Thinking about migrating to the Cloud?
19/10/2022
Here are a few reasons why...
If you're considering migrating to the cloud, here are just a few of the benefits you can reap.
From reduced costs and improved efficiencies through to better security ...
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VoIP and 3CX
10/09/2022
Forget the acronyms, it's just efficient and affordable!
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Are you stuck in a time warp?
24/08/2022
Let's talk developing tech
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Putting it all in the Cloud
03/08/2022
Why we're helping our clients to migrate to Office 365
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New case study: TSA and The Survey School
04/07/2022
We’ve always prided ourselves on the quality and approachability of our IT support team, so it’s great when our clients feel the same way! Our latest case study features The Survey Association and The...
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A quick look at what Windows 11 brings to the party
21/03/2022
Windows 11 – so what's all the fuss about? The buzz is that the new OS is designed to help make businesses work smarter, be more productive and creative.
Perhaps the most important issue is inarguably...
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PCM on the move!
04/02/2022
So with two years of working from home (with some office working in the mix too to keep us in touch and up to date!), like many other companies we took time to re-evaluate our requirements, going forw...
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New technologies, new opportunities with VoIP
17/12/2021
The existing Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) is now several decades old, and if we look at how technology has advanced over that same length of time, it?s easy to understand that PSTN simply ...
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New case study: Northorpe Hall Child & Family Trust - website refresh
16/08/2021
A new case study has been added to our website - Northorpe Hall Child & Family Trust - website refresh....
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New case study: Gaunts - Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 transition
07/06/2021
A new case study has been added to our website - Gaunts - Google Workspace to Microsoft 365 transition....
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Is it time to migrate from Google Workspace to Office 365?
07/05/2021
The PCM team thinks it is.
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Super deduction - how to get a tangible payback from your computer equipment expenditure!
30/04/2021
How to get a tangible payback from your computer equipment expenditure!
Is it time you replaced some of your older IT equipment? There's never been a better time.
Thanks to the super-deduction introd...
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New case study: PCM SharePoint
26/03/2021
Utilising SharePoint from Office 365 for home working
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New case study: Mone Bros DIY
22/02/2021
Website review, design, creation, implementation and ongoing support
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New case study: RemoteM
24/01/2021
Development of Internet of Things hardware & platform
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New case study: Beam Consulting Engineers
05/01/2021
Supply and installation of hardware/software and email migration to the cloud
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New case study: Northern Monk Refectory - secure WiFi
22/09/2020
Implementing secure dual purpose WiFi system
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New case study: PCM - moving from Sage 50 to Xero
28/08/2020
Migration from Sage 50 to Xero
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New case study: Wetherby Town Council
29/07/2020
Migration to Office 365
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Mone Bros DIY website launch
09/06/2020
We are pleased to announce the launch of the new website for Mone Bros.
The website has been developed as an ecommerce store, allowing purchases to be made online for delivery locally or nationally, a...
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Keeping the wheels of business turning
02/04/2020
We are living in very different times, and communications are playing a critical role in helping businesses and people to stay moving and stay connected. When news of the lockdown first broke PCM Syst...
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Navigating the new Google Ads
28/10/2018
If you run paid adverts on Google, known as Pay Per Click or PPC, you may have received an email from the search giant about changes to their advertising systems. AdWords is becoming ...
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Digital Growth Vouchers available this Autumn
05/09/2018
Phase 4 of the Digital Growth Vouchers available through Digital Enterprise is set to go live this Autumn.
Digital Enterprise is a scheme run by Leeds City Council and supported by other organisati...
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Your data isn’t safe in a spreadsheet
13/08/2018
A spreadsheet is not a CRM
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Google Adwords rebranding to Google Ads
03/07/2018
It is hard to believe that Google Adwords has been around for 18 years. As a solution to deliver relevant adverts to internet searchers for all manner of products and services, Adwords have been used ...
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Still storing files on your desktop?
13/06/2018
Today we’re going to tell you a story…
Once upon a time there was a man called Neville. Neville worked at a busy legal practice in the heart of Leeds. Neville dealt with very sensitive data every d...
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Are you guilty of these bad password trends?
29/05/2018
Using a cache of leaked passwords and website information, academics at Virginia Tech and researchers at Dashlane have produced a report all about bad password habits. You can read the full report on ...
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Google Analytics Data Retention
22/05/2018
The team at Google Analytics have introduced new Data Retention tools so that businesses can set the period after which some data will be deleted.
Why have Google made this change?
Primarily, i...
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What does 'End of Life' mean for your technology?
15/05/2018
You might have heard us talk about your technology reaching its ‘end of life’ but that doesn’t necessarily mean that it is no longer working.
Technology End of Life (EOL) is a term used to descri...
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Google Drive gets a facelift
10/05/2018
After rolling out an updated design to Gmail and Calendar earlier this year, Google has now applied their new design concepts to Google Drive.
If you use Google Drive to store your documents you'l...
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YouTube - Using robots to stop terrorists
24/04/2018
YouTube has announced that its team of human content reviewers are working with machine learning technology to tackle the problem of violent extremist content and comments uploaded to the platform. Th...
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Symantec Internet Security Threat Report 2018
10/04/2018
Symantec has released the 2018 Internet Security Threat Report (ISTR) and it is clear that the threat landscape is more diverse than ever. Cyber criminals are developing new ways to attack busines...
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Cyber security in the accounts department
04/04/2018
We've talked in the past about the technology you can use to reduce the risk of cyber crime affecting your business. In every blog post that has been published we've maintained that technology can’t s...
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World Backup Day 2018
27/03/2018
Don’t be an April Fool. This Saturday is World Backup Day 2018, a day designed to encourage us all to review our data management and security. In this blog post we’re sharing our tips for keeping your...
