Are you Ready for Cloud Computing?

Much ado has been made about what many are calling a coming sea change in IT called "cloud computing." Cloud computing simply means computing enabled by the Internet--where services, applications, computing resources and infrastructure are delivered as a service online.

Why should you consider cloud computing?
Today, most companies need to purchase, install and maintain the software and hardware needed to automate and manage their business activities. This need of having to invest in IT infrastructure and to manage upgrades, service packs, network issues, hardware failures, software failures, backups and compatibility problems can quickly add to the cost of managing IT, not to mention the headache of keeping everything working. But at the end of the day, these activities often add little value to your customers or your stakeholders, and just add up to a company's overhead cost.

What's the alternative?
With cloud computing, all you need is an Internet connection, there is no software or hardware to buy, install, maintain or upgrade. Finally you can just focus on managing your business and not your software, hardware and network.

Benefits of Cloud Computing

• All you need is an Internet Connection - You can easily add and deploy needed applications and services throughout your organization. All your users need is a computer with any Internet browser.
• Lower Cost - Avoid large up-front capital investmetns for hardware, software and IT Professionals.
• Faster deployment - Just login, begin setting up and loading data. Dramatically reduce the time and cost to go live. Most implementations only take a few weeks not months.
• Easily Expand - To multiple locations and allow specific portals for customers, vendors, partners or advisors to login.
• Easy Customization - With on demand services and applications, basic customization are easy to do, even business users can make changes in minutes, without additional programming required.
• Painless Upgrades - Releases of new features are virtually instantaneous, just login and you are always on the latest version.
• Secure - Use world class infrastructure used by the world's largest corporations and managed and maintained by the world's top computing experts at a cost you can afford. No need to worry about backup, everything is done for you.
• Available "anywhere at anytime" - on demand, online, web based, hosted, internet based, ASP or even software-as-a-service (SaaS).

Why should you consider Zoho as your cloud computing platform?
Zoho is a suite of online applications (services) that you sign up for and access quickly and inexpensively. The applications are free for individuals and some have a subscription fee for organizations. Zoho's vision is to provide customers (individuals, students, educators, non-profits, small and medium sized businesses) with the most comprehensive set of applications available anywhere (breadth); and for those applications to have enough features (depth) to make your user experience worthwhile.

What applications are available?
In addition to an online word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation program which are available for free, just some of the applications/services targetted specifically for businesses include:

Zoho Business (online organizational email/calendaring/information management)

Zoho CRM (customer relationship management)

Zoho Projects (collaborative project and task management)

Zoho Meetings (online web conferencing and screen sharing)

Zoho Creator (web application and database creator)

How to get started?
You can start by simply clicking on the Zoho service you are interested in and filling in some basic information to set up an account. We ask for your e-mail address, a password and a verification code to prevent spammers from using the services. Once you read and agree to the Terms of Service and Privacy policy you will receive an e-mail asking to verify your account. You can start using the service immediately. Zoho services support single sign on (SSO) across all our applications, so once you subscribe to one service, you have access to all the services using the same user name or e-mail address and password.

For paid services or implementation assistance, contact us today and an account manager will assist you.

Why buy from us?
We are business application experts, covering CRM, ERP and IT Service Management software. We take a consultative approach in helping companies select, implement and successfully extend on demand or cloud solutions. Our overall goal is to help our clients successfully grow and build profitable businesses.

Interested? Shedule a (free, no obligation) demo today!