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Structured Internal Communications Flow The challenge to many organisations, particularly SMEs with stretched resources, is to ensure that there is a dovetailing of accounts and finance with operations. All too often organisations find that different units or...

Time up for Skype! BBC reports that Microsoft has officially announced that Windows 11, its new operating system to be rolled out in the coming years will not include Skype. Skype was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion as the leading communications app that...

Think online - eLearning works! The 2020-21 COVID-19 pandemic has impacted most businesses, particularly SMEs in the service industry. Many had to re-think their whole business just to survive. Yet, the radical change to our norm imposed by COVID-19 related measures...

One of the basic tenets of management practice is that “if you want to improve the quality of management decisions, you need to start by improving the quality of the information that management has available for decision making”. Effective management decisions rely on...

In many sectors, it seems that Malta has long had a culture of poaching of staff. Recent reports on the media by leaders in the hospitality sector, air their complaints of the scarcity of labour now that many foreign workers have left Malta following the COVID-19...

(This is Part 1 of a three part analysis to be continued in the forthcoming issues) In June 200 the Malta Financial Services Authority released a publication that provided a clear indication of what sort of upgrading was expected of the financial services sector in...

To most of those who have worked in a consulting or support service environment, maintaining a daily timesheet is just a normal part of work practice. To many of those who have never worked in a consulting or support service environment, the idea to tracking the daily...

Over the years we have seen an increased popularity in the bring-your-own-devices (BYOD) to enable staff to access enterprise and data systems. The BYOD policies allows and sometimes even encourages staff to access corporate and data systems using their personal...

The COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath have demonstrated just how dependant all companies are on the software and platforms that they use in their day-to-day activities. Their supply chain management, their distribution and their internal controls, all depend on the...

eBusiness Systems was launched in 2000 specifically to leverage evolving web-based solutions for business clients. The boutique aspect of our operations reflects the high degree of customisation and be-spoke development that is involved in comparison to the...

Early this month Tech Republic carried a feature by N.F. Mendoza who reported on the prestigious Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit during which eight critical trends for security and risk-management leaders were identified. One of the fundamental...

A few weeks ago a client who runs a local business suspected their email address could be compromised, and asked us to investigate. The suspicions were correct, a trojan had been downloaded. “A Trojan horse, or Trojan, is a type of malicious code or software that...