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A Day in the Life - Chetan
15/03/2018
It's Chetan's turn for his Day in the Life profile.
Chetan Varma - IT Support, Data Security & Cloud Computing
I have two young children, so once we’re up and have started the day, I dri...
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GDPR Article 5 F - data security through processes and technology
06/03/2018
There’s a lot of confusion around GDPR. But there is one point in the Principles of the General Data Protection Regulation that is crystal clear. You must process personal data in a secure manner, and...
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Our Favourite Tech TV Shows
28/02/2018
Technology is prevalent in every aspect of our lives, whether it’s at home, work or out and about.
The team at PCM have rounded up their favourite TV shows that heavily feature technology.
...
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Google Chrome to Flag all HTTP websites as 'Not Secure'
19/02/2018
What is HTTP and HTTPS?
HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol and HTTPS means HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure. They are languages used to transfer data between web servers and cli...
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What is Office 365 Delve?
08/02/2018
Never heard of Office Delve? You’re missing out!
The people over at Microsoft just love developing tools that help businesses to be more productive. Whether that’s through faster technology, enabli...
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Should you be worried about Kaspersky Lab security software products?
06/02/2018
Over the past few months, Kaspersky Lab have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Most recently the National Cyber Security Centre warned government departments not to use Kaspersky s...
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HMRC Tax Rebate and Refund Fraud
24/01/2018
It's that time of year again!
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Cyber Attacks Threaten Global Stability
23/01/2018
World Economic Forum Global Risk Report
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Spectre and Meltdown - 2018's first major IT Security story
04/01/2018
Just 4 days into the New Year and already a major IT Security issue has been reported in the major press.
Following months of investigation and collaboration between journalists, researchers an...
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Top 10 Blog Posts of 2017
04/01/2018
It was a busy year on the PCM blog with 26 posts published, shared and read. We’ve rounded up our top 10 blog posts of 2017 based on data from Google Analytics...did you read them all?
#1 - Email F...
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2017 Christmas Jib Jabs
18/12/2017
Every year we create some fun Christmas Jib Jab videos. This year Matt, Pablo, Zaynah and Lukasz are dancing elves, whilst Ula, Hugh, Sarah and Chetan get ready for the festivities to begin!
From ...
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He sees you when you’re sleeping...
07/12/2017
Smart Devices at Christmas
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What are your Christmas opening hours?
29/11/2017
3 technology updates for Christmas
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Our Opinion: The 2017 Budget and Technology
23/11/2017
During yesterday’s Budget announcement, technology made several appearances with over £500 million pledged to technology investments. Chancellor Philip Hammond said that “the world is on the brink of ...
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Updates to Google’s Calendar Functionality
31/10/2017
A step in the right direction for business users
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The changing face of IT Support
19/10/2017
5 years ago, IT support was your standard call and fix event. A machine broke, so you called an IT expert to fix it. Now, hardware is lasting longer with fewer outages, and the majority of problems co...
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A Day in the Life: Ula Gebura-Watroba
17/10/2017
Our second installment of our 'Day in the Life Feature'. You can read about Lukasz's day here.
Ula Gebura-Watroba - Accounts and Administration
Dropping two boys off means a busy start to t...
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Technology Requirements for Good Data Management
11/10/2017
Don't let GDPR and the new Data Protection Bill scare you. If you employ good data management practices throughout your business, you're well on your way to compliance.
One of the fundamentals of g...
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European Commission on Cyber Security
02/10/2017
State of the Union 2017
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ABCs of Technology
21/09/2017
What technology does every business need?
We're taking you back to school with our ABCs of technology.
A. Antivirus and security software. A no-brainer really but you'd be shocked by the numbe...
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A Day in the Life: Lukasz
07/09/2017
Lukasz Kisala - IT Extraordinnaire
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Small Businesses Failing IT Security
29/08/2017
We were recently published on the Business Up North website highlighting the lack of high level IT and data security measures that small businesses have implemented.
You can read the article on Bu...
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Two Factor Authentication
03/08/2017
Make Your Data Safer
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What is email spoofing?
01/08/2017
Email spoofing is a trick used by cyber criminals to make you believe that an email is from someone else. They then use social engineering to gain access to your data, or to trick you into paying fake...
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Benefits of Bespoke Software Development
30/05/2017
Software dominates modern day to day business activities. From your email client, messaging service, CRM, accounting software...the list of software that organisations can use is near endless!
...
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Why should you update your website?
23/05/2017
Just as technology advances, so too does website design. Not only do modern websites need to keep up with modern technology, but it's what your customers expect too.
Is your website ready for m...
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Massive WannaCry Ransomware Attack
23/05/2017
Following Friday's ransomware attack that caused severe disruption in 150 countries, and severely affected the NHS in the UK, the National Cyber Security Centre has released a statement advising organ...
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Ransomware Trends from Symantec ISTR 2017
02/05/2017
Higher Costs
In 2016 the mean average payment demanded from ransomware attacks more than doubled to undefined per attack, and that is excluding the unusually high demand of undefined,730 demanded...
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Technology is a key element in business growth
27/04/2017
1. Technology is essential
More than 80% of the fast-growing business leaders said that technology was essential to helping them grow, compared to only 63% of non-growth businesses.
2. IT Team = ...
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Email Fraud
25/04/2017
Increasing numbers of small and medium businesses are being targeted by criminals using email fraud to steal money.
If you log-in to online banking, you might have seen a message like this…
“Fraud ...
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Ransomware – not just for big businesses
02/02/2017
Cyber-attacks made the mainstream news in 2016 with the Yahoo breach, the DDoS attack that affected sites including Netflix and the hacks during the USA election cycle. Already in 2017 we've seen a ma...
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