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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.

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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3 Ways Your Business Can Offer Exceptional Technology Training and Support

3 Ways Your Business Can Offer Exceptional Technology Training and Support

Whether employees like it or not, they bear some sort of responsibility for the technology they use in the office. It’s your job as the business owner to ensure that they get the help they need to both make effective use of the technology and to do so in a way that keeps the business safe. Today, we want to look at three of the ways hiring a managed service provider can help you offer better and more consistent IT assistance for your employees.

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Tip of the Week: Supporting Your Staff While They Learn New Software

Tip of the Week: Supporting Your Staff While They Learn New Software

Learning a new piece of software can be challenging, even for the techiest employees out there. If you don’t provide enough support during this period, it could lead to frustration, wasted time, and a general resistance to change. Thankfully, you can address these issues by examining the psychological, organizational, and training-related factors at play when learning new software.

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Don't Let AI Tank Your Customer Relationships

AI is a game-changer, there's no doubt about it. From the value your business gets from streamlining operations to its powerful information retrieval, it’s changed, in a very short amount of time, how knowledge-based businesses operate. If you're thinking of handing over your entire customer support operation to an AI, however, you need to pump the brakes a bit. While AI offers incredible efficiencies, completely removing the human element could be a problem for your business.

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Transform Your IT from a Money Pit to an Asset

Transform Your IT from a Money Pit to an Asset

Many businesses are under the impression that their IT, despite being a necessary cost, is just that: a bottomless pit for the company’s hard-earned money. However, this impression could be a sign that the business is not utilizing its technology effectively. Let’s look at three signs that your organization might need to reconsider its relationship with IT spending and how they contribute to your company’s overall impressions of IT (as well as its productivity).

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4 Lessons You Need to Learn About IT ASAP

4 Lessons You Need to Learn About IT ASAP

We live in a time where all business owners should have some working knowledge of technology, but this lesson is often learned only after the fact. Sometimes it takes a crisis to thrust one into action, but we’re here to help you take the first step. Today, we have four lessons that you can learn about business technology today to hopefully prevent a crisis somewhere down the road.

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How Tech Debt Will Hold Your Business Back from Seeing Success

How Tech Debt Will Hold Your Business Back from Seeing Success

While it might be tempting to take advantage of deals, sales, and even “free” technology, it’s crucial that you acknowledge you’re losing something valuable as a trade-off. The problem with tech is that “cheap” and “quick” doesn’t translate to “effective” and “valuable.” If you’re not careful, you might find yourself a victim of “tech debt,” an issue that can create serious problems for your business.

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There are a Lot of Layers to a Solid IT Strategy

There are a Lot of Layers to a Solid IT Strategy

Running a small business is already a juggling act. Now toss managing IT into the mix and watch the balls start to bounce in every direction. IT for small businesses isn’t just plugging in a few computers and setting up Wi-Fi. It’s an ever-growing web of systems, tools, security measures, and the occasional mysterious error message that nobody understands. Let’s take a look at some of the things that every small business owner needs to look at as far as their technology is concerned.

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Technology Drives Inventory Management

Technology Drives Inventory Management

It’s always good to know what kind of technological assets your business has at any given time, but some business owners don’t keep a detailed inventory. If you don’t know what you have, how will you know what you need? Let’s discuss some of the ways you can manage your IT inventory or make your current practices more effective.

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Why Managed IT is WAY Better Than Break-Fix IT

Why Managed IT is WAY Better Than Break-Fix IT

Every organization has mission-critical systems that they rely on in order to function, and the IT technician is responsible for keeping them running. Modern technology and best practices have given rise to a new way of managing business technology, one that knocks the traditional break-fix IT out of the water.

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3 Fundamentals Every IT Strategy Needs

b2ap3_thumbnail_questioning_your_it_400.jpgWhen running a business, you can’t always upgrade your technology to the latest and greatest equipment or software every time something new comes out. Yet, you also don’t want to be left behind, which would be limiting to your growth and mobility. Moving forward can be a daunting task, especially if you haven’t revamped your IT strategy in some time. Paying attention to the details is an important part of avoiding potential roadblocks with your future IT strategy.

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Windows 8 Users Will No Longer Receive Patches and Security Updates

b2ap3_thumbnail_windows_8_done_400.jpgIf you’re one of the unfortunate souls still using Windows 8 (as opposed to 8.1) on your business’s workstations, you should consider upgrading, and as soon as possible. Microsoft has cut off support for its infant operating system, so if you want patches, security updates, and just a better overall operating system, upgrading to Windows 8.1 or 10 is an ideal solution to this dilemma.

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