Riverbank It management

Riverbank will be exhibiting at Venturefest, the business event that links investors, entrepreneurs and innovators, on 29 June at the Kassam Stadium in Oxford. It’s a great opportunity to network with an interesting group of people from businesses across the south-east region.

We look forward to seeing you there.

If you use an Outlook calendar here are some suggestions that might make life just a tiny bit better. Note that some of these ideas assume you are connected to a network with Microsoft Exchange.

1. Create a shared calendar.
If you work with others, create a shared calendar so you can see what everyone is doing, make appointments, set meetings etc.

If your business is to succeed in these challenging times you know that it needs to run as efficiently as it can. Your company’s internal web site, an intranet, is a key component in building business efficiency.

You can create whatever you need to help your business. Using Microsoft SharePoint your intranet can be your company noticeboard, your staff handbook, your document library, or your knowledge base. One Riverbank client uses SharePoint for their vital quality control procedures, and another uses it to share selected documents with their clients.

We recently completed another round of PC health checks for Riverbank clients. They know that the occasional check-up does their computers a power of good.

People often complain that their PC is getting slower, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Your computer gradually accumulates temporary files that have been left behind, more programs are automatically loaded during startup, and the files on the disk become more fragmented. Outlook also becomes slower as e-mails accumulate and the underlying data store becomes more bloated. All this makes your PC slower, and you spend longer waiting while the disk rattles away and the computer takes time to catch up with you.

What you can do and how well you can do it depends on the quality of your Internet connection. You need to be ready to cope with a great connection, limited connectivity, or none at all. It also depends on what equipment you have with you – your laptop computer, a mobile phone, or nothing at all.

Here are some ideas that work well and will help you to extract value from every moment of your working day.

If you would like to spread the cost of your IT project, ask about our financing options. Riverbank can help with financing from Microsoft.

Microsoft financing is particularly appealing because it provides a single source of finance not just for Microsoft software but hardware and services too. You also protect your bank credit and other lines of credit to your business.

No deposit is required and repayments can be spread over a period of two to five years, with a very competitive fixed interest rate. Simple documentation also makes administration very straightforward.