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IPD NOW is no flash in the pan, it‘s more a sea­soned per­former. Because we realise fully what‘s impor­tant to small and medium sized busi­nesses, we are the per­fect part­ner to accom­pany you through the var­i­ous phases of your jour­ney. This means keep­ing eye out for inno­va­tions and devel­op­ments which could be impor­tant to you. Don‘t worry, there‘ll be no short­age of excit­ing top­ics to explore! To help start you off, here we have set out handy IT check lists, prod­uct infor­ma­tion, tips and tricks, and IT news that might be of inter­est.

IT Know How

Uni­fied Com­mu­ni­ca­tion on the next level

In times of advanc­ing dig­i­tal­iza­tion, com­mu­ni­ca­tion tech­nol­ogy is also sub­ject to con­stant change. The end of clas­sic ISDN sys­tems ush­ered in the age of VoIP tech­nol­ogy. But what does this change actu­ally mean for you or your com­pany and what solu­tions, pos­si­bil­i­ties and advan­tages are there? IPD NOW clar­i­fies! PBX, ISDN, VoIP – what? PBX …
Tricks

5 tips for more effi­cient work with Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is an inno­v­a­tive com­mu­ni­ca­tion plat­form and cen­tral hub for vir­tual team­work. Teams sup­ports a vari­ety of fea­tures includ­ing chat, group chat, online meet­ing, video con­fer­ence, web con­fer­ence and phone call. The inte­gra­tion of var­i­ous end devices and inte­grated Microsoft 365 appli­ca­tions such as Word, Excel, Pow­er­Point and Share­Point enable location-​independent, col­lab­o­ra­tive work on …
News

Dig­i­ti­za­tion in com­pa­nies – bridg­ing the gap

Dig­i­ti­za­tion is not pro­gress­ing at the same pace every­where. While some com­pa­nies are march­ing ahead, oth­ers are in dan­ger of los­ing touch. The marked dif­fer­ence is often described as a ” dig­i­ti­za­tion gap”. Mea­sured by the impor­tance indi­vid­ual com­pa­nies attach to dig­i­ti­za­tion, a rough dis­tinc­tion can be made between three types of com­pany. The first …
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HOW THE IPD NOW CON­FIG­U­RA­TOR WORKS

All-​round care­free IT for founders, star­tups and SMEs IT solu­tions for the var­i­ous plat­forms of a Cloud PBX (tele­phone sys­tem) and a Cloud Omnichan­nel Con­tact Cen­ter. With the IPD NOW con­fig­u­ra­tor, you can click together the IT you want, with­out tedious research or unpro­duc­tive tele­phone calls. IPD NOW is an IT con­struc­tion kit that is …
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Home office – Work­ing in the liv­ing room

The con­cept of home office describes – this much is now gen­er­ally known – the pos­si­bil­ity of work­ing from home. The model allows employ­ees to set up a work­place within their own four walls in order to bet­ter rec­on­cile their pri­vate lives with their jobs. Employ­ers, on the other hand, use this offer to improve …
News

Paper­less Office – Dig­i­ti­za­tion at the work­place

Paper in the office – some­thing more nor­mal is hard to imag­ine. Paper is every­where in cir­cu­la­tion. E-​mails are printed out, notes are writ­ten on slips of paper and any doc­u­ments, such as invoices or orders, are deliv­ered and archived by post. Mean­while the world­wide demand is so high that almost every sec-​ond indus­tri­ally felled …
Tricks

Not with­out my IT habits

Deal­ing with IT is part of daily busi­ness. It is there­fore not sur­pris­ing that in the course of time cer­tain IT habits creep in with every user. But most peo­ple for­get that these behav­iour pat­terns can have many bad con­se­quences in the long run. This may be because of the con­ve­nience, but also because of …
IT Know How

Microsoft Teams – All in one

If nowa­days an inten­sive exchange takes place in projects and between depart­ments, nei­ther a con­stant face-​to-​face exchange nor count­less dif­fer­ent doc­u­ments should be con­sid­ered. In response to the ques­tion of an opti­mized alter­na­tive, Microsoft presents a cen­tral con­tact point for a vir­tual team, a dig­i­tal image of the clas­sic team con­fer­ence room and desk – …
News

Cowork­ing – A fur­ther trend from over­sea?

