by Ryan Barton | Aug 25, 2015 | Managing Technology, Technology Blog
This week, our CFO received an email from me asking for assistance sending funds through a wire. Only problem? It wasn’t me! It was an example of an increasingly common phenomenon called spear phishing. As long as email has been around, there have been scams. Some...
by Ryan Barton | Feb 9, 2015 | Managing Technology, New Technologies, Technology Blog
The Patriots won the Super Bowl! In my books, that’s a great start for 2015, and it goes down as a prediction come true for every faithful Pats fan. Now as we look ahead, let’s consider predictions for technology for the year ahead. The rate of innovation is speeding...
by Ryan Barton | Dec 17, 2014 | Managing Technology, Technology Blog
It will be 2015 in just 2 weeks! New Year’s is always a great chance to reflect and look ahead. I’m a huge believer in goals – both personally and in business. We follow an extensive strategic planning process at Mainstay – we set top level goals for the year ahead...
by Ryan Barton | Jun 27, 2014 | Managing Technology, Technology Blog
A stat we love to quote: “10 minutes per day… adds up to over 40 hours a year.” Sit in on a few meetings with someone from Mainstay, and odds are you’ll hear this stat at least once! To us, it represents the incredible, compounding power of efficiency through...
by Ryan Barton | Jun 10, 2014 | Managing Technology, Technology Blog
We are just 5 months into 2014, and have already witnessed many with high profile security breaches. The North Carolina Department of Health & Human Services had a “programming error” which sent out 48,000 Medicaid cards for children to the wrong addresses,...
by Ryan Robinson | Mar 3, 2014 | Managing Technology, Technology Blog, Website and SEO
In the age of millions of smartphone apps, industry-specific applications in every sector, ubiquitous office software, and powerful ERP systems, why do many of our clients find the need to use Mainstay’s developers to create fully custom applications? Let us elaborate...