Ever had the backup conversation? You’ve probably had sales calls to ask if and how you back up your data and IT systems. You may have even then spoken to your IT department or external consultant to ensure that you do have backups in place, perhaps even enquiring how often these...

The following infographic looks at how three major events have come together to create an urgent need for UK businesses to update their phone systems.Openreach’s copper line withdrawal, Covid-19 and the departure of Panasonic from the telecoms market have all played their part in...

Since adopting Wildix as our latest unified communications (UC) partner, the marketing team has been busy reading up about and attending training sessions on their product set. One thing struck me that while Wildix won the Hardware Vendor category at the Comms Business Awards in 2021...

When the pandemic was at its height and we were plunged into lockdown, we had no choice but to turn to the phone and online services to contact businesses we would previously have visited in person.Despite the vaccination programme leading to the opening up of services, people...

Like all businesses, law firms had to adopt remote working strategies throughout lockdown and into these socially-distanced times, but is this a habit that’s here to stay? I have friends who are partners of law firms and home working has become the new norm for them. They can even...

D Day or Divorce Day is one of the busiest times of the year for law firms as disgruntled spouses wait until the end of the Christmas and New Year period to initiate the separation process.The next D Day falls on Tuesday, January 2, 2018, and firms across the UK will standing by to...

Is video conferencing the answer to lawyers juggling the needs of several clients and multiple meetings?  You have several cases to deal with today and they are all in different locations. Time, as always, is of the essence. You could possibly defer a meeting or delegate someone...

Many businesses and organisations, whether they are in the financial, retail, legal, education or healthcare sectors, fundamentally rely on telephone systems as their major source of communication.More and more of these are embracing and adopting the benefits that call recording...

When was the last time you saw someone use a cassette recorder or MP3 player for dictation? These are becoming outdated modes for dictation with law firms leading the way by using digital dictation, such as BigHand. But this has not been an easy transition for some firms.Digital...

With the risk to air travel around Europe currently under threat, many business trips may fail to get off the ground.Iceland has just raised its risk level for an eruption of its Bardarbunga volcano to orange, the second-highest level. The country’s met office has detected ongoing...