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- 1. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com 18 Years of Working in the Cloud Peter Gradwell Founder & CTO
- 2. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Forming the Business
- 3. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Cloud Adoption
- 4. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Embracing the Cloud
- 5. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Cloud Benefits to Small Businesses Page | 5 Highly flexible and reliable services Operate from anywhere Ability to plan for DR Simplify management and maintenance Concentrate on what you're good at Typically no up-front costs
- 6. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Cloud Benefits for Small Businesses Page | 6 Predictable per-user per-month costs No hardware to worry about/maintain Enterprise-standard systems Always up to date Limitless scalability Grows with your business
- 7. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.comPage | 7 Case Study
- 8. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.comPage | 8 Bundling Cloud Services
- 9. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Recommendations Page | 9 Beware - no one-size-fits-all Check third party integration requirements Don't be half-hearted Plan, test and train users! Seek advice/recommendations from established users Check provider stability Check security and privacy credentials/accreditations
- 10. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Gradwell Communications and Office 365 are helping Paralympian fencer and gold medal hopeful, Piers Gilliver: Manage tasks across his team and business operations Coordinate team schedules Plan complex travel arrangements Rapidly access and segment archived footage to analyse competitor tactics Case Study
- 11. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Win an Original Artwork
- 12. www.gradwell.com | 01225 800 800 | info@gradwell.com Thanks for Listening Come and see us on stand 2828 in the Business Marketplace Follow Gradwell on Twitter @GradwellTweets Follow Peter on Twitter @peterg Visit our website – www.gradwell.com Call us on 01225 800 808 Enjoy the rest of the show!
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- What was the reason for forming the business - Bath/Edinburgh telephone need Started to provide 'Hosted' services Thought on how this was actually the very early days of 'Cloud' - before marketing created that buzz word How the business grew First employee? Perhaps cover early pain points
- How the adoption of Cloud services evolved Some successful - SalesForce, Netsuite? We don’t have to mention specific services though (sales CRM eg) Some uncontrolled - DropBox, Box, Google Drive - caused by lack of Cloud strategy (in those days, marketing hadnt dreamed up the word BYOD, so these problems just occurred unexpectedly) Any unsuccessful? Pain of switching between cloud providers (eg integration of netsuite and salesforce?), or reverted from cloud back to in house? Does things like Netsumo count? Not quite Cloud, but outsourced, so same potential risks - poor documentation, lack of knowledge hand over. Probably some points here about trusting your it advisor / cloud provider.
- Where+When the big changes happened (eg netsuite, SharePoint) - taking control Adopting a Microsoft infrastructure with managed desktops - appropriate for the size of the business (50+ users), laying the foundation for fully managed use of Cloud services Moved beyond a small tech team Office 365 Consolidated file storage and uncontrolled cloud storage system Created structure for the teams and projects in the business and enforced security Boosted productivity and collaboration Gave business consistent and always up-to-date tools
- The benefits to Small Businesses - need 5 to align with the Seminar title Empower users with highly flexible and reliable services and allow your business to operate from anyway - also great for disaster recovery planning Reduce management and maintenance complexity <- Concentrate on what you are good at (and not phoning IT support to fix the server)
- No upfront costs (typically), predictable per-user per-month costs, no hardware to maintain or worry about (op-ex vs cap-ex) Beware of setup and professional services fees. Get advanced systems that used to only be feasible for large Enterprises - always up to date - but what are the vertical / smaller options, eg. Capsule crm rather than salesforce. Limitless scalability, grows with your business, and shrinks if your business needs it Next: Bainbridge video
- Recommendations Have a strategy - There isnt a one-size-fits-all Cloud service, you will need to mix and match - check how they integrate together. Office365 has a huge suite of services that all integrate seamlessly, but if you add services from 3rd parties, see how they integrate with the service you use currently (and your users are used to using) - For Example, SalesForce can be configured to use Office365 logins, so the users maintain a single set of credentials Fully embrace the Cloud, half-hearted implementations don’t work - but do test, plan and train users! Seek advice from other people using the service, and fully investigate the service and company you are planning to use (mitigate the risk of putting your company data with a Cloud provider that may go under, 2E2 for example) - Microsoft, Amazon and Google are the 3 big Cloud providers and eclipse everyone else. If you use infrastructure then need to plan for failure. Generally it's better to use PaaS rather than iaas.
- Another example - Our Paralympic Gold medal hopeful He has limited funding Sponsorship Providing Office365 Treating his team as a small business Example of what can be done with Office 365 Video storage with tagging and search Office 365 Planner for managing Rio 2016