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Software producers know that businesses have deeper pockets than individuals–so they charge you a bit more. If you have a successful business and don’t want to spend your hard-earned money on new management software, you might have a few free options.
For managing all the computers on your business network, you might consider SysAid. SysAid is free and allows you to do almost everything your network needs. You can remote control computers on your network, view, sort, search and list all of the devices on your network and view all the details on all of them. You can get instant updates on your network’s catalog items and software and then print them from any printer on your network. Another great feature is the built in live chat, as well as automatic update notices.
Now that your computer network is covered, what about free text editors, presentation files, Excel sheets and the like? Buying Microsoft Office Suite can be costly, especially for all the computers on your network.
A free alternative to Microsoft Office is OpenOffice.org. It’s a complete suite like Microsoft Office and can even open and modify all the files from it. You will have equivalents to Word, Excel, Access and Power Point. You are free to install it on as many computers as you like, even from one download file, and to use it for commercial purposes. For a sleek email client, try downloading and installing Mozilla Thunderbird. Thunderbird is also free and is the counterpart for Microsoft Outlook Express. It includes your contacts, downloads your email and does it all it sleek business style.
There are always new ways to save money as a business and new technology is one of them. Software like online survey software is only part of the success. Now that you know what to use, maybe you can put that extra money from your business toward a vacation; then again, reinvesting it into new office chairs might be a better choice.
