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Presentation used at several speaking events recently. If you are considering selecting a cloud service for business, make sure you understand the 7 questions that you should ask.
7 Questions to Consider When Selecting a Cloud Service
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7
POINTS
TO
PONDER
WHEN
CONSIDERING
A
CLOUD
COMMUNICATIONS
SYSTEM
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WHAT
DO
I
WANT
FROM
A
CLOUD?
GLOBALIZATION
RISK!!! SCALABILITY COMPLEXITY
CONNECTIVITY
NO VISIBILITY
PRODUCTIVITY
TIME SAVING
CONTROL
Image Courtesy: Valentin de Bruyn / Coton from Wikipedia
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Global Mobile Workforce
To Reach 1.3B (37.2%) in 2015
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Source: CITRIX!
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wwBy 2020, Half of the Global Workforce
will be made up of Millennials
*PWC Whitepaper!
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WILL
IT
IMPROVE
PRODUCTIVITY?
Workers waste more than
75 minutes daily tending
to multiple communication
channels – without unified
cloud communications!
Source: Sage Research
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WILL
IT
REDUCE
RISK?
Less than 10%
of companies without
disaster recovery plans
are able to survive in the
event of a catastrophe
Source: Touche Ross
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DOES
IT
PLAY
WELL
WITH
OTHERS?
70% of companies
either have switched or
plan to switch to cloud
unified communications.
Source: Information Week
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CAN
IT
SIMPLIFY
MY
LIFE
&
SCALE
WITH
MY
BUSINESS?
82% of cloud users
have reported a reduction
in their IT costs.
Source: NSK, Inc.
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WILL
I
HAVE
MORE
VISIBILITY
INTO
MY
COMPANY?
7 out of 10
enterprises have
adopted analytics
programs.
Source: IBM
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WILL
IT
FIT
IN
MY
POCKET?
Over 1 Billion Personal
Mobile Devices in the
Enterprise by 2018
Source: Juniper Research
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IS
IT
GLOBAL?
192,000 SMS
text messages are
sent globally per
second.
Source: Statista
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