Supercharge Your Email With Hosted Exchange
Email is critical to our everyday operations – a tool we could not live without, so the solution you use it just as critical. However most businesses are using email solutions that are sub-par or just not designed to keep up with the demands of their business. This is where Hosted Exchange can help. Partek […]
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Get Control of Your Inbox in 5 Steps
We’re an IT company – so you can imagine how many emails we get per day; Support emails, sales emails, inquiries, emails just to say hi. Anyway, we get a lot of emails. Keeping track of all these emails is a challenge. Organizing them so that they can be accessed at a later date is […]
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Partek Named as Innovation and Technology for Sponsor for Now We’re Talking Conference 2014
The “Now We’re Talking” – Community Conference 2014 is an event intended to bring together community leaders in the nonprofit, business, and government sectors to share skills and knowledge, discuss meaningful issues, and seek collaborative solutions for a more thriving and inclusive community. The conference is making it’s second appearance after an award winning show […]
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The Heartbleed Virus: What You Need to Know.
The Heartbleed virus has been out in the wild for a little over two years now. So why all of the panic all of a sudden? Here’s what you need to know about the latest virus threat to hit mainstream media: What is The Heartbleed Virus? Heartbleed is a security bug or programming error in […]
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Why You Can’t Replace The Human Factor of IT Support
The other day there was a problem with my friend’s smartphone. She “Googled” her situation, and in .23 seconds, she received over 15 million results of articles, websites, and videos all proclaiming their “match” to her problem. After wasting time reading through the offered information, no solution was to be found. She desperately wished there was someone she could call. […]
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Partek Takes Home Alberta Biz Award
Partek took home the Youth Entrepreneur Award at the Alberta Business Awards this past weekend in Edmonton, Alberta. Partek was nominated in two categories: Marketing Excellence Award, and Youth Entrepreneur Award, which celebrates achievements and success by a business owner under the age of 35. We were incredibly honored to be recognized at a provincial […]
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What Makes Partek Different? It’s All About the Customer Experience
How and why we think differently about service at Partek – from James Parsons, Owner As a small business it’s often easy to think that great customer service is simple to deliver. After all, with a small team, everything should come easier – communication, team work, etc. However, that’s not always the case – especially […]
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Partek Becomes Platinum Lexmark Partner
Partek has become a Platinum Business Partner with Lexmark. This allows us to sell Lexmark printer and copier solutions as well as peripherals and supplies to our clients. Lexmark is extremely competitive in the office solutions printing space and provides high quality, easy to use printing solutions such as all-in-one units, laser printers, and digital […]
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Partek – Finalist for the 2014 Alberta Business Awards of Distinction
Partek IT Solutions Inc is pleased to announce that it has been recently selected as a finalist for the Alberta Business Awards of Distinction in the Marketing and Youth Entrepreneur categories. This great honour was announced by the Alberta Chambers of Commerce in December. Along with being a finalist for the Marketing and Youth Entrepreneur […]
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What to know about Canada’s Anti-spam Legislation (CASL)
Last week the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations of Canada’s Antispam Legislation (CASL) were given PCO approval. Canada’s new Anti-spam provisions of CASL comes into force on July 1, 2014. Malware provisions of CASL comes into force Jan. 15, 2015. What does this mean for most people? • You will need consent to send most forms of commercial electronic messages […]
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Backup. Redundancy. Business Continuity. Why You Need All 3.
The word backup is pretty common place these days in businesses. Rarely do we see networks that don’t have some form of backup of their data operating – whether it’s an external drive, online backup, or a combination of many. However, what most businesses don’t realize is there’s more to the backup conversation than just […]
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How Do You Know If You Need A New Website
When was the last time you took a good look at your website? It’s true that most business think that as long as they have a website, they’re doing well to promote new business. However, have you ever looked at your website from the perspective of your customers? Hop on it right now and answer […]
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Why Reactionary IT Service Doesn’t Work
As businesses become increasingly dependent on their IT, the need for a reliable infrastructure and for a service provider that allows business owners and employees to focus on their core functions has become critical. The problem is that most businesses use a reactive model to handle IT issues as they arise, which takes business owners […]
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Four Potential Business Implications of Running Windows XP Past April 2014
On April 8, 2014, Microsoft will end support for the decade-old Windows XP. This means you will no longer receive updates, including security updates, for Windows XP from Microsoft. Support of Microsoft Office 2003 will also be ending on the same date. So how will this impact businesses still running Windows XP? Security Risk Without […]
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Partek Featured in ‘Alberta Small Business. Big Impact Profile’
Small businesses have a big impact on Alberta’s economy. The ‘Alberta Small Business Profile’ is an annual publication produced by the Alberta Government Enterprise and Advanced Education. The 2013 Small Business, Big Impact: Alberta Small Business Profile illustrates the evolution taking place among small businesses in Alberta. It provides useful statistics and explores the special roles small […]
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Windows 8.1. What’s it all about?
When Microsoft launched Windows 8 almost a year ago reactions ranged from enthusiasm to cautious interest to total confusion. Probably not what Microsoft wanted to hear after the release of their flagship OS, expected to change the tablet and desktop market forever. Fast forward almost a year, and Microsoft has released Windows 8.1. And with […]
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