If an inno­v­a­tive trend, char­ac­terised by a mod­ern atti­tude towards life and dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion, leads to a deci­sive change in the busi­ness and work­ing model, then we are talk­ing about a unique solu­tion for employ­ees and employ­ers from which every­one can ben­e­fit. It is about cowork­ing, but what is cowork­ing and how does it work? Cowork­ing …
Tricks

These IT habits should be avoided

In today’s world, the daily han­dling of IT is unavoid­able. Over time, behav­iour pat­terns and habits in rela­tion to IT use creep in, which can have neg­a­tive con­se­quences in many cases. No mat­ter whether it is because of your own com­fort, igno­rance or years of damage-​free action. The boomerang comes back and with it the …
Tricks

Mean­ing­ful use of fea­tures and tools in Win­dows 10

Usu­ally buy­ers find the pre-​installed Win­dows 10 oper­at­ing sys­tem on the new com­put­ers and thus enjoy the advan­tages of their own assis­tant named Cor­tana, per­sonal speeches and at the same time they are trained to become a mul­ti­task­ing genius. With its lat­est oper­at­ing sys­tem, Microsoft offers every user numer­ous new pos­si­bil­i­ties to work more eas­ily …
IT Know How

Hybrid Cloud and Multi-​Cloud

The times where only sin­gle clouds and iso­lated solu­tions exist on the mar­ket are over. In the con­text of dig­i­tal­iza­tion, the increas­ing rel­e­vance of cloud tech­nolo­gies was fol­lowed by log­i­cal devel­op­ment. Com­pa­nies are increas­ingly rely­ing on net­worked and hybrid mod­els such as Hybrid Clouds and Multi-​Clouds. These foun­da­tions form the opti­mal promise for the ongo­ing …
IT Know How

Data­man­age­ment for busi­ness suc­cess

Every­one is speak­ing about it: The Data. But what makes data so valu­able and sig­nif­i­cant to the suc­cess of a com­pany? It is not the source, the for­mat or the amount of data that makes it spe­cial, but the infor­ma­tion that can derived from it. The suc­cess of a com­pany is linked to the con­clu­sions …
IT Know How

Don’t under­es­ti­mate IT!

Dreams are real­ized, ideas are imple­mented, and the oppor­tu­nity is seized. Star­tups sprout from the Earth, SMEs grow and mul­ti­ply and every­one con­cen­trates on their own life task: to lead the com­pany to a last­ing suc­cess. But with this step it becomes clear that in the con­text of dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion, infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy plays a deci­sive …
Tricks

5 tips for a more effi­cient way of work­ing with Out­look

Func­tions such as Quick­Steps or the Bcc field of Microsoft Out­look do not make it eas­ier to work every­day? These tips and tricks for Out­look pro­vide a more effi­cient and pro­duc­tive way of work­ing. For those who work with Out­look daily in the office or mobile with the Out­look app, should not only enjoy the …
IT Know How

Microsoft Book­ings – Effi­cient Appoint­ment Sched­ul­ing

Your telephone’s ring­ing, your e-​mail inbox is flash­ing, someone’s request­ing an appoint­ment, some­one wants to can­cel, some­one else wants to rearrange and then a cus­tomer sud­denly turns up at the wrong time. This kind of appoint­ment sched­ul­ing can very eas­ily become the focus of your atten­tion, push­ing work which will actu­ally grow your busi­ness into …
Tricks

5 tips for an organ­ised day with Out­look

Microsoft Out­look is a free e-​mail and cal­en­dar ser­vice to sim­plify your daily life. With its clear, uni­form struc­ture com­pris­ing mail, cal­en­dar, con­tacts and fold­ers, Microsoft Out­look can help every user work more pro­duc­tively and with a more net­worked approach. Often, how­ever, peo­ple don’t make suf­fi­cient use of all of its func­tions designed to sim­plify …
News

Work­place as a Ser­vice offered as com­plete bun­dle: IPD NOW and co-​working space oper­a­tor WorkInn launch joint ven­ture

Founders and own­ers of SMEs are par­tic­u­larly aware of how impor­tant pro­fes­sional IT sup­port is to their own busi­ness suc­cess. Still, IT is often­times neglected. The fact is that there is lit­tle time to ade­quately attend to your IT needs. Specif­i­cally, com­plete bun­dles like those cov­er­ing the full span of tech­nol­ogy from A to Z …
IT Know How

Leas­ing, shar­ing, swap­ping is the new hav­ing

Using instead of own­ing. The trend towards non-​ownership con­tin­ues apace. Mul­ti­ple web­sites and apps offer prod­ucts or ser­vices for stream­ing, swap­ping or lend­ing. “Spo­tify”, “Net­flix” and cloud stor­age sys­tems are just some inno­v­a­tive exam­ples of “using” which have become part and par­cel of soci­ety today. Why buy, when every­one shares? The new hav­ing is defined …
IT Know How

Heads up, star­tups!

