Mergers and acquisitions are hard on small businesses. Your company may be bringing in a new partner to boost your products and services, hoping that two merged companies would perform better than just one, or perhaps your firm is the missing component in a corporation’s master plan.

Complete Technology is proud to announce and welcome Sarah Goodin as the Company’s Vice President of Operations. Since inception, Complete Technology has been focused on providing enterprise level managed IT services to small and mid-sized businesses in the Kansas City area.

Humans have always found better ways of communicating with each other. From pictographs to emojis, communication technologies have evolved into the mobile chat apps today.

With the rise of the internet in the mid 90s, MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and other instant messaging programs gave early chat websites some competition.

Are you familiar with the expression, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? Those words of wisdom from Benjamin Franklin describe the challenges faced by IT departments to keep their companies running.

As a business owner, you know that network downtime can result in lost revenue, data failure, lower employee productivity, and lost customers.

The World Wide Web has significantly altered the way we do everyday tasks and conduct business. We purchase goods, pay bills, share documents, and send email by inputting our personal details online without hesitation.

But do you know how much private data your company is collecting over the internet? Or what happens to that data? The recent implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) addresses these and other data privacy concerns, and it's imperative for businesses to familiarize themselves with the changes.

Relocating your business to a new location is an exciting time for everyone in the company, although it can be a stressful affair for the people organizing it. This huge undertaking is time-consuming, expensive and disruptive, but it is a necessary step forward to grow your firm.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is here to stay. It has earned its reputation as an efficient and valuable tool for businesses all over Kansas City, including data backup and recovery service providers like Complete Technology. Even if your office is currently not using any form of AI, it may soon become an important tool to help you eliminate tedious tasks.

There will always be people who say that Coca-Cola is the best soft drink in the world, and there will be others who will claim Pepsi is better. These disagreements exist in every industry, and in the world of technology it's PCs vs. Macs. There is no perfect answer to this debate because both options have their pros and cons.

Most offices had only few desktop computers during the early '80s, so when businesses needed their payroll or sales figures calculated quickly, they outsourced these tasks to a vendor equipped with the technology. Nowadays, companies like Complete Technology offer applications like that via "the cloud" so businesses don't have to worry about buying and acquiring licenses themselves.

As more IT support providers like Complete Technology embrace cloud solutions, fewer small business owners fret over information security. Cloud vendors like Microsoft and Google have always provided adequate security features -- they just require a technician's touch.