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How the GDPR Will Affect US Businesses
Biz Technology Solutions (BTS) and Skip Amos educate local Greensboro businesses at upcoming luncheon on getting the right people in the right seats to avoid hiring a dud.
Should You Let Your Employees Use Their Own Devices for Work?
Many organizations are adopting bring-your-own-device (BYOD) allowing employees to use their smart phones, tablets, and laptops for work. In the last few years, there's been [...]
Reduce Security Breaches with an Internet Usage Policy (IUP)
Biz Technology Solutions (BTS) and Skip Amos educate local Greensboro businesses at upcoming luncheon on getting the right people in the right seats to avoid hiring a dud.
3 Technologies for an Effective Remote Environment
Biz Technology Solutions (BTS) and Skip Amos educate local Greensboro businesses at upcoming luncheon on getting the right people in the right seats to avoid hiring a dud.
How to Increase Productivity with a Mobile Phone Policy
Today, there are more distractions than ever thanks to technology and the Internet. While advanced tech makes it faster to complete tasks, all of these [...]
6 Key Points to Consider When Developing a SharePoint Intranet
Biz Technology Solutions (BTS) and Skip Amos educate local Greensboro businesses at upcoming luncheon on getting the right people in the right seats to avoid hiring a dud.
New Partnership Creates More Comprehensive Communications Solutions
Biz Technology Solutions (BTS) and Skip Amos educate local Greensboro businesses at upcoming luncheon on getting the right people in the right seats to avoid hiring a dud.
Before You Put That Security System App on Your Phone, Read This!
A cool and innovative feature that is being offered to our clients by their security companies is connecting their security system to an app on [...]
Top 4 IT Trends to Look for in 2018
The new year is just around the corner and now's the perfect time to create your IT plan and budget for 2018. But before you [...]
3 Reasons Custom Software Development Projects Fail
Many organizations require custom software to effectively run their business. In fact, 1 in 8 spend about 50% of their budget on custom development according [...]
How to Properly Onboard & Offboard Employees from a Security Standpoint
Security is (and will continue to be) an extremely hot topic. To fully protect propriety data, organizations must implement a multi-layered security approach. Unfortunately, businesses [...]
What Is the NC HIE and Why Do I Need to Connect?
Today, there seems to be some confusion and uncertainty going around the healthcare industry about the new North Carolina HIE called HealthConnex. For those of [...]
What You Need to Know About the Transition from Skype for Business to Teams
In September 2017, Microsoft announced the transition from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. Since Teams has a more modern cloud infrastructure, their goal is [...]
How to Maximize Power BI for Healthcare Organizations
Analytics can use big data to track quality, performance and productivity of the patient experience - helping to improve all three. Microsoft Power BI, released [...]
Cloud vs. On-Premise Phone Systems: Which Is Better for Disaster Recovery?
Hurricane season is once again upon us along with the millions of emails about backup and disaster recovery. While it can be annoying, it just [...]
Hurricanes Are Coming! Is Your Organization Ready?
Hurricanes are coming (and winter, too). Will your organization be ready for bad weather? Pssttt...get your free disaster recovery readiness assessment with disaster recovery plan [...]
5 Must-Haves for a Lead-Generating Website
Today, organizations don't need to be sold on why they need a website. It's a necessity for business growth - plain and simple. Instead, the issue [...]
Is Microsoft Enterprise Mobility & Security (EMS) Right for Your Business?
Since Microsoft Enterprise Mobility & Security (EMS) is barely a year old, some IT professionals are still hesitant about switching. Maybe it's the change they're dreading. [...]
How to Make Human Resources (HR) Easier with SharePoint
People are the most valuable asset in any organization. As we know it, the human resource department is tasked with the responsibility of handling employees. When [...]
Co-Managed IT Services with Biz Technology Solutions
We help your internal IT department! Do you already have an IT person on staff who's taking care of your current technology needs? Maybe they've [...]
Welcome to Biz Technology Solutions Video
Welcome to Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. (BTS)! We provide full-service technology solutions to organizations in the Southeast. BTs has been a major player in the technology [...]
6 Tips to Prevent Ransomware
Ransomware isn't just affecting small businesses. Large enterprise organizations are constantly being targeted by hackers. A 2016 study by Malwarebytes found that 40% of companies were [...]
Local Application Development Company Hosts Event at TopGolf in Charlotte
Biz Technology Solutions (BTS) and Skip Amos educate local Greensboro businesses at upcoming luncheon on getting the right people in the right seats to avoid hiring a dud.
Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. Partners with Local Growth Specialist to Host Seminar on How to Never Hire a Dud
Biz Technology Solutions (BTS) and Skip Amos educate local Greensboro businesses at upcoming luncheon on getting the right people in the right seats to avoid hiring a dud.
Top 3 Security Threats to Your Small Business
Every year, new security reports come out declaring cyber attacks are on the rise. Unfortunately, this is not a scare tactic. With the ever-increasing amount of [...]