Four out of five com­pa­nies are not safe from an IT secu­rity breach. Small and large com­pa­nies com­pet­ing in the dig­i­tal world con­front dif­fer­ent sets of chal­lenges. But more often than not the most impor­tant chal­lenge of all gets over­looked. We are talk­ing about IT secu­rity. Sure enough, it is not always tagged as a …
IT Know How

Now is the time to think ahead

Is your com­pany fit for a dig­i­tal future? Every­one is talk­ing about tech­no­log­i­cal tran­si­tion and a new indus­trial rev­o­lu­tion. What they are refer­ring to is dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion, which is forc­ing com­pa­nies to adopt a new way of think­ing and make new invest­ments, lead­ing to fun­da­men­tal changes in the econ­omy. Ulti­mately, this shift is cre­at­ing cor­po­rate, eco­nomic …
Tricks

Word tips and key­board short­cuts for Office 365

We all know peo­ple who look highly effi­cient at their work, and no less so when it comes to using Microsoft Word. They accom­plish all sorts of tasks and com­mands in just sec­onds by using var­i­ous key­board short­cuts. Well, there’s no mys­tery involved: they have mas­tered the tricks of the soft­ware to make their work …
News

End of the road for ISDN: Five tips for switch­ing to IP tele­phony

All set for the future of VoIP The days of ISDN and tra­di­tional tele­phone sys­tems are num­bered. Deutsche Telekom plans to switch all cus­tomers to Inter­net tele­phony by the end of 2018. Although some sup­pli­ers are giv­ing cus­tomers until 2022 to make the move, com­pa­nies should start their migra­tion plan­ning in good time now, because …
IT Know How

All set for meet­ings with no travel expenses?

So many options to lighten your work­load One com­pany. Many employ­ees. Rep­re­sented in mul­ti­ple coun­tries. The times when col­leagues com­mu­ni­cated via car­rier pigeon or mes­sages in a bot­tle are long gone. Day-​to-​day meet­ings tes­tify to the rapid progress of dig­i­tal­i­sa­tion. Data are eas­ily filed on huge exter­nal servers via Inter­net con­nec­tions. Every­one is aware of …
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Com­plete IT pack­age for start-​up build­ing finance com­pany: The plug and play prin­ci­ple

Gün­ter Kleen, Chris­t­ian Voß and Marc Schwarzbold founded their own com­pany in April 2017: Kleen-​Voß-​Schwarzbold GmbH & Co​.KG ‚ briefly said KVS. Their busi­ness idea was to offer a build­ing finance con­sul­tancy ser­vice, totally inde­pen­dent of any bank. The trio advise devel­op­ers in need of financ­ing from their Neumün­ster head­quar­ters. When the three founders aren’t in their …
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Uni­fied com­mu­ni­ca­tions for man­u­fac­turer Lunge

Afford­able cor­po­rate IT for SMEs: uni­fied com­mu­ni­ca­tions for man­u­fac­turer Lunge Ulf Lunge has run every day for 30 years. One part of his kit is espe­cially impor­tant to him: his shoes. “Over the last 30 years I must have checked out almost every shoe on the mar­ket”, com­mented Lunge. To those who know Ulf Lunge’s …
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IPD NOW in action: flex­i­ble IT for start-​up koawach

How do you take your cocoa? How about with guarana in chili, cin­na­mon or plain flavours? Grün­der Daniel Duarte and Heiko Butz have just what you crave. They sell organic, fair-​trade hot choco­lates under the koawach label. Founded in 2014, their busi­ness was an imme­di­ate hit. In the first year-​and-​a-​half, the start-​up grew from zero …
IT Know How

The Cloud: Worth­while for all com­pany founders

Any owner who views his com­pany as a start-​up often has at least one foot in the Cloud already. Because it’s easy to con­ceive Cloud solu­tions as an eco­nomic oppor­tu­nity for a new com­pany. But even com­pany founders and man­agers in tra­di­tional sec­tors and indus­tries who don’t see them­selves as start-​ups in the con­ven­tional sense …
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Sim­ply click to order and get to work – straight­for­ward IT for start-​up com­pany Geschenke​.de

“Oh gosh, it’s Dad’s 60th birth­day next Sat­ur­day and I still haven’t got him a present!” Best start a search engine now, if you don’t want to give him after­shave or socks for the umpteenth time. It will prob­a­bly lead you to Geschenke​.de. “The online gifts mar­ket is enjoy­ing double-​digit per­cent­age growth. The mar­ket is …
IT Know How

From sales tools and com­puter games

Sales’ job is to sell! But the sit­u­a­tion is far from ideal. Too much time is lost on other things. Work­ing with umpteen open pro­grams, for exam­ple. The absur­dity of it all only becomes appar­ent when you imag­ine play­ing a com­puter game in this way. Let’s take a look… Multi-​tasking: When IT doesn’t do things …
IT Know How

Rethink­ing work­places from scratch

Staff num­bers are increas­ing and you need to install a new work­sta­tion. It’s not just a ques­tion of ensur­ing that the new team mem­ber can find every­thing he needs for his job. It’s also an oppor­tu­nity to look where processes and pro­ce­dures can be opti­mised. Five fea­tures of a mod­ern IT sys­tem – whether start-​up, …
IT Know How

The Cloud as part of every­day life

Gen­er­al­i­sa­tions gen­er­ally start with “The” and are rarely accu­rate. This is par­tic­u­larly true for all state­ments start­ing “The Cloud is not for ….”, irre­spec­tive of which sec­tor of the econ­omy or soci­ety fol­lows. Instead, we should today say: “The Cloud is!” And on a day-​to-​day basis. So why are many com­pa­nies still reluc­tant to rely …

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