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Reflecting back on Accountex 2025, we summarise the emerging tech trends and the results from this years Pro Drive IT in Accounting Benchmarking Survey. Accountex is the premier event for accountants, finance professionals, and [...]
Our Technical Director, Matt Taylor, summarises the 2025 Accountex exhibition and latest Pro Drive IT news from it. In May Pro Drive returned to Accountex for our 2nd year exhibiting there. For those of [...]
In recent months, cyber-attacks on high profile retail businesses including Marks & Spencer (M&S) and the Co-op have made the news headlines. This has affected many customers of these businesses, not just in terms [...]
We currently live in a more unstable and unpredictable world which is putting pressure on all businesses. Whether it is the global macroeconomic impact of Trump’s trade policies, the impact of wars raging on [...]
We recently ran the latest in our series of workshops for accountants, lawyers and financial services firms on how they can start leverage AI to give their firms a competitive edge. These are small [...]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot are becoming more common in work environments. For accountants, lawyers, and financial services professionals, with high workload and pressure from deadline, the promise of using [...]
Pro Drive IT recently ran a roundtable exercise titled “How to avoid cyber annihilation of your firm”, which as the name suggest was designed to educate the attendees on the cyber security risks to [...]
If you are a regular follower of this blog or our newsletters, you will have noticed that we have published a lot of content on Microsoft Copilot and more generally on generative AI over [...]
For years now the choice of processor when buying a windows laptop was limited to just two main options - Intel or AMD. Intel were seen as the safe choice, with AMD usually coming [...]
Did you know that Microsoft includes generative AI chat based on ChatGPT as part of your Microsoft 365 plan? What’s more, it includes Enterprise Data Protection as standard – something you need to pay [...]
Pro Drive IT, a leading provider of IT support and cybersecurity services for businesses in London and the Southeast and a specialist in working with Accountancy Practices, is excited to announce their participation in [...]
We recently wrote about the danger of impersonation scams and highlighted how generative AI is making these scams more convincing, in particular ‘Vishing’ which usually centres around telephone based scams. A more recent development, [...]
The last couple of years have seen a significant increase in digital impersonation scams specifically targeting professional services, accountancy, and law firms, and their clients. These scams exploit human error and IT related vulnerabilities, [...]
Accountancy firms have good reason to ensure they are reviewing and mitigating cyber security risks in their practices. They are prime targets for cyber criminals, in part due to the valuable financial data they [...]
‘Quishing’ is a relatively new form of cyber scam, which is based on the familiar ‘phishing’ technique but instead uses fake QR codes to trick victims into disclosing confidential details to waiting cyber criminals. [...]
When Microsoft made their last price adjustment to their Microsoft 365 licensing, they outlined that all future global pricing would be based on US dollar pricing going forwards and reviewed based on exchange rate [...]
………and yes Copilot did assist me with this Blog! In today's fast-paced world of technological advancements, it's crucial for businesses to embrace new concepts and technologies to grow and develop. Staying ahead of the [...]
Debbie from our Sales Support and Finance has kindly shared her experience of life as a team member at Pro Drive. As a working disabled mum, finding a job that accommodates my needs while [...]
Legal and Accountancy firms faced with difficulties in recruiting enough staff are increasing turning to technology to find efficiency and reduce the burden of their workload. Microsoft 365 Copilot, Microsoft’s AI assistant tool, has [...]
Everyone knows that all online accounts should be protected by “Multi Factor Authentication”, known as multifactor authentication for short, or sometimes as 2FA which stands for “Two Factor Authentication”. It’s the simplest thing you [...]
