Great Plains Communications Business Blog
Stay up to date on industry trends and service offerings, and learn how our business partners are leveraging our fiber-based services to position themselves for success!
How to Connect with the Best Customer Experience
How was your customer’s experience after they interacted with your business? Would they recommend your products and services to friends and family or, advise them to go elsewhere? The customer experience, or CX, is how your company can differentiate from your...
Foundations for a Successful Digital Transformation: Apps
Apps are the spark that’s inspiring organizations to embark on a digital transformation, moving from analog to digital platforms and services. Enterprise application software enables companies to significantly improve business operations and profitability and is the...
Foundations for a Successful Digital Transformation: Cloud
Our applications live everywhere. Our employees want to work from anywhere. Now more than ever, our customers expect to connect instantly, with high network performance. In a previous blog, “Foundations for a Successful Digital Transformation: Connectivity,” we...
Foundations for a Successful Digital Transformation: Connectivity
Customers today expect to connect from wherever they are to applications, information and services, no matter where these things are located without service interruptions. The expectation is that the connection itself should be virtually instantaneous and available at...
Digital Transformation: 10 Key IT Principles to Follow
As organizations transition their workloads and IT processes to the Cloud, they’re seeking the most simple but efficient approach to reap the full benefits of a digital transformation. Here’s a look at 10 key IT design and operations digital transformation principles....
Boys Town and Great Plains Communications – An Ongoing Technology Partnership
Boys Town is one of the leading nonprofit childcare agencies in the U.S. With nine sites across the nation that have services and programs ranging from hospitals to residential family homes to behavioral health clinics, a fast, reliable and secure fiber network is...
Cloud and Connectivity: Trends to Watch and Disconnects to Avoid
Are you looking for the best way to build your digital business and connect applications and workloads stored in hybrid (public and private) and multicloud platforms with various locations? Discover how to select the right broadband connectivity network and tools that...
4 ways small businesses can make security smarter and provide peace of mind to business owners and managers.
Is security at your business locations keeping you up at night? Are you confident that your business assets are always protected? Would you know if a restricted area was accessed or if your store closed early unexpectedly? While you can’t always be physically on site...
Choosing the Right Path to the Cloud
All signs point to the cloud. After all, companies of all sizes and across every sector want the quick and easy accessibility to their workloads and applications from anywhere that cloud offers, whether it’s private, public, hybrid or multi-cloud. Companies...
An ISE Magazine Q&A with Great Plains Communications CEO Todd Foje
History Charts the Future Back in 1910 when Great Plains Communications was starting out as a local telephone company in Creighton, Nebraska, phones were connected by manual switchboard exchanges. Fast forward to the present. The communication technology of today and...
FCC’s New Emergency Connectivity Fund Learning Program: What You Need to Know
Redefining the new normal for education depends on access to broadband connectivity and distance learning devices. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting shift to remote learning for many students exposed the depth of the “homework gap” that already existed for some...
Omaha Storm Chasers Add Great Plains Communications Fiber Services to Keep Fans Connected With an Enhanced In-Stadium Experience
We are well into the 2021 Omaha Storm Chasers season and fans have been enjoying a superior in-stadium experience when they return to their seats in Werner Park, thanks to the fiber-driven technology services provided by Great Plains Communications (GPC). It was last...