Imagine walking into the office to an inbox free from spam, unnecessary memos and non-urgent upkeep. Picture if you never had to sift through your inbox to get to those couple of important, to-the-point messages from clients or potential clients.

Imagine opening your calendar to see a perfectly organized, productive day filled with creative and essential tasks, such as meetings with clients and brainstorming sessions with your team.

Imagine never writing another invoice or tediously arranging a schedule to organize meetings. Imagine a work day free from follow-up emails, timesheets and tedious ventures into data analysis.

According to Sean ‘the Google Guy’ McFetridge, owner of Better IT Systems, this is the future artificial intelligence promises us.

“This is a very exciting time,” said Sean. “One reason being something called artificiaFl intelligence. AI goes beyond robots that control themselves and plot to take over the world. This is a very unlikely doomsday element, but AI promises to be more practical that some may give it credit for." 

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“Having a computer that is intelligent means humans will be freed from the mundane and repetitive tasks they complete in their everyday life. For example, we could have artificial intelligence that could go through all of our content and know who our contacts are, and who our potential contacts could be in the future. We would have a system that could scan through all the emails we get in our inbox and know what the next 10 meetings need to be. All of this would happen in the background instead of us spending a significant chunk of our time trying to make this happen. It essentially allows us to focus on our higher priorities, making us more productive.”

In essence, artificial intelligence will become the ultimate assistant. Sean argues that this allows us to utilize and capitalize on our full creative potential.

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These are some large ideas with global implications. So, what does Better IT Systems, a business owned and operated out of Kelowna, have to do with these ideas? How can their business affect these massive developments, developments that are likely to rise up out of technology giants such as Google.

Sean and his team at Better IT Systems are part of this movement because they play a pivotal role. In order to benefit from developments in AI technology, businesses need to be using the technology.

Better IT Systems is committed to getting businesses in our community on the Google Cloud, the software that is likely to be at the forefront of innovations in AI.

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“We help numerous business, from two to 200 employees, transition into a 100% google cloud-based set-up,” said Sean. “This means migrating all their data (information) and putting it in google’s online software.”

When all your documents are on an online software, you can access them anywhere on any device. For example, this article you’re currently reading was written online from the United States. This means I could write it, save it, then proofread it on my phone two hours later. It also meant my colleague in Kelowna could take a look on her computer at the same time.

According to Sean, it is because of these immediate benefits that moving into an online software is important. However, the future of artificial intelligence, and what this could do for businesses, is why online software will be massively important.

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Better IT System’s motto is “we bring your business to the cloud”. Since the cloud is where innovative developments in AI will be transpiring, you want to make sure your business is utilizing the technology currently present in this realm to realize the potential that will be available.

If you’d like to hear more about Artificial Intelligence, Better IT Systems and some other elements, such the security threats posed by off-site computing or the employment issues related to AI, feel free to click on this link and listen to my interview with Sean.