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Elevate Your Automation: Discover Tangent’s Hardware Solutions

In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, businesses like yours are continuously seeking innovative solutions to streamline operations and enhance productivity. At Tangent, we’re at the forefront of this journey, empowering our clients with the tools they need to stay ahead. We’ve seen firsthand the transformative impact that automation software has on businesses, driving efficiency and unlocking new potentials. It’s with great excitement that we introduce our latest advancement tailored for users like you: a new range of hardware solutions designed to complement and elevate your existing automation setup.

Why Tangent’s Hardware is Your Automation Software’s Perfect Partner

Our new hardware offerings are not just additions to your technology stack; they are enhancements to unleash the full potential of your automation software. Here’s why:

  • Enhanced Performance: Engineered specifically for automation, our hardware accelerates processing speeds, increases data transfer rates, and boosts overall efficiency, enabling your software to perform at its peak.
  • Seamless Compatibility: We understand that integration challenges can be a major roadblock. That’s why our hardware is rigorously tested with leading automation software platforms, ensuring a smooth and hassle-free implementation.
  • Scalable Solutions: Business growth shouldn’t mean technology headaches. Our scalable hardware solutions adapt to your expanding automation needs, ensuring sustained performance and reliability without compromise.
  • Unmatched Reliability and Durability: We know how crucial dependability is in your automation ecosystem. Our hardware stands the test of time, guaranteeing uninterrupted operations and peace of mind.
  • Customized for Your Needs: Every business is unique, and off-the-shelf solutions often fall short. Our experts are ready to work with you to tailor hardware solutions that align perfectly with your specific automation challenges and goals.

Experience the Difference with a Personalized Demonstration

We’re eager to show you what our hardware can do for your automation software. Whether you’re interested in a detailed consultation or a live demonstration, our team is prepared to walk you through the advantages and features of our solutions. Let’s schedule a session at your convenience to explore how Tangent’s hardware offerings can transform your automation experience.

Your trust in us as your automation partner is something we deeply value. With Tangent’s new hardware range, we’re excited to embark on this next phase of technological advancement together. Please reach out to schedule your personalized demonstration, and let’s take your automation capabilities to new heights.

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Microsoft Configuration Manager for Healthcare

Healthcare Entities Benefit when Using Microsoft’s Configuration Manager (MCM), Here’s Why

Managing IT Infrastructure is a challenge for everyone. It’s a complex, ever-changing environment that must be secure, up-to-date, compliant with regulations, scalable, user-friendly, and reliable—all at the same time.

Challenges of IT Management:

  1. Complexity: Modern IT infrastructure includes a wide variety of components: servers, storage systems, network devices, and software applications, to name a few. Each part has its own specifications, requirements, and updates. Imagine trying to keep track of a whole city’s worth of traffic where every car, bike, and pedestrian has their own rulebook.
  2. Security Threats: Cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving, with new types of malware, ransomware, and phishing attacks emerging regularly. It’s like playing a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, where the moles are invisible and can pop up anywhere at any time.
  3. Rapid Technological Changes: Technology evolves at a breakneck pace. New hardware, software, and cloud services are continually being developed. Keeping up with these changes and integrating new technologies without disrupting existing services is like trying to change the tires on a car while it’s still moving.
  4. Scalability: As a helathcare organizations, its IT infrastructure needs to grow too. This can mean adding new hardware and software, which must be integrated with the existing system. It’s like adding new rooms to a house without knowing exactly how much space you’ll need in the future or how the new rooms will affect the house’s structure.
  5. Compliance and Regulation: The healthcare industry is subject to regulations regarding data protection, privacy, and other areas. Ensuring that the IT infrastructure complies with these regulations is akin to navigating a maze where the walls keep moving.
  6. Diverse User Needs: Different users and departments within a company have different IT needs and priorities. Balancing these diverse needs and ensuring that everyone has the tools and access they require is like trying to cook a single meal that meets everyone’s dietary preferences and restrictions.
  7. Uptime and Reliability: Healthcare organizations rely on their IT infrastructure to be available and functioning correctly around the clock. Ensuring constant uptime is like trying to keep a complex machine running indefinitely without ever letting it stop for maintenance.

