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According to a study by N-able, managed service providers (MSPs) report that 82% of their customers have seen an increase in attempted cyberattacks since the pandemic. Even MSPs themselves are a...

The North American Cyber Alliance (NACA), a strategic relationship between BDO Digital USA and BDO Lixar Canada, has released their whitepaper on Managed Detection and Response (MDR). This whitepap...

BDO Digital has released a whitepaper entitled ‘ BDO Modern MSSP & Microsoft Security ’ that outlines the current threat landscape, what organizations can do to protect themselves, and how BDO Digi...

According to an SEC press release, The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed new rules focused on cybersecurity risk management for registered investment advisers and funds. The new ...

Master Plan Setup In Microsoft D365 you can use the setup wizard tool to easily design your companies master plan by following the below steps. Click on Master Planning > Setup > Plans > Maste...

Numbering is a system that companies use to distinctly identify things within their business, whether it be customer accounts, invoices, or other documents. Not only is numbering important for iden...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central allows you to customize your experience to suit your daily work preferences. In this article, we will show the many ways you can personalize your workspace t...

Use of Company Badge In this article, we will explain how to set up the company badge functionality in Business Central which can be useful when you must switch between companies or to ide...

Business Leaders are Now Part of the Conversation An estimated 48% of the board are involved in cybersecurity strategy discussions, showing the line between business and cybersecurity is blurrin...

Threats to businesses today are more pervasive than ever. Cybercriminals are more sophisticated in their attack methods and the huge shift to remote work poses a major threat to organizations. In t...

Adopting a zero-trust model in your organization is an essential cybersecurity practice. Yet so many companies are unaware of the pillars of a zero-trust model. In this article, we’re breaking it d...

Over 50% of ultra-high net worth family wealth is being managed through family offices, yet even the largest family offices lack the security resources of most banks and large corporations. This ma...

Cybersecurity Landscape For organizations in both the public and private sectors, cybersecurity is more important than ever before. And whether we like it or not, cybersecurity is not a ‘set i...

Data Privacy Week (January 24-28) is an international effort to drive awareness about personal data privacy. Millions of people are unaware of how their personal data is being collected, used, or...

Robots are here, but the net impact will be a positive one. Based on the BDO Digital Transformation Survey , automation will create more jobs than it displaces. Still, automation and other digital...

In 1970, Alvin Toffler predicted that the pace of change would continue to accelerate so greatly, society would struggle to keep up with new technology advancements.

As we look ahead to 2022, we wanted to share our insights on some of the biggest digital trends and take a look back at some of our biggest updates from 2021.  

Imagine that your office is a mess, and your desk is flooding with papers. Creating an organized filing system would make your life much easier. However, filing all these papers is a lot of work. A...

Incident management is crucial for organizations who are trying to achieve security maturity. But if you haven't heard of it, don’t worry, it’s not as complicated as you may think. Incident managem...

Forrester’s Total Economic Impact™, a study commissioned by Microsoft in June of 2021, is an analysis of various organizations across different industries, all of whom use Microsoft 365 E5 Complian...

Sometimes an organization can feel as if it has done everything right and still fall short when it comes to data protection. No matter what level of security measures you have in place at your orga...

Have you ever sent an email to the wrong person? Research shows that 58% of employees say they’ve sent an email to the wrong person and in some cases confidential information gets in the hands of...

BDO’s 2021 Middle Market Digital Transformation Survey included 500 U.S. middle market C-level executives and provides insight into their digital transformation plans, maturity, threats and oppor...

According to BDO Digital’s  2021 Digital Transformation Survey , cloud use continues to be on the rise for the middle market where organizations are achieving great success with cloud solutions. Bu...

In 2020, Industrial Specialty Services (ISS) collaborated with BDO Digital along with NexTec and Acumatica to help establish internal departments, systems, processes, and controls after their carve...

Blockchain is an innovative type of distributed ledger technology (DLT) with the potential to drastically alter the real estate industry.

In the first two Insights of our three-part series, Daniel Gold , Managing Director of BDO E-Discovery Managed Services, discussed who is making data within an organization and where that data is ...

The COVID-19 pandemic caused healthcare organizations to adopt telehealth practically overnight. In January 2020, just  24% of U.S. healthcare organizations  had a virtual care program. That increa...

In the first Insight of our three-part series , Daniel Gold , Managing Director of BDO E-Discovery Managed Services, discussed who is making the data in a corporate legal environment. In this sec...

In this three-part series, Daniel Gold , Managing Director of BDO E-Discovery Managed Services, will discuss what corporate legal needs to know about its data as it pertains to eDiscovery. We’ll c...

