Using The Cloud to Bundle Your Technology
If you are a sma
ll business or perhaps a franchisee with multiple locations, you are consumed with running your business, hiring staff, training staff, introducing new products all in the name of providing great customer service. When you stop and think about it, you have a lot of technology in your business, you depend heavily on it every day and it just needs to work, PERIOD. Here are systems that you might have in place that are essential to the operation of your business.
- Internet
- Telephone
- Fax
- Security cameras
- Access control
- Credit card terminals
- Alarm Monitoring
- Fire / Life safety
Looking at that list, you could have three or four different providers…..providers that will potentially point the finger at each other when an outage happens, and it WILL happen. I am sure you have heard of “cloud services” and maybe you are using services like Dropbox or Google docs in other parts of your business. So let’s take the hairy and scary out of it. One of the trends emerging for small business and multi-site locations is technology providers that will manage all of those different products under one umbrella. It is known as Secure Managed Cloud Services.
I recently reviewed Interface Systems based out of St. Louis, Mo. Interface is one e of the leading companies that have a proven track record for deploying these services. In talking with their Division President, Robert Aranda, he stated, “Clients have already budgeted for these services. We can upgrade their equipment, buy out their old contracts, create a single point of contact for billing and support, provide them with a 24/7 Customer Service Center based in the US, require no CapEx dollars for equipment or install and save them 10% – %40 on their monthly spend.”
Anytime you can reduce costs you are already paying and reduce man hours along the way, it puts more dollars to your bottom line month after month. For further information on how the technology can reduce costs and solidify the core of your business, check out this case study from one of the largest Subway franchise groups in the country.
Secure Managed Cloud Services is an emerging technology worth considering for your business.
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Posted by Brett Nordin
on Sep 7 2011. Filed under Reviews.
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