10 Ways the Cloud Helps Improve Productivity
February 12th 2013?by Robert J. Chandler
Business professionals and individuals are well acquainted with information technology (IT). They yearn for greater ease and convenience in their IT applications, as well as accuracy and security to help them get their jobs done better.
The Cloud assists them in many ways. Among them:
- Sharing information: access anytime (readily available 24/7), anywhere (all that is needed is an Internet connection), in a multi-user environment (more than one person can access it) at the same time.
- Creating and securely sending data files: so the people who should see them can access the information they need.
- Remotely logging to a client?s or staff member?s computer: overcoming the challenges of multiple users at a single time, high security risks, slow speeds, and inconvenience.
- Data backup (an automatic occurrence): assuring that information is accessible at any time.
- Disaster recovery: data files are located offsite to assure ongoing accessibility.
- Availability of software updates: helping you keep current.
- Reducing the need to have an IT professional or IT consultant on staff: saving you money.
- Instant access: business owners and accountants don?t have to wait.
- Keeping up with technological change: no need to spend hours searching for and researching solutions to common business data problems.
- Work more efficiently: all it takes is an Internet connection.
Enter the Cloud. ?Together in the Cloud? solves application, networking, appliances, server and storage problems. The Cloud is a welcome addition to any business environment.
The Cloud is here to stay. Individuals and firms who embrace beneficial change adapt their methods, and experience increased opportunities for sustainable success. Never has this been truer than in creating, storing, accessing, and sharing information vital to business operations.
Fast (the speed of the transaction) can also be fine (the quality of the interaction) in new and rapidly developing IT environments.
Efficiency and accuracy join hands in a globally ripe collection of economies and business practices where instant information sharing on accessible platforms is the new norm because it has to be.
Cooperation between people still is the standard of personal maturity, of course. But business growth depends on similar collaboration paradigms in ?on demand? technological environments where requirements for immediate access to business information set new standards of engagement.
No more hesitation, tech inhibitors, unnecessary licensing hoops to jump through, and inconvenient (often hidden) next steps to take. No more dependence on unreliable IT consultants or on-site data storage systems where purchase and upgrading expenses mount quickly, guarantees are fragile if they exist at all, and retrieval of data is often far more complicated than it needs to be.
In Cloud computing, software, data, and operations literally are done online in a virtual office environment, one that is unencumbered by the hardware and software systems that have bogged down so many for so long. The Cloud has created an information processing place. The act of getting to the place of the Cloud has become a broader and higher standard of computing ease and efficiency. That place is where the needs of computing processes are fulfilled often beyond expectation. In the Cloud, sharing information within a secure environment has become not only possible ? it?s here.
Cloud computing energizes the user because it is uncomplicated and stress free. This fact sets it apart. Simplicity of use refreshes anyone who simply wants to get work done faster, more efficiently, and accurately without worrying about the hardware, security, software and access issues.
Editor?s Note: This article is an excerpt from Robert Chandler?s book, Together in the Cloud.
- About Robert J. Chandler
Robert J. Chandler
?Robert J. Chandler is the founder and acting President/CEO of Cloud9 Real Time, an accredited Managed Service Provider (MSP), application hosting company and licensed Intuit Commercial Host. Robert is the author of the recently published book Together in the Cloud (http://robertjchandler.com), an informative "How To" guide that offers readers insight into how businesses can implement and utilize Cloud technologies in order to bridge the gap between users, applications and IT. Robert is regularly interviewed on the topic of Cloud Computing for SMBs. He is a sought-after speaker for Accounting and Technology conferences nationwide, and is actively involved in moving the accounting industry forward through advancements in technology. Robert recently won the Expert award for the 2012 Small Business Influencer Awards produced by Small Business Trends and BlackBerry. The Small Business Influencer Awards honor those who are influential to small businesses in North America through the products, services, knowledge, information or support they provide to the small business market.?See all of Robert's articles?You can also visit Robert's Website
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