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Email: is it still the most popular way for organisations to communicate?
In our article posted just over two years ago “Email: still the most popular w...
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Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity (Part 2)
In Part 1 of this article we started to investigate cloud technology and the piv...
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Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity (Part 1)
In today’s rapidly evolving digital landscape, businesses and individuals ...
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 (Part 2)
In this second part of the article on cybersecurity, we will now look at the fol...
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Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2023 (Part 1)
Once again it’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month giving us the opportunity to...
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Simple Time Management Techniques
Time management is essential for success in the workplace. With so many tasks to...
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What to look for when considering a change in your email software provider
Email is one of the most widely used forms of communication in the modern workpl...
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Optimising the performance of your PC
It’s been almost two years since we published the article “Basic PC performa...
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6 Reasons to use CompassPulse
In a recent article we published the results of a survey of new clients, having ...
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How to save time in 2023
Email is time consuming, and despite the alternatives that come and go, its use ...
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10 Reasons to make the move to CompassAir
We are fortunate enough to have an exceptional spread of clients around the world, ...
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October: Cybersecurity Awareness Month
With October being Cybersecurity Awareness Month, now seems an appropriate time to r...
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Reducing work-related stress
Work-related stress /(noun): The adverse reaction people have to excessive pressure...
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Our Blog 2022 – a look back at the last few months – Part 2
We take a further look back at some of the articles published over the last 10 mont...
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Workflows Part 4 – processing SnP Commercial Advices
Having looked at the optimisation of workflows generally (Workflows Part 1), we sta...
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Our Blog 2022 – a look back at the last few months – Part 1
With ten months having passed since our last catchup, now seems a good time to revis...
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How to reduce email noise
Noise /(noun): (a) any sound that is undesired or interferes with one’s hearing o...
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Workflows Part 3 – processing SnP Purchase Enquiries
Having looked at the optimisation of workflows generally (Workflows Part 1) – the el...
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Handling email mistakes
We’ve all done it, sent an email to the wrong person, maybe pressed “send” too soon....
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Workflows Part 2 – implementing workflow management
In Part 1 we looked at the optimisation of workflows – essentially the elimina...
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Reducing time spent on emails (Update)
How can I spend less time on emails? We posed this question just over a year ago, w...
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Workflows Part 1 – how to optimise them
The optimisation of workflows – essentially the elimination of wasted time and resources...
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Team collaboration software – do I really need it?
A cornerstone of CompassAir when we first started, our collaboration software is us...
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Beware the hidden costs of switching software providers
Never an easy decision to make, switching software provider should only be done if ...
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Choices: AWS v Azure v Google Cloud
Cloud services are now an accepted, well used feature of nearly every organisation....
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Should you be moving your software to the cloud?
The chances are that your organisation is already using the cloud, most probably by...
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Email: still the most popular way for organisations to communicate
Email has now been around for over fifty years, the first email being sent in 1971....
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Cyber threats: 2021 a year of unprecedented growth
Last year proved to be another record breaker for cyberattacks, and the signs alrea...
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Artificial Intelligence for SnP (Part 4, CompassPulse)
With the advent of much improved information systems and mobile communications, ...
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Will technological singularity affect me? (AI Part 3)
In the last two articles we took an introductory look at the use of artificial inte...
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SnP meets AI – Part 2
What impact is artificial intelligence likely to have on the work of an SnP brok...
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Maritime meets AI – Part 1
After what could be described as a slow start in the maritime sector, the ways in w...
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If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?
With technology and its associated benefits advancing so rapidly these days, maybe ...
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Outlook or industry specific?
If you are reading this, like many others, you’ve maybe been running your busines...
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Our Blog – a look back at the last six months
As six months have passed since our last catchup, now seems a good time to revisit ...
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Why move to the cloud?
In its August 2021 report, Gartner was forecasting that the 2022 worldwide spend on...
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Email collaboration software: must haves
How well your team works together is to a great extent determined by the software c...
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Ransomware: threats and precautions
Total damages of US$ 6 trillion in 2021 with growth of 15% per year over the next f...
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Effective time management tips
After posing the question “Want to get more out of your day?”, it seems quite a ...
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Spreadsheets are great. Aren’t they?
If you work in the maritime sector and are still reliant on spreadsheets, what are the pro...
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10 Productivity tips to make better use of your day
Want to get more out of your day? In our last article, which looked at how you can ...
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How to reduce time spent on emails – Part 2
How can I spend less time on emails? Email is here to stay and its use continues to...
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How to reduce time spent on emails – Part 1
How can I spend less time on emails? According to Radicati, in 2019 the average num...
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Basic PC performance tips and troubleshooting
Is there a way to ensure my computer always runs at peak performance? This must be ...
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More Windows 10 tips to make life easier
In an increasingly competitive world where time always seems to be in short supply,...
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Making better use of Google Chrome
When designing and developing software, one of our aims is to ensure that each of o...
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Changing Software Part 2 – Choosing the right software
In the last article (see “Changing Software – Do we really need to change?”) we cons...
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Gone but not forgotten, a quick recap
It’s been just over a year since we launched mycompassair.com. Originally int...
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Changing Software Part 1 – “Do we really need to change?”
How often do we ask ourselves the question: is it time we changed our software? Maybe we f...
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2021 Outlook – a brighter future
In our previous look at the global economy – “Beyond Coronavirus – the 2020 Econo...
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21 Email Tools, Tips and Hints for 2021
Email takes up a lot of our working day. Given time is so valuable, and in preparat...
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Inbox Zero – enjoy the journey
The concept of “Inbox Zero” gained popularity after a Google Tech Talk by its “inven...
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Shared mailboxes 2 – making best use of your inbox
Although shared mailboxes have been around for years, it’s still surprising how many bus...
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Shared mailboxes – what, why and how?
What is a shared mailbox? Very simply, a shared mailbox is one that m...
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Beyond Coronavirus – the 2020 Economic Outlook
(Updated 8 July 2020, first published 10 April 2020) If during the first quarter of...
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20 Tips to save valuable time
When designing and developing software, one of our aims is to ensure that each of our user...
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Stress and Covid-19
In our article we wrote about stress in the workplace, how it was becoming more commonplac...
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Cyber Security Update
Some months ago we wrote about cyber security risks and how they can be managed. The artic...
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Beyond Coronavirus – what does the future hold?
Quite when things might return to some semblance of normality after the current coronaviru...
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Cyber Threats and Covid-19
With the change in the way we work affecting most of us, now would seem an appropriate tim...
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Managing with Remote Working?
Wherever you live in the world, the chances are that you and your team are experiencing a ...
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Coronavirus – working remotely?
Covid-19, coronavirus, first revealed in Wuhan, China in December has now infected over 2m...
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Working from Home (WFH) – a few tips to make it work
Working from Home, or as it’s now more commonly known “WFH”, has become a necessity ...
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Ship financing: pre 2008 to date
The latest trends in ship financing likely to impact the market....
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IMO 2020: Caps, SOx and Scrubbers
Potentially one of the most economically disruptive regulations the maritime sector has se...
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Email Scams: A Growing Threat
Hardly a day goes by without an email arriving in our inbox with an attached payment advic...
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Cyber security risks and their management
In this article we look at the different types of cyber risks that exist, the scale of the...