February 2009
In this issue

√ Remote Monitoring
√ Better Graphics
√ Electronic Business
    Cards
√ Add-On Tools
√ For Laughs
 

Microsoft Outlook

Share Contact Information the easy way with Electronic Business Cards

Traditional paper business cards are a time-honored and effective way to get business and contact information out to current and prospective clients.

But these days, a lot of business is done in e-mail. So how do you make sure that people know how to reach you?

Try an Electronic Business Card (or EBC), part of the Contacts feature in Microsoft Office Outlook 2007.

An EBC is simple to create and you can easily give it professional polish or personal style by adding your company logo or a picture of yourself. And when you use an EBC as part of your e-mail signature, customers and friends will see it in a format that looks good and is easy for them to save.

Watch the demo to see how easy it is to create, customize, and share an Electronic Business Card.

 

Enjoy the Benefits of Remote
Network Monitoring

Two People Connecting Connecting Network Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind --
Enjoy the Benefits of Remote Network Monitoring Without The IT Burden

Your network or application is down and you need it corrected quickly or your business suffers through loss of productivity, revenue or image. With managed services from Preferred Technology Solutions corrective action is already underway to get you up and running again.

Today’s remote network monitoring applications — such as Cisco Works, HP OpenView, Ipswitch and Netarx — can help us generate valuable information about your network health and performance. This data, pulled from firewall and VPN logs, helps our network administrators quickly determine which of your network components are overburdened, underutilized or at risk.

And by hiring out this service, you can gain all the information you need to make critical decisions, without placing an additional burden on your busy IT personnel.

If you are an SMB with numerous PCs, servers and a Web site — but a small IT staff — remote network monitoring may prove to be an ideal solution.

Here’s why

Want better graphics capabilities?
 reprinted with permission from HP

If good graphics quality is important to you, you’re going to love the new DisplayPort technology. Even if you’re not an architect, graphic designer or someone who needs high resolution and better display performance now, these features are going to benefit everyone as we all communicate and collaborate more with our PCs.

Never heard of DisplayPort? Well, you will. It’s a new digital PC display interface that’s expected to become the industry standard in a few years, eventually replacing both VGA and DVI. For now it can be found in conjunction with VGA ports on all HP Compaq dc7900 Business Desktop PCs. Eventually, you’ll find it standard on all PCs.

What is DisplayPort?

"Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity."

-- Henry Van Dyke

 

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Enhance Microsoft Office with Business Add-on Tools
By Philipp Harper
reprinted with permission from the Microsoft Small Business Center

A new breed of solutions called Office Business Applications helps extend the usability of your desktop and line-of-business applications.

  • For many companies, the ROI in enterprise software isn't what it could be.
     
  • Office Business Applications create synergy by connecting Microsoft Office to business applications.
     
  • The impact of OBAs on the bottom line is significant and immediate.

Return on investment is everything. But for too many small and midsize businesses, the ROI for line-of-business software is far less than what it ought to be.

Here's the problem.

 

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