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Have you taken the time to plan for the worst?

Everyone likes to think their business is immune from natural disasters—like fire or flood — or cyber-attacks like ransomware. But the truth is, many businesses are dangerously unprotected and many business owners are misinformed about their backups and more importantly their disaster recovery capabilities. "Without an iron-clad backup and recovery plan, your business is at risk.  75% of small and midsize businesses rank data loss as the most significant risk to their business.” – Applied [...]

4 Steps to Easily Improve Data Security at Law Firms

Ricoh's workintelligent.ly blog is set up to help every major vertical and their Legal section is no different. They breakdown their Legal information into 3 categories: Practice Innovation, Risk & Security, and Legal Operations & Technology. Below is an article we would like to share with our readers from Stephanie Kurtz, Senior Manager, Advanced Services Strategy, Ricoh USA, Inc. and it falls under the Risk & Security category. Small law firms tend to think that they’re safe [...]

Bring Your Scanned Documents to Life with OCR

op·ti·cal char·ac·ter rec·og·ni·tion ˈäptəkəl ˈker(ə)ktər ˌrekəɡˈniSHən/ noun the identification of printed characters using photoelectric devices and computer software.   As the business world continues to move closer toward the paper-free office, Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is one of the technological advancements helping make this transition feasible and painless. OCR uses computer algorithms to convert scanned images of handwritten or printed text into machine-readable format. The process digitizes printed text into word processing files, making [...]

Ransomware Will Reign Again This Year

Ransomware is the latest evolution in cyber threats and malicious Internet schemes. Last year, more businesses were struck by ransomware than ever before, and that trend is expected to continue. As a result, it’s essential for all professionals to learn more about ransomware and how to defend your company. What is ransomware? Ransomware is a program that infiltrates a computer system and restricts access to the system or certain files. The software encrypts data so [...]

Is Mobile Printing Right for Your Business?

On-Demand Printing and Agility   Mobile employees need access to business documents, but "read-only" access isn’t enough. Mobile team members need to be agile: able to create, use, and share notes, invoices, and fact sheets. Mobile printing eliminates cumbersome workarounds (like emailing documents to yourself or a client) and can even allow guests and customers to print. Considerations: Security — Passwords, ID cards, and two-factor authentication can all be leveraged in mobile printing solutions to [...]

The Magic of 5th Color Print Technology

Ricoh's workintelligent.ly site is a wealth of knowledge for our industry and we look forward to sharing many articles from their site in 2017. One of the most interesting products that Ricoh released in 2016 was the Pro c7100-c71170 series with it's ability to print with both White and Clear Toner. Below is an article by John Fulena about the impact the 5th Color station can have on your printing environment. Internally, MOM has utilized [...]

Security Breaches can be Costly for Businesses

Sensitive information leaked can equal a scandal for companies. Besides the obvious loss of customer trust, reputation, sales and lowered stock price, the non-compliance fines can spell real trouble for an unwitting business. Audit committees are voracious about protecting customer-related information and corporate sensitive data. Companies are required to comply with data-privacy regulations, best practice requirements and industry guidelines regarding the usage and access to customer data. Privacy requirements for protecting non-public personal information [...]

By |2023-02-14T13:09:36+00:00December 13th, 2016|cryptolocker, data breach, Data security, information security, ransomware, Security|Comments Off on Security Breaches can be Costly for Businesses

Is Managed Print Right for Your Company?

Managed Print Services (MPS) is an extremely valuable solution that enables a third-party provider like Modern Office Methods (MOM) to effectively manage and maintain your organization’s print environment. This can offer benefits such as enhanced efficiency, increased productivity, and reduced costs. The right MPS solution from the right managed services provider can add significant value to a company. But is MPS right for your business? Here are some questions you should ask yourself when considering [...]

Do You Know How Much Your Company Is Spending on Printing?

Most business owners are shocked when they learn exactly how much they spend on printing each year! It comes as quite a surprise that mismanaged print fleets can cost your company up to 3 percent of their total revenue. This means that a company with annual revenue of $5 million will spend about $150,000 on document output each year. According to research from PricewaterhouseCoopers, the average employee: • Makes 10,000 copies or prints each year • [...]

By |2023-02-14T13:13:22+00:00November 29th, 2016|benefits of mps, fleetcare, managed print, managed print services, MPS, pricewaterhousecooper, print savings, print savings estimator, printing, savings calculator|Comments Off on Do You Know How Much Your Company Is Spending on Printing?

Modern Office Methods has been recognized as a Ricoh Circle of Excellence Award Winner

Modern Office Methods (MOM) is the recipient of the 2017 RFG Circle of Excellence award from Ricoh for our commitment to customer service. The MOM service team, under the direction of Ken Staubitz, Vice President of Service, has worked hard to perfect their skills and we are thrilled that this extra effort has paid off.  Ricoh recognizes that it has partnered with the best Dealer Network in the industry and they reward the “Best of [...]