'Tis the season...for executing plans, last minute gifts, and a little too much time with the extended family you "love." Not only does it feel like time moves quickly into fast-forward, but budgets are wrapping up, ROI and yearly metrics need to be delivered. It's tough to keep up and there's more than enough to do — so we're providing you with 3 tips to make sure you start next year off on the right foot, including ways to prepare for budget, insourcing/outsourcing tasks, and planning for cybersecurity trends in 2026. Let's dig in.
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It's not lost on us that this is an opportunity to try and get you to partner with us in 2026 for your tech needs, but ultimately, we're in the same boat as you. We must prepare and we're working hard to do so. Just like you, we're looking at how to make sure next year is successful. Consider these preparation tasks with us.
When you've hit the end of the year, you face the challenge of wrapping up expenses while simultaneously preparing and planning for next year. You're calculating ROI, evaluating vendors, closing out accounts, and trying to invoice them all at the same time. If you're using multiple vendors to accomplish all of these tasks, there is a better way. Whether you choose Centre to help or not, investing in an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tool will make these end of year expense evaluations 10x easier.
How Centre Can Help:
You might already have an in-house IT team or maybe you're thinking your outsourced IT team is too expensive. Either way, you may be evaluating whether or not to outsource your tech needs for next year. We recommend you consider 3 main factors when deciding: cost, bandwidth, and cybersecurity risk.
How Centre Can Help:
You know this: (but if you don't) Cyber scams and hackers are leveraging AI to power their phishing and other scamming attacks. We recommend developing your proactive cybersecurity plan immediately, like yesterday. If nothing else, educating your employees on how to spot phishing and ransomware attacks is a great starting point.
How Centre Can Help:
Are you stressed yet? This is where we come in. We pride ourselves on 3 things: 1) providing an enterprise experience with tools CMAC dashboard and our service delivery model, 2) personalized service that meets your unique business needs, and 3) a local touch that allows us to provide a in-person, quality customer experience.
Whether you already have an IT team or this is something you need right now, we want to help. You deserve the time with your family, you deserve to make the memories that you'll cherish for a lifetime. Let us take the tech stress off this holiday season. You deserve it.