Using outdated technology can incur unnecessary losses to your company. Instead of helping you out with the work and reducing costs, using obsolete technology only increases your bill. To maintain efficiency your supporting system should also be efficient. Maintenance is very important. Everything comes with a time limit. You don’t get smart by overusing it instead of upgrading it. Each new upgrade brings in more efficiency only. It would be really stupid on your part to pay extra bills for the outdated technology instead of saying time and money by simply upgrading it. The things that you should get rid by 2018 are,
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Paper
Many workplaces are turning completely electronic and stopped using paper altogether. It is time that everyone adopts such practices. There is nothing that can’t be done electronically, billing, filing etc everything can be done electronically and stored there too. There is no need to cut down anymore trees.
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Fax
Fax is a seriously redundant technology nowadays. There is no need felt for faxes at a time where technology has reached to be wireless! That day is not far when no more telephones will be manufactured. It is an already obsolete technology. Along with the telephone goes the fax. The whole humdrum of laying wires is going to go away. This is the time where people are thinking of residing on Mars. And you on the other hand are stuck with a fax! You shouldn’t be. So if you have one at your workplace, then get rid of it without thinking twice.
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Old hardware
According to trends in technological advancements, the speed of a PC increases and it gets doubled in four years. So technically you should upgrade or change your computer every four years. New hard drive versions keep coming up with better specifications and faster speed. The bottom line is to get rid of old and slow hardware, keep upgrading in every three to four years. By this time the technology gives its full value and there is nothing more to take except losses.
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Software that doesn’t support
Moving on to the software of the system that you are using, like hardware it is also keeps upgrading and keep getting better with each new update. This might not be entirely true all the time but you should upgrade to new versions nevertheless because of the overall better performance of the new software.
Using unsupported software could be a serious security threat to your business. Hence you must upgrade to better technology and get rid of unsupported software for the safety’s sake.
Technology is advancing at a great speed, we need to keep up with its pace. Else we will be left behind.
