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Some silly questions for you .... Why would you increase the overheads in your business? Why would you invest your heard earned cash in capital equipment that depreciates instantly? Why make things more difficult? Silly right? Because answering “yes” to any them doesn’t really make sense when related to computers and IT infrastructure. But perhaps the last question is the one that actually costs more than the other two. That is, increasing the hassle factor in your ... Read more >

Although Online One is clearly in the IT industry we pride ourselves on being business focused rather than IT focused. Running our own business helps, but it’s also about having a team that has a lot of experience across different industries. Having over 25 years of experience in IT and Telecoms, I’ve seen the change in the hardware/software infrastructure for companies from mainframes to minicomputers, then client server and now into cloud computing. And, yes, I do remember life ... Read more >

We just recently implemented echoSign into our sales and delivery process and reduced our ‘time to sign by approximately 60%’ EchoSign (www.echosign.com) is system that allows you to pre-sign documents electronically and then distribute them via email for esignature. Your client reviews the document and then elecronically signs it. The document is stored and archived by echoSign and given an encrypted tracking number ensuring that the document is the equivalent of a legal document. ... Read more >

Yip, Google Apps for Business went down for 5 minutes, on average, for each month in the last 6 months….amazing but true. The question is… does your IT infrastructure deliver this kind of performance? Of course no one, least of all Google, is perfect and everyone is striving to get to 100%. Still, 99.99% is pretty close to this target and that’s what Google Apps for Business managed to do for the first six months of the year. I think getting to this target with your own IT ... Read more >

“The upshot: Apple, Amazon and Facebook look like good long-term bets. Dell, Cisco and Microsoft do not. The jury is out on Oracle and Google.” - Economist 9 June 2011 Not quite what I expected from one of the concluding remarks in an Economist article celebrating IBM’s 100 years in business. The nub of the article is that being a service lead company services far outweighs providing items/hardware/things. IBM - for those of us old enough to remember - almost went bust ... Read more >

All this hoo haa about whether your business IT should be “in the cloud” or “on premises” or half way in-between misses the point. It’s about what the benefits are in terms of savings or efficiency gains, not whether your IT equipment is strawberry or chocolate chip flavoured. When you start a business or you lead a business of any appreciable size your goal is not to go out and invest in IT. IT is a necessary cost to your business that means you have to buy ... Read more >

Yesterday I attended the Google Apps for Business seminar in Sydney at The Ivy in town. There was a large turn out to see Google’s latest cloud offerings and, I guess to understand what their view of the world is. The speakers were great as was the venue (did you know that The Ivy has a place that can hold around 800+ people???). Since we already use and provide Google Apps products for our customers it wasn’t so much seeing what was on offer but to see how it was portrayed by ... Read more >

Announced recently by Gartner - NetSuite is the fastest growing ERP system in Australia: NetSuite’s market share in the Australian market grew at 84 percent in the year-over-year period, coupled with a 96 percent growth in Australian revenue. This rapid expansion in the Australian market enabled NetSuite to debut in the number nine position in Gartner’s Top 10 list as measured by revenue. Although number 9 in the list NetSuite has the fastest growth and is the only one that is a ... Read more >

We’re very proud to launch our oneScan™ product for NetSuite today (12 Oct 2010) at the NetSuite SuiteCloud 2010 Partner Conference and the Business Cloud Executive Event in Sydney, Australia. oneScan™ allows customers who use NetSuite in the Wholesale & Distribution business to use iPads to ease the picking process within their warehouse. View more oneScan™ is currently live and working at Australian Bush Flower Essences (ABFE) at Terry Hills in the northern suburbs ... Read more >

One aspect of ecommerce that is kind of forgotten in my opinion is that of financial management. Whilst the look and feel of your webstore and how it is ranked within search engines is very important lots of CMS’s and webstore setups treat the actual management of sales and cash flow as something that kind of just happens. A bit like…well, yeah….just put the stuff into Quickbooks and forget about it. Hmmm…sounds easy but in practise it’s not quite what you’re ... Read more >