cloud

I was recently at a family BBQ enjoying a beer and a sausage in bread when I was asked the following: ‘Hey mate, you work in computers(sic), what’s all this Cloud computing stuff about?’

Now, being the families resident ‘computer nerd’, I’m often asked computer related questions (either that or cartoon related questions). Usually the questions are along the lines of ‘should I buy a Mac’ or ‘why isn’t my email working’. Most can be fairly easily answered with a paint-by-numbers answer, but this one required a bit more effort. Effort that by the end of the conversation – which only ended because if we didn’t stop talking, all of my auntie’s awesome trifle would’ve been eaten without me getting any – still could’ve been delved into a lot more.

This ‘Cloud computing stuff’ question became a 45-minute discussion about a bunch of seemingly unlinked topics – business, computers, iPhones and iPads, MYOB, the Patriot Act, Russians; the list went on and on. Read more

Do you have a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in your business?  If you’re a small business, chances are, no.  Few small or medium businesses have a CFO.

A CFO’s role in a business is to use the financial information of a business to drive and improve it.  The financial information of a business is the key to the strategic direction and improvement of every business. Read more

I’m often asked about the benefits of new technology, in particular the industry’s latest buzz word – cloud technology, and it’s easy to highlight many.  Convenience, freedom, functionality; technology has changed the way we work, play and consume information, at a rate exceeding unlike anything we’ve ever seen in human history.  But one of the single biggest benefits that is sometimes overlooked is choice. Read more