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Hurricanes Are Coming! Is Your Organization Ready?
Hurricanes are coming (and winter, t00). 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 Charlotte, [...]
Investment Firm Expands Their IT Team
Golden Capital Management, an investment firm in Charlotte, NC knew they needed more support than they were getting from their current IT team / service [...]
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 [...]
Enhancing Collaboration While Reducing Duplication
Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLP (HGKG) is a large multi-specialty law firm headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina. HGKG recognized the importance of leveraging an [...]
Microsoft SharePoint Implementation
Before SharePoint, many manufacturing companies found themselves relying on emails in order to communicate, share digital content and collaborate. While the overall process was digital, [...]
Locky Virus: The New Version of Ransomware
Ransomeware is becoming a huge problem in the IT world. It appeared to be a normal Friday morning going into work for Pat McKissick, IT [...]
Customized Solution with Check-In Kiosks
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital in Elkin, NC is known for having top notch technology. Just this last summer, the hospital was recognized as a “HealthCare’s [...]
Telemedicine Helps Practice Expand Into Rural Surroundings
Technology is changing the way we work, communicate and live- and it’s also changing the way we visit the doctor. Long gone are the days [...]
Skype for Business Helps Growing Company Expand
Microsoft's Skype for Business is everything needed for business communication in one application; instant messaging, meetings, audio, and video calls. Support Solutions prides itself on [...]
Healthcare Center Outgrows Managed Services Provider
There are many company's that utilize Biz Technology Solution's managed services. Northeast Digestive Health Center in Concord, NC is a perfect example. They are dedicated to [...]
Manufacturer Outgrows Trusted IT Provider
When a plastics manufacturer outgrew their long-time IT provider, they trusted Biz Technology Solutions to deliver the best solution that would scale with their growing [...]
Reducing The Costs & Complexity of IT With a Managed Services Provider
Small business owners are faced with quite the dilemma these days. While a reliable and secure network is a critical component to success, business owners [...]
Service Level Agreement Helps Growing Business
Specializing in Orthopedic care, Carolina Bone and Joint (CBJ) has four locations spanning the Charlotte, NC region in order to better serve their customers. As [...]
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
Inc Magazine 5000, unveiled online at Inc.com and with the top 500 companies featured in the September issue of Inc. (available on newsstands August 23) [...]
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 process, [...]
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 [...]
Mitigating Costly New Technology Risks: Continued Stability & Profitability
Contrary to what you may read, technology and IT costs don’t necessarily have to skyrocket as your business grows. Small and mediumsized businesses (SMBs) just [...]
Running on Borrowed Time: Why Businesses Must Let Go of Windows XP
The clock has been ticking on Windows XP for sometime now but many small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have stubbornly stuck with the operating system [...]
Decreasing Business Costs and Risks of Costly Data Loss
We live in a 24/7 global economy that is more dependent than ever on technology which is why data loss is such a big issue. [...]
.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 [...]
Zero In On Downtime For Long-Term Business Continuity and Customer Satisfaction
Business Continuity is something that should never be overlooked. Small business has changed dramatically within the last decade. No change has been more profound than our dependency on [...]
Staying Alive: The Definitive Guide to Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery for Small Businesses
Business Continuity: As a small business owner, you owe it to yourself, your employees, stakeholders, and any customer you serve to honestly answer this one question: Is your [...]
Achieving HIPAA Compliance & High Level Data Security In The Cloud
Data security is a very important aspect of a business that is commonly overlooked. Physician offices, hospitals and health insurers take practical steps each day to protect private [...]
Meet Managed Services, Your IT Team’s New Best Friend
Managed services play a very important role in the success of Small-to-medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Generally they don’t have the resources to fully support all IT infrastructure needs. [...]
Office 365 VS. Google Apps: Why More Businesses are Choosing Office 365
Small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) and entrepreneurs are accustomed to having to do more with less. Budgets are tighter and available resources are limited at best. Thankfully there is scalable [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Bridging the Gap Between Healthcare and HIPAA
In the healthcare sector, the storing and sharing of sensitive digitized patient data has become a significant undertaking and is a heavy burden on resources. [...]
Combating Cybercrime on a SMBS Budget
When hackers breach the security of corporations it makes headlines, yet there is rarely a mention when cybercrime hits small to medium sized businesses (SMBs). Very few people are [...]
Demystifying the Cloud in Layman’s Terms
For several years, cloud technology has been one of the most talked about subjects in business technology circles. By now, most small-to-medium sized business (SMB) owners have heard [...]
