As an engineer or architect, you’ve got a number of important issues that require your attention every day. The day to day responsibility of managing your business or fulfilling your job tasks, communication with your clients, and effectively managing your time is a full time job – you don’t want to have to worry about managing your information technology and computer systems on top of everything else. The trouble is, if you don’t have a dedicated staff to the technology end of the business, you could be forced to spend your time sorting out problems and fixing equipment before you can even begin your “real” work.

It’s easy to take your corporate email system for granted, but security and privacy concerns of your work email system are extremely complex. Even small accounting firms and corporations have found themselves having to pay big money to settle sexual harassment cases and other crimes that were conducted via email by staff and employees of a company. Financial damages are also caused by email that brings down the entire company server, sometimes making it impossible to access your entire local area network for hours or days at a time. Email policies are not just for big corporations.

Statistics show that even as the internet continues to grow rapidly, the vast majority of small and medium sized businesses do not yet have a website. An increasing number of people use the internet to find business contact information before grabbing the phone book – so if you don’t have a website, you may actually be overlooked for the accounting firm in your town that does have a website.