This post also appeared in The Tennessean, where Concept Technology has a bi-weekly feature in the Business section. Everyone seems to be in agreement: The members of Generation Z, the oldest of whom are entering college about now, are great with computers. These “digital natives” have “never known a time before the internet,” as pointed […]

This post also appeared in The Tennessean, where Concept Technology has a bi-weekly feature in the Business section. With the Nashville Technology Council reporting more than 830 technology job listings in Middle Tennessee, it’s an understatement to say that the competition for tech talent locally and regionally is incredibly strong. It’s a seller’s market for […]

Nobody likes passwords. They are a terrible way of authenticating users, and when done correctly, passwords are both difficult to guess and impossible to remember. It’s a Catch-22. While nobody wants someone else poking around in his or her Gmail account, or worse, bank records, it’s exceptionally difficult to remember 30+ case-sensitive nonsense words for […]

This post also appeared in The Tennessean, where Concept Technology has a bi-weekly feature in the Business section. More and more businesses are taking advantage of cloud applications such as Salesforce, Basecamp and ZenDesk to handle any number of business operations. When your employees start using Basecamp, for example, to manage a complex project, they […]

This post also appeared in The Tennessean, where Concept Technology has a bi-weekly feature in the Business section. Picking a new software solution can be tricky business. Say, for example, your company needs enterprise resource planning software. You might start by looking into the companies that create them. This search will probably yield dozens and […]

This post also appeared in The Tennessean, where Concept Technology has a bi-weekly feature in the Business section. When it comes to data protection, most organizations still rely on a traditional file-based backup model for their servers. It’s a model that has been around for decades and works well for many environments. More recently, though, […]

This post also appeared in The Tennessean, where Concept Technology has a bi-weekly feature in the Business section. Sometimes you can be so close to something that it’s hard to see its strengths — and even harder to see its flaws. This is true in your personal life, and within your company, especially if your […]

We’ve previously written about the benefits of setting up internet content filters for your office, and we wanted to take a moment to expand upon this idea to discuss content filtering options for your home. Just as unfiltered and unchecked access to the Web may not be the best business practice, it might not be […]

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]This post also appeared in The Tennessean, where Concept Technology has a bi-weekly feature in the Business section. A 2012 Salary.com survey of more than 3,000 workers found that 64 percent of employees surf websites for personal reasons every day while at work. Of that group, 50 percent admit to wasting at least two hours […]

This post also appeared in The Tennessean, where Concept Technology has a bi-weekly feature in the Business section. Go back eight years or so and you’d be hard pressed to find a Mac computer being used by a business. Apple products have long been viewed as consumer hardware, and if you found workers with Macs, […]