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Articles To Improve Your Business Process And Move Forward.IT & Managed Services vs. Healthcare
Managed Services vs. Healthcare: Similar Strategies, Similar Outcomes I would like to start with a little self-reflection. If we are all honest with ourselves, we’d admit that no one enjoys purchasing or paying for health insurance. The process is cumbersome. There...
How to Create a Strategic BDR Plan
The Right Data For Backup & Disaster Recovery For backup and disaster recovery (BDR) planning, you need more than a trusted solution. You need a data center that can’t fail. You need an IT team that won’t keep you up at night. Server room aside, you might want to...
Epicor Process Set Maintenance: Bundle Up
Scheduling ERP Processes Batch processes have been with us since the inception of business computing. You can complete a batch of tasks as a single process for sake of efficiency. The benefits of such processes are clearly time-saving for an Epicor administrator....
Epicor Server File Download: Serving the Process Server
The Pandora's Box of ERP Epicor processes can be a Pandora’s box of complexity. Rumbling under the surface, these processes perform innumerable tasks that allow an ERP system to function effectively. But when these processes fail to deliver the expected functionality,...
Epicor Data Fix Workbench: Balancing the Balance
The Weight of the ERP Data World My old friend Thanos was a big believer in the principle of balance. In an ERP context, data integrity is the epitome of balance. But sometimes unexpected issues corrupt data and throw this precious balance askew. Read further to...
After The Disaster Plan, The Disaster
What Happens After You Choose A Disaster Plan? If you've already settled on a backup and disaster recovery (BDR) strategy, you need to know that this is not a "set IT and forget IT" business solution. Yes, you now know that your backups are more reliable. Yes, you...
ERP Implementation Best Practices: Closing the Gaps
ERP Implementation Challenges Bridging functionality gaps in ERP is one of the great challenges in an Epicor implementation, or of any enterprise resource planning project. There are often visible gaps between a company’s business requirements and the system’s ability...
Backup Disaster Recovery: Saving Your Solution
The Aftermath of a Backup & Disaster Recovery Plan Backup, disaster recovery, business continuity. Are you ready? 2020 proved that every business needs a recovery strategy. Data loss occurs when there's an unexpected event (like a pandemic). A natural disaster,...
How to Move Your Business to the Cloud
How to Choose a Cloud for Your Business Companies are moving to the cloud in droves, swift to flock to new IT solutions. Fortunately, there are a lot of birds wise to the server sky. When you're choosing to put your data on a remote server ("the cloud"), you'll need...
Cyber Verify “A” Risk Assurance Rating
The MSPAlliance Cyber Verify rating gives customers of cloud & managed services the assurance their provider is using the most current cyber security practices. EstesGroup Receives Cyber Verify "A" Risk Assurance Rating Loveland, Colorado - EstesGroup has...
Malvertising Rising and Malware Mayhem
What is Malvertising? Malvertising is a pet name for malware that’s delivered through online advertising techniques. The ads look authentic. Often, legitimate third-party marketing companies distribute them to reputable websites. Cybercriminals circulate this malware...
Epicor ERP Database Upgrade Considerations
Technical Considerations for an Epicor Upgrade As more and more Epicor users moved from Epicor 905 to E10, the new world of upgrade challenges leveled off into old world reflection. As a customer, I once watched my company implement Epicor’s Vantage 803 platform and...
Epicor System Monitor: Canceling a Hung Task
Epicor’s System Monitor is a handy ERP tool that can be used for one of many purposes in working with the background processes and reports that Epicor’s Task Agent orchestrates. The Epicor Task Agent handles all server-side tasks for a given application server. These...
Benefits of Managed IT Services For Your Business
Is IT at the heart of your company? Imagine your company is a heart, and managed IT services provide the health benefits to sustain your entire business system. You do the work you love, and your customers, your employees, and your products keep the beat. Technology...
How to Stop Social Engineering Attacks
Cybersecurity in the Ballot Box, the Bistro and the Bedroom October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time when organizations across America join together to educate the public about cyberthreats like social engineering (especially phishing attacks). This...