How cloud collaboration services could help you in adding value to your business.

1. 5 Reasons to Adopt Cloud Collaboration
Services
Engaging and collaborating for your businesses
better future

2. What’s Collaboration Services?
 Today Businesses are keen to collaborate with stakeholders in real
time, regardless of their location.
 To facilitate the seamless flow of information
between stakeholders, businesses use a
suite of services called collaboration
services.
 These services essentially include tools such as email, web and voice
chat, video conferencing, shared contacts, calendar, document
management, archival, etc.

3. Why Organizations are keen to move their
Application Workload Why
to the Cloud Platform?
1. Flexibility, reliability and multi-location accessibility.
• Most business use In-premise Collaboration Solutions, which only works
only on user’s particular location.
• But not how business works anymore, Collaboration happens across
Geographical Boundaries and Time zones.
• As Cloud Collaboration are not restricted to any one specific
geographical location, so one can reach the
employees of an organization across regions.

4. 2. Grow and Shrink Your Operations Freely and Instantly
• Today the IT department is the most overburdened part of an
organization.
• Complexity, scaling resources and adapting to changing business are
the challenges faced by IT departments.
• Thus by adopting cloud-based collaboration services can help them in
growing and shrinking their operation freely without any burden of
provisioning or de-provisioning expensive resource

5. 3. Leverage the Latest Functionality of the Continually
Upgraded Versions of the Apps
• The cloud application provider will
ensure that latest security patches and
the latest application upgrades are
applied on the cloud delivery platform.
• Rest of the entire upgrade/migration and configuration are performed
by the backend teams.
• Thus it helps in relieving you of the efforts to manage downtime and
performing the upgrade.

6. 4. Zero Capex and Reduced Operational Costs
• With no upfront capital outlay required, cloud-based collaboration services
allow organization to start deployment immediately.
• As they are able to save the cost of buying new
servers but businesses also benefit from the
reduced need for space, power and liability
including maintaining the servers.
• Most cloud-based services run on a ‘Pay-per-use’ subscription model allowing
companies to budget for them easily and more accurately.
• According to Kristof Kloeckner, CTO for Cloud Computing at IBM, cloud
computing can reduce IT labor costs by up to 50 percent and improve capital
utilization by 75 percent. Also companies can save an estimated 68-87 percent
in energy costs by moving to cloud computing, as per data shared by Google.

7. 5. Reduced risks – Not Happy with your Vendor?
Another One is Just A Click Away!
• Shifting from one vendor to another is an easy task, if you plan your
deployment well, you may be able to shift with minimal or no change at
the end point.
• There is no play of complex infrastructure overhaul, upgrade,
reconfiguration etc.
• These are just five ways in which businesses benefit from adopting
Cloud-based Collaboration Technology
So, is your business ready to make the big
switch?
Talk to us and see if we can help make a difference
to your Business!

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