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Mobility Gone Wild: Fast, Furious, & Unleashed ARG’s Director of Mobility Solutions, Patrick McGugan, and Chief Revenue Officer, Mike Shonholz, got rave reviews on the content they delivered at our Mobility Gone Wild event in August, so we held a webinar for those who couldn’t attend the live seminar. Watch the webinar recording to learn more about this dynamic technology. 63%Read more

Organization Collaborates with ARG to Reduce Mobile Expenses with a Mobility Management Platform Client The client is a civil engineering/architectural firm in the Northeast with over five hundred employees. While they are based in the United States, they have projects in over thirty countries, and they work on more than two thousand projects every year.Read more

4 Winning Tactics for a Downtime-Free Move Couldn’t make it to our last event Game-Changing Move Strategies: 4 Winning Tactics for a Downtime-Free Move? Catch up on what you missed by watching the webinar recording. Tune in as ARG’s Chief Revenue Officer, Mike Shonholz, and ARG’s Director of Mobility Services, Patrick McGugan, along with aRead more

Moving Away from Corporate BYOD Policy Delivered 42% Mobility Cost Savings and More Resources to a Virginia Nonprofit. Client A Virginia based nonprofit publisher of weekly industry magazines and daily online journals. The nonprofit’s goal of fostering open and informed debate and to enhance administration and policy in their industry relies heavily upon their communicationRead more

Below are the top 7 initiatives among ARG’s forward looking clients.  Are these in your 2018 plan?  ARG may be able to help you accomplish all of these things without increasing your current total IT spend. 1.  Test your backup.  Getting all your data backed up is definitely key.  But, with all the attacks that are happening,Read more

Using mobile devices outside of the office may be convenient for employees, but it must be managed effectively.

Changes to cellular data plans, exploding Samsungs, Wi-Fi Assist issues and why you may not want to buy the iPhone 7 quite yet.

With thousands of UCaaS seats deployed throughout the Washington DC area for hundreds of clients on multiple carriers, here are the top reasons we see hosted voice adoption growing.

With speeds up to 100 times faster than 4G, next-gen networks will transform the way we do business. 

“Enterprise mobility” is a hot topic as we head into the final months of 2015. Increasingly mobile workforce emphasize the need for companies to enable and manage employee mobility in order to meet security and productivity demands. But what does this mean for you?

Companies who set out to mobilize their enterprises on their own tend to miss important security factors that could potentially put sensitive data in jeopardy. On top of that, they tend to overlook needs and requirements specific to their company which could lead the company’s inability to expand and improve with future add-ons.

At ARG we are often faced with the question, “What can YOU do for ME?” We pride ourselves in helping companies, big or small, get the most bang for their buck while investing in the best, unique technology solution for their business.

The consequences of down time for any company can send a negative ripple through their entire operation, regardless of duration. No company ever wants to face a network outage, but with providers offering solutions that nearly guarantee four hours of downtime a month, what other options are there?

2015 is quickly becoming the year of the mobile worker. When enabling a mobile workforce, the user experience is key to the value add that mobility provides. “Always on” connectivity provides the mobile workforce balance and flexibility in their personal and work life. Subsequently, “always on” connectivity requires 24/7/365 mobile support for any issue that may arise. 

Mobile Device Management (MDM) is becoming exponentially more important to organizations in the year 2015. Finding the best ways to protect and manage smartphones and tablets can be a daunting task, but with the increasing population of mobile employees, security is pivotal.

TechTarget’s Matthew Pascucci outlines six key questions that are necessary to ask when looking into MDM products in a recent article. He also emphasizes the importance of an established set of “organizationally specific criteria” prior to comparing and contrasting MDM solutions.

ARG’s Mobility Management Division is making a major impact on the bottom line of a high profile new client.

The team implemented changes that decreased this clients wireless bill by 75%, delivering annual savings of over $800,000.00

The IT hiring environment in 2015 is set to be ultra-competitive. Despite an abundance of open positions, skill levels in an ever evolving tech atmosphere just aren’t up to snuff.

CompTIA’s IT Industry Outlook 2015 surveyed 649 companies in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., and the results highlight both the positive andnegative factors the current IT hiring environment encompasses. Forty-three percent of companies said their IT departments were understaffed despite large gains in requests for IT skills including but not limited to SQL, Java, Oracle, Linux and more.

Mobility was such a hot topic at our September seminar that we featured it in our November webinar on Best Practices for Developing a Mobile Strategy. We had a great turn out and good split of attendees who currently support BYOD (33%)  Corporate Liable (44%) and Hybrid (21%) policies for their users. ARG’s very own PatRead more

The Court of Appeal in Cochran v. Schwan’s Home Service stated: “We hold that when employees must use their personal cellphones for work-related calls, Labor Code section 2802 requires the employer to reimburse them. Whether the employees have cellphone plans with unlimited minutes or limited minutes, the reimbursement owed is a reasonable percentage of theirRead more

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