READOS / Technology
Business Systems, Security and IT Decisions
Choosing and running business software, websites, security, availability and the technology you depend on.
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- 01No universally best option: how context and scale change the right technology choiceElectric, renewable or bigger can be right in one setting and wrong in another. How energy supply, use, logistics and scale reverse rankings, and how to test choices against context.
- 02Proving a new technology is ready to depend on: beyond the best resultA strong demonstration shows a technology can work, not that it will keep working in your conditions. How to test variation, degradation, maintenance and fit before you rely on it.
- 03Choosing an ERP or business system for a small manufacturerWhat ERP actually does, when a small business needs one, how to choose a system by starting from your problems, and how to implement it without the classic failures.
- 04Keeping business systems in sync: integration methods, data ownership and handling errors between applicationsOnline shops, ERP, CRM, payroll and warehouse systems must share data. How integration methods compare, how to decide which system owns what, and how to catch errors.
- 05Testing business software that holds important data: test data, calculations, permissions and acceptanceData-heavy business systems fail in predictable places: calculations, dates, rounding, permissions and volume. How to plan tests, prepare data and run acceptance testing.
- 06High availability for business systems: what uptime targets mean, what they cost and how failover worksAvailability percentages hide hours of downtime. How to translate targets into time, find single points of failure, choose failover approaches and weigh cost against outages.
- 07What businesses should know about data centres: power, cooling, connectivity, tiers and choosing a facilityEvery business system runs in some kind of data centre, from a comms cupboard to a cloud region. What makes a facility reliable, how tiers work and what to check when choosing one.
- 08When new capability moves the outsourcing line: revisiting what you buy as your data and skills growBetter data, tools and skills can change which services a business should keep buying. How to review outsourced work against today's capability and decide to own, partner, buy or retire.
- 09Managing legacy Visual Basic 6 applications: support status, hidden risks and a practical migration pathMany businesses still rely on Visual Basic 6 tools written decades ago. What is still supported, where the real risks lie and how to contain, replace or migrate them safely.
- 10Cyber security basics for small businesses and workshops: threats, the Essential Eight and a response planPlain-language cyber security for small businesses and manufacturers: common attacks such as phishing and invoice fraud, the Essential Eight controls, backups, staff training and what to do when hit.
- 11Owning your website and digital presence: domains, hosting, security, backups and professional emailDigital foundations for small businesses: owning a website not just social pages, choosing and protecting domains, hosting, HTTPS, backups, professional email and partners.
- 12Privacy policies for small business websites and apps: what to include and why it matters in AustraliaWhat a website or app privacy policy should cover, how the Australian Privacy Act and its principles apply to small businesses, cookies and analytics, overseas transfers, data security and complaints.
- 13Images for print, web and documents: resolution, file formats, compression and keeping mastersThe same image can look sharp in one place and blurry, huge or broken in another. How resolution, formats and compression work, and how to prepare images for print, websites and documents.
These topic-based reading collections are organised alphabetically; chapters may be read in any order.
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