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month and a great reminder to review your cybersecurity strategy plan to ensure that your business is cyber ready. Security and privacy have been top of ...

The automobile industry is undergoing widespread transformation.

The only way to protect a business is to detect, automate and reduce risks. Is your business protected?

The pandemic has been a wake‑up call to the insurance sector. Historically an industry reluctant to digitize, insurers have been forced to adopt a digital-first strategy in order to stay competitiv...

Cyber Security Landscape Cybersecurity attacks are on the rise and it’s never been more imperative than now to have a mature Cybersecurity Risk Management Program​. Security breaches can cause s...

According to BDO Digital’s 2021 Digital Transformation Survey , cloud use is on the rise in the middle market, but maturity lags and many businesses still have a significant share of their workloa...

Windows Virtual Desktop has been rebranded to Azure Virtual Desktop and the new name also comes with additional functionality. This rebranding uses the existing underlying infrastructure to extend ...

10-Step Journey to Digital Transformation in the Middle Market

According the to the 2021 Digital Transformation Survey , 45% of middle market organizations are shifting more of their operations to the cloud or going cloud-native. Almost all these organization...

Our recent survey of 500 C-suite executives provides insight into their digital transformation plans, maturity, threats and opportunities.

Executing a digital strategy is more than important not than ever, and it's vital to assess the people, process, technology and change management aspects of each investment.

Today, most IT departments are continuously deploying new laptops and desktops to users across their organization. While desktop management tools can handle most maintenance tasks, the end-user exp...

As more organizations invest in the Microsoft 365 model and modern workplace, we are often asked about moving from Microsoft Configuration Manager (ConfigMgr) to Intune. If you are running ConfigMg...

Data can be an exceptionally powerful tool when you know how to harness its unwieldy power and make insight-driven decisions. Deciphering data can be an overwhelming task and many middle market co...

If it isn’t already, cybersecurity should likely be on your board agenda at every meeting.

Optimizing cloud services can be challenging, especially when you don’t know how to measure the quality of a given workload’s deployment. Maybe you’ve deployed workloads to the cloud but you’re sti...

Is your company prepared for new CMMC requirements from the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)? This article provides an overview of the changes, the implications for U.S. Defense Prime Contractors a...

BDO Digital now offers demand generation solutions to support your organization’s growth goals.

A security vulnerability was recently discovered in Microsoft Exchange Server. According to Microsoft, this zero-day vulnerability is being exploited by a nation-state affiliated group. The vulnera...

The cloud has become a foundation that enables digital transformation, market differentiation and competitive advantage for all types and sizes of businesses. As businesses continue to leverage th...

Consider these seven steps to maximize your investment.

We have long left the era of traditional IT, an era where a small internal IT team was mostly capable of handling a variety of IT challenges. Internal IT alone is challenged to meet the expectatio...

Businesses face disruption on multiple fronts, and they are struggling to get things done.

Windows 10 feature updates can help employees work more efficiently by allowing them to customize their PC preferences, increase security structures, and get more creative with their software tool...

As CFOs continue to focus on resilience, data-driven decision making and analysis will be critical.

In the final installment of a three-part series on what’s next for work, we break down the big trends powering productivity growth.

Amid COVID-19, companies face the challenge of providing a safe working environment for their employees while continuing to maintain productivity and efficiency. The pandemic has forced the busines...

Download PDF Version Digital transformation is heralding the next era in supply chain management, in which suppliers and customers come together in entirely new ways, blurring the lines betwe...

What is Ransomware? Ransomware is a type of malware designed to provide an unauthorized actor access to an organizations’ systems and to deny the use of those systems until a ransom is paid. Per...

2020 brought many changes. We  launched BDO Digital  in January with the goal of helping middle market organizations harness innovation and capture the full power of technology. At the time, no on...

Throughout 2020, BDO Digital worked with Microsoft to produce a number of informative webinars to help companies meet the challenges of this tumultuous year. Webinars covered topics such as Managi...

Digital transformation has gone from buzz word to best practice to baseline, especially during these uncertain times. As businesses continue to struggle with the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemi...

According to BDO’s latest white paper, Getting from A to AI - The Path to Data Analytics Maturity , organizations need a combination of the right architecture, analytics, and artificial intelligen...

In a crowded Silicon Valley auditorium, two opponents met on stage to debate. On one side of the stage stood Harish Natarajan, world record-holding debate champion. On the other was “Miss Debat...

The abrupt shift to remote work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic forced insurance companies to overhaul their cybersecurity strategies almost overnight. Companies in every industry have faced an inc...

As industries and businesses continue their journey through Digital Transformation, a new set of technological requirements has emerged. 70% of today’s companies are either in the process of develo...

