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How do you acheive your business goals without spending more?

Cutting costs ruthlessly is easy but to damage your productivity will lose you revenue

Over the past 10 years ISN Solutions have helped hundreds of businesses and organisations of all kinds get the most from their IT spend. We’d like to hear from you about the IT challenges you face in your work - we think we can help.

In the meantime, here are three ways our current clients are getting more from their IT investment:

1 – Reduce the number of servers you run

This London web publishing company made savings in power, office space, IT support and gave better service to their customers.
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2 – Allow your staff to work from anywhere

An easy route to savings in office space while increasing productivity and business flexibility. Here’s how a financial recruitment specialist benefited during the recent snow
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3 – Network rationalisation

Get more out of existing Internet and WAN links and faster data access. This property company got £20k pa value from a one off £7k spend
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If you are interested in exploring what we can do to help, you can contact me on 020 7313 9900 or add a comment to this post.

I hear of occasions all the time where more than one person needs to work an a spreadsheet at the same time. Since Office 2003, Microsoft have included this functionality in Excel. To share a Workbook, simply follow the steps below:

• Office 2003: Tools – Share Workbook
• Office 2007: Review Tab – Share Workbook

Then click the “Allow changes by more than one user…” checkbox and save the document. Now a whole group of people can update the same document and see each other’s changes every time they press the Save button.

What’s your favourite Office tip?

My partner, IT Manager for an insurance company, told me that the best Office tip she ever heard was to use  “the paintbrush” or, to give it its proper name: Format Painter. When I asked around, I found that many people, even senior IT people who use Excel and Word all day, had never heard of it. It works in nearly all Office applications. Read more »

Microsoft Windows XP and Vista have an “offline folders” facility which allows you to take copies of files away from the office network on your laptop so that you can work with them on the move. All great in theory but we advise you to steer clear.
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