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Network, Security

4 Key Components of a Robust Security Plan

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Most businesses are now technology dependent. This means security concerns aren’t just worrisome to large corporate enterprises anymore, but also the neighborhood sandwich shop, the main street tax advisor, and the local non-profit. Regardless of size or type, practically any organization has valuable digital assets and data that should not be breached under any circumstances.[…]

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Custom Software, Software Solutions

5 Reasons Why Free Spreadsheets Are Not Actually Free

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Did you know almost one in five businesses have suffered financial losses due to errors in their spreadsheets? That’s right, almost one in five. But companies continue to rely on spreadsheets because they are free. Spreadsheets seem free anyway; most computers come with some variation of them already installed, they’re easy to download, view, copy, and edit, and[…]

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Security

Email Safety: What About Your Employees?

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The Verizon Data Breach Investigations report states that emails are the primary source of two-thirds of malware. Email is an easy target simply because there is more human touch involved in the case of emails. There’s always a stray chance that someone will end up clicking on a phishing link or downloading the wrong attachment[…]

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Cloud

3 Ways the Cloud Boosts Small Business Growth

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For a small business owner, building and supporting a baseline IT infrastructure that provides 24/7 services to you and your customers can be forbiddingly expensive. Even a wobbly, poorly supported infrastructure can be a budget breaker. Large capital expenditures, high fixed-labor costs and endless spending for upgrades don’t have to be your fate. The cloud[…]

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Custom Software, Software Solutions

Integrating Software Using APIs

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Many of the custom web applications we build are designed to help leverage data from a client’s existing system or systems. Today, there’s existing software for almost anything. At AxiaTP, we’re big fans of measuring value; we won’t build custom software if the same thing bought off the shelf can meet your needs. If your business is currently[…]

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Custom Software, Software Solutions

Managing Software Development Projects: Agile vs. Waterfall Methodologies

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Project management methodologies exist to take you from point A to B as fast, efficiently, and with as little waste as possible. The waste bit is important: It entails minimizing lost time, errors, risks, duplicate or low-impact efforts, and costs. In custom software development, developers typically rely on one of two popular methodologies: Agile or[…]

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