Why do Healthcare Establishments Benefit from Using Microsoft Configuration Manager?

Healthcare establishments and Microsoft Configuration Manager can be quite the dynamic duo! Here’s the lowdown:

  1. Security is King: In healthcare, keeping patient data safe isn’t just important; it’s mandated. Think HIPAA. MCM steps in as a bit of a superhero here, updating security features across the board without breaking a sweat. Think of it as the healthcare IT’s shield against the dark arts of cyber threats.
  2. Always Up-to-Date: Picture this: A nurse tries to access patient records, but the system is down for updates. Not ideal, right? MCM keeps things smooth by managing updates efficiently, ensuring software is current without major disruptions. It’s like having a butler who keeps the house spotless and runs silently in the background.
  3. Central Command: Healthcare IT landscapes are complex. MCM brings everything under one roof, managing diverse devices and applications with ease. It’s akin to conducting an orchestra where each instrument plays in perfect harmony.
  4. Mobile Management: With doctors and nurses always on the move, mobile devices are their lifelines. MCM ensures these devices are managed securely, so patient data is always protected, even on the go. It’s like having a bodyguard for your data, ensuring it’s safe no matter where you are.
  5. Compliance with Ease: Staying compliant with healthcare regulations can be a Herculean task. MCM helps automate and enforce compliance policies, making sure that every ‘i’ is dotted and every ‘t’ is crossed. It’s like having a meticulous inspector who’s always on your side.
  6. Rapid Response: When a new virus hits (the software kind, not the biological one), MCM allows healthcare IT to react swiftly, deploying fixes across the entire network quickly. It’s the IT equivalent of a rapid response team.

In the end, for a healthcare establishment, using MCM is like having a Swiss Army knife for IT management. It ensures that the technology clinicians rely on is secure, up to date, and running smoothly, so they can focus on what they do best: taking care of patients.

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5 Key Benefits of Email Archiving with DataCove

Email archiving has many useful benefits and is one of the easiest features that an organization can implement.

What is Email Archiving?

Email archiving solutions store a read-only searchable backup of the data either onsite or offsite using a combination of hardware or secure cloud storage methods. An automated system extracts each message along with any attachments from designated accounts. The information is then indexed and stored for access later. Anyone with access can then use search filters to track down received or sent messages.

Once the emails you’re looking for have been found, archiving solutions like DataCove make it easy and quick to restore them.

Benefits of Email Archiving

Email archiving is an important and helpful business tool for e-discovery and compliance. Storing these emails securely means they can’t be edited or deleted.

We’ve outlined the following key benefits to help you decide if email archiving with DataCove is something you should invest in.

  1. Data Preservation & Recovery – Natural disasters are inevitable and often times unavoidable. In these situations, data on drives can be destroyed by storms, making data recovery even more essential. Email archiving supports this need as well as any other data preservation objectives.
  2. Legal Discovery & Compliance – Email archiving makes it easy to retrieve one or more messages in an unaltered format. Having this capability is beneficial in litigation cases where message information must be retrieved as part of the discovery process. It also helps your company remain compliant with federal regulations.
  3. Productivity Improvement – By clearing unnecessary messages from the inbox and searching for emails that might have been accidentally deleted, email archiving can increase employee productivity.
  4. Centralized Storage & Administration – Email archiving solutions provide a centralized solution that is easy to manage. Employees do not have to spend countless hours maintaining message data, which allows for easier data management and improved productivity.
  5. Cost Management Benefits – Archiving delivers cost-savings opportunities by reducing the amount of required resources for backing up this data and reducing the number of hours needed to maintain them.

Is DataCove the Right Email Archiving Solution for You?

There are a number of key features to consider when thinking about email archiving solutions. From administrative policies to e-discovery features, and ease of use to compliance, the biggest question is: why hasn’t your organization implemented an email archiving solution?

Tangent’s archiving solution, DataCove, simplifies compliance and litigation, archives your email and social media posts, and ensures your business is protected regardless of unexpected situations – all at a cost that meets your budget. Sign up for DataCove today.

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The Importance of Having a DMARC Email Authentication

An important element of phishing defenses for any organization, large or small, is DMARC email authentication.

