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+1 1 vote Emailing of tax returns, payslips etc – are we breaking the law? by Kevin Salter on 17.05.2013 17:31 2 comments 508 views Categories: Corporate, IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT Tags: email, security, encryption, portal Are you sending tax returns via email? How about payslips… or accounts? Do any of these documents have passwords? Are any of them encrypted? Perhaps you are using Dropbox or similar? Are you complying with best practice....? read more
0 0 votes Paper....paper.....everywhere! Stop and think! by Kevin Salter on 11.05.2013 08:06 1 comment 195 views Categories: IT, Future IT, Value from IT, Office IT Tags: software, email, paperless Last week’s blog post (no paper!) recounted my very rare use of the printer. This strike a chord with me and it is noticeable when out and about, and not just in the office, to see how much printing there is which may not be required. Praise a... read more
0 0 votes Could and should analytics be fun? by Jonathan Telller on 01.05.2013 17:15 0 comments 230 views Categories: Using Excel better, Corporate, Future IT, Value from IT, Office IT Tags: excel, microsoft, spreadsheet, analytics, geoflow Not my question but a statement from Microsoft's Amir Netz. He was the main presenter at a keynote session during the PASS (The Professional Association for SQL Server) Business Analytics Conference in Chicago. You can watch the keynote here ... read more
0 0 votes Wiping a ship clean. by Leo Waldock on 30.04.2013 20:10 1 comment 162 views Categories: Secure IT Tags: wiping data, south korea, north korea That's a SHIP, just in case you skimmed the headline. There's a lovely story on The Register about the sale by the Japanese government of a coast guard ship called the Yomiuri. The ship was sold indirectly to the North Koreans (aka the ... read more
0 0 votes How can we help SMEs get the security basics right? by Kirstin Gillon on 25.04.2013 15:05 0 comments 299 views Categories: Secure IT Tags: cyber The PwC security breaches survey released earlier this week highlighted record levels of breaches in SMEs. On the same day the survey was published, George Quigley, the chair of the IT Faculty technical committee, presented to the PICTFOR parliament... read more
+1 1 vote The Cloud: Saving or Sizzle? by Paul Booth on 22.04.2013 14:52 4 comments 938 views Categories: Value from IT Tags: cloud computing, cloud, business case Kevin Salter has already blogged here about one presentation at last week’s IT Faculty ‘cloud’ event held at Chartered Accountants’ Hall. The one Kevin focused on was Chris Tiernan’s, on ‘The Business Case for Clo... read more
+1 1 vote The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel by Rob Watson on 22.04.2013 11:56 2 comments 1479 views Categories: Office IT Tags: excel, bbc, spreadsheet error It's not often Excel makes it onto the top ten and front page of BBC news, so thought I would repost this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22213219 which refers to the ongoing discussion in Businessweek and elsewhere about the economic impact ... read more

+1 1 vote

Emailing of tax returns, payslips etc – are we breaking the law?

by Kevin Salter on 17.05.2013 17:31 2 comments 508 views
Categories: Corporate, IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: email, security, encryption, portal

Are you sending tax returns via email? How about payslips… or accounts? Do any of these documents have passwords? Are any of them encrypted? Perhaps you are using Dropbox or similar?

Are you complying with best practice....?

0 0 votes

Paper....paper.....everywhere! Stop and think!

by Kevin Salter on 11.05.2013 08:06 1 comment 195 views
Categories: IT, Future IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: software, email, paperless

Last week’s blog post (no paper!) recounted my very rare use of the printer. This strike a chord with me and it is noticeable when out and about, and not just in the office, to see how much printing there is which may not be required. Praise a...

0 0 votes

Could and should analytics be fun?

by Jonathan Telller on 01.05.2013 17:15 0 comments 230 views
Categories: Using Excel better, Corporate, Future IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: excel, microsoft, spreadsheet, analytics, geoflow

Not my question but a statement from Microsoft's Amir Netz.

He was the main presenter at a keynote session during the PASS (The Professional Association for SQL Server) Business Analytics Conference in Chicago.

You can watch the keynote here ...

0 0 votes

Wiping a ship clean.

by Leo Waldock on 30.04.2013 20:10 1 comment 162 views
Categories: Secure IT
Tags: wiping data, south korea, north korea

That's a SHIP, just in case you skimmed the headline.

There's a lovely story on The Register about the sale by the Japanese government of a coast guard ship called the Yomiuri. The ship was sold indirectly to the North Koreans (aka the ...

0 0 votes

How can we help SMEs get the security basics right?

by Kirstin Gillon on 25.04.2013 15:05 0 comments 299 views
Categories: Secure IT
Tags: cyber

The PwC security breaches survey released earlier this week highlighted record levels of breaches in SMEs. On the same day the survey was published, George Quigley, the chair of the IT Faculty technical committee, presented to the PICTFOR parliament...

+1 1 vote

The Cloud: Saving or Sizzle?

by Paul Booth on 22.04.2013 14:52 4 comments 938 views
Categories: Value from IT
Tags: cloud computing, cloud, business case

Kevin Salter has already blogged here about one presentation at last week’s IT Faculty ‘cloud’ event held at Chartered Accountants’ Hall. The one Kevin focused on was Chris Tiernan’s, on ‘The Business Case for Clo...