3 Cybersecurity Threats for Financial Organizations
Cybercrime is the 2nd most reported economic crime according to PWC's Global Economic Crime Survey. Financial organizations are a goldmine for hackers to acquire personal information [...]
3 Cybersecurity Threats in Healthcare
The healthcare industry is no stranger to cybersecurity threats. With patient records averaging $50 on the black-market, it makes medical practices and hospitals a gold mine for [...]
10 Tips from the Windows 10 Creator Update
Here's 10 New Windows 10 Creator Features: #1: Dynamic Lock Do you forget to lock your computer when you get up from your desk? You can [...]
4 New Microsoft PowerPoint & Word Features on Office 365
Are you a Microsoft PowerPoint or Word user? If so, then you'll want to check out these new features from Office 365. Office 365 PowerPoint Features [...]
How to Protect Your Network from the WannaCry Ransomware Attack
You're probably aware of the global cyberattack that hit this past weekend called WannaCry ransomware. Due to a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows, hackers accessed entire organizations' [...]
BIZ Technology Solutions, Inc. Achieves Microsoft Gold Competencies
BIZ TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS, INC. ACHIEVES MICROSOFT GOLD COMPETENCIES Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. Demonstrates Best-In-Class Capability And Market Leadership Through Demonstrated Technology Success And Customer Commitment [...]
Why SMBs Must Proactively Address the Threat of Mobile Hacks
More cyber criminals are targeting small-to-medium sized businesses. One reason for this is too many workplaces have insufficient bring-your-own-device (BYOD) policies in place. Some have none [...]
Click, BOOM – You’re in Business but is Your Technology Ready?
It's a fast business world. Brilliant business ideas can be conjured up at some hipster-filled vegan coffeehouse, a website is thrown together, and poof... in no [...]
Updates to Microsoft SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online
Earlier this year Microsoft released updates to SharePoint 2016 and SharePoint Online in Office 365. If you aren’t familiar with SharePoint, we wanted to go into [...]
Three Ways Your Business Can Build a Better Data Culture
Three ways your business can build a better data culture This article originally appeared on Microsoft Power BI blogs on Dec. 8, 2016. If you’re already [...]
Driving Microsoft Power BI Adoption in Your Organization
This article originally appeared on Microsoft Power BI Blogs on Dec. 1, 2016. Leaders across the company at Microsoft have committed to fostering a data culture [...]
Combining Excel Files Hosted on a SharePoint Folder with Power BI
This article originally appeared on Microsoft Power BI Blogs on Dec. 19th, 2016. This post was contributed by Ken Puls and Miguel Escobar, Power BI experts [...]
Data Loss Can Cause You to Shut Down
Small and medium sized businesses today are relying more than ever on IT systems to efficiently run their business, support customers and optimize productivity. These systems [...]
5 Project Management Software Features Your Team Isn’t Using
This blog originally appeared on Microsoft Office Blogs on September 15, 2016. Click Here to view original article. From built-in templates and familiar scheduling tools, to instant [...]
Inc Magazine Unveils 35th Annual List of America’s fastest-Growing Private Companies
CHARLOTTE, NC, September 01, 2016 - Inc. magazine today ranked Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. NO. 4550 on its 35th annual Inc. 5000, the most prestigious [...]
One Stop Shop – Complete Turnkey Solutions
The constantly evolving cloud technology has led enterprise organizations to actively focus on further leveraging cloud services, to accelerate their business value. In this transformation [...]
Biz Technology Solutions Named 2015 Charlotte Business Journal’s Fastest 50 Growing Companies
CHARLOTTE, NC, December 22, 2015 — Biz Technology Solutions, headquartered in Mooresville, NC, has been named to the Charlotte Business Journal’s Fast 50 of 2015. The [...]
.NET and JavaScript Libraries for Office 365 APIs
This post originally appeared on Microsoft Office Blogs on May 12, 2016. https://blogs.office.com/2014/05 /12/net-and-javascript-libraries-for-office-365-apis/ Chakkaradeep Chandran and Saurabh Bhatia are program managers for Visual Studio. You [...]
New Usage Reports for SharePoint Online, OneDrive for Business and Exchange Online
This blog originally appeared on Microsoft Office Blogs on September 13, 2016. View Original Post. Since the first rollout of the usage activity dashboard in March, we’ve continued [...]
Try Microsoft Power BI for Office 365 for a Better Reporting Experience
This blog originally appeared on Microsoft Office Blogs on February 17th, 2016. https://blogs.office.com/2014/02/27/power-bi-for-office-365-with-project-online/ With the new availability of Power BI for Office 365, Project users now [...]
Share Your Excel Insights with Microsoft Power BI
https://blogs.office.com/2016/02/02/share-your-excel-insights-with-power-bi/ The Excel and Power BI teams have been busy releasing capabilities and tools that allow you to share your Excel data and insights to Power [...]
3 Ways Power BI Can Help Your Sales Team Succeed
https://blogs.office.com/2016/06/21/3-ways-power-bi-can-help-your-sales-team-succeed/ With an ever-evolving market and a massive amount of data available, your sales team’s job of knowing their customer base isn’t easy. A multitude of [...]
