You may have heard on the grapevine that Microsoft have recently announced a price increase to their Microsoft 365 products.  This is the first substantive pricing update since Office 365 was launched over a decade ago, so you could say it has been on the...

With Brexit and the pandemic, the past year has been incredibly hard for a lot of businesses. You may have heard that on the 1st July 2021 the way that VAT is handled for online sales from businesses worldwide to consumers in the EU has...

We don’t want to alarm you, but every business owner should be concerned about the possibility of data breaches. Since the pandemic cybercriminals have been more active than ever, and it isn’t just the multinational corporations they have been targeting. Of course we all tend...

Think of Microsoft SharePoint as the ultimate meeting room. It’s one of several programs within the Microsoft 365 office suite for businesses. In a previous post we looked at many of the oft forgotten programs and apps that Microsoft users have access to. SharePoint was...

You are probably already aware that here at Reality Solutions we are Sage business partners, but we thought it might be useful to explain why we partner with Sage, and the benefits we can bring to your business. Accounting and managing cash flow can be...

‘Digital transformation’ seems to be the buzzword that everyone is talking about at the moment. The pandemic has caused us to rethink how we run our businesses, and those who haven’t adapted quickly have been left behind. Digital transformation doesn’t just mean switching over to...

If you work in an office today, our guess is you don’t see as much paper as you used to. Over the last 2 decades, computers have finally removed much of the need for paper. It took a long time to get there. The advent...

The last major release of the world’s most used operating system, Windows 10, was in 2015. It’s been a highly popular iteration, but people have been wondering for a while whether a successor was in the works. After screenshots were leaked earlier in the month,...

COVID caused a boom in everything digital, mainly due to lockdown restrictions and social distancing. The banking sector was no exception with more people opening new accounts online using mobile devices. During the course of the next year, we expect to see an even higher...

Printers. Most offices have them (even if you are trying to go paperless).   Frustrating, bulky, loud – yes. But a cyber security risk? We’re guessing they wouldn’t be the first thing you’d think of if you were asked about cyber security.   But as innocent as...

Every business should have a backup system in place so that if the worse should happen, all of the company and client data is retrievable. Unfortunately, it is often not the case and it is only when something goes badly wrong that a backup system...

It is important that payroll systems and processes are monitored regularly in any size organisation in order to help with cash flow. Payroll is often one of the largest expenses a business can face when things go wrong, so prevention is always best. In order...