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Wouldn’t it be great if all business transactions could be conducted over lunch and executed with a handshake? It would sure cut down on the paperwork. Unfortunately, business is far too complicated for the kind of vagueness and misunderstanding that would arise from such a deal. Everything needs to be in writing. Love them or hate them, those piles of paperwork are your allies. This is especially true when evolving your business from a break/fix model to managed services.

Data is essential to a business, but too often the necessary precautions are not in place. Many small businesses are just one small data disaster away from going out of business. What’s worrying is that 3 out of 4 small businesses have no backup strategy or disaster recovery plan in place to prevent this from happening. This lack of preparation can bring a halt to business operations or cause an organization to go out of business.

All businesses and organizations have assets that are essential for their success, so it makes sense that the demand for asset lifecycle management services rises every year. A SkyQuest report on the asset management market claims, “The global asset management market was valued at $250.12 billion in 2021, and it is expected to reach a value of $1113.53 billion by 2028.” Discover how asset lifecycle management works and benefits businesses around the globe.

When submitting a warranty request for a device on your network, you’ll likely need to have important device information handy, such as the serial number. Rather than getting caught up in a game of telephone with the end-user, all relevant information for any devices is conveniently pulled in through the NinjaOne console.

G2 reports that nearly 70% of IT professionals state that IT environments have increased in complexity compared to just two years ago. More complex IT environments suggest the need for increased monitoring and management to ensure that all components efficiently work together. When you add more applications and software to IT management, it can complicate the management process if solutions don’t integrate or there isn’t structure with how the applications work together.

Keeping track of and maintaining IT assets is essential for a successful business. However, Capterra reports that businesses are reacting instead of preventing maintenance issues 80% of the time. Proactive IT asset management is made possible with a current and accurate IT asset inventory.

Since the addition of custom fields to Ninja, we’ve had the ability to read-from and write-to device-level custom fields via scripts and the terminal. Organization-level custom fields (available as part of Ninja’s documentation functionality) have always been readable via scripts, but up till now they have not been writable.

Whether your organization has a few remote employees or your entire workforce has gone remote, you need an easy way to install and update software remotely. By using a tool called winget, you can natively deploy software through Windows. In this article, we’ll take a look at what winget is, how it works, and how you can use it.

Staying ahead of any issues can be the difference between a swift resolution or a catastrophe. At NinjaOne, we want to arm our partners with the tools to be alerted at a moment’s notice of any potential problems with their or their customers’ endpoints. This is why we built our new notification channels feature - to help technicians proactively manage their endpoints with critical alerts no matter where they are and regardless of what tools they use.

The two words that IT and MSP teams never want to hear are “data loss.” According to Business Partner Magazine’s article on data backup, “94% of companies that fail to recover from a major data loss do not survive, and 43% of companies never resume their operation after a major data loss event.” To prevent these disasters from occurring, IT & MSP teams rely on data protection.