In a post-pandemic world, logistics companies need to ensure they are giving their best performance by leveraging state-of-the-art IT solutions that allow them to automate and optimise every step of their operations. This also applies to the accounting function.

E-commerce businesses have experienced tremendous growth during COVID-19, which is expected as non-essential brick-and-mortar retailers have had to go into shutdown. 

The top priority for healthcare organisations is to deliver effective treatment at optimal costs. As such, medical practitioners and the finance team must collaborate to alleviate the patient's physical and financial pains. 

As Fat Larry’s Band (ask your parents) once sang, “Zoom! Just one look and then my heart went boom!” And video conferencing solution Zoom has had a similar effect on users in the last couple of years, rapidly becoming the go-to program for online meetings and video calls. It’s quick to set up, easy to use, free of charge for light users, and provides a much smoother and less glitchy experience than most of its competitors. No wonder it’s become so popular so quickly!

Recently we shared some ideas to help locked-down marketers keep busy during the COVID-19 crisis, and one of our suggestions was that this is the ideal time to do that website spring clean you’ve almost certainly been putting off for ages! Obviously, if your website is perfect you can skip this article, but we suspect even the most assiduously-maintained site would benefit from a bit of tweaking. So here’s our checklist for sprucing up and optimising your business’s most important sales tool.

These are unprecedented times for all of us, and marketers are no exception. If you work in one of these booming sectors - online training, food delivery, healthcare, etc - then you’re probably busier than ever! For the rest of us, business is quiet to non-existent, and we’re stuck at home trying to stay away from the fridge and the TV. 

In our previous article, we have mentioned work from home communication apps experienced a tremendous surge in growth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Zoom suddenly ubiquitous, but also receives loads of backlash due to various security breaches.

In today's article, we will continue with the remaining 5 alternatives to Zoom.

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As more and more professionals are asked to work from home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses could face an increase in attacks that could result in data breaches. Remote workers are susceptible to both physical and cyber thefts. The stakes are even higher when you are handling sensitive data, proprietary information, and client contracts at home.

It is not surprising that work from home communication apps experienced a tremendous increase in growth during COVID-19 as a major portion of the global population is now home-bound. 

The highest number of downloads recorded was during the week of March 14-21, which surpassed 62 million downloads on both iOS and Google Play, according to a report by App Annie.

Studies show that productivity spikes when employers allow their workforces to work from home more. Many of us certainly enjoy its benefits, but working from home is not as simple as it sounds; it can be distracting.