Technology has big usage as it pertains to business. There are software options that are used daily to assist with productivity. The majority of apps requires updates and maintenance. It’s important to stay on top of this because updating offers improved performance and features, security fixes and more. Particularly with updating to patch any security vulnerabilities to prevent any cyber threats from attempting to access your systems to breach it to hack to obtain sensitive data.
Keeping your software updated accordingly can help keep your business running with little to no downtime, prevent any outages that can affect your bottom line and ensures that the versions you’re using are the most stable and compatible. Other cases to consider to staying updated will keep your business compliant so that you’re meeting whatever requirements are needed. Take the time to set a schedule to update, usually during non business hours to perform updates and always have a test environment to push the updates first to make sure that they’re no errors or issues that arise. Once you can confirm it’s safe to update, move to the production environment and do post checks to make sure all went well. Any changes prior and post should be communicated for awareness. Have a rollback plan just in case something still fails.
Updating your software will keep your business covered and will make sure that you’re utilizing the latest features and benefit from performance updates that can help you and your team be more efficient in executing on task. Stay in the loop and keep that software at its best.
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