Technology has changed how we communicate, but one constant of day-to-day business is the telephone. While we still use it to conduct business every day, modern technology has changed dramatically from the copper-wire landlines we’ve relied on since Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone.

When IT systems go down, it can affect your business in a range of ways. Companies can be impacted through lost revenue, lower productivity, and the cost of recovery. Not only is downtime expensive, it can be frustrating for your customers and employees – especially those in the IT department.

The coronavirus has changed the way businesses all over the world operate. We’ve moved from slowly transitioning to remote work to going “all-in” thanks to the pandemic. Many companies have changed their business model to incorporate remote work for the foreseeable future.

In the last couple of decades, production printers have advanced immensely. Laser-based digital press technologies have had success in delivering high-quality, on-demand print. Even with this growth, the majority of commercial print is still produced using traditional offset presses, due to the limitations of laser-based presses in terms of quality, speed, format size, and per-copy costs.

How does your team treat cybersecurity? Do they engage in best practices on their own, or are they reactive, acting only after you ask them? Your business’s cybersecurity culture is determined by how your team treats security decisions when they’re on their own.

One thing is certain: schools and educational institutions create tremendous amounts of paper. From administrative documents, to student records, tests, worksheets, handouts, and assignments – paper has become a necessary part of a regular school day.

Today’s technology is complex, especially when it comes to security vulnerabilities and the need to scale up or down quickly. With today’s uncertainty and the potential need for students to do their schoolwork online it can be challenging for school administrators to handle their IT infrastructures.

No matter what the size of your business, or industry you’re in, you share something in common with every other business… the challenge of managing paper documents. Even as we move toward the paperless office, the fact is, most businesses still rely on paper on a day-to-day basis.

Every business wants to improve workflows and remove obstacles for their teams. If you accomplish this, productivity and efficiency are significantly improved. The benefits of Unified Communications have the capacity to affect your day to day business and make it easier for your employees to interact with each other, clients, and partners.

I’m Tom Beeles, President and CEO of Allied Business Solutions. These are trying times for businesses in every industry. As we all adapt to our new normal, companies are working hard to redefine how to do business.