Right now, CIOs and CTOs across the world are asking the same question: Is it time to move to the cloud? The answer? Almost universally, yes. Cloud has evolved from a personal storage solution to a full-blown infrastructure for enterprise architecture development.
What makes cloud infrastructure as liberating as it is impressive, is the full access businesses have to their customers and—perhaps more importantly—customer data. The addition of data collection in ways never before imagined has eliminated the need for traditional sales and marketing approaches. With increased agility, cloud computing allows companies to redefine the way they function. The best part? With a custom integration offered through a solution provider, you get even more bang for your buck; making every detail of your system fit your needs exactly, and providing you with peace of mind about security and maintenance. With so much capability, the question of cloud becomes less about making a decision about the platform and more about deciding what time works best for you and your business.
Here are the top benefits of implementing a custom cloud integration as soon as possible:
Growth…Fast.
Everyone wants to grow their business, and cloud-computing helps to speed up that process by saving money on IT investments. With cloud, businesses only need to pay for the services they use, so, dollars can be focused on IT innovation, rather than maintenance. For example, if you’re using a CRM in the cloud, there’s no need to worry about infrastructure investment, major security upgrades, and system maintenance.
We all know that the best time to cut costs in your budget was yesterday, so this perk is our number one reason for choosing cloud now.
Security
You know that pesky rumor going around that cloud platforms are less-secure than on-premises platforms? We have too, and it’s just not true. In fact, most security breaches happen at physical data centers.
Major cloud players like Amazon Web Services (AWS)>, Google, and Rackspace have dedicated security experts, whose main function is to constantly update security features and stay on top of ever-changing tech trends. It’s very resource intensive and expensive to have someone monitoring and improving the entire security system 365 days a year?
Unfortunately, this is an investment that must be made. Especially with massive data breaches flooding the news, security should be a proactive activity within your IT department, there’s no time too soon to start working at making your data more secure.
Faster Innovation
Cloud platforms are playing a major role in enabling faster innovation. In fact, many new businesses are being built on cloud and cloud alone. According to the 2014 “State of the Cloud” Survey:
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- 94 percent of organizations surveyed are running applications or experimenting with infrastructure-as-a-service.
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- 87 percent of organizations are using public cloud.
What you see here is proof that more and more, businesses are using cloud infrastructure for their mission-critical applications. Amazon, Google, and Oracle are just a few great examples of the capability for faster innovation using cloud, there are new cases happening every day.
This pretty much speaks for itself: no one wants to fall behind, if you could prevent that, why wouldn’t you?
Integration Capabilities that Speed up Application Improvement
Running in a fully-integrated environment gives businesses the power to streamline their processes by quickly blending new applications (third-party, and home grown) with their existing environment. To make this happen, and to ensure that data and activity from multiple software applications is brought together effectively, cloud platforms let enterprises build an integration process.
With a custom built integration tool, users can easily migrate and synchronize data across all business applications and databases without IT complexity. It also enables them to inter-operate and automate, but above all, custom cloud integrations reduce data redundancy over multiple applications. This lends the ability for users to recognize new opportunities in advance and respond to them quickly.
When competition is stiff, being able to adapt quickly can ensure you don’t get left behind new trends, and a clean, fast-acting environment can be the difference between success and failure in the market.
These are just a few reasons your business should be looking into a cloud adoption soon. Safety, scalability, and seamless compatibility make the life of any executive easier, and cloud brings all of those things to a business.
No longer a risky decision to make, cloud platforms have become a vehicle to drive business agility and innovation.
Nearly 60% of enterprises have already realized the value in cloud for:
- Development and Testing
- New Application Rollouts
- Website and Digital Transformation
- Analytics
- Mobile
- Managing business critical applications
and that number grows every day!
Bottom line: Some of the largest companies in the world are already realizing cloud as a strategic differentiator. If you haven’t incorporated the use of cloud services in your business environment, you may be missing cost-saving opportunities, and falling behind on performance and scalability capabilities. It’s time for you to dream big!
Vippan Kumar is a Marketing and Communications professional with 9 years experience working in the dynamic B2B marketing environment. He spends his energy in strategizing, writing, reviewing a variety of content for demand generation and pre-sales support. He enjoys developing company literature like web content, whitepapers, case studies, blogs and opinion posts for different channels. He has a keen interest in digital transformation and next-generation technology like IoT, AI, and Analytics. He always likes to learn new skills. Reading, volunteering, and sports are his hobbies.
