How can the cloud boost your business?

The environment for French businesses is now uncertain and each decision has an immediate impact on their performance. The choices of managers are becoming extremely decisive for the economic health of a company, and it is important for them to equip themselves with Cloud solutions that can immediately benefit their organization. Productivity, the quality of information transmission and cost control are becoming factors that businesses must master and strive to improve in order to maintain their competitiveness in their market.

The Cloud is a tool that allows businesses to meet these needs and provides major added value to organizations. The Cloud has represented the greatest IT potential in 20 years and is becoming widespread in companies. It is a differentiation tool that truly boosts organizations that adopt it by reducing their costs and improving their productivity.

The 10 benefits of the cloud for businesses

• Productivity
• Cost
• security
• Centralization
• Accessibility
• Simplicity
• Competitiveness
• Flexibility
• Image
• Control

1. Productivity

Cloud tools allow users communication, collaboration, and online file manager simpler.

Whether using a corporate social network, of a collaborative work platform or a simple tool for sharing documents, company employees benefit from tools that streamline their exchanges and enrich them. The transmission of information is much improved and all users are aware of the progress of the project, which is updated live. Employees communicate through instant messengers that effectively reduce the use of emails.

Thanks to its variety of tools and solutions available, the Cloud offers a multitude of answers to the daily challenges of businesses.

Some examples: send an email to 1000 employees at once, share a document with a customer in a personalized space, effectively manage quotes and invoices or even monitor commercial activity on a daily basis. All its needs are covered by cloud tools.

Business productivity is improved thanks to the Cloud, which offers services adapted to the needs of organizations according to their activity.

• Overall, cloud computing improves collaboration by allowing all employees, no matter where they are, to synchronize their actions and work on shared documents and applications simultaneously. A survey conducted by Frost & Sullivan showed that businesses that invested in collaboration technology enjoyed a 400% return on investment.

2. Cost

The Cloud offers businesses a drastic reduction in their IT costs.

The Cloud allows businesses to no longer need to acquire IT infrastructure internally and maintain it (or subcontract it). Cloud services allow companies to do without: servers, product and user licenses, external consulting, dedicated staff, training, etc.

Cloud services are available online and avoid software installation issues. It's all online, ready to go right away. In addition, the Cloud brings IT teams closer to their other collaborators with whom they discuss their needs. The implementation of a Cloud service that allows investment costs to be spread by choosing a subscription sized according to real needs is an additional advantage.

The costs are more transparent for businesses and allows IT departments and entrepreneurs to have more accurate estimates of the costs to be incurred. With cloud services, businesses only spend what they use. The offers are adjustable and adapted to the needs of each company. In addition, the web distribution model allows decision-makers to put several offers into competition and to identify the differences in the services offered in the blink of an eye, thus speeding up decision-making.

• A drastic reduction in your IT costs (more servers, etc.). No installation required, no hidden costs and a project management platform secured.

3. security

When businesses start relying on cloud computing services, they no longer need complex data recovery programs. Cloud computing providers take care of most of these tasks and they do it faster and more professionally.

A study conducted by Aberdeen Group showed that businesses that used cloud online storage were able to solve their problems in an average of 2.1 hours, almost four times faster than businesses that did not use cloud storage (8 hours). The same study also showed that small and medium-sized businesses had the best data recovery time, taking almost half as long as large businesses!

Storing confidential or sensitive data online is often more secure than storing it internally, especially for small and medium-sized businesses that have physical security and sometimes limited IT skills. Cloud storage allows businesses to avoid the dangers of unexpected natural accidents. Cloud storage services offer data transfers that are encrypted, ensuring that no unauthorized users can access the data.

In addition, Cloud services must inform their users about the location of their data, this can be particularly sensitive for French companies that do not want to see their data hosted in American centers subject to the PatriotAct, which allows American authorities to access data without the authorization of their owner.

• The data stored on your Wimi is stored in a high-tech center in France on a “Cloud” server infrastructure that is maintained and updated by recognized hosting professionals. A real-time replication system on another datacenter is in place. The secondary data center is geographically remote from the primary data center. Data is replicated every hour and is constantly synchronized to your computer. Take advantage of our secure cloud storage space

4. Centralization

Cloud services allow companies to centralize their data and access it to all employees.

Data is shared and updated constantly, directly accessible from any computer as well as on mobile devices (smartphones, tablets). The Cloud is contributing to the end of the centralized monolithic object that the computer was for many years. Today, data is accessible from any workstation connected to the Internet and updated in real time, allowing teams to be more efficient and to benefit from better management of their projects.

No need for complicated processes and running around to get the latest version of a file, in the Cloud, centralization is instantaneous and managers can directly monitor the progress of the various activities of their teams in the blink of an eye.

• Your data (projects, documents, tasks, agendas, agendas, meetings, time tracking, contacts) are centralized and constantly updated on our online project management platform.

