January 2011
In this issue: | ■ | Microsoft Lauds eMazzanti | | ■ | 11 Things to Give Up in 2011 | | ■ | School Gives High Grades | | ■ | eMazzanti Offers Tours | | ■ | Lending to Your Business | | ■ | Better Business Intelligence | | ■ | Buyer Beware | | ■ | Opportunities | | | | Lending to your Business? Do It Right.
by Joseph Anthony
used with permission from the Microsoft SMall Business websiteWhere does your business go when it needs a loan? For many small businesses, the answer is . . . right back to the owner. If you have to lend money to your business, do it the right way. There are potential tax benefits for loans to your own business. There also are financial potholes that you could hit if you don’t do things properly. Here are 5 things to consider. |
| 3 Essential Steps to Better Business Intelligence
used with permission from the Microsoft Small Business websiteCompanies today have too much information. What companies don’t have enough of is intelligence – and no, we’re not talking about your staff. Business intelligence refers to the insights you discover when you turn all that data into something that your employees can use to make smart business decisions. Here are three essential steps. |
| Buyer Beware
Don’t Expect Consumer-Grade Technology to Meet Your Business-Class Needs
used with permission from the Cisco Small Business Website■ When you walk into a business meeting, do you wear pajamas?
■ Do you let your children manage the accounts receivable for your office?
■ When you buy business technology, do you choose products designed for home use?The pricing on consumer-grade technology is tempting. But the lower price can end up costing your business dearly, in both productivity and cash.Read more | | Microsoft Lauds eMazzanti for Small Business Cloud ComputingHoboken, New Jersey - December 29, 2010 –Cloud computing services are finally coming down to earth for small businesses thanks to Microsoft and IT support partners like eMazzanti Technologies in the New York City area. A new video featuring, Microsoft’s Stijn Hendrikse, Director SMB, emphasizes the concierges-level service eMazzanti delivers to a wide variety customers locally and globally.“Cloud computing delivers the promise of enterprise-level features at a small-business price point,” said Hendrikse. “And we rely on partners like eMazzanti to make cloud computing capabilities a reality for small companies. We simply can’t do it without them.”How Cloud Computing Can Reduce Costs
Most small and medium size businesses are very interested in reducing costs where ever possible. Public or private cloud computing solutions are worth investigating. Broadly speaking, Cloud Computing can benefit your company in the following ways:■ Lower up-front investment
■ Dynamic scalability
■ Enrich experiences across PCs, phones and browser
■ Rapid deployment
■ Distributed disaster recovery scenarios
■ Reputation-based technologies (technologies that come from major providers)Read More |
| Eleven Things to Give Up in 2011
by Marlene ChismInstead of trying to lose twenty pounds for your New Year’s resolution, what if you decided to give up eleven habits that keep you stuck in your relationships at home and at work. Here are eleven things, in the form of mindsets, habits and behaviors to give up in 2011.1. Give up the need to control
Impatience, complaining, and manipulation are ways we try to change something that can’t be changed. You can’t control the weather, the crowds at the grocery store or traffic. All you can do is prepare, shop at a different time or leave early. In your workplace, ask yourself where you need to let go of control, where you can delegate and how you can learn instead to trust your co-workers.Read More |
| Schools Give High Grades for Performance and Web Safety “I would have graded our old product at a D, and we’re in the A+ range with WatchGuard and eMazzanti. The impact since WatchGuard has been implemented is night and day. Complaints from the business office, from teachers, from administrators, they’re almost gone.” Terry Van Auken, School Business Administrator,
Andover School District.
Located in Sussex County, New Jersey, Andover Regional School District serves approximately 750 students in grades K through 8. The district takes great pride in putting technology in the classrooms. Every year when the school board declares its goals for the district, technology initiatives are always near the top of the list. Unfortunately, the district’s Internet security and access imposed huge limitations on what the organization could accomplish. That led them to eMazzanti Technologies, a local technology consulting firm, two-time WatchGuard Partner of the Year, and a company with broad experience serving educational institutions. Read on |
| | | | Please share this newsletter with anyone who might be interested | | | Hoboken IT Firm Honored Yet Again; Plus, Reasons to Get Off the Couch This WeekendAt the invitation of eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti, About Town enjoyed the chance to tour its office on Grand Street.The first thing we thought when taking a glance at all the high tech equipment in use and on display is, “we just walked into the 22nd century.”Each of the eMazzanti employees navigates between four large flat panel computer screens, each screen providing different content for enhanced productivity. Carl Mazzanti himself works on an impressive eight screens arrangement, piled two high across four rows. The company loves giving tours to potential clients, and they feature a digital projection screen that allows for presentations and connects wirelessly to laptops. Along different walls are mounted computer monitors featuring up-to-the-minute details of the company’s daily, weekly, monthly and yearly performance, software gadgets which eMazzanti later offers to clients. Carl Mazzanti also showed us how he and his team connected their work hard drives, video game consoles and a huge music database of 20,000 songs to a central station. Employees can even synchronize their home computers to pull from the business database. READ MORE | | eMazzanti seeks bright
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