DMARC stands for Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting, and Conformance. Its main purpose is to mitigate phishing attacks that spoof an organization’s domain and get those emails delivered to inboxes.

Protect Your Business Brand

Email security is important for keeping your employees and customers safe from cybercriminals who might try to steal personal information. Take, for example, someone who sends an email on behalf of your company. It fails DMARC, which means you can take an authoritative action. DMARC is an added layer of email security that can help stop spam and phishing in their tracks, helping companies protect their brands and reputation.

With DMARC, organizations can create a record of authorized senders from their domain, helping to prevent misuse of a company’s brand in phishing attacks. When configured on top of existing SPF and DKIM records, it helps confirm whether one or both of the authentication checks have failed.

Benefits of Using DMARC

Here are 5 great reasons to start utilizing DMARC:

  • Increase deliverability rates and reduce bounce rates
  • Receive comprehensive reports of how email messages are authenticated
  • Identify spammers and prevent malicious emails from reaching inboxes
  • Reduce the chances of your company’s emails from getting flagged as spam
  • Gain better visibility and authority over your domains

Get Started with a Proper DMARC Configuration

Many organizations are striving towards making email security mandatory to prevent the loss of sensitive data and resources. Therefore, it’s important to take into consideration the benefits of DMARC and create a safer email experience.

Configuring your domain with the right email authentication protocols doesn’t have to be complicated. Tangent’s DMARC Director was designed to help you configure DMARC quickly and easily, so you can be on your way to protecting your domain, brand, and reputation. Schedule a demo today.

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4 Benefits from CUBES License Manager

Do you have a good handle on your software license budget? Are you wasting the money that goes towards that budget on unused licenses?

Many organizations have (or should have) a Software Asset Management (SAM) program in place as part of their overall business strategy. The goal of this is to help reduce costs, limit risks, and increase transparency around software license purchases and usage. That’s where software license optimization comes in.

How our License Manager CUBES Fits into Your SAM Program

If your organization is stitching together spreadsheets of outdated software license records or relying on each department to keep track of its licenses, it may be time for an upgrade. Using a comprehensive license management tool like CUBES License Manager allows you to quickly access information on all licenses within your organization – from the number of licenses purchased to expiration dates, and contract details to renewal alerts.

With a license manager, you can streamline your procurement process and minimize the efforts involved from other departments to report on license spending. Specifically, here are 4 invaluable benefits from a license manager that will save you money and time:

1. Cost Savings

CUBES helps organizations consolidate their software environment, giving IT managers more control over software spend across different departments. Knowing the exact type and number of software licenses purchases can lead to better financial planning.

2. Avoid Fines and Penalties

Automatic renewal alerts will notify designated members of expiring software licenses. This feature can be help organizations save a lot of money by avoiding expiration penalties or fees.

3. Improved Planning

CUBES is a centralized software license management platform, allowing IT managers the ability to keep accurate records of contract terms, renewals, and purchases.

4. Business Alignment

With a transparent view into existing IT investments, organizations can align those with their business objectives. Additionally, predictive and trend analysis allows management to forecast future IT spend and needs.

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5 Ways Email Archiving Protects Your Business

For many organizations, large and small, having a system in place to preserve emails is critical. How would you know if important emails are being deleted at this very moment? Do you have a method in place for quickly retrieving messages or attachments?

Email archiving solutions store a read-only searchable backup of the data either onsite or offsite using a combination of hardware or secure cloud storage methods. An automated system extracts each message along with any attachments from designated accounts. The information is then indexed and stored for access later. Anyone with access can then use search filters to track down received or sent messages.

