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O’FALLON, MO – November 2, 2011 – Winning Technologies announces it has secured a contract with The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) to provide complete hosting services for the association’s St. Louis office.

Winning Technologies and its sister company, Xpress Host, will host AGC’s entire infrastructure onsite at the IT firm’s data center. The contract is for three years with a value of $40,000. 

“The AGC was looking for a solution that enabled them to control costs while ensuring their data would be safe and secure,” said Scott Lewis, President of Winning Technologies. “They sought out a firm that could provide them with an environment that offered a robust platform for redundancy and disaster preparedness. As the largest IT firm serving the construction industry we thoroughly understand their goals and objectives and are extremely well equipped to meet their needs.”

The Associated General Contractors of America is the leading association for the construction industry. A full service national trade association with a nationwide network of exceptional chapters, AGC represents more than 33,000 leading firms in the industry - including general contractors, specialty contractors and service providers and suppliers. AGC members play a powerful role in sustaining economic growth, in addition to producing structures that add to productivity and the nation's quality of life. AGC is truly the "voice and choice" of the construction industry. AGC’s local office is located at 6330 Knox Industrial Drive in St. Louis.

Managing risk is simply part of being in business; a basic tenet of your business operation. Many companies are simply not in tune with the risk factors that our growing involvement and reliance on technology has introduced to the business model. The purpose of this article is to explore some of the areas of risk that each of us may face and offer some practical suggestions for managing the risk more effectively.

O'FALLON, MO – October 6, 2011 – Scott Lewis, President of Winning Technologies, has been named to the Board of Directors of Sts. Joachim and Ann Care Service in St. Charles, MO, a an agency providing services to impoverished families and individuals in St. Charles, Lincoln and Warren Counties.

Lewis will play an active role with the agency and its mission of serving those in crisis and preventing homelessness and hunger.

"The Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service is an outstanding agency that assists thousands of individuals each year," Lewis said. "I look forward to helping the organization continue to fulfill its mission as it works with those who desperately need support and assistance."

Miriam Mahan, Executive Director of Sts Joachim and Ann Care Service, said Lewis' background is a perfect fit for the Board. "Scott is already well known for his outstanding work with veterans and related veterans organizations, and can certainly make a great difference with the communities we serve. We are honored he has accepted a Board position with the agency."

The Care Service's purpose is to protect families, especially children, the elderly and disabled, regardless of race, age, gender, or religion from the despair, hopelessness and social injustice caused by poverty. The Care Service's programs are designed to stabilize and strengthen the family by reintegrating them into our community, affirming their motto, "Planting the Seed of Hope…Breaking the Chain of Despair".

As the Winning Technologies group of companies has continued to expand around the world one of the things we focus on religiously is managing our client's expectations to help us meet their needs on an ongoing basis. Regardless if you are a technology company or other service company all service companies continue to work on methods to make sure that we are meeting the clients expectations of the service they are paying for. Service companies are basically caught in the middle, we need and want to provide the best possible service, however the challenge comes with how to manage your clients into a business model where both parties feel they are succeeding and expectations are kept reasonable, manageable and achievable.

Cell phone technology has improved rapidly and the features and functionality of smart phones have reached into all our daily lives, from keep track of our calendars, meetings, phone numbers, email and much more. However one thing that is often overlooked is how vulnerable cell phones and smart phones are considering the information that is stored on them. Securing these devices is important from a corporate data security perspective, but also from a personal aspect of identity theft protection.

Phones and the selection of phone systems are critical to success in today's business environment. Most organizations only purchase new phone systems once every 7 to 10 years unless the phone system they selected once installed is not what they expected or wanted and at that point it can be horribly expensive to change again any time soon. Guess what! the phone vendors know that the likelihood of you changing once the system is in place is less than 1% so they know that once they have a system installed no matter how bad it is for you and your business they have you.