For small business, being on Cloud 9 is sure helped by the 9 benefits of working with Verizon small business cloud computing. Those benefits include and exceed the email applications.
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. Scale up as you grow. Buying your own equipment presents the danger of technological lock-in. Once you've bought it you're stuck with it, whether it's appropriate to current conditions or not. Neither a fickle economy nor the usual ups and downs of small business prevent you from tailoring and adjusting your IT plans as the economy changes and your business evolves.
3. Resilience through durability. Scary thought though it may be, the truth is that for many small businesses permanent loss of a single laptop could completely destroy the entire enterprise. Even for those not so precariously balanced on the technological ledge a critical event, such as a fire or flood, which wiped-out your office would likewise wipe-out your tech, your records and effectively your business. Storing email contacts and other key documents in the cloud offers priceless insurance against such disaster. When those vital documents are kept in the cloud, as soon as you're back online your business is ready to resume 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. Increase your security. Dramatically! Top cloud providers like Verizon small business email services provide vastly superior security from sabotage and theft. Left to their own devices, for most small business, this level of security is way beyond their means. Benefit from the advantages of pooled resources, for the same reason you join a group health care plan.
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 drawer software features. If your small business can't afford the top shelf software programs, with all the bells and whistles, you may be sacrificing important and profitable functionality. It's not necessary. Economies of scale allow cloud clients to employ top drawer software for what turns out to be a fraction of the cost. Love those economies of scale!
9. No need for retraining. You might think that the hidden cost of all these benefits would be a steep bill to pay for staff retraining. But that's not the case at all. The user interface is unchanged for your employees. Whether they're saving a document, do Excel calculations or composing an email, cloud computing for them is the same click and point experience with which they're already familiar.
I know we pitched the 9 benefits of the cloud, but here's a bonus one:
10. It's fantastically cool. And I'm thinking, when you add it all up, that counts for something.
For more information about Verizon small business email service and whether it's the ticket 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. Scale up as you grow. Buying your own equipment presents the danger of technological lock-in. Once you've bought it you're stuck with it, whether it's appropriate to current conditions or not. Neither a fickle economy nor the usual ups and downs of small business prevent you from tailoring and adjusting your IT plans as the economy changes and your business evolves.
3. Resilience through durability. Scary thought though it may be, the truth is that for many small businesses permanent loss of a single laptop could completely destroy the entire enterprise. Even for those not so precariously balanced on the technological ledge a critical event, such as a fire or flood, which wiped-out your office would likewise wipe-out your tech, your records and effectively your business. Storing email contacts and other key documents in the cloud offers priceless insurance against such disaster. When those vital documents are kept in the cloud, as soon as you're back online your business is ready to resume 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. Increase your security. Dramatically! Top cloud providers like Verizon small business email services provide vastly superior security from sabotage and theft. Left to their own devices, for most small business, this level of security is way beyond their means. Benefit from the advantages of pooled resources, for the same reason you join a group health care plan.
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 drawer software features. If your small business can't afford the top shelf software programs, with all the bells and whistles, you may be sacrificing important and profitable functionality. It's not necessary. Economies of scale allow cloud clients to employ top drawer software for what turns out to be a fraction of the cost. Love those economies of scale!
9. No need for retraining. You might think that the hidden cost of all these benefits would be a steep bill to pay for staff retraining. But that's not the case at all. The user interface is unchanged for your employees. Whether they're saving a document, do Excel calculations or composing an email, cloud computing for them is the same click and point experience with which they're already familiar.
I know we pitched the 9 benefits of the cloud, but here's a bonus one:
10. It's fantastically cool. And I'm thinking, when you add it all up, that counts for something.
For more information about Verizon small business email service and whether it's the ticket for you, check out this article.
About the Author:
Small businesses that want to know the scoop on the hottest news and tips for email and other IT opportunities need to follow the Verizon Small Business Email blog. Mishu Hull is a leading commentator on technology. See Mishu's provocative review of the most recent Kindle Fire release.
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