Additional Protection for Your Business

Archiving solutions are different from simple storage solutions because they store the data in an unmodified format that offers search capabilities. A typical backup solution does not store this information in an organized, read-only format, which is required for compliance and legal discovery. Here are 5 ways email archiving benefits your business:

  1. Data Preservation & Recovery – Natural disasters are inevitable and often times unavoidable. In these situations, data on drives can be destroyed by storms, making data recovery even more essential. Email archiving supports this need as well as any other data preservation objectives.
  2. Legal Discovery & Compliance – Email archiving makes it easy to retrieve one or more messages in an unaltered format. Having this capability is beneficial in litigation cases where message information must be retrieved as part of the discovery process. It also helps your company remain compliant with federal regulations.
  3. Quick Message Retrieval – If you’ve ever accidentally deleted an important message, email archiving maintains the original format and provides an organized solution for quickly retrieving the message. It takes just a few seconds to find and retrieve the contents of that email.
  4. Centralized Storage & Administration – Email archiving solutions provide a centralized solution that is easy to manage. Employees do not have to spend countless hours maintaining message data, which allows for easier data management and improved productivity.
  5. Cost Management Benefits – Archiving delivers cost-savings opportunities by reducing the amount of required resources for backing up this data and reducing the number of hours needed to maintain them.

Additionally, the process frees up space on email servers, thus reducing the amount of stress put on them. It also eliminates the potential side effects of accidental deletion or lost messages. Most importantly, the introduction of an email archiving solution ensures your business is protected regardless of unexpected situations. By using a dependable solution, it is easy to remain compliant with federal regulations, protect this data, and retain critical company knowledge.

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Tangent’s archiving solution simplifies compliance and litigation by automatically archiving email and social media posts – all at a cost that meets your budget. Learn more about DataCove.

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How DMARC Helps Prevent Email Spoofing and Phishing

When you think of spoofing or phishing emails, you probably associate them with an email attack. But what does this all mean, exactly, and how can your organization avoid them?

A Brief History

As early as the 1970s, spammers were able to get around email filters and eventually grew into a global cybersecurity issue in the 2000s.

To help combat this, email security protocols were introduced to help stop email spoofing and phishing. As a result, many spoofed emails get sent directly to spam or junk folders.

Spoofing and Phishing

If you’ve ever received an email from an unknown sender with a rather suspicious-looking link, chances are it was a phishing email. Phishing emails aim to extract sensitive, personal information. It can be easy to spot a phishing email if it’s from a sender you’re not familiar with, an unrecognizable company or domain, or you’ve noticed a misspelling.

Email spoofing, on the other hand, is used to trick recipients into thinking the email came from a trusted person or entity, such as your employer or bank. A recognizable sender email address is more likely to lead the recipient to click malicious links, open malware attachments, and even send sensitive data. Spoofed email sending addresses that were not sent from your organization can tarnish your brand’s reputation. So how can your organization prevent this?

Email Authentication Protocols

If your domain was being used in an email spoofing attack, would you even know? Organizations can protect their brand and domain by putting email authentication protocols in place.

DKIM, SPF, and DMARC are email authentication technologies that help improve your email deliverability and email security. Without these in place, your organization’s domain is vulnerable to email hackers who are able to send spoofed emails to your customers or employees using your domain.

DKIM, or DomainKeys Identified Mail, works by attaching an encrypted DKIM signature to the email, which is then verified by the receiver or receiving system. Implementing DKIM is a great way to protect your organization, employees, and customers from targeted email attacks

SPF stands for Sender Policy Framework and is another type of email authentication technology. Domain owners use SPF to specify the emails they send are coming from their verified list of email servers. An SPF record verifies the IP address of the sender and compares it to the domain owner.

Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) is a relatively new email authentication policy and reporting policy compared to SPF and DKIM. DMARC works by building upon SPF and DKIM mechanisms to validate the sender of an email. With a DMARC record, senders indicate that their email messages are protected by SPF and/or DKIM. It also instructs the receiver of what to do in the event that SPF or DKIM do not pass, such as sending the email to a junk folder or rejecting the email entirely. Furthermore, DMARC allows the receiver to automatically report a pass and/or fail DMARC evaluation and other details to the email address owner.

Protect Your Brand Reputation

Together, these three protocols will help protect your organization from spoofed and phishing emails sent from your domain. To learn more about DMARC, or to get started with a DMARC Record Configuration, visit dmarc.tangent.com.

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Why License Management Tools Are Essential

Having a fully effective Software Asset Management (SAM) program is essential for all organizations, whether big or small. However, one of the biggest challenges is making SAM a priority, placing license management at the bottom of an organization’s “to-do” list.

To help you better understand why your organization needs a license management tool, we’ve outlined the reasons why having one is essential.

