Optimal Insights

Plain-English answers to your questions about technology best practices.

How to Choose the Right Donor Management Software for Nonprofits

For nonprofits—of the 501c3 variety especially—properly managing your donations, the life of each donation, and your donors themselves is absolutely critical to the success of your organization and the advancement of your mission. This, by extension, means that choosing your donor management software is not a task to be taken

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How Much Does a Network Upgrade Project Cost?

  The words “network upgrade” are enough to make any CFO’s skin crawl. These large-scale projects are a necessary evil when it comes to technology, and the price tag is going to be substantial no matter which way you cut it. After providing technology services to various small businesses, law

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How Much Does an Office Move Cost for Law Firms?

Office moves are a hassle. There’s just no way around it. Even if you’re moving up to bigger and better things, the process of picking up your entire firm and placing it back down somewhere new is incredibly complex and stressful–and that’s before money even enters the picture. Having served the DC

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How Much Should Law Firms Spend on IT Annually?

Recently, we spent some time working through the key elements to consider when it comes to crafting your law firm’s IT budget. While this discussion digs into the nuts and bolts of what specific pieces combine to form a successful budget, it opens the door to another side of the

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Is Microsoft Office 365 Right for 501c3 Nonprofits?

A low-cost cloud solution. It’s an attractive concept, and one Microsoft has been working overtime to promote in the form of their Office 365 services. It’s a smart business move on their part: historically, Microsoft’s revenue has been tied directly to their product upgrade cycles—what better way to supplement the

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How Much Does Email Encryption Cost?

Let me ask you something: how many emails would you say you send within one week? Now, of those emails, how many of them contain sensitive information of some sort? Last question: if one of those sensitive emails were intercepted, what would happen? It’s no secret that cybercrime has reached

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