By definition, a not-for-profit (NFP) organization is one that does not earn profits for its owners. Some may think that NFPs are slower-paced and less challenging in nature, but nothing could be further from the truth. The reality is that these organizations face the same business challenges as for-profit businesses.
It would not surprise us to hear from one of our newest client, Liberty Landing Marina in Jersey City, New Jersey, that they feel like their ship has come in since IT Radix has arrived on the scene. This full service Hudson River slip marina located across from the lower tip of Manhattan is owned by a large company based out of Texas which has its own IT department and procedures.
Today’s information highway is chock full of private information cruising along its routes. Everyone today needs to think carefully about how it sends and receives private information. Flash back to tax season and you wanted to give your accountant information for your tax return.
Many businesses, but particularly those in the accounting field, leverage temporary or seasonal workers. With the advances in technology, utilizing these types of personnel is even easier. The benefits are obvious—expertise and additional resources/capacity when you need it.
Perfect together describes the relationship between the accounting profession and information technology. If you think about all the job categories that have been positively impacted and enhanced by the power of information technology, accounting would be near the top.
IT Radix and You…Perfect Together
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New technologies and innovations have permeated almost all industries including the insurance industry. About half of the insurance carriers are “in the cloud” and the carriers are not alone. By leveraging the cloud, many of our clients in the insurance industry have enjoyed greater quality and efficiency for their products, claims and business practices.
IT Radix is pleased to welcome its newest client, Kalman Associates, an accounting and tax preparation firm in Piscataway, New Jersey. The first project IT Radix did for the firm was to upgrade its server. Kalman had been running a Windows Server 2003 operating system.
We all have heard the expression “Good Fences Make Good Neighbors,” but what the heck could that possibly have to do with computers? Well, by definition a fence is “a barrier enclosing or bordering a piece of property, used to prevent entrance.” In the context of your network a “fence” sounds an awful lot like a firewall.
Due to significant advances in networking and mobile technologies, more and more people are working remotely—client locations, hotels, home offices and backyard garden swings. As company IT infrastructures become more decentralized, keeping company computers, mobile devices and data secure has become much more challenging.
