Sustainable business practices have many obvious benefits, from reducing your environmental impact to saving on costs and improving your company’s public image. Even so, figuring out where to start can be daunting. Taking a few simple steps can help move your business in a more sustainable direction.

AI is already beginning to shape the way we live and work. While there are legitimate legal and ethical concerns about leaning heavily on AI for creative and judgment-based work, it can simplify time-consuming tasks for your business in many ways.

Even with careful planning, most organizations reach a point where optimal business performance requires better systems than they began with. These two software-based solutions can save you time ― and a lot of frustration ― as you grow.

Government bodies and tech giants are putting data collection and its control under the microscope. Here’s what you need to know.

Streamline your e-commerce business by assessing your existing software systems for weak points. Learn how solutions tailored to your unique goals can help.

With the federal government shoring up defenses against cybercrime, the conversation about your role in data security is changing ― here’s what you need to know.

While that may seem the same, creating a software product or service involves more than creating custom software. In doing so, we follow software product development best practices to make sure they launch the right product for their market.

A software audit can be part of the due diligence when acquiring software through a business merger or acquisition and helps the acquiring company understand the state of the software.

Software can help create efficiencies for the business and a better experience for the patient. When a healthcare practice implements the right software solution, it enables staff to focus on what they do best -- care for patients.

Sol Minion Development has been selected for the 2022 Best of Tempe Award in the Business to Business Service category by the Tempe Award Program.

Whether it’s for a website or an application that runs your entire business, keeping your systems up-to-date is vital to running an efficient business, staying a step ahead of the competition, and protecting sensitive data.

Data and information analytics will help you create the best possible software product or service for your market. These insights will aid product managers, designers, marketers, and the whole leadership team. So, how do you use this data ethically?

The best way to ensure the success of your software product or service is to get a good, qualitative understanding of how your users engage with that software. So, what are product analytics, and how do you collect data ethically?

New threats against your small business emerge every day. Cybercriminals often target small businesses because they lack the resources for in-house cybersecurity staff. In fact, nearly half of all cyberattacks target small businesses, and small businesses are more likely to be attacked than large companies. That’s why having a cybersecurity plan and maintaining information security is key to protecting your small business from future attacks.

Your employees are the first line of defense when it comes to protecting your small business against cyber attacks. That’s why ensuring that they’re properly trained is essential to any cybersecurity strategy. The best way to strengthen your employees’ skills at identifying possible cyber attacks is through employee cyber security awareness training.

Doing a mid-year review of your custom software is vital to making sure it continues to aid business growth. Here are our recommendations for a mid-year review of your custom software.

It’s important to do a mid-year review -- assess your plan and your goals, and make key adjustments. Here’s what we recommend.

Information security needs to be a priority and permeate the entire organization, including technology and people. In much the same way, securing your information during the development or implementation of custom software needs to be considered from planning through implementation to training.

Threats today will regularly probe both your people and your software for vulnerabilities. Constant monitoring is a necessity to ensure the protection of your sensitive digital information.

Technology is central to your business performance, product development, and revenues. You need a leader to map out your strategy and implement it, but hiring a CIO can a huge step for a small business. It doesn’t have to be -- you can outsource. CIO-for-hire is a great option for a small business looking to get the leadership it needs to stay dialed into the always-evolving technology landscape.

These days, you need to prepare your business for digital transformation, integrating new technology, automating processes, and cyberattacks. A proactive technology strategy will help your business stay a step ahead. Just think of the possibilities for growth, security, and new opportunities. Think BIG!

Protecting information is protecting the survival of your business. A proactive cybersecurity incident response plan is key to your technology strategy and information security planning. So, what is a Cybersecurity Incident Response Plan?

The most basic element to ensuring that your technology performs is keeping it up to date. Maintaining software updates keeps it secure, protects against threats, and ensures that it runs smoothly in order to keep up with your business’s growth.

Often, small business owners think they have nothing to hide, and neither do their own customers. So why is data privacy important for a small business?

The acronym for Enterprise Resource Planning can make many small business owners feel like an “Enterprise” solution is too big and complicated for their business. The truth is, an ERP can be an essential part of executing and automating their technology and business strategies. So, let’s start by answering that question.

What is “The Cloud,” anyway? Is it a fancy marketing term created by Microsoft or Google or Amazon? Simply put, the cloud is a data center that is accessed via the Internet. Read on to find out more about when and why to move your systems online.

Most small businesses were not too concerned with GDPR and compliance, as they were not doing business within Europe. However, California brought the data compliance game straight to the US. So, what will that mean for you and your business software?

