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Voyage Technology has been serving the Beaver Dam area since 1999, providing IT Support such as technical helpdesk support, computer support, and consulting to small and medium-sized businesses.

How to Stop Manual Data Entry from Killing Your Productivity

How to Stop Manual Data Entry from Killing Your Productivity

We’re sure that even your most talented employees have tasks on their plate that make them feel like expensive data-entry clerks. This is known as the “tedium tax,” and it can have a very real impact on small businesses (especially when employees wear multiple hats). When you have multiple tools that don’t speak well with each other, and you’re forced to resort to manual data entry, your team starts to act like a “human bridge,” connecting these isolated apps themselves—and wasting a lot of time in the process.

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You Want Your IT to Be Boring… Here’s Why

You Want Your IT to Be Boring… Here’s Why

In storytelling, there’s a structure that the vast majority of stories follow, regardless of the format: introduction, rising action, conflict, falling action, resolution. The rising action and the conflict are what give the story its appeal—they’re the source of all the tension that keeps things moving forward. They’re where the stress and the drama live; they keep the story interesting.

That said, when it comes to your business (and its IT in particular), you want its story to break this format. You want things to be, for lack of a better term, boring.

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Why Percussive Maintenance Isn’t Magic (or Good)

Why Percussive Maintenance Isn’t Magic (or Good)

“Persuasion.” “Percussive Maintenance.” Whatever you call hitting your computer to make it work, we get it. We’ve all been there. Your Wi-Fi router drops the signal for the third time during a meeting, or your TV remote decides to go on strike. In a fit of frustration, you give it a firm slap; and miraculously, it starts working again.

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Back Up Your Data (Or Regret It)

Back Up Your Data (Or Regret It)

Most businesses don’t have what it takes to survive a hardware failure or natural disaster, and we don’t mean in terms of “grit.” What we mean is in the sheer technological capacity to recover their data and continue operations. It’s bizarre, too, how easy data backup can be, provided you follow these three key tenets. With a little help from a qualified backup professional, your business can stay resilient even in the worst of times.

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Start Treating Your IT as the Investment It Is

Start Treating Your IT as the Investment It Is

Prevention is better than a cure, as it prevents your business from ever experiencing the problem in the first place. This is especially true for your technology. When businesses invest in IT, they can do so for one of two reasons: they are repairing problems that are costing them in downtime, reputation, and capital, or they are actively preventing those problems through smart implementation of IT. Which side do you want to be on?

We offer preventative services that can help you control the cost of your IT solutions like never before, and here’s how we do it.

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