The Modern Workplace: Cloud-first
It’s a brave new world. Well, not really. The workplace has changed since the pandemic, but at the same time, it’s always been changing and evolving.
Any workplace making use of tech should be focused on Cloud-first business solutions, which enhance productivity and allow people to work from any location, at any time.
The days of being reliant on in-house technology are fading fast, with many (but not all) businesses being held back by maintaining older hardware-based business solutions.
For anything you deploy in your business, you should be exploring what the Cloud-based solution is first.
What is a Cloud-based solution though? It’s basically a service or software that you can access using just a web browser (there are other ways, but 90% of the time, it’s a web browser you would use). If you require software to be installed on your computer to access things or have to be linked to the office ‘box in the corner’, then this isn’t a Cloud solution.
If you’re looking at moving to a new accounts system, for example, you should only consider the Cloud-based solutions. Need a new email system? Office 365 is your friend. Need to share files and have them securely stored, and backed up? Again, look no further than Office 365. You should think Cloud-first, every time.
Cloud solutions are efficient, productive and easy to use. And if you just scoffed at that sentence, then you’ve probably selected the wrong solution for your business. Businesses that migrate to the right Cloud solution, should hardly notice that they’ve been migrated. It shouldn’t be painful or cause problems. Yes, there might be teething problems to begin with, but it should be just that, teething problems only.
As Morpheus (bonus points if you can name the film) once said “Free your mind”. Don’t get stuck in your ways. Be open-minded. Move forward. Don’t get left behind. Bring your business into the modern workplace era.
Gavin Moorhouse is the owner of Lucid Computer Solutions, a Cloud-first business based in Redditch, Worcestershire. He produced and published this article using Cloud services.
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