One of the biggest mistakes we see is small businesses going forward without a good technology strategy. Developing your company’s technology strategy needs to be part of your overall business strategy. Find out how to avoid obstacles and vulnerabilities.

Securing data that resides in the cloud can be confusing, as there are myths around both sides of SaaS security -- that it’s more or less secure than software run on company servers. So, what are some SaaS security best practices for small businesses?

Cybersecurity in software development is vital to your business's cyber resilience plan. And it’s something that Sol Minion has made part of each custom software solution we develop and have been doing so for 20 years. Can you imagine investing in custom software then discovering it left your business vulnerable?

Many small businesses see cybersecurity as a big business issue. Yet, they have locks on their doors, their money in banks, and passwords on the WiFi. Adding basic cybersecurity can be nearly as simple and save the business from devastating consequences. So, let’s dig a little deeper.

Small business owners set themselves up for unnecessary risks when they buy into these myths. The facts are that hackers do target small businesses and that software and IT staff can’t do enough to protect your business and your customers.

As we walk clients through key considerations for a project, they recognize that we have the experience to manage a project from beginning to end, covering all the bases as we go. So, what goes into a project that you’ll need to consider?

How many of your employees are unaware of and unprepared for a phishing attack? By clicking a link or opening the wrong attachment, an employee can open your business up to hackers and potentially devastating consequences.

When your software fails to align with your business objectives, it quickly becomes a burden on your team. Business software needs to empower your whole team and help your business achieve its objectives. How do you align your business objectives and your custom software?

If your business is one that wants to be ready to fend off an attack and react to an ongoing attack, then it’s important to know if you’re already under cyber attack. Here are the key signs, along with our recommendations on how to react.

You learn a lot of important lessons when you do something for twenty years. The good news is, our clients are the ones who get to benefit from these lessons. So, what have we learned, and how can you benefit from this?

Cybersecurity is no joke, and every small business CEO needs to make sure their team is on top of it, ready to defend and react to protect company and customer data.

Cybersecurity threats are looming large. Business growth and efficiency are impeded by your software and you need to get it all fixed in a way that will match up with your business processes. The time is right to hire a software consultancy to help but what should you expect from them?

Technology is central to your business performance, product development, and revenues. You need a leader to map out your strategy and implement it but hiring a CIO can a huge step for a small business. It doesn’t have to be -- you can outsource. CIO-for-hire is a great option for a small business looking to get the leadership it needs to stay dialed into the always-evolving technology landscape.

Small software issues grow and become real problems. Customers and vendors demand higher-tech solutions. Your whole leadership team knows the right technology can solve these issues. “Is it time to hire a CTO?” Knowing when to hire a CTO is an important step as your company prepares to get to that next level. You have options.

Beginning with the end in mind is a great idea but you can’t begin unless you know where you are. Start creating a cybersecurity plan that protects your business from cyberattacks by assessing your cybersecurity posture.

How much should your business spend on cybersecurity to prevent a truly damaging cyber attack? An analysis of spending by industry to help you plan to financially support your cybersecurity strategy.

It costs much less to take simple preventative measures, like training and technology, to prevent the hackers from getting in. The first step is to create your business cybersecurity budget.

Hackers have learned that small businesses are easy targets. Small businesses tend to overlook social engineering prevention and leave the door wide open. How can you protect your small business?

One of the most-used strategies to breach corporate security is Social Engineering. Without a good training program to empower employees to fend off these attacks, the business, and its data, remain in a very vulnerable position.

Large corporations get the headlines, but 43% of hacks happen to small businesses. Many small businesses go under within months of an incident. If your business is a victim of a cybersecurity breach, you need to act quickly.

The threat of a cybersecurity breach will keep any business owner up at night. Cybersecurity isn’t part of the day-to-day routine for most business leaders. However, the threat of a breach is more significant than ever thanks to an increasingly digital economy. Here are the top cybersecurity threats that businesses need to protect against.

Going into 2021, small businesses are focusing on increasing their online presence, building an online sales platform (e-commerce), and maintaining communication with employees, vendors, and customers. The COVID-19 pandemic is behind much of this focus and is driving companies to look to digital solutions to the ways they do business. It is also presenting a growing threat -- cybersecurity.

Last year, we helped you understand the need for custom software, and then we gave you some reasons to do it. You might be convinced that this year, your business will benefit from the right software. But now, you’re waiting for the right moment. Knowing when to go custom is a matter of business goals, budget, and timeline.