4 tips to take advantage of cloud applications

1. Take Advantage of Your
Cloud Services

2. Cloud Advantages
• Users typically choose
cloud computing to
achieve a goal, whether it
be cost-savings, efficiency
or productivity
• Depending on the
ultimate goal you’re
looking to achieve by
using cloud computing,
the answer to this varies

3. 1. Review Cloud Features
• When you first sign up for
an online service, take
time to explore all the
features
– Example: Did you know
you can create a catch-all
email address in Google
Apps?
– Did you know you can
install the Dropbox app on
multiple computers as well
as a mobile phone?

4. 2. Utilize Centralization & Integration
• The more disparate your cloud services, the harder
they are to manage
• Difficult to streamline a process to integrate all these
applications
• To remedy, find cloud providers that solve multiple
problems at once for you
– If you can’t just find one, identify a few that integrate well
with each other

5. 3. Educate Your Organization
• It is important to educate
your employees about how
to use a new service
• Go over basic features and
benefits, or point them to a
tutorial they can use in
their spare time
• Encourage employees to
find and share additional
features that they may
come across

6. 4. Find a Forum, Vendor or Colleague
to Help
• Depending on the service,
there may be a user
forum, FAQs, support, or
a colleague who already
uses it to assist you
• Begin a dialogue around
ways to use the service,
troubleshoot issues and
discover new ways to use
it

7. Take Action!
• Following through with #4 is a great way to discover tips
and tricks specific to that application
• Thankfully, Backupify is an easily usable application and
its features are straightforward
– Other services such as Google Apps and Salesforce are more
complex
• Find ways to effectively navigate these apps to maximize
the benefits of your cloud computing investment