Running a business in Texas can feel like navigating I‑635 during rush hour — the speed and stakes are sky‑high, but one wrong merge and everything screeches to a halt. Growth, customers, and a whole lot of technology are all vying for lane space. If your IT infrastructure has ever felt stuck in construction traffic, you’re not alone. So how … Read More
IT Reporting: Moving Beyond Metrics
Quantifiable data is a lovely thing. There’s something so brain-pleasing about sortable, crunchy numbers you can toss into a pivot table and pop out into a chart or graph to show just how successful your company is. I mean, who doesn’t love a good dashboard?! But it can be too easy to lose sight of what real innovation and success … Read More
The hidden ingredient in successful M&A deals? Tech due diligence
When you’re eyeing a company to buy or merge with, there’s a pretty standard playbook for what you dig into… financials, market share, leadership team… you get the idea. But one of the most overlooked yet mission-critical concerns? Their tech stack. Seriously. Tech due diligence can be just as important as any of those other concerns. A target’s technology stack … Read More
Why Your Business Should Embrace Infrastructure-as-a-Service
Keeping your business agile and competitive often comes down to making smart technology decisions (kinda obvious, I know, but it’s true). As we head into 2024, Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) is one of those decisions more and more small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are making. Instead of buying and maintaining expensive IT hardware, IaaS lets you rent infrastructure — like servers, storage, … Read More
Decoding the IT Dilemma: In-House vs. MSP for Small Businesses
If you’re running a small business, you’re familiar with the balancing act of managing growth while keeping costs in check. One of the most crucial decisions you’ll face is how to handle your IT needs. Should you build an in-house team or hire a Managed Service Provider (MSP)? Both options have their merits, but the right choice depends on your … Read More
Embracing 5G: How It’s Transforming Business Technology
5G isn’t the next step up the staircase… it’s a leap from landing to landing. And as we delve deeper into the era of digital transformation, the advent of 5G technology stands as a pivotal milestone. The revolutionary network technology is not just an upgrade in speed — it’s a gateway to a realm of new possibilities for business technology. … Read More
Why Your Employment Agreement Needs a Technology Clause
In the ever-accelerating era of technology, companies today are the unwitting custodians of vast digital fortresses. These fortresses— stocked with trade secrets, personal customer information, financial data, etc. —have become a veritable treasure trove for cyber-thieves. And it’s not only the rogues lurking in the murky waters of the internet you need to worry about; more often than not, the … Read More
Leverage’s best of 2022
2022 has been a crazy year on several fronts — re-opening the country post-covid, a new normal for work, rampant inflation, war in Ukraine… it’s been a lot. The same is true for businesses as we navigate an ever-more hostile security environment, a constant need to innovate and upgrade our tech stacks to keep pace, etc. Leverage has been publishing … Read More
How to move your business from ‘respond’ to ‘recover’ post-Covid
Are we starting month 7 or month 70 post-pandemic outbreak? It feels like it was only yesterday and a lifetime ago that WFH became the new normal. And while there are a litany of problems facing us as individuals and as society, business problems are also core to the recovery. Without an economic recovery, there is no actual recovery. As … Read More
Has CoVid proven asynchronous video messaging is enterprise ready?
CoVid-19 has upended, well, pretty much everything. There’s a decade’s worth of reading on all the ways it has impacted our lives, both large and small; there will be more to come. That said, not everything it has revealed or impacted is necessarily bad — those favoring flexible working arrangements now have ample evidence it really can be done at … Read More
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