Vol.1 | January 2025

Your monthly Insights newsletter from Focus Group has landed!

Every 30 days or so, we’ll be sharing the latest and greatest from the world of business technology. No pushy salesy stuff. Just straight-talking news, product updates and tech tips to help take your business onwards and upwards.

Here's to 2025. And here's to it being your best year yet!

Did you know?

Focus Group was founded in 2003 and we’re lucky enough to be able to say some of our customers have been with us since the very beginning. We like to think this is simply because we know our stuff about technology and genuinely want to help your businesses shine! If you’re newer to Focus Group, here are a few fast facts about us:?

• We now have 19 offices across the UK, from the south coast to Scotland. So we’re never far away if you need our support
• In 2021, we launched Focus Foundation - our very own charity. More about that next month
• Our team is made up of over 1100 exceptional individuals
• In addition to taking care of your IT, telecoms, connectivity and cyber security services, we also produce honey! Our hives are on our rooftop at HQ in sunny Shoreham-by-Sea
• Beyond the world of technology, we’re passionate about supporting individuals and teams on the road to sporting success. We are proud sponsors of Brighton & Hove Albion FC, Exeter Chiefs and Worthing FC amongst others.

New & Noteworthy

Tech Trends for 2025

Long list of resolutions at the ready? Forget it. A New Year doesn’t need a ‘new you’, you’re already winning! It is a good time to look ahead though, so in our latest blog we dive into the Technology Trends for 2025.

Read more.

The latest updates from Microsoft

We know it’s difficult to keep up with the number of changes and releases that come from Microsoft. Let us take care of it. Each month, we’ll highlight the latest updates that are important to your business.

Read more.

New partnership with TD Synnex

Our IT Director, Laurence Glen sat down with Darren Dixon at TD Synnex to discuss the benefits of our new Microsoft alliance.

Tech Talk

Definition:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is like giving machines a brain upgrade, so they can think and learn just like us humans—minus the coffee breaks!

Types of AI:

We've got two main players in the AI game!

• Narrow AI is the go-getter, built for specific tasks like your chatty virtual assistant
• Then there's General AI, the ambitious overachiever, dreaming of tackling any brainy challenge a human can handle!

You probably already know that CAPTCHA is a security measure that helps to protect websites from spam and password decryption by asking users to complete a challenge that proves they are human.

But did you know it’s a lengthy acronym? CAPTCHA stands for ‘Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart’!