To Upgrade or Not: How to Tell When It’s Time to Upgrade Your Company’s Software
To Upgrade or Not: How to Tell When It’s Time to Upgrade Your Company’s Software
Every modern office uses a variety of software in its day-to-day workings. Frequently, that software was the right tool for the company at a particular time, but after being adopted it isn’t updated frequently enough to maintain its usefulness.
Older software may work fine for your purposes, but there’s a difference between “fine” and “ideal” and that difference can cost you money in lost productivity and in risks to your data security.
In addition to keeping you productive, properly updated software (yes, even the most common programs from leading manufacturers) can help you avoid major security risks. Do you keep getting prompts to update your work PC’s Flash or Java, but keep snoozing them as you try to get your work done? These things aren’t a problem…until they become a problem.
Getting an IT team to remotely or locally ensure all company computers have the latest updates on a regular basis (preferably as frequently as once a month) can help you avoid much bigger potential issues down the road. These can include virus infections or the spreading of ransomware.
The same thing goes for operating systems like Windows or Mac OS, though they need to be updated less frequently. In trying to save money day-to-day, many businesses are working with operating systems that are a decade old, even when the manufacturer has officially ceased support of these versions.
Many businesses buy one-time licenses for software and don’t know why they should or need to upgrade. A lot of the time, there can be anxiety about files being moved over correctly, or suspicion that things may not work as expected on the new operating system. Some employees are anxious about the learning curve associated with an updated operating system.
However, when we’ve finally convinced the owners to make the upgrades and provided adequate training to the staff, the entire team has always experienced increased productivity and fewer data security issues after the change.
Think it may be time for your company to update some of the software it uses everyday? At BlūLīn IT, we want to help you focus on what you do best—running your business. Instead of spending your valuable time trying to troubleshoot software issues, trust our team of experts.
Contact us today to book an on-site consultation!
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Every modern office uses a variety of software in its day-to-day workings. Frequently, that software was the right tool for the company at a particular time, but after being adopted it isn’t updated frequently enough to maintain its usefulness.
Older software may work fine for your purposes, but there’s a difference between “fine” and “ideal” and that difference can cost you money in lost productivity and in risks to your data security.
In addition to keeping you productive, properly updated software (yes, even the most common programs from leading manufacturers) can help you avoid major security risks. Do you keep getting prompts to update your work PC’s Flash or Java, but keep snoozing them as you try to get your work done? These things aren’t a problem…until they become a problem.
Getting an IT team to remotely or locally ensure all company computers have the latest updates on a regular basis (preferably as frequently as once a month) can help you avoid much bigger potential issues down the road. These can include virus infections or the spreading of ransomware.
The same thing goes for operating systems like Windows or Mac OS, though they need to be updated less frequently. In trying to save money day-to-day, many businesses are working with operating systems that are a decade old, even when the manufacturer has officially ceased support of these versions.
Many businesses buy one-time licenses for software and don’t know why they should or need to upgrade. A lot of the time, there can be anxiety about files being moved over correctly, or suspicion that things may not work as expected on the new operating system. Some employees are anxious about the learning curve associated with an updated operating system.
However, when we’ve finally convinced the owners to make the upgrades and provided adequate training to the staff, the entire team has always experienced increased productivity and fewer data security issues after the change.
Think it may be time for your company to update some of the software it uses everyday? At BlūLīn IT, we want to help you focus on what you do best—running your business. Instead of spending your valuable time trying to troubleshoot software issues, trust our team of experts.
Contact us today to book an on-site consultation!