How are you planning for your next move? What’s the difference between identifying a strategic opportunity and seizing it? How you plan for it. Are you following the below steps to re-tool ...

As our digital lives become increasingly enmeshed with our work lives, there is a concern for businesses to make sure that information is not released unintentionally via malicious means or otherw...

How do you free up working capital in your supply chain? For the first few months of the pandemic, most businesses prioritized de-risking their supply chains—even at the expense of higher cost...

Data analytics combined with artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way businesses understand their current performance, plan for future growth, and most importantly, react to crises. Check o...

Businesses have faced many acute challenges in 2020, and cyber threats rank high on that list. The COVID-19 pandemic brought abrupt business interruption and drastic revenue changes for many indus...

Which bricks do most to hold up your company’s fort? In 2004, LEGO was on the brink of bankruptcy. They had expanded into clothes, theme parks and other products tangential to their iconic plas...

What inefficiencies could you tackle now that you couldn’t at full tilt? Once we see it in hindsight, the “great pause” may be end up being a great business gift—for those who don’t squander t...

Businesses have faced many acute challenges in 2020, and cyber threats rank high on that list. The COVID-19 pandemic brought abrupt business interruption and drastic revenue changes for many indus...

Is your organization protected from cyberattacks? Are you building cyber resilience?

Can you scale up or down as fast as you need to? In a recession, fixed costs are a liability. The more you have, the more revenue is needed to break even—and the harder it is to rapidly scale u...

A gray day provides the best light - Leonardo Da Vinci We stand at a once-in-a-century moment in time for middle market organizations to topple the biggest behemoths from their thrones and sol...

The onset of the global coronavirus pandemic coincided with a sharp rise in the number of cyber-attacks that have impacted organizations of all sizes across industries. Private equity firms are inc...

Here are several key areas where the application of blockchain can revolutionize the future of asset management by improving speed, efficiency and security, while also creating new vehicles for inv...

Introduction In the span of just a few short years, digital transformation has gone from buzzword to best practice to baseline. No longer confined to Silicon Valley or corporate giants with botto...

Innovation remains imperative. While it’s difficult to predict the near-term market and economic landscape, it’s clear that consumers and businesses will need new methods, ideas and approaches. ...

Last Updated: DECEMBER 10, 2021 Salesforce.com (SFDC) is investing in its already market-leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform by focusing on data analytics and artificial i...

The global healthcare industry faces unique challenges because it deals with human health, safety and mortality. Healthcare organizations amass huge amounts of confidential and sensitive personal ...

For many years now, the cloud has become an actively discussed topic in boardrooms around the world. Businesses are eager to capture the speed and scalability of cloud computing, while avoiding di...

Microsoft Dynamics 365 Customer Insights  ("Customer Insights" or "CI") is an intuitive and flexible customer data platform that can unlock insights and power personalized customer experiences. I...

Family Offices outsource their information technology (IT) services to either local small IT firms or large professional services companies. As a result, the level of cybersecurity expertise availa...

IT organizations recognize that they need to move to the cloud for better scalability, mobility and security. Often, this means partnering with a service provider who has the depth and breadth of e...

The COVID-19 pandemic has threatened the health of our communities, businesses and the global economy. The stakes are too high to allow room for error when decision-making is often a matter of l...

These are trying times for real estate investors, landlords, and tenants alike. The COVD-19 pandemic has undoubtedly introduced financial stress to all, but from many different perspectives. Prio...

All too often companies move to digitally transform data without a strategic or proactive approach to cybersecurity and data privacy. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a dramatic...

Businesses, their partners, vendors, and end users have been forced to rapidly change the way they work and utilize technology in response to the work from home mandate imposed by the COVID-19 pand...

How the Middle Market Is Tackling Disruption Today We surveyed 600 C-suite executives at middle market organizations on their plans for digital transformation. This survey was conducted prior to...

Due to COVID-19 and the shelter-in-place policies, organizations are implementing remote work where possible, but for some, it’s not sustainable. The common reaction to the economic downturn tends ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) generally receives notice from its usual users - government, large tech organizations and academics. However, researchers and developers are increasingly using AI and...

Prior to COVID-19, your organization may have had long-term transformation plans that are likely no longer applicable in the current environment. Rather than pushing through with an irrelevant stra...

As a result of the COVID-19 virus many organizations have mandated a remote work policy, making it hard to imagine a world without modern technology and cloud services. The demand for instant avail...

In response to COVID-19, organizations across the globe adjusted their operations and core business functions due to mandated remote work policies. To maintain stability, when adapting to rapidly c...

Digital Transformation in the Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Era If there were any lingering doubts about the necessity of digital transformation to business longevity, the coronavirus has silenced t...