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Macro Systems has been serving the Metro Washington, DC area since 1997, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How Automation Can Help Your Business

How Automation Can Help Your Business

All jobs have aspects that are simply dull or unengaging; nothing can be exciting all the time. This week we wanted to focus on these rote tasks and what you can do to make them have less of an impact on your time and job fulfillment. Turns out, the key to solving this issue stems from technology, specifically the ability to automate said tasks.

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How Penetration Testing Can Help Your Business

How Penetration Testing Can Help Your Business

If you fall victim to hacking attack today, how would the hackers go about it? Would they try to find vulnerabilities in your network and infrastructure? You need to do what you can to answer the questions surrounding the strength of your existing network and infrastructure so you don’t have to deal with potential hacks. This month, we will talk about one really great way to find out where your security is light: by getting a penetration test completed on your business’ IT.

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Three Ways AI Will Help Businesses in the Near Future

Three Ways AI Will Help Businesses in the Near Future

There’s no denying that at the moment the economic forecast is a bit bleak, with murmurings of a recession growing louder by the day. As this situation develops, many organizations are likely seeking out opportunities to trim the fat. However, despite this, we anticipate that artificial intelligence will actually see a bit of an uptick. 

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How Database Management Systems Helps Your Business

How Database Management Systems Helps Your Business

For the average business, the database plays a large role. How large of a role? Your business won’t function the way you want it to function without it. In order to manage your databases correctly, you need a solid database management system (DBMS). Listed below is a discussion about the DBMS and how it works to assist your business computing.

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The Levels of IT Investment Your Business Can Make

The Levels of IT Investment Your Business Can Make

When you buy into any idea, you must ask yourself, “how much money am I willing to spend?” The same goes for your business’ IT. Naturally, your business isn’t a public television telethon, but we’re going to pretend it is by going through the levels of investment you can make and how it can impact your business. 

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Managed IT Services can Help Project Management

Managed IT Services can Help Project Management

Project management can be an exceptionally tricky part of implementing any new solution or service for your organization. While technology can help with this process, you’ll want to understand how its implementation helps in the grand scheme of things. Below we explain how value-based managed IT services can help you ensure projects are completed with minimal downtime and technology hiccups.

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The Pros and Cons of Zero-Trust

The Pros and Cons of Zero-Trust

With countless threats out there waiting for IT professionals to slip up, it’s no wonder that many of these professionals are opting into what is called a zero-trust policy for their security standards. What exactly is a zero-trust policy, and more importantly, how is it so effective at mitigating security problems in organizational computing? 

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New Technologies That Your Organization Could Soon Be Using

New Technologies That Your Organization Could Soon Be Using

Every piece of technology we regularly use these days was once earth-shakingly innovative, regardless of how mundane and common it seems now. Think about it: people once had endless questions about the Internet, about computers…even about electricity. Listed below are some modern innovations that we have many questions about now, but may someday be just as much of a given as the other tools we so commonly use today.

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How to Tell If an Upgrade is In Order

How to Tell If an Upgrade is In Order

In all aspects of society, upgrades and updates have become part of life. For instance, consider how often you’re prompted to update your software—and how often some people may ignore these prompts, assuming that everything will be just fine.

As you might imagine, this is not the mindset that will allow your business to advance. Instead, it’s important that you can identify when your technology is no longer helping and is instead holding you back so that you can implement that which will help your business advance.

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Technology Can Help You Reinvent Your Inventory Controls

Technology Can Help You Reinvent Your Inventory Controls

Businesses that sell goods have always used inventory management, whether using pen and paper or a spreadsheet. In the information age, inventory management is more complex and with a lot of businesses operating on the Internet, it is more important to manage well. This month, we will discuss what modern inventory management entails and how technology can provide the efficiency your business needs to be successful.

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Everything You Need to Know About the Command Prompt

Everything You Need to Know About the Command Prompt

While using your computer, you have probably seen a black box pop up with a blinking cursor in it. This is what is commonly known as the command prompt, which is a helpful tool for IT administrators to perform certain tasks, but you probably won’t use it much yourself. Having said that, it’s fun to know what it does and what it’s used for!

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Why Are So Many IT Projects Unsuccessful

Why Are So Many IT Projects Unsuccessful

Digital transformation is projected to make huge waves in the business environment, with an anticipated value of approximately $767 billion by the year 2026. It’s clear that businesses have big ambitions and expectations for their digital transformation initiatives, but there is a shadow that is cast on this number that holds many companies back: many of these initiatives fail, and fail hard. Why is this the case? We explore these reasons in this month’s newsletter. 

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The Right Cloud Solution Can Save Your Business Money

The Right Cloud Solution Can Save Your Business Money

The cloud has helped countless businesses all over the world establish themselves as powerhouses of their industries through dynamic and flexible solutions. One of the biggest reasons why the cloud is so effective—particularly for growing organizations—is because of how scalable it is. Listed below: how this scalability can help your business succeed despite how much it grows.

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The Benefits Voice over Internet Protocol Provides

The Benefits Voice over Internet Protocol Provides

Communications are imperative for businesses of all sizes, including small businesses and their telephone systems. While the technology likely still plays some role in your office, other means of communication have likely come to the forefront. In some ways, the traditional telephone has been left behind…with Voice over Internet Protocol largely taking its place.

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USB vs. HDMI

USB vs. HDMI

When you look at the back of your computer, where the motherboard’s many, many ports are accessible, there’s a substantial variety of connection types available to do a variety of things, some of which may overlap with one another. One key example: the shared capability between USB and HDMI as a means of connecting your PC to many of its peripherals. Let’s consider which is likely to outlast the other.

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Three Ways Your Business Can Improve Productivity

Three Ways Your Business Can Improve Productivity

Every business depends on productivity, but there are many different forms that productivity can take. The types that every company prefers are the actions that result in improved revenue generation. That’s not to say that all work that is done for your organization isn’t imperative, but the more that can be done to make money, the better off your business will be. Listed below are a look at three ways your business can shift the way they do things with the use of technology. 

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VoIP Brings Value to Your Business

VoIP Brings Value to Your Business

Voice over Internet Protocol phone systems, better known as VoIP, has completely changed the way that companies communicate both internally with their teams and externally with their clients and customers. It’s not difficult to see why, but to understand the value that it brings to the table might require you to examine a hard truth about traditional business telephone systems: they are not designed with the consumer in mind.

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The Modern Inventory Management System

The Modern Inventory Management System

Most companies rely on keeping a certain amount of goods and resources in stock. For manufacturers and retailers, controlling your business’ inventory is essential to the success of their whole business. There are modern inventory management tools that can give your business the confidence to know that you will have the resources and products in stock when you need them. This month, we’ll take a brief look at the modern Inventory management system. 

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3 Questions to Ask Your Employees

3 Questions to Ask Your Employees

Technology can usually be a bit of a pain point for businesses, especially during the rollout of new solutions that are supposedly designed with productivity in mind. Many of the stressors associated with new technology can come from your workers and their reactions to these new solutions.

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Modern Businesses Rely Heavily on IT

Modern Businesses Rely Heavily on IT

Is there anything in your office that doesn’t require technology in some way, shape, or form (the old coffeepot that makes the perfect cup doesn’t count)? Increasingly, the answer to that question is “no.” Let’s review how much the modern average business relies on IT to really reinforce how ubiquitous technology has become.

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