A SSL certificate is a commonly used security technology recommended for businesses with an online presence. Since a company’s website is a critical component to conducting business in today’s marketplace, it’s important to have your site promote a secure experience. In an effort to gain consumer’s trust and in light of ever-growing security threats, it’s best practice to have a SSL certificate installed to allow a secure connection from your web server to your visitors’ web browser. Read more
Slack: A Messaging App for Business
Slack is a messaging application making big news in the technology industry. From first hand experience, our technology consulting team gives an overview on the app, highlights some of its main features and notes where there is room for improvements. Read more
4 Signs You Need a Document Management System
A document management system can offer many advantages to your organization, as they have digitized the way businesses access, track, store and manage their documents. With many businesses making strides towards becoming a paperless office, how do you know if your business should adopt the same approach? Read more
How to Integrate a Digital Business Strategy
For your small or medium sized businesses to compete in a highly connected marketplace it has become a necessity to incorporate a digital business strategy into your organization’s current business plan. While most businesses have included some digital components to their operations naturally (through their websites and social media), Compulite’s IT Consulting team has taken a closer look at how an organization can fully develop and execute a digital business strategy. With a well laid out digital strategy in place you will be able to secure your organization’s relevancy and its competitive advantage. Read more
Live Streaming For Business
When businesses find themselves looking for innovative ways to connect and engage their clients and prospects, leveraging a live streaming application can become a valuable outlet for interaction. We will have a look at how streaming live video and audio coverage of an event can bring our consumer behaviors into a business to business (B2B) setting.
New Year, New Upgrades: What Apple Updates to Expect in 2016
As any Apple enthusiast knows, an even year, means even better Apple updates coming to your device. With Apple releasing its latest operating system (OS) in beta and possible iPhone 7 features being leaked, those following Apple trends need look no further. Read more
How IT Service Providers Can Help Your Bottom Line
Utilizing technology in today’s business architecture is no longer just common practice, it is practically a necessity to survive in the competitive market place. So why is it that many small business owners try and delay the inevitable? We have seen multiple organizations struggle to integrate and manage technology tools internally or reach out for IT support once panic mode has begun. However, taking a proactive approach to partnering with a managed service provider (MSP) can result in an environment that allows you to serve your clients without having to worry about your critical applications, data loss or other unwelcome surprises. Read more
Understanding the Cyber Exploit Cycle- Part 2
With the rise of cyber attacks happening across all industries and markets we will examine specific recommendations made by the Communications Security Establishment (CSE). CSE’s recommendations are used to protect our nation’s network and can be used as a guide by SMB’s to build a defense against cyber exploits and protect their own infrastructure. Read more
Understanding the Cyber Exploit Cycle- Part 1
With cyber-attacks becoming increasingly advanced and sophisticated it becomes important for organizations to update their security solutions. With the changing nature of malware threats, it can be challenging for security solutions to be perfect. Read more
How the Trans-Pacific Partnership is Going to Effect Your Business
After years of negotiation, a trade agreement was reached on October 5th that will affect multiple industries and have a potentially large economic impact. The impact of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on local Ottawa small and medium sized businesses while seemingly full of opportunity, has many others fearing it as a threat to global internet users. So why is it that a poll conducted by Innovation Research, shows that 70% of Canadians are not very familiar, or not familiar at all with what the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is? Read more