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By Mark Robillard
      
There was a time not so long ago that connecting staff members from home, a client’s office, or a hotel room wasn’t only impractical, it was virtually impossible. But then came the internet.

     Before the internet, the only option was modem-to-modem. A staff member with a modem-equipped laptop could connect to a modem-equipped computer inside the office. But the connection speeds were torturously slow, and connections were frequently dropped without warning or reason. Now, while not a perfect solution, remote access can be useful and productive.

     It’s important to understand what remote access actually means. In terms of Clients & Profits, remote access can allow people who work outside the office to work as if they’re physically in the office, within limits.

      There are several approaches to take to provide remote access to Clients & Profits. The one that’s right for you depends on who needs remote access and what things they need to do outside the office. The first step is to identify who needs remote access.

Need to know

     There’s always been an obvious need for account service, production, and creative staffers to trade information about clients, jobs, costs, and billings wherever they are. These people are frequently out of the office, but are often the first to know about new jobs, schedule revisions, change orders, and more. But without any way to notify the office, the office-bound staff members aren’t made aware until well after the fact—when the staff members finally return to the office and the data is entered into Clients & Profits.

Information becomes available to everyone

     Remote access gives these staffers a chance to open new jobs, enter estimates, revise schedules, and more from any internet connection—from a client’s conference room, from a hotel room, from a photo shoot, or from home. The information gets into the shop’s Clients & Profits database virtually as it happens (or at least much quicker than before), and becomes available to everyone else who needs it.
So if the business case for remote access can be made, how can it be done? The approaches to remote access are readily available and inexpensive. But the

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Timbuktu is the leading remote connectivity solution for Mac and Windows. It allows remote users to access a company computer from home using an internet connection. With Timbuktu, you can work on Clients & Profits from home just as if you were sitting inside the office. Timbuktu?


 



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