Database Servers: The Backbone of Your Business
Regardless of the size or the type of your organisation, your organisation most probably has a database to handle your organisation’s data storage needs. Your database is critical to the day-to-day operations of your information management systems because it acts as the repository for everyone’s data. This makes it all the more important to have [...]
Outsourcing: The Good, the Bad and the Horrible
Outsourcing has become a popular means of hiring people for a certain project or aspect of the business which is normally taken care of in-house. Outsourcing is a viable alternative to hiring your own workers since you only pay for the results yet do not have to worry about (nor spend money on) how such [...]
Information Management: What Is It?
With the advent of computers as storage for information and media for information exchange like the internet, a whole host of buzzwords have popped up surrounding the methods for handling information. Terms like information technology (IT) and information and communication technology (ICT) are just some of the dozens of terms spawned by advances in computing [...]
Business Loans: What a Lender Is Looking For
If you’re starting up a business, you’ll need some capital to begin with. Perhaps you already have a going concern but now you need money for expansion. In both cases, you may have to visit the bank or other lending institutions to borrow the necessary funds.
You have to maximise the chance that the lender will [...]
5 Ways to Handle Bad Debts
Debt Affects Everyone
More and more families are saddled with debt nowadays. The average American family is in debt to the tune of $12,000, the average UK family to around £8,800 sans mortgage. Even students are getting affected, with those attending various courses having debts ranging from $8,000 to over $20,000. Businessmen are in no way [...]
When Markets Turn: 7 Ways to Batten down the Hatches
The bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble isn’t something new – or unique. There have been other inversions related to the money market before. The 1930s stock market crash, the reverses of 1975 and 1982, the 1987 debacle, the late 1990s dot-com speculation all follow the pattern of greed and fear, which some people say [...]
Incorporating Your Business: Is This the Right Move?
Whether you run a small business from your kitchen all by your lonesome or you have an office somewhere else with a couple of people working for you, getting your business incorporated could be your wisest business decision yet as incorporation can protect your business and assets. If you doubt this little piece of wisdom, [...]
Hiring IT Professionals: Full-Time or Temp?
The sudden boom of the IT industry created a demand for IT professionals that many were eager to fill. Nowadays, thousands of new university graduates from IT-related courses are competing for any given position in just about every state in the U.S. With such a massive available workforce, it has become an increasingly available option [...]
Content Management: Are You Using the Right Software for Your Business?
More and more companies have been jumping on the trend of a customer-oriented business. Websites like Friendster, MySpace and YouTube are all testaments to the power and the allure of user-generated content.
In order to succeed in such a content-intensive enterprise, you’ll need to integrate content management software into your business’ operations. You probably know what [...]
5 Must Do Tips before You Change Accounting Software
When it comes to technology, change is an ongoing process. You can never stay with just one type of computer/software or you’ll just get gobbled up by your more technologically updated competition. Therefore, should the time come for you to change accounting software, you should treat it more as an investment and not just as [...]
