As we wrap up this rollercoaster of a year, Wincourse first wants to thank all our customers and business partners. You have been great teammates to us and we hope you continue to feel our passion to help your business succeed.
Many businesses are using these closing weeks of the year to make decisions about their direction heading into the new year. A lot has changed in the technology landscape this year, so how are we best prepared for the next one? As an IT Partner here in Charlotte, a Citrix Partner, and a Service Provider that specializes in remote work technologies, we understand that demand will continue to affect your business moving forward.
So, as your business reflects on this year and next, we want to provide a checklist of sorts. Categories of questions to ask and reflect on about your IT technology. Does it protect and secure your assets? Does it inhibit or enable your end-users? Have you reevaluated your older technologies to become agile or even save money? Have you thought about:
Enabling a Hybrid Work from Home Policy
Is your team going to be working in the office? Are team members going to be working from home?
Will employees be issued corporate owned devices or required to bring their own?
Are people accessing work from public networks like McDonalds and Starbucks, or their homes, what security do those networks have in place?
What sort of risks does your business face in the upcoming year?
What security does your business have in place? An Identity provider? VPN? Multi-factor authenticator?
What technologies do you have in place for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity in the case of a natural disaster or other emergencies?
Are any of those technologies inhibiting the performance of your end users creating a loss of revenue?
Have you checked in on your IT support team? Are they doing okay?
What issues have your end users been opening tickets for?
How is your IT support staff handling that current workload?
Do you need to hire IT staff who know networking, virtualization, VOIP and other remote work technologies?
Are you using technology to truly enable your business?
Are those new hires able to work remotely as well? Can your company recruit externally?
Do you still even need a traditional office infrastructure and everything that comes with it?
Have you evaluated technologies to help you save on Rent? Phone and Internet? Security and Firewall?
Maybe now is the time to consider moving to Cloud
Is this a time frame of opportunity to update workloads and move them to the cloud?
Have you evaluated Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud?
Would a private cloud better suit your business?
How important is service and knowing your IT partners and providers?
Can Wincourse help you better deliver your business technologies?
Do you want to talk to us about how we can help? We want to talk to you! Give us a call, send us an email.
Have a Happy Holiday season, and a Wonderful New Year!