In last week’s edition of the DatCom Business Briefing, we explained how the tech skills gap is one of the greatest cybersecurity threats. If a business lacks people who understand the technology they use, it makes your business more susceptible to malware attacks and data breaches. This week, we will discuss the high costs of technology complexity in operating a... Read More
- Written by DatCom Admin
- Published: 01 Dec 2022
Here we go, it’s the last month of 2022 when the spirit of festivity starts to build. Some businesses get to slow down while others must speed up to reap the benefits of holiday shopping. In either case, we all understand that December is different from other months. The holidays help us separate one year
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 06 May 2020

In uncertain times, one of the most important things for any business to do is to stay the course—albeit in an adjusted fashion. To help, we’ve put together a few key practices to work positively to achieve this end.
Posted in Blog, Tip of the Week
Tagged Business, Disaster Recovery, Tip of the week
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 20 Apr 2020

When a budget comes into play, it is important to remember that there are a few ways that you can adjust it beyond eliminating line items. For instance, you can instead optimize some of the most egregious financial requirements your technology has–its support costs–by translating the unpredictably variable costs you likely deal with now for
Posted in Blog, Technology
Tagged Business, Managed Services, Saving Money
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 19 Mar 2020

Contracts are a huge part of doing business. The practice is as old as the legal profession. You’ll be hard pressed to complete a transaction where money changes hands where there isn’t a document outlining the specifics of the liability each party takes on by entering that financial agreement. We call them receipts, but in
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 22 Nov 2019

Do you know what drives me crazy? It’s the fact that, of all the lists of things you can do to improve your business and boost your productivity and optimize something or other… it seems there’s not much to be said about how your employees factor in.
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 15 Jul 2019

In 2018, Amazon was struck by a considerable attack, with hackers taking funds from approximately 100 seller accounts, according to a Bloomberg report. Between May and October 2018, Amazon sellers were struck approximately 100 times, draining funds from the seller control platform to augment their own funds. According to the investigation, the first fraudulent transaction
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 05 Jun 2019

When considering a business’ strengths, there is a tendency to focus on its more quantifiable aspects – it generates x dollars in revenue, or leverages advanced solutions a, b, and c. While these kinds of competitive advantages are valuable to have, it is also important to recognize how critical one of your more qualifiable strengths
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 06 May 2019

As nice as it would be to always please everybody with your business services, it just isn’t going to happen. Sooner or later, you’re going to encounter someone who isn’t pleased, and they’re going to have the capability to do some damage to your reputation. Fortunately, there is a way you can mitigate this damage.
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 14 Nov 2018

While running a business can be quite rewarding on a professional level, it can be extremely challenging, with countless obstacles to overcome–particularly in regard to technology and its management. Thankfully, there are ways your business can minimize the pain of managing technology. Here are just a few of them.
- Written by Tom Baum
- Published: 29 Oct 2018

As the technology that businesses have available to them develops, so does the propensity for this technology to be used unethically. This has become especially apparent where data collection is concerned, and what that data is used for after it has been collected. How can you keep operations moving both productively, and ethically?