+1 1 vote

The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel

by Rob Watson on 22.04.2013 11:56 2 comments 1479 views
Categories: Office IT
Tags: excel, bbc, spreadsheet error

It's not often Excel makes it onto the top ten and front page of BBC news, so thought I would repost this
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22213219
which refers to the ongoing discussion in Businessweek and elsewhere about the economic impact ...


0 0 votes Storage in the cloud by Kevin Salter on 24.05.2013 20:42 0 comments 70 views Categories: Cloud, Corporate, IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT, Default Tags: security, cloud, storage Whilst discussing an IT policy recently, one of the clauses that gave rise to much discussion was that no private data should be held on computers in the business. What was wrong with having personal files, pictures etc. stored on their own PC, or... read more
0 0 votes Creating value or throwing money down the drain? by Kirstin Gillon on 10.05.2013 14:54 0 comments 189 views Categories: Value from IT I went to an interesting presentation yesterday on that old chestnut, getting value from IT investments. The research which was presented (by the INSEAD e-Lab) focused on three new technology areas – cloud, mobile and collaboration – and aimed to fi... read more
+1 1 vote Windows 8.1 goes Blue by Leo Waldock on 10.05.2013 14:04 0 comments 201 views Categories: Secure IT Tags: microsoft, 8.1, windows 8, blue Microsoft has a Windows 8.1 update (code name Blue) that is coming sooner than you might expect. Microsoft launched Windows 8 in October 2012 and as far as it goes for this PC user there wasn't much to dislike, it was also tricky to see why I... read more
+2 2 votes No paper!! It is (nearly) possible.... by Kevin Salter on 05.05.2013 20:21 3 comments 291 views Categories: IT, Future IT, Value from IT, Office IT Tags: paperless, document management I did something very unusual this week- something I have not done for some considerable time. In fact I honestly do not remember the last time I performed this task. The reality of the paperless office......? read more
+1 1 vote UK Business may be forced to use VAT rates from 27 EU countries ! by Kevin Misselbrook on 01.05.2013 11:20 1 comment 278 views Categories: Technical news, Corporate, IT, Office IT Tags: software, finance, vat, eu, accounts, destination The EU is currently in consultation about dramatic changes to VAT rules. The impact would be that any export from the UK may have to be charged at the VAT rate applicable at the country of destination. This would mean that UK businesses would ... read more
0 0 votes Software implementation - not all software is the same! by Kevin Salter on 29.04.2013 13:20 1 comment 306 views Categories: IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT Tags: software, dcoument management, paperless office I spent three days last week in Scotland. Another few days off according to my staff! I wish! Called in to help with a software implementation, this caused lots of head scratching and sleepless nights getting it to function in a usable manner. read more

0 0 votes

Storage in the cloud

by Kevin Salter on 24.05.2013 20:42 0 comments 70 views
Categories: Cloud, Corporate, IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT, Default
Tags: security, cloud, storage

Whilst discussing an IT policy recently, one of the clauses that gave rise to much discussion was that no private data should be held on computers in the business.

What was wrong with having personal files, pictures etc. stored on their own PC, or...

0 0 votes

Creating value or throwing money down the drain?

by Kirstin Gillon on 10.05.2013 14:54 0 comments 189 views
Categories: Value from IT

I went to an interesting presentation yesterday on that old chestnut, getting value from IT investments. The research which was presented (by the INSEAD e-Lab) focused on three new technology areas – cloud, mobile and collaboration – and aimed to fi...

+1 1 vote

Windows 8.1 goes Blue

by Leo Waldock on 10.05.2013 14:04 0 comments 201 views
Categories: Secure IT
Tags: microsoft, 8.1, windows 8, blue

Microsoft has a Windows 8.1 update (code name Blue) that is coming sooner than you might expect.

Microsoft launched Windows 8 in October 2012 and as far as it goes for this PC user there wasn't much to dislike, it was also tricky to see why I...

+2 2 votes

No paper!! It is (nearly) possible....

by Kevin Salter on 05.05.2013 20:21 3 comments 291 views
Categories: IT, Future IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: paperless, document management

I did something very unusual this week- something I have not done for some considerable time. In fact I honestly do not remember the last time I performed this task. The reality of the paperless office......?

+1 1 vote

UK Business may be forced to use VAT rates from 27 EU countries !

by Kevin Misselbrook on 01.05.2013 11:20 1 comment 278 views
Categories: Technical news, Corporate, IT, Office IT
Tags: software, finance, vat, eu, accounts, destination

The EU is currently in consultation about dramatic changes to VAT rules. The impact would be that any export from the UK may have to be charged at the VAT rate applicable at the country of destination. This would mean that UK businesses would ...

0 0 votes

Software implementation - not all software is the same!

by Kevin Salter on 29.04.2013 13:20 1 comment 306 views
Categories: IT, Future IT, Secure IT, Value from IT, Office IT
Tags: software, dcoument management, paperless office

I spent three days last week in Scotland. Another few days off according to my staff! I wish!

Called in to help with a software implementation, this caused lots of head scratching and sleepless nights getting it to function in a usable manner.

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Emailing of tax returns, payslips etc – are we breaking the law?

Paper....paper.....everywhere! Stop and think!

Could and should analytics be fun?

Wiping a ship clean.

How can we help SMEs get the security basics right?

The Cloud: Saving or Sizzle?

The mysterious powers of Microsoft Excel

Storage in the cloud

Creating value or throwing money down the drain?

Windows 8.1 goes Blue

No paper!! It is (nearly) possible....

UK Business may be forced to use VAT rates from 27 EU countries !

Software implementation - not all software is the same!

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