Polar Systems - The Change Issue: New Back-up, New Accounting, New Career (August 2008)

Proactive Network Services

PolarStar - New Service Offerings

by Bret Jones, Practice Manager

New Servcie Offerings

We’ve heard you! The PolarStar team has stepped up to meet a request from our clients - to offer services that large corporations enjoy, but at a price that is reasonable for small and medium-sized businesses. We are now offering two new services that before only the Fortune 1000 could afford. The first is a revolutionary backup and disaster recovery service that may signal the end of tape backups called PolarStar Backup and Disaster Recovery Service. The second is an intrusion protection and firewall service which provides enterprise quality protection from external attacks called Managed Intrusion Prevention and Firewall Service.

Read about these two new services here.

Technology Corner

Are You Currently Using Quickbooks?

By Ken Colton, Director of Operations

Are You Currently Using Quickbooks?

I know that many of our clients are using QuickBooks as their accounting software solution. It is unquestionably the most widely used financial package in small business and it has given those of you who have been using it the tools you’ve needed for accounting and basic business management. But there is always the question that as you grow, will your current solution keep pace with your expanding requirements? For some of you the answer is yes, but I also hear from clients and colleagues alike that they do expect to outgrow QuickBooks. In fact, many say that they already have. Change is hard, and those of us who are primarily responsible for keeping the financial “engine” running in an organization tend to be more fearful of transitioning to a new accounting and financial management system than almost anything else that we do in the organizations that we manage.

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A Polar Star

PolarStar Team Profile: Michelle Thayer

This was one time that Michelle Thayer is glad she didn’t listen to her husband! With a love of math and a desire for change, Michelle wanted to enroll in the Heald Institute of Technology in Martinez, California (near Concord in the East Bay) and take a four-year accelerated course to become a Network Engineer. “I had to beg my husband to go to this school, because it was a trade school, it was expensive, and he didn’t think it was a fit for me.” That was twenty years and a successful career ago.

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News & Events

Polar Systems is Growing!

Even with the downturn in the economy, the IT service sector continues to flourish. As organizations look to maximize their efficiencies and control their IT spending, they’ve come to realize that services such as PolarStar's Managed Services offered by Polar Systems is helping them improve their financial efficiency. We've added five new team members this quarter in these areas - systems analyst, project management, design consultant, and technical support. Welcome Dan Phillips, David Clouse, Kimberly Wheatley, Chris Nelson and Peter Scott.