Adding the “next big thing” to your technology arsenal doesn’t just make your business look good. Businesses today need to be smart about making technology investments that keep them competitive while staying within budget. As business technology continues to advance, your needs change. Whether it’s time to: replace your existing, outdated technology,refresh the technology that you have before it becomes obsolete, oradopt brand new technology to meet a specific business … [Read more...]
How to Meet the Growing Demands on Your Senior Living Organization’s Network
Resident expectations at today’s senior living facilities are a far cry from what they were even 20 years ago. Back in the 1990s, a resident may have checked in needing only a phone line to stay connected to the outside world. Modern residents – in contrast – come with modern expectations. They want to be able to use streaming services to watch TV shows and movies, which requires bandwidth. They arrive with multiple devices – smartphones, tablets, laptops – all needing connectivity to … [Read more...]
A Conversation With Scott Stevenson of Phoebe Ministries
How Edge Insights Helped a Senior Care Non-Profit Save $122,000/Year Phoebe Ministries is a non-profit senior living organization with four continuing care retirement communities, eight affordable housing facilities, and four pharmacies across seven Pennsylvania counties. With a large geographic footprint and variety of operations, as well as a strong commitment to their charitable efforts, Phoebe Ministries wanted to ensure they were managing their operational costs … [Read more...]
Increase Cost Savings and Improve the Resident Experience With Cloud Communications
Senior living organizations all share a priority: improving the resident experience. It takes a lot of strategizing to do this, however, when you’re operating with limited resources. What if there were a technology you could adopt that would help your senior living organization increase cost savings and simultaneously improve the resident experience? By moving to cloud communications, your senior living organization can gain the solid communications infrastructure your staff needs to provide … [Read more...]
Why Networking Infrastructure Is Crucial for Your Business
If you’re a business decision-maker, have you considered the importance of networking infrastructure for your organization? As your business expands, it’s crucial to lay out the foundation to support more functions – other than just your individual apps. It’s not uncommon to see leaders who fail to establish the right infrastructure from the beginning. Instead, they let their networking infrastructure decisions be driven by integrating a new piece of software or when they decide to go with a new … [Read more...]
Cloud Communications: The Basics, and What They Mean for Your Business
There are a lot of people, and a lot of firms, talking about cloud communications these days. There's so much talk about this field that some would think that without these tools in place, your business is on borrowed time, waiting to be subsumed by savvier businesses who made the move already. Understanding cloud communications is the first step to realizing what they can do for your organization, and the value they can bring with them. Senior care facilities in particular can see … [Read more...]
An Introduction to SD-WAN: How It Can Be Useful to You
The pace of technology only seems to quicken as new developments emerge almost daily that fundamentally impact the way we live, work, and play. It's no different for those who operate senior care facilities, and new developments here impact every facet of day-to-day operation as well. Some may have already heard about SD-WAN and been intrigued. So let's take a closer look at this technology, and what kind of impact it can have for business users of all stripes – even those in senior care … [Read more...]
It’s Only Natural: Our Journey From Cost Consulting to Telecom Audits
By Gene Waltz, Executive Vice President, Edge Insights Edge Insights has always performed telecom audits as part of our main offering: cost consulting for businesses. However, it became a bigger part of what we deliver 6-7 years ago when audits began consistently exposing problems with business circuits. These findings revealed our customers were paying above market prices for circuits that were either old fashioned or weren’t meeting their requirements. Seeing a need, we began … [Read more...]
Why Your Business Needs a Sustainability Strategy
Having a sustainability strategy may sound like the province of starry-eyed dreamers rather than those concerned with the hard, dollars-and-cents operations of a business, but such a strategy can do more good for a business than expectations allow for. So what kind of benefits can a business expect to derive from having a sustainability strategy in place? The Benefits Available to Those With a Sustainability Strategy Nowadays, setting up a sustainability strategy isn't just for reducing a … [Read more...]
Benefits of Recycling: How Going Green Can Impact Your Business
Recycling isn't a priority for many companies. This is quite a shame because they're missing out on an opportunity to improve their businesses. For many, recycling is all about saving the planet, but there are several other benefits to this ecological practice. Understanding the many reasons to embrace recycling can allow businesses to better structure their recycling programs with a focus on business improvement, while also helping out Mother Earth. What Benefits of Recycling Can My Business … [Read more...]
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