Cloud speak is everywhere but what does all this really mean in practical application for your business and technology planning? In order to help determine which Cloud options will innovate your business processes, we will be outlining the Cloud’s 7 key areas of business focus. This RevITup™ TechEd Blog Series will break down each component and wrap up with a 4-Step Action Plan for getting you started.
Part 1: Focus on Competitive Advantage
Reduced Outlay: The on-demand model shares the cost of technology across the provider’s entire network greatly reducing everyone’s spending. This allows SMBs to focus budget on competitive advantages rather than technology infrastructure.
The Great Equalizer: The cloud provides an infrastructure that levels the playing field and allows SMBs to compete among their enterprise counterparts.
The Cloud makes it possible to do more with less and the potential for innovation on such a flexible, adaptive infrastructure is almost limitless. It is now possible to access complete parcels of functionality over the Web – software applications, business services, even end-to-end business processes. In this on-demand revolution, it’s no longer necessary to buy and install software and hire IT staff to keep the computers running when we can access exactly the same business applications, ready to use, online. We can obtain the services of administrators, call center agents, or accountants who work with us via the Web far more cost-effectively than their offline rivals. We can send out translation work, raw prospect lists, sales presentations – virtually anything you can imagine that you don’t have time or the resources to work on in-house – and an online service will transform it into the finished article overnight at a remarkably competitive price.
To learn more about the Cloud download Part 3 of our RevITup TechEd™ Cloud series webinars,”Riding the Cloud: 10 Ways to Harness Cloud Power for your Business.”
For more information, please contact Megan Meisner at mmeisner@launchpadonline.com or 813 920 0788 x210.
Stay Tuned: Coming soon – Part 2 | Focus on Business Goals
