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Remote Working: The common challenges and how to overcome them
The covid-19 pandemic of 2020 and subsequent lock down suddenly found many more people working from home. There was no planning, or preparation, everyone was simply told “work from home if you can”. If there can be any silver lining to the cloud of a global pandemic...
Home working – Costs and Risks to your IT systems – and how to avoid them
During the current coronavirus crisis countless businesses are asking people to work from home, but in the mad dash to enable remote working the usual due diligence processes may go out the window so here are a few things to consider and some mitigation measures to...
How to enable home working for your office staff
We’ve just had our first call from a business conducting contingency planning in case of a severe UK outbreak of Coronavirus (Covid-19). The customer wanted advice on whether and how we could help his team run their business applications from home if they had to...
Hosting Visual Basic (VB) applications in the cloud
Hosting legacy Visual Basic (VB) applications in the cloud with no re-writing or changes to the code. Businesses are getting so used to the amazing flexibility that cloud computing can offer that there can be some frustration when it comes to legacy VB applications...
How do I move my server to the cloud?
Aimed mainly at small businesses, this article explains some of the options available to organisations who want to move away from the traditional “small business server” sat in the corner of the office and take advantage of the cost, security, and flexibility benefits...
Access Developers Move Application to the Cloud
An “Evolutionary” journey to hosted remote desktops for Access developers Dunia Moja Network The recent move to a Your Office Anywhere’s hosted remote desktop platform is the latest transformation for the “Cargo” application developed by Kenyan developer Twahir...
Why does Your Office Anywhere offer better pricing for Hosted Sage than its competitors?
We had an enquiry from a customer recently who was interested in moving his Sage hosting from another provider – Online50 - as they had just put their prices up. He asked how much it would cost to host Sage 50 Accounts for 3 people. We quoted £76.50 per month ( £28.50...
Is Sage 50 Accounts MTD Compliant – Making Tax Digital
Is Sage 50 Accounts MTD Compliant? HMRC have made a radical change to the way tax is submitted. Making Tax Digital (MTD) is an HMRC initiative to modernise the tax system and will require businesses to use accounting software to submit tax returns digitally rather...
What’s new in Microsoft Access 2019
What’s new in Microsoft Access 2019? As a leading provider of Access database hosting in the UK, we have been waiting keenly to see what the changes would be in Access 2019. Now it has been released we can provide some detail around what’s new in Access 2019 Released...
Software Developers Use Hosted Desktops for Testing and Deveopment
Reasons why Software Developers use Hosted Desktop When virtual servers first came on the scene they proved an invaluable resource for software developers because of the simplicity with which programs could be deployed, tested and then rolled back using server snap...