavy lifting that you don’t have time for, so you can focus on running your business.

Sound like something you’d be interested in? Give us a call to learn more at (954) 834-2800.

Restricting access to information is nothing new, of course. Even the Library of Alexandria, with its impossible goal of collecting all the world’s knowledge, restricted its access. The widespread adoption of technology means that information doesn’t have to rot in some dusty old library anymore; instead, it can be shared with people faster than ever.

Understanding Data Democratization

An easy explanation of data democratization is making data accessible to your typical non-technical user within your business without asking for permission from the powers that be, like your IT department or a data analyst. Simply put, it’s about empowering your people to get work done using the right tools, in the right way, and (crucially) without getting in their way.

Now, we’re not advocating for unrestricted access to sensitive information—far from it, actually—but we are advocating for strong governance and security while ensuring relevant data is in an accessible and understandable format.

For example, your sales team could see which products are trending locally, and your marketing team could get a glimpse into customer behaviors in real-time. An operations manager could determine where the real bottlenecks are and take action to resolve them. This is all possible with readily accessible data.

How to Use Data Democratization

SMBs will find the agility offered by data democratization exceptionally helpful, which is why we want to make this information as available as possible to you. Large corporations might have analyst teams, but for SMBs, it’s all hands on deck. Here’s the process for making it happen:

• Organize your data: Data tends to find itself scattered all over spreadsheets and databases without really being centralized anywhere. You can take the first step by centralizing your information and making its location accessible.
• Find the right tools: These days, business intelligence tools and dashboards make data easy to navigate through intuitive interfaces, drag-and-drop report building, and clear visualizations.
• Cultivate a culture of sharing data: Data democratization is more than simple data and tools; it’s also ensuring your team is ready and empowered to use the data to answer their questions. Consider training them to use this data in the appropriate way.
• Make sure your data is clean: Your data won’t be useful to your team if it isn’t high-quality. Make sure that any data you store is accurate, consistent, and secure. We recommend you have some form of access control in place, as it’s crucial your team can access the data they need without putting everything else at risk in the process.

Don’t Let Data Hold Your Business Back

If you’re ready to open up a whole world of data democratization for your business, KB Technologies can help you get started. We have all the solutions you need to store, manage, maintain, and secure your data. Learn more by calling us at (954) 834-2800 today.

You Have Limited Time

As much as you’d like to focus on your IT, you simply don’t have the time to do it.

While it’s impossible to identify just how much time is spent on tasks like upkeep, maintenance, and monitoring, it’s clear that you have a lot of other responsibilities to manage in addition to all of this. If you don’t have time, and you don’t have an internal IT staff to handle these responsibilities, then the tasks fall to your other employees (who also don’t have time for this, by the way). If no one has time, the work doesn’t get done, which is dangerous in its own way.

This is why so many business owners outsource IT; they have other priorities, like their actual jobs.

You Have Limited Resources

SMBs often feel like they can’t afford IT help, but these days, that couldn’t be further from the truth.

Affording IT is easier than ever, especially if you’re not dead-set on hiring a full in-house IT department. If you were to conduct such a search, it would require attracting qualified candidates, interviewing these candidates, negotiating salaries, onboarding, and catching them up on what’s expected of them. That’s a lot, and by the time they even begin work in earnest, they’re already behind.

Outsourcing offers you the same quality and expertise but without the considerable time investment, which could make a big difference if you already feel like you’re behind.

You Have Limited Expertise

Even a small business has a lot of technology to manage to keep it operational.

The responsibilities of an IT department include managing your in-house network, any connected devices, all of the cloud resources you use, all of the data you collect, and more. All of this has to be managed and stored, but that’s easier said than done. There’s a lot to do, and if you don’t have the knowledge and expertise to make it all happen, you risk performing these tasks poorly or not at all.

You want to make sure your IT help is qualified and trustworthy, as your business’ operations depend on it.

Focus on Your Business While We Focus on IT

We know you have bigger and better things to worry about than your company's technology. If you want to focus your efforts where they matter most, give KB Technologies a call at (954) 834-2800 and let us do the heavy lifting for you.