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Emma Stott, Customer Service Director at Chess, reviews why organisations look at IT outsourcing.
Is IT Outsourcing The Answer?
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Emma Stott, Customer Service Director at Chess, reviews why organisations look at IT outsourcing.
Microsoft 365 Business Premium Top Benefits
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Paul Gibbons, Cloud Services Sales Development Manager at Chess, discusses the benefits of Microsoft 365 Business Premium.
Introduction to Data-Driven Healthcare
In this two-part blog series, Don McIntyre, Digital Consultant for Chess, reviews the Scottish Government health and care strategy 'Enabling, Connecting and Empowering: Care in a digital age'. Part 1: Care in a Digital Age
Managing Citizen-Controlled Health Data
In this two-part blog series, Don McIntyre, Digital Consultant for Chess, reviews the Scottish Government health and care strategy 'Enabling, Connecting and Empowering: Care in a digital age'.
Protect Your Data with SASE
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Gavin Wood, CTO at Chess, explains the emerging cyber security concept SASE (Secure Access Service Edge).
The CFO Take on Tech Budgets
Ways to reduce your costs in 2022: With the start of the new financial year, Mark Lightfoot, CFO at Chess, explains his new approach to tech spending.
Customer Service in a Hybrid World
Martin Bacon, Cloud Consultant at Chess, discusses the importance of Compliance and Performance in a Hybrid working world. As well as, how working within regulations and providing peace of mind to customers is critical.
Hybrid Warfare and Cyber Attacks
Cyber security review of the conflict in Ukraine and how you can protect your data and enhance your cyber security.
Technology Leasing in Public Sector
Graham Foreman, Head of Public Sector, reviews the benefits of technology leasing offers to public sector organisations.
Make the Most of Your Tech Budget
Leasing new IT equipment is fast, flexible and helps stretch much-needed cash reserves. Paul Gibbons, Cloud Services Sales Development Manager at Chess, reviews the benefits of leasing.
Reduce Your Costs in 2022
Stephen Dracup, COO at Chess, reviews the three key areas every small business should consider to reduce their costs and preserve cash.
Improving the inbound customer journey
In this article Martin Bacon, Cloud Consultant at Chess, discusses why the inbound customer journey is vital to your business, and how to automate and improve customer satisfaction.
Missed calls, Missed revenue
Martin Bacon, Cloud Consultant at Chess, discusses how missed calls = missed opportunities and just how much they can have a significant monetary impact on business performance.
Hybrid Working Risks and Solutions
Stephen Dracup, COO of Chess, reviews the risks we noticed when we launched hybrid working and our solutions to address these.
2021 Top Security Vulnerabilities
Luiz Simpson, Director of Security Testing, summarised the top four vulnerabilities from last year.
Your Line and Broadband Switch Off
Stephen Dracup, Chief Operating Officer at Chess, summarises the most recent updates on the 2025 PSTN Switch Off.
2022 Predictions
2020 and 2021 were turbulent years filled with uncertainty, change and development, so we asked our board of directors for their predictions and plans for 2022. Interestingly, none of them mentioned NFTs, the Crypto Gold Rush or virtual reality. Instead, they all focused on simple things you can do to grow your business next year.
Enabling patient satisfaction: EMIS and Cloud Voice integration
Martin Bacon, Consultant Team Leader at Chess, discusses how Cloud Voice and EMIS work together, and how you can create greater efficiencies now and in the future.
Learn Why Projects Fail: How a Law Firm Reduced Their Communication Costs
Megan Yates, Business Sales Team Leader at Chess, looks at her recent experience as an Adoption and Change Management Consultant at a large law firm who chose Chess to help them connect their people with a new communications solution.
Cloud Communications – Make the Right Choice
Martin Bacon, Consultants Team Leader and Unified Communications Expert at Chess, reviews the differences and benefits of Cloud Voice and Teams Voice.