Top 5 Benefits of Using Cloud Solutions for Small And Medium Business

Cloud services are boosting small and medium businesses turning their data and information into results. Cloud solutions help these type of business in balancing information demand from domestic and international clients. Information management is now easy for them as they are not feeling the heat of costs required for storage even. They make global business and thanks goes to cloud services.

Cloud has started playing the role of rescuer

Application as a service (AAAS), Platform as a service (PAAS) and Infrastructure as a service (IAAS) is changing the way a decade ago small and medium businesses had done their product development and service delivery. While supply chain management or customer relationship management used to be tough for the small businesses. Now it has become easy with AAAS. Go back a decade and you could see lots of small businesses used to lose their way due to failure in integration and process automation middleware functional issues. Now they do rely on PAAS to remove those obstacles. And yes, from small to medium businesses server storage was ever an issue as finance remained constraints in setting up severs. IAAS welcomed businesses with ‘pay as you use’ and businesses are now booming kicking aside storage issues.

Resolving legacy software issues

Cloud services are the answers of few issues that legacy software face. There can be many issues, one of the issues can be merger of two legacy software. Take the ERP for two diffident companies coming from two different venders. This is an era of merger, particularly for small and medium businesses most of the time merge is needed to survive. But ERP systems two companies were using can create wall. The problem is the software they are using for years has become legacy for them and they do not dare to come out of those. Cloud is solution in this respect.

Similarly, compatibility with the new trends in the business can become issue of the legacy software a company uses. Think of an old messaging application that fails to comply the new type of graphically reach messages or fails to recognize new android device serving the messages. The failure in upgrade or update in legacy software remains issues for companies. They are willing to use cloud software solutions but those legacy pull them down.

Now coming to the main question. What benefits small and medium businesses can reap from cloud services? How cloud ensures that they make profits? There are lots of benefits but the major ones should get a mention.

What are the 5 major benefits of cloud solutions?

1. Accessibility – Ability to break the boundaries remains one of main constrains of small businesses. Cloud has given them freedom of worldwide accessibility. Now they can operate from anywhere of the world. They have access of their data from anyplace they want to. It is globalization of local geniuses.
2. Flexible –Meeting the demand is one of the major claims of cloud services. Sometimes the demand of any service can be limited while other time it can be demanding. Thanks to the cloud infrastructure which can meet any sort of demands at any point of time.
3. Compatible – Whatever cloud services a business uses, it remains compatible to most of the other similar services. It never faces issue of compliance or compatibility as it happens for the legacy software. Cloud services keep themselves updated with the modern versions available in the market.

4. Consistency – Ask for the consistency, and cloud is the answer. Before cloud came to the market, there were an excuse to the service providers. They asked breaks in the name of maintenance and security. But cloud has broken this ‘taboo.’ The global attitude of cloud keeps its services uninterrupted. A cloud connectivity reminds of the old saying from history “once in British Empire there was no sunset.” Colonization is dead. But cloud is now another name of consistency.
5. Cost effectiveness – The synonym of cost-effective services is cloud. With the introduction of ‘pay as you use’, all other solutions against cloud has tested defeat. Take the storage part of cloud services. It says you do not need to buy terabyte of storage when you need it in gigabyte. Pay for the storage you use and the time you need more, you would pay accordingly.

Now to make things clear, we can take any business type and see how cloud can bring wonders! Just think of an ecommerce venture. There is no doubt that throughout the world, ecommerce is one of the most competitive market. Yet, it stays as one of the most profitable business mode. Now a startup in ecommerce domain, particularly in third-world countries like India, cloud can help in overcoming hurdles.

In ecommerce, customer relationship management stays ever challenging. But integrated cloud solutions in AAAS has made things easy. Without having to face issue of old CRM, cloud service integrates all the customer data input from any place of the world.

On the second instance for the ecommerce, we have to consider the volume of data, growing day by day. An ecommerce business soon demands more space for its growing data. However, small ventures most of the times remain incapable of having own data storage system avoiding security challenges. Here comes cloud IAAS. With the use of cloud, they can make secure and seamless business without digging big black holes in their budgets.

This is one example of revolution cloud is doing to small businesses. There are hundreds of such business types that are enjoying benefits of cloud services. Whether it is AAAS, PAAS or IAAS – cloud is ever ready to help any kind of business to break the boundaries and grow to become giants. So we can say at the end that there is only one step to be taken to make any business global and successful – use could and it could see itself soon touch the 7th heaven which is reality today. All thanks and kudos to cloud solutions and related services.

 

 

 

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