Blog: General

4 Nov 2020

How Microsoft 365 changes your approach to business change

Nick Ellis,
Digital Transformation Consultant

Everywhere you look these days you see posts, articles and books about how you need to change your business. While for people who have spent a lifetime building a business that’s not always an easy message to hear, I think 2020 has showed that increased agility, productivity and mobility will be important. As we normalise life after COVID-19, or perhaps live permanently with it, the changes it forced upon us will have a long impact.

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22 Oct 2020

How Microsoft Teams has changed in 2020

Nick Ellis,
Digital Transformation Consultant

We are all adapting to working remotely and we’ve seen a number of new phrases enter the language this year – “Work from anywhere” is one we like a lot, and one you’ll be seeing more of next year is the “virtual commute”, the time in the morning preparing for work and in the evening winding down.

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19 Oct 2020

Cyber Security: Playing the Blame Game

Russell Gower-Leech,
Technical Solutions Architect

I was talking with a colleague the other day about security breaches and in particular business email compromises. Just to set the scene, a business email compromise is where a criminal (or threat actor as they're called in the infosec world) gets in the middle of a chain of email communications to divert funds. There are several ways this can happen and I'll cover those as we go, but in this instance a user had received an email notifying them of a change of bank details so they could pay an outstanding invoice. The email came from a known contact and followed an existing thread.

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9 Oct 2020

Common phishing types

Jig Mehta,
Marketing Executive

Cybercrime is on the rise and the types of phishing scams are evolving, our ability to identify them has never been more important in both protecting ourselves, but also the organisations that we are part of. There are many types of phishing scams with many different tactics employed, in this article we look at some of the main phishing scams used by the criminals, the intent or nature them and advice on how to deal with them.

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5 Oct 2020

What IT do I need to work from home?

Jig Mehta,
Marketing Executive

The times they are a-changin', and they certainly are. As we are pushed out of the office for the second time, we must accept that working from home is likely to be the new normal for much longer. Having the right IT equipment at home will allow you to continue to be as productive as possible and having the wrong or outdated IT is only likely to slow you down, reduce morale and will cause you to become disgruntled.

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21 Sep 2020

Wi-Fi: Are you getting the best coverage?

Russell Gower-Leech,
Technical Solutions Architect

Wi-Fi is an interesting beast in that it has become ubiquitous in its presence and our desire to consume it. Wherever we go we are either looking out for free Wi-Fi or the businesses we visit are actively promoting we use it. In our homes it fuels most of our devices (I dare say there will be some like me who own a comms cabinet full of tech but it's pretty rare) and should it fail it can (according to my children) be like falling back in time.

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2 Sep 2020

Spotting a phish

Jig Mehta,
Marketing Executive

Phishing is the most popular form of cyber crime. It’s scam form that has been around for years from the comical prince to the current COVID-19 disguise.

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12 Aug 2020

Worlds Best SMB Managed Service Provider

Jig Mehta,
Marketing Executive

We are proud to announce that Select Technology have been named as one of the world’s best SMB Managed Service Providers on the new annual Channel Futures SMB Hot 101 rankings for 2020.

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22 Jul 2020

Let’s all be friends: A referral program

Jig Mehta,
Marketing Executive

Select Technology has been providing IT Support for over 25 years and in that time, we have grown through word of mouth. The recommendations that we have been given by our customers has allowed us to grow, expanding the team and our services.

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11 Jul 2020

Business Transformation

Jig Mehta,
Marketing Executive

Business Transformation is about re-imagining how you bring people, data and processes together to create value for your customers, and maintain a competitive advantage in a digital-first world. Partnering with Select Technology will help your organisation transform into a digital company by developing new capabilities.

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11 Jul 2020

An outstanding Service Desk

Jig Mehta,
Marketing Executive

Exceptional customer experience is at the centre of everything we do and it certainly shows on our Service Desk.

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29 Jun 2020

Microsoft Business Voice: VoIP calls from Teams

Jig Mehta,
Marketing Executive

Business Voice is an add-on for Microsoft 365 and Office 365 plans available for SMEs. Suitable for all companies with up to 300 users, this enterprise-grade solution combines audio conferencing, call plans (Microsoft’s or import your own) and a complete phone system.

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