HCS Blog
Windows 7 End of Support
Windows 7 End of Support is Approaching – Here’s Why You Need To Upgrade
Over the past few months, we have discussed that support for Windows 7 will end on January 14th, 2020. This means that now is the time to upgrade your business’ Operating Systems to Windows 10. What will happen when support ends? Is it easy to upgrade?...
Avoid Tricks This Halloween By Upgrading To Windows 10 Before The End Of Support Deadline
January 14th, 2020 is a date for your diaries. This is the date Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7, marking the end of over a decade of service from the operating system, which has become a favourite of users around the world. Who is still using Windows 7?...
Windows Server 2008 & 2008 R2 End of Life – Risks of ignoring the deadline!
For many years many businesses have been utilising Windows Server 2008 and 2008 R2 technologies. Within these years, however, technology has advanced and due to continuing updates, from January 14th, 2020 Microsoft will no longer support Windows Server 2008 and 2008...
Managed IT Security
Cybersecurity Risks To Be Aware Of In 2020
2019 has seen cybersecurity awareness increase, primarily due to increased threats and updates. Although the majority of businesses are now more aware of the importance of cybersecurity, most are struggling to implement appropriate protocols internally. However, in...
Businesses Warned To Be Vigilant As Invoice Scam Costs Business €200k
Gardaí are warning the business community of invoice redirect fraud and CEO fraud following an increase in these cybercrimes. Cybercriminals have succeeded in defrauding companies of large sums of money. It is reported that one company lost over €200,000 and another...
How To Choose Your Managed IT Security Partner
Business environments are continuously changing, thus forcing businesses in all industries to rapidly evolve to combat these changes. A key aspect of all industries that continues to evolve is security, in particular in terms of program governance, technology and...
Outsourced & Managed IT Services
Boost Productivity Utilising IT
Businesses are continuously searching for ways to increase productivity amongst their team members. With continuous advancements in processes and technology, managers regularly seek out ways to reduce the steps in tedious processes. Generally, within a business, the...
Should You Disable Autocomplete in Outlook?
Microsoft Outlook is the go-to email application for employees around the world. It is where many employees spend a large amount of their work day. Over recent years, Microsoft has grown and evolved Outlook to give users a richer, more enjoyable experience. This...
The Role of Managed IT Services In Digital Transformation
It is not uncommon for many businesses to attempt to digitally transform internal processes but fail to do so. However, businesses should not be discouraged from evolving due to this as the benefits of successful digital transformation can enable a business to...
Bespoke Software Solutions
Digital Transformation – How to unlock underused potential with IT
Businesses around the world are continuously searching for ways to unlock potential in their employee’s and increase their productivity. Through unlocking this, potential companies can grow and expand their operations with ease. However, the appropriate IT...
How Digital Transformation Can Improve Your Business
Digital tools and processes are a necessity in modern businesses. Traditional businesses may have slowly adopted digital technology, however, in recent years technology has been an essential part of business activities. Almost everybody has access to the internet,...
Why You Should Use Bespoke Software
There are many software solutions to help make you, your team and your business more productive. If you are considering utilising enterprise software to maximise your business’ potential, there are two main options; a commercial package with a one-size-fits-most...
SharePoint
Embrace SharePoint & Allow Your Team To Work More Effectively
From its inception, Microsoft SharePoint has grown into one of the top business collaboration tools today. Many businesses use SharePoint today to allow teams to engage with eachother and to easily collaborate. Many view SharePoint as a reliable, scalable and secure...
Boost Productivity Utilising IT
Businesses are continuously searching for ways to increase productivity amongst their team members. With continuous advancements in processes and technology, managers regularly seek out ways to reduce the steps in tedious processes. Generally, within a business, the...
Digital Transformation – How to unlock underused potential with IT
Businesses around the world are continuously searching for ways to unlock potential in their employee’s and increase their productivity. Through unlocking this, potential companies can grow and expand their operations with ease. However, the appropriate IT...
Managed Telecoms
How A Cloud Telecom Solution Can Assist Your Business’ Growth Strategy
As businesses continuously grow and evolve the ability to scale up or down becomes a necessity. Adding new employees is a prime example of a business that wishes to adapt its phone system to accommodate the need for more users. Traditionally, this is more difficult to...
Hotel Phone Systems – 5 Steps To Customer Service Success
Hotels may often underestimate the importance of phone systems as a method of delivering high standards of customer service. Many hotels view phone systems as a cost centre rather than a profit centre and although many guests refrain from using hotel phone systems to...
Keep your business talking – Is it time to upgrade your business phone system?
There are common parallels to be found between the longevity of a business and its ability to evolve in the modern world. Without adapting and evolving businesses can easily fall behind their competitors. While keeping up to date with general technology is key to a...
Office 365
Should You Disable Autocomplete in Outlook?
Microsoft Outlook is the go-to email application for employees around the world. It is where many employees spend a large amount of their work day. Over recent years, Microsoft has grown and evolved Outlook to give users a richer, more enjoyable experience. This...
Office 365 or G-Suite, Why SMBs Choose Office 365
Productivity tools such as Word processing and spreadsheets have become a vital part of daily workflows for all businesses. As Microsoft continues to grow and businesses increasingly seek cloud-based resources with familiar user experiences, many companies adopt...
It’s World Backup Day- Here’s Why You Should Backup Your Data!
Did you know that Sunday, March 31st is World Backup Day? With that in mind, we want to help you understand why you should always be prepared and backup your data! What is a backup? A backup is a copy of all essential data, e.g. documents, emails, files, etc. Instead...
PowerApps
Why Your Business Should Move From Excel To Power BI
Traditionally, Microsoft Excel has been the general reporting tool for businesses around the world. However, Power BI offers incredible insights and reporting features for businesses. PowerBI allows businesses to quickly and easily create visualisations, statistical...
How can PowerApps help you build a better business?
Businesses across the world are in a period of digital transformation and need application development capabilities that allows them to improve workflows and processes with ease. PowerApps is Microsoft’s latest solution that streamlines app development and...
Turn Data into Insights using Microsoft Power BI
Do you have a new dataset and not quite sure where to start? Need to build a dashboard quickly? Want to review insights that you may have missed? Power BI allows you to quickly create insights and generate interesting interactive visualisations based on your data....
Beekeeper
Boost Productivity Utilising IT
Businesses are continuously searching for ways to increase productivity amongst their team members. With continuous advancements in processes and technology, managers regularly seek out ways to reduce the steps in tedious processes. Generally, within a business, the...
Are Emails Affecting Your Employee Engagement?
Back in its heyday, email was a revolutionary concept in workplace communication. The little, unassuming @ symbol came into our lives and changed the way we communicate forever. While we’ll always be grateful to our forefathers of digital communication, I think it’s...
The Complete Guide To Buying Employee Engagement
Life is too short for bad software. If you’re considering purchasing employee engagement software for your team, you’ll want to make sure that it’s checking all the right boxes for both management and frontline employees. Purchasing the wrong software can be a costly...