There was a time when every household, town, farm or village had its own water well. Today, shared public utilities give us access to clean water by simply turning on the tap; cloud computing works in a similar fashion. Just like water from the tap in your kitchen, cloud computing services can be turned on or off quickly as needed. Like the water company, there is a team of dedicated professionals making sure the service provided is safe, secure and available on a 24/7 basis.
Cloud computing is changing how companies are doing business. At TSI, we make recommendations to our clients on how they can take advantage of cloud computing. This allows a virtual office and provides the flexibility of connecting to your business anywhere at any time. With the growing number of web enabled devices used today in business, access to your data is even easier.
I have focused on five main benefits of cloud computing for our clients:
- Collaboration efficiency
Collaboration in a cloud environment gives your business the ability to communicate and easily share information outside of traditional methods. At TSI we use cloud collaboration when we work on projects at multiple locations, client sites, and home. Cloud collaboration allows for a more efficient way for our employees to collaborate seamlessly.
- Business continuity
Cloud storage will protect your data and systems, which is an important part of business continuity planning. The providers of cloud applications have advanced strategies that take into account natural disasters, power failures, or other crisis to ensure that your data is backed up and protected in a secure and safe location. Cloud storage gives the ability to conduct business that minimizes downtime and loss of productivity. TSI leverages Google drive, which stores mission critical data in a safe and secure off-site location. You may come up with performance indicators by using business intelligence software for your clients.
- Flexibility of business practices
Flexibility of cloud computing allows employees to be more flexible in their business practices. Employees need to access data from multiple offices, at home, commuting to and from work, and while traveling during business meetings. If you need to access data when you are off-site, you can connect to your virtual office quickly and easily.
- Lower IT costs
Rather than learning and purchasing expensive equipment and systems to manage your business, you can lower your IT costs by using the resources of the cloud service provider. Cost of paying wages of expert staff, software upgrades, and lower utility costs will be reduced rather than providing these services at your company’s location.
One of our clients signed a software contract with their vendor on a Friday and by Monday morning development could start and 4 environments had already been established. Reduction of the time it takes to setup infrastructure can save several weeks to months in the project delivery cycle..
- Scalability
Your company can scale IT environments based on the business evolution. Instead of purchasing and installing expensive applications, your cloud provider can handle this for your business. If there is a demand to increase or decrease you applications need for additional system performance, this can be performed more effectively to scale as your business changes. Using the cloud services will allow you to move forward on with executing your business and not worry about system applications.
I have worked with financial firms where their scalability needs can fluctuate due to market conditions. Leveraging cloud services has efficiently allowed the dynamic flexibility for their company to adjust IT scalability to be in alignment to their business needs.
If you want to tap into cloud computing and experience the benefits for your company, contact TSI for their expert experience.
