The 9 benefits for small business working through the cloud include and exceed improvements in email application.
1. Keep down your costs. Initial investment is always a challenge for start up. The cloud addresses this head on, since there's no need to buy or maintain servers, routers, and related equipment.
2. Provides limitless scalability. The cloud also avoids cost from technology lock-in. In the ups and downs of a new business and a fickle economy, cloud use allows for tailored plans that can adjust for the changing needs of your business.
3. Durability is resiliency. For some small businesses, the loss of a laptop can be disastrous. Even though for one not so precarious, a major fire or flood could wipe out your office, along with all your tech and records. If your email contact list, as well as other key documents, are on a cloud, soon as you're back online you're ready to resume your business just where you left off.
4. Collaboration is enhanced. Employees can work on the same document, even in real time, from diverse locations, or even from the field, when it's all equally and easily accessible in the cloud.
5. Flex your techs. Your employees and yourself will be able to access vital documents, and reply to email, using a variety of convenient devices - including those trendy handheld ones.
6. Greater security. The top cloud providers, such as Verizon small business email services, are vastly more secure from sabotage and theft then the security systems that most small business can usually manage. This is top of the line security.
7. Work force mobility. Reduce costs through employee work-from-home arrangements or with contract workers. Or, perhaps your business requires much travel in the field. In either case, working through the cloud keeps everyone connected, even when they're on the move.
8. Top shelf software features. Can your small business afford the top shelf software programs? Not many can. Especially at the start and frequently well after start-up, small businesses compromise on the software, sacrificing valuable functionality to scrimp by. Economies of scale allow cloud users to access the top of the line software for what turns out to be a fraction of the cost.
9. No new training. Despite all these benefits there is no need for expensive retraining of staff. The user interface for them is unchanged. Saving a document to or writing an email from the cloud is the same click and point experience as if they were doing it on your own server.
Okay, I know that I said there'd be 9 benefits of the cloud, but I can't resist throwing in a bonus point:
10. It's way cool. Hey, that counts for something.
If you want to know more about where Verizon small business email service is right for you, check out this article.
1. Keep down your costs. Initial investment is always a challenge for start up. The cloud addresses this head on, since there's no need to buy or maintain servers, routers, and related equipment.
2. Provides limitless scalability. The cloud also avoids cost from technology lock-in. In the ups and downs of a new business and a fickle economy, cloud use allows for tailored plans that can adjust for the changing needs of your business.
3. Durability is resiliency. For some small businesses, the loss of a laptop can be disastrous. Even though for one not so precarious, a major fire or flood could wipe out your office, along with all your tech and records. If your email contact list, as well as other key documents, are on a cloud, soon as you're back online you're ready to resume your business just where you left off.
4. Collaboration is enhanced. Employees can work on the same document, even in real time, from diverse locations, or even from the field, when it's all equally and easily accessible in the cloud.
5. Flex your techs. Your employees and yourself will be able to access vital documents, and reply to email, using a variety of convenient devices - including those trendy handheld ones.
6. Greater security. The top cloud providers, such as Verizon small business email services, are vastly more secure from sabotage and theft then the security systems that most small business can usually manage. This is top of the line security.
7. Work force mobility. Reduce costs through employee work-from-home arrangements or with contract workers. Or, perhaps your business requires much travel in the field. In either case, working through the cloud keeps everyone connected, even when they're on the move.
8. Top shelf software features. Can your small business afford the top shelf software programs? Not many can. Especially at the start and frequently well after start-up, small businesses compromise on the software, sacrificing valuable functionality to scrimp by. Economies of scale allow cloud users to access the top of the line software for what turns out to be a fraction of the cost.
9. No new training. Despite all these benefits there is no need for expensive retraining of staff. The user interface for them is unchanged. Saving a document to or writing an email from the cloud is the same click and point experience as if they were doing it on your own server.
Okay, I know that I said there'd be 9 benefits of the cloud, but I can't resist throwing in a bonus point:
10. It's way cool. Hey, that counts for something.
If you want to know more about where Verizon small business email service is right for you, check out this article.
About the Author:
Small businesses that need to know the scoop on the hottest news and info for email and other IT opportunities need to follow the Verizon Small Business Email site. Mishu Hull is a leading writer on technology. See Mishu's provocative review of the most recent Kindle Fire release.