Macro Systems Blog

If you are under the impression that working with the cloud doesn’t have risks, than you need to reconsider that line of thought. It’s inevitable that you’ll face security compliance concerns when it comes to your cloud-based data. If your business has data stored in a cloud-based environment, you need to pay particularly close attention to how compliance laws affect the way that you access and store this information. How can your organization ensure that your cloud-based data isn’t in violation of some cloud compliance laws?

How much time does your organization spend every day on issuing patches and security updates? How about basic maintenance and management practices? Thanks to automation, these lowly tasks that take a significant amount of time and resources can be simplified and offer a great return on investment.

As financial services have become a much bigger percentage of the economy in the United States, more interest, and capital, is being poured into improving financial services technology. Known as FinTech, there have been many great recent innovations that provide better information, opportunities, and ultimately returns for investors. This month, we take a look at what the FinTech industry is trying to do, and the effects it has on investors, and the economy as a whole.

Business owners realize that streaming in the office can be a significant hindrance to productivity, but the type of media that is being streamed can play a large role in whether or not the workplace is improved or affected adversely by it. How does your business approach streaming? Depending on its policies, you might want to alter the way that you approach this touchy subject.

The term “smart technology” is far from new. and there are now millions of products that are now “connected”. They include smart forks, smart tortilla makers, and most inexplicably, a smart egg tracker; and, that’s only in the kitchen. For most, the smart tech that they are considering is that of Internet-connected devices that have some day-to-day practical utility. Let's look at some sectors of the smart technology industry that are making good progress as we speed toward a ubiquitously-connected future.

Spring seems to be the natural time to re-energize and stimulate your environment; why shouldn’t your organization also be included? Not only does it help your operations, a clean environment also offers many advantages for your employees.

Technology helps organizations of all kinds keep their operations running effectively, but depending on the way that it’s managed, it could have harmful effects on your business. For example: if you have all kinds of solutions hosted on specific servers or workstations, you’re preventing them from being accessed by devices that aren’t connected to that specific network. Wouldn’t it be better if everything was centralized so that all of it could be accessed at a moment's notice?

Data has always been imperative, but more modern trends have placed emphasis on utilizing it to make important, educated decisions on the future of your business. Let's take a concentrated look at the data revolution and how your data has become a commodity.

Is anything more imperative to the success of your organization than strong communication? If you’re not prepared to communicate, it becomes hard to collaborate and make strides on critical projects. Fortunately, like many topics in business, technology permits for more effective communication and collaboration than ever before.

Technology has altered the way that many different industries approach operations, with academia being no exception. Depending on the type of student, though, the use of technology differs and varies significantly. Let's examine how those in education take advantage of technology that's far more advanced than it was a few decades ago.