5. Data accessibility

From tablets to smartphones, to classic computers and ultraportables, we use more and more tools every day, and juggling between them to work on the same document can be complex.

With the Cloud, you can access your data from any device, whether you are on your phone or desktop computer, your support is no longer just an interface between you and your data hosted on the Cloud. More and more entrepreneurs and employees need access to important information related to their work from anywhere. Mobility or remote work is becoming an increasingly omnipresent reality in companies.

Employees need powerful tools so that their productivity is not reduced when they travel or want to work remotely. The Cloud allows a nomadic connection from any tool accessing the Internet (smartphones, tablets, computers). Do you want to show your customer the different versions of plates that you want to offer them? No problem, your files hosted in the Cloud are accessible from any device. Data accessibility is a real plus for companies, making it possible in particular to work offline without problems or in a mobile condition.

• With our online collaborative work platform, you can remotely access your data wherever you are and in “offline” mode, on your computers, smartphones or tablets.

6. Simplicity

While most traditional software is heavy, difficult to use and takes a long time to change, the Cloud is part of a much more fluid and agile system.

The Cloud can be easily adapted according to its needs and allows for an almost instantaneous deployment!

No need to install software on your machine, the software is online and only requires secure identifiers to access it.

The Cloud brings technology within everyone's reach. Like the first desktop computers, it allows your employees who, by their own admission, “know nothing about computers”, to use it easily. Cloud tools adapt to user needs, are simple and quick to set up.

• Wimi is a online collaborative work tool can be used immediately, very easy to use and does not require training.

7. Competitiveness

With the Cloud, SMEs have access to technologies used by multinationals.

It allows small businesses to act more quickly than established or larger competitors. A data recovery study concluded that businesses that did not use the cloud had to rely on tape backup methods and complex procedures to recover their data. These are all slow and painstaking maneuvers that Cloud Computing users don't need to worry about.

The multitude of Cloud services and their different uses allow companies to combine tools that meet specific needs, without the need to develop these tools internally. The Cloud represents a real opportunity for competitiveness bonuses for companies that choose to equip themselves with efficient tools.

Cloud services allow managers, managers and all employees to focus on what matters: working to bring added value to their business.

• Organize teamwork more easily thanks to our online chat tool Wimi.

8. Flexibility

Cloud services offer advantageous flexibility in terms of functionalities and cost control.

The Cloud makes it possible to be more flexible: migrating to the Cloud makes it possible to effectively outsource to its supplier, not only the operation, but also the management and technical support of its IT infrastructure on a daily basis. This is especially beneficial if the company has limited technical support.

Gaining flexibility, SMEs can also add as many additional users as they wish, with the monthly bill evolving accordingly: one less problem to manage for the IT department. Cloud solution offerings are very flexible and adaptable to customer needs. Organizational changes are much more rapid. Payment can be monthly or annual, at the customer's choice.

Gone are the periods of infrastructure changes lasting several months. Everything can be rearranged much more quickly. The Cloud makes it possible to migrate from one solution to a new one very quickly, without additional costs, as could be the case before to migrate from one provider to another.

• Organize teamwork more easily with a collaborative task manager such as Wimi.

9. Image

Cloud tools allow user companies to develop their image of innovation with their customers but also with their teams.

Cloud services offer an additional advantage that many businesses forget: online services allow businesses to be more dynamic and to strengthen their image of innovation and professionalism among their customers. In addition, the use of innovative solutions stimulates teams and develops a dynamic of innovation within the company itself.

The cloud makes traditional methods of sharing documents with a customer obsolete. Online services make it possible to create collaborative spaces and file sharing that meet the expectations of professionals. Using consumer solutions to share documents, for example, can be extremely dangerous for a company's image.

The Cloud provides businesses with secure professional solutions that combine simplicity and efficiency. Those who use them obtain an undeniable image advantage over organizations that practice old ways of working.

The Cloud contributes to the development of new working methods that improve the performance of companies as well as their image with their customers.

• Strengthen your image of innovation and professionalism among your employees and customers, thanks to our collaborative platform.

10. Control

The Cloud offers a considerable advantage to SMEs: control is given to users and no longer to the service provider. Businesses can easily manage access rights and create administrative ranks that reflect their internal organization. Data control and confidentiality are recurring issues for businesses. The Cloud allows companies to entrust their data to professionals who have the necessary know-how to ensure data integrity, while maintaining total control thanks to the possibility of changing providers in a few clicks.

• Choose a solution that offers advanced rights management to ensure total control.

Be careful who you entrust your data to

The protection of data stored by providers is one of the most important questions to ask when choosing a provider. With the USA Patriot Act passed in 2001, American Cloud Computing players are, for example, obliged to provide the authorities with the data they host without notifying their owners. By choosing a French Cloud provider, you have an additional guarantee that the confidentiality of your data will be respected.

To solve this problem, it is quite simple: prefer French or European tools that are not subject to the “Patriot Act”. This will ensure that you keep your data safe.