Overall, the impact of technology in the workplace is incredibly strong. There’s now an application, software, or platform that can help enhance almost any business initiative—whether that’s to foster collaboration between remote employees, improve customer satisfaction, build a stronger company culture, drive revenue, or eliminate wasteful inefficiencies. 

If you aren’t taking advantage of the benefits of technology, your business can quickly become stagnant or even worse, fall behind the competition. In a world where organizations are rapidly investing in new workplace technologies and adopting the latest and greatest business tools, this can be incredibly detrimental. 

Ignoring future workplace trends and being slow to implement technology in the workplace can give your competitors who have prioritized getting ahead of the curve a huge advantage over you. This can negatively affect workplace morale, decrease revenue, and give your brand a poor reputation amongst consumers. 

So, do you want more efficient employees who are able to produce both a higher quantity and quality of work? Are you looking to improve engagement and job satisfaction to reduce turnover costs and keep your top talent working for you? Is driving revenue and business growth a major goal for your company? If you want to accomplish these objectives, having access to the right is absolutely necessary. Ready to get started? 

At Protected Trust, we simplify technology in the workplace while empowering people to communicate so they can achieve their greatest potential from anywhere on the planet. We do this with a vision of a modern workplace, built on an ecosystem of Microsoft Teams and the Microsoft 365 platform.

If you’d like to learn more about how implementing Microsoft technology in your modern office can help transform collaboration, mobility, and security, schedule an introduction with one of our experts today!

IMPORTANCE OF COMPUTERS IN BUSINESS

Computer plays an important role in business environment as every organisation adopts it
in some form or the other to perform the tasks in effective manner. In the past few years’ rapid
development in IT, particularly in communications, electronic service networks, and multimedia
have opened up new opportunities for corporates. All these are contributing towards new and
effective ways of processing business transactions, integrating business processes, transferring
payments and delivering services electronically. It has affected the business in the following ways:

1. Office Automation
   Computers have helped automation of many industrial and business systems. They are
   used extensively in manufacturing and processing industries, power distribution systems, airline
   reservation systems, transportation systems, banking systems, and so on. Computer aided design
   (CAP) and computer-aided manufacture (CAM) are becoming popular among the large industrial
   establishment.
2. Stores large amount of date and information
   Business and commercial organizations need to store and maintain voluminous records
   and use them for various purposes such as inventory control, sales analysis, payroll accounting,
   resources scheduling and generation of management reports. Computers can store and maintain
   files and can sort, merge or update as and when necessary
3. Improves Productivity
   With the introduction of word processing software, Computers have recently been
   applied to the automation of office tasks and procedures. This is aimed at improving the
   productivity of both clerical & managerial staff.
4. Sharing of data and information
   Due to networking of computers, where a number of computers are connected together to
   share the data and information, use of e-mail and internet has changed the ways of business
   operations.
5. Competitiveness
   Computers offer a reliable and cost-effective means of doing business electronically.
   Routine tasks can be automated. The customers can be provided support round the clock, which
   is 24 hours a day. With advancement in IT sector, corporates are spreading business around the
   world thus, increasing their presence and entering new markets.
6. Security
   To provide security to data and important computer programs, almost every organisation
   has some security programs to avoid the illegal access of the company’s information by
   unauthorized persons. The three fundamental attributor of a security program are confidentially,
   integrity and availability which allow access to only authorized persons in an organization.
7. Cost Benefits
   The extensive availability of internet-based information means that companies have a wider
   choice of suppliers which leads to a more competitive pricing. Due to the presence of internet the
   role of the middleman becomes less important as companies can sell their product or services
   directly to the customer.
8. Marketing
   Corporates engaged in e-business can take help of their respective websites to create brand
   awareness of their products, thus, creating new avenues of promotion of their products. In
   addition, companies’ websites can also provide better services such as after sales service to the
   customer.

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