Can You Really Afford Not to Have a Backup Plan?
According to Symantec SMB, 50% of SMBs admit to having no backup and disaster recovery plan in place. 41% of those surveyed confessed that they had [...]
What You Should Do When Ransomware Attacks
“Why can’t I open that file?” “My P drive is full of files with funny names.” “Help!” It always starts out the same. Someone logged in [...]
Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. is a Prestigious Member of IT Company Network HTG Peer Group
Mooresville, NC, 8/1/2015 – Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. announces its partnership with HTG Peer Groups, a worldwide network of IT solution provider executives that come together to [...]
Three Steps to Fix IT Management for SMBs
Small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs) tend to have a more difficult time managing IT than larger enterprises. Despite being as technology dependent as larger enterprises, SMBs have tighter [...]
Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. Named One of Ingram Micro’s Fastest-Growing SMB Channel Partners in the U.S.
Global Technology Distributor Recognizes Biz Technology Solution’s Achievements and Success in Fourth Annual Ingram Micro SMB 500 List Charlotte, NC, July 30th, 2015 – Biz Technology [...]
What’s the Difference Between a Help Desk and NOC?
It's no secret that any growing small-to-medium sized business must monitor and manage it's business technology in the most cost-efficient way. The tricky part is figuring [...]
Understanding Managed Services and How They Benefit SMBs
Managed services are can play a very integral role in a company's business development. Small to medium sized businesses (SMBs) receive a lot of calls [...]
Are Managed IT Services Right for You? A Few Things to Consider
How do you get a small business to recognize the value of managed IT services? In the start-up environment, we encounter an eclectic bunch of [...]
Upgrade from Windows XP: There Are New Deployment / Management Options Available
If you’re a small-to-midsize business owner still using computers running on the Windows XP operating system, enough is enough! The end is near. On April 8, [...]
Breaking News: Downtime Kills Small Businesses
A recent two-hour New York Times' downtime occurrence sent Twitter ablaze and their stock price plummeting. Google going down for one to five hours resulted in [...]
What You Can Learn from Business Regulator’s Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Recommendations
U.S regulators have recommended that all futures and securities firms review and update their current data backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity solutions. Prompted by closures [...]
Is That a Business Continuity Plan in Your Pocket… Or a Bunch of Jargon?
Technology is full of difficult jargon. To further complicate things, certain terms are often used in a different context between one publication or service provider and [...]
8 Hard Truths for SMBs Not Worried About Data Recovery and Business Continuity
The foundation of any successful business continuity solution is the ability to retrieve data from any point in time from anywhere. When the topic of data [...]
Why Should You Get On The Cloud?
A recent article by The Guardian (UK) states that the cloud industry is set to see a growth of around 30% soon. But many small and [...]
Understand How Data Losses Happen – In Order to Prevent Them
Small business owners are often worried about data loss. Rightly so, because data loss has the potential to wipe out a business. We have identified the [...]
The Benefits of a Managed Service Provider
Managed Service Providers - or MSPs - are often recommended as a cost effective IT solution for small businesses. For a minimal monthly fee, MSPs [...]
Six Steps to Better Data Backup and Quicker Recovery
Think Quicker Recovery Time, Not Quicker Backup - While incremental backups are much faster than executing a full-backup, they also prolong recovery time. In the event [...]
D1 Technologies and Biz Technology Solutions, Inc Partnership Takes SAP Solutions to New Heights
Mooresville NC – April 27, 2015 – Biz Technology Solutions, Inc. (BTS) headquartered in Mooresville North Carolina and D1 Technology of Columbia, SC today announce a new [...]
Seven ‘Must Haves’ for Your Small Business Website
Your website represents your business and so building and maintaining it need to be of primary concern to you as a business owner. We often find [...]
Mitigate Costly New Technology Risks for Continued Stability and Profitability
Partnering with a managed service provider (MSP) is one new approach being used by many companies like yours. Experienced MSPs have access to newer tools that [...]
Is Your Business Safe from Virtual Threats?
Did you know that 50% of small business owners think their businesses are too small to be targeted by the thieves of the virtual world? Contrary [...]
Is that an Email Phishing Scheme?
Research has revealed that over half of all users end up opening fraudulent emails and often even fall for them. Phishing is done with the aim [...]
How Much Does IT Downtime Really Cost Your Business?
Many SMB owners think IT downtime only costs them a few productive hours, but there’s a lot more at stake when your systems go down. Customer [...]
Has Your Website Been Optimized for Mobile Users?
Did you know that by 2014 there will be more mobile web surfers than stationary ones? That means more prospects are accessing your business website more [...]
Five Ways Your Business Can Improve It’s Search Engine Rankings
In an age where most business happens online, not showing up in Google search results can really hurt you. While there’s no real shortcut to showing [...]
Five Things You Should Do Right Now to Preserve Your Network and Systems
Data loss can lead to a catastrophic failure which can be detrimental to your business. Please follow these five steps to make sure this never happens [...]
