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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 to Scale a Growing Business Using the Right Technology

How to Scale a Growing Business Using the Right Technology

If you could generate more revenue without spending more, wouldn’t you?

If you share most people's goals and aspirations, the answer is a resounding and enthusiastic “yes.” Scaling a business is an imperative element of continued success, provided it is carried out correctly. Listed below: how you can help ensure your success, partly by implementing the right technology.

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Benefits of Co-Managed IT

Benefits of Co-Managed IT

SMBs need to be able to navigate the complexities of IT, whether it’s with a completely outsourced IT department or an in-house team of technicians. That being said, if you are thinking of technology management in this black-and-white way, you are eliminating the potential for significant benefits via the use of co-managed IT.

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When Insurance Companies Ask Your Business About Its Cybersecurity

When Insurance Companies Ask Your Business About Its Cybersecurity

You might have noticed that business insurance companies are starting to show an interest in how you are protecting your technology and data. If your org has been in touch with your insurance provider regarding modifying or renewing your business insurance, you were likely handed a lengthy questionnaire about your cybersecurity. Let’s take a look together to help you make informed decisions on how to handle your IT and how to prevent your insurance costs from skyrocketing.

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How to Evaluate the Value of Cloud Computing

How to Evaluate the Value of Cloud Computing

While one of the big selling points of the cloud has always been how cost-effective it can be, it is imperative to remember that this isn’t always the case. There are situations where the value that a business gets from the cloud isn’t really worth the price of admission. How you can evaluate the value that the cloud can offer you, and how to use this data to your advantage, is listed below.

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How Much Should Your Business Be Spending on Cybersecurity?

How Much Should Your Business Be Spending on Cybersecurity?

These days you can’t afford not to have some portion of your business’ budget set aside for cybersecurity. The question is, how much do you need, and what should you be spending it on first? Let’s take a few moments to dig a little deeper into this question and examine a few cybersecurity protections you should establish as your business’ baseline defenses.

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Are You Saving Money on Your Technology-Related Services?

Are You Saving Money on Your Technology-Related Services?

If you are like many businesses, you use a lot of services from other companies to try and get all the business computing you need, without having to buy new servers and pay company IT administrators to look after them. This process is understandable, but are you really saving money by doing it? Listed below is a look at the myriad of services that businesses use and if it is, as advertised, saving them money.

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How You Can Save Money on Your Business’ Technology

How You Can Save Money on Your Business’ Technology

Technology can be expensive to buy and maintain, but it can get a whole lot more expensive if you aren’t cognizant of how your IT dollars are being spent. Long ago are the days when companies could get their technology for a song and it would work for years at a time. Modern business technology has to build a more efficient workplace, as capital is harder to come by today than it has been for quite some time. Listed below are three ways you could be wasting your technology budget and what you can do to ward against it. 

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3 Ways that MSPs Can Enhance Your Business’ Profitability

3 Ways that MSPs Can Enhance Your Business’ Profitability

In good times and bad, profitability is the priority for most businesses. However, this priority is usually a challenging one to achieve, but did you know that there are a few different ways that investing in a relationship with a managed service provider can help increase your productivity—and as a result, your overall profitability?

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Explaining Cloud Computing and How it Can Help Your Business

Explaining Cloud Computing and How it Can Help Your Business

Cloud computing is turning into a tool that is universally utilized by businesses to enhance remote access and provide the scalability for tools that allow a business to get the best bang for their buck. How does modern cloud computing work and why does it have such a huge potential benefit for your organization?

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Employees vs. Artificial Intelligence

Employees vs. Artificial Intelligence

For many years now, there’s been a bit of a fear of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace, all while it has been put into practical use more and more often in many businesses. This all ties back to the work of Alan Turing, who, amongst his accomplishments in computing, created the Turing Test as a means of gauging how intelligent a computer is. 

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What to Look for in Cyber Insurance for Your Business

What to Look for in Cyber Insurance for Your Business

No one likes to think about the prospect of being impacted by a cybersecurity incident, but it’s like any other unpleasant event in that it is best to prepare for it. In fact, modern businesses can invest in a cyber insurance policy to help prepare for such an eventuality.

Listed below are some of the ins and outs of cyber insurance so that you are prepared to make the best choice of provider for your business.

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Watch Out for this 'Google' Business Profile Scam

Watch Out for this 'Google' Business Profile Scam

How much did you pay Google for your Business Profile? Alas, if the answer was anything other than “nothing,” you’ve been scammed. Google has actually announced that they are taking legal action against scammers who impersonated the company in order to defraud small businesses.

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How to Increase Your Chances of Completing a Successful IT Project

How to Increase Your Chances of Completing a Successful IT Project

It’s always good when a business looks to enhance itself by adding new technology. This process can be immensely fruitful, but it can also go the other way, becoming a costly waste of time. What makes new IT projects such a volatile action, and how we can help you improve your chances of successful implementation?

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Start Planning Your 2023 IT Budget Now

Start Planning Your 2023 IT Budget Now

Somehow, it’s December. Can you believe it? 

2023 is almost upon us, and hopefully by now you’ve started to put some thought into how your business will maneuver through the next 12 months. It’s important to establish an IT plan and budget, so that your technology can actually be a value center as opposed to an expense.

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Why IT Costs are Rising

Why IT Costs are Rising

No matter how big your company is, you’ll always have technology expenses. It’s just a fact of the current workplace, and your profits will be inexorably tied to how well your IT works for you. Moreover, the more IT costs rise, the more impact small and medium-sized businesses will feel from them. We wanted to address this problem and how you can limit the frustrations that stem from seemingly uncontrollable technology costs.

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You Need to Know How Much Your Printer is Costing Your Organization

You Need to Know How Much Your Printer is Costing Your Organization

With businesses actively searching for ways to reduce costs in the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, one place a lot of businesses are considering cutting is their printing initiatives. There are several new solutions that can provide businesses options without having to rely on printed materials. If your business is one that cannot, however, you should know just how much your printer is costing your business. 

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The Remote Work Conundrum

The Remote Work Conundrum

Remote work has become a bit of a topic of contention lately. While employees have been relishing the advantages that remote work provides them, many employers have been doing everything they can to bring their workforce back into the workplace.

Now, it wouldn’t be unfair for you to assume that we would push remote work as a managed service provider because we just so happen to assist businesses in managing it as a part of our services. This is true enough…but we aren’t the only ones with an opinion on the topic.

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Tips on Making Smart Technology Investments

Tips on Making Smart Technology Investments

A lot of businesses are making large technology investments; if you are here now, you are probably thinking about making such an investment for your own company. One issue that growing companies have is identifying and investing in the right technology. Listed below are a couple of tips on how to go about making technology investment decisions that will be the most advantageous for your company.

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Tips on Protecting Your Company Credit Cards

Tips on Protecting Your Company Credit Cards

While protecting the credit card data you collect from your customers and clients is obviously imperative, you probably also have a line of credit for your business’ use that you need to think about as well. Listed below are some tips and best practices to keep this company resource safe.

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The FCC is Giving Internet Service Discounts, But is it Enough?

The FCC is Giving Internet Service Discounts, But is it Enough?

Whether you’re referring to someone's personal needs or their work-related responsibilities, the Internet has become a required component to most processes. Alas, financial limitations often make sufficient connectivity unattainable for many, which is why the Federal Communications Commission stepped in last month to provide some assistance.

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