Centralized License Management

The foundation of a good SAM program is keeping your software license information up-to-date. Doing so in a comprehensive license management platform allows you to manage, keep track of, and report on your licenses easily and efficiently.

Without a comprehensive license management tool, managing licenses can easily become a tedious, manual process that’s prone to error. Most organizations use a number of spreadsheets across different departments to manage or track their licenses. These can often be lead to inaccuracies and make it difficult to summarize into a report.

With Tangent’s License Manager, CUBES, gone are the days of stitching together multiple spreadsheets across different departments. You can upload all of your spreadsheets into CUBES in less than a minute and be on your way to start organizing, managing, and reporting on all licenses.

Budget-Friendly

An important aspect of every organization is managing its budget. Surprisingly, many do not keep track of software license spend. It can be easy to purchase too many licenses and ending up with some that are unused, and expiration penalties can add up and be costly.

License management tools can help eliminate overspend, purchasing the wrong licenses, or not purchasing enough. Knowing the exact cost and amount of licenses purchased can help organizations adhere to software budgets.

With CUBES, organizations can effectively and automatically manage their software licenses and subscriptions from purchase to renewal and beyond. Its easy-to-use interface enables users to easily manage license records on a frequent basis. CUBES is an essential tool for organizations looking to hone their license management process.

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Benefits of Software License Management Across Different Departments

With so many new technologies emerging on an almost daily basis, it’s important for organizations large and small, to understand exactly what software is being used. Managing software licenses has always been a challenge, and in today’s technologically advanced world, it has become increasingly difficult. However, saving money by avoiding duplicate software licenses, over-licensing, and over- or under-spending should be at the top of every organization’s list.

For those in information technology (IT), the necessity of a software asset management (SAM) program is obvious, but for other departments, it might not be as clear as to how they benefit from license management. Understanding what is and isn’t being used across all departments helps an organization make informed decisions, especially when it comes to rolling out new technologies to drive the business and increase productivity.

IT Department: Smoother Software Deployments

When we think of software installations and deployments, we automatically think of IT. However, not all IT teams actually manage the organization’s licenses. Keeping track of license count, expiration and renewal dates, license spend, etc. usually falls on the lap of a License Manager or SAM team. When working together, IT can better understand exactly what software is being used, allowing them to plan and execute software rollouts or uninstall unused software – thereby optimizing software license budgets.

Many license management tools, like Tangent’s CUBES License Manager, also have reporting capabilities that give deeper insight into an organization’s licenses, such as:

  • Number of licenses that are coming due or expired
  • Amount broken down by company, product, department, and type of license
  • Length of license or subscription agreement
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Furthermore, CUBES has a document repository that allows users to upload documents related to each license record, so important files such as quotes, contracts, and license details can all be digitized and easily accessibly within the record.

Finance Department: Better Opportunity to Manage Departmental Budgets

When it’s not clear where or on what money is being spent, overseeing and managing an organization’s budgets can become overwhelming, especially if that leads to over-spending. Understanding what software is being used gives the finance team the opportunity to cut necessary costs on unused or duplicate software.

Additionally, having the visibility that comes with a license manager prepares the finance department for renewals, so they’ll know exactly when to expect large payments. Ultimately, this instills confidence into the team when going into budget discussions with the administration team.

Administration Department: Greater Visibility into Software License Budgets

Engaging and persuading administration departments to invest in any software product has always been a difficult task across multiple industries. Once on board, though, stakeholders will find that the benefits of a license manager greatly outweigh the cost.

Having a license manager will show directors, administrators, managers, etc. exactly how much is being spent on software and help them identify areas for cost savings. The goal is to generate savings for the entire organization year over year.

Additionally, a license manager allows the admin team to see all of the organization’s software at a glance, which can be helpful in identifying outdated technologies. Ensuring that employees have the latest software enables them to be more productive, work efficiently, and communicate and collaborate effectively across the entire organization.

Whether your organization is large or small, a license manager brings peace of mind. Being able to gain full visibility of software deployments, licenses, and cost is essential in managing budgets while enabling your organization with the latest technologies. CUBES can take you there. Sign up for a free trial to just how easy it is to start managing your licenses.