In Part One of this blog, we talked about your general approach to a cloud vs. on-premises evaluation, based on your business environment. In Part Two, we’ll discuss many of the factors that play a part in such an evaluation. Those factors are listed below but don’t stop there. Try…
Comparing the financial benefits of a cloud application to an on-premises application is not a straightforward process, particularly if you are considering migrating to the cloud from an existing on-premises system. If you already own a server, a server room, sophisticated network hardware and software, and backup and service continuity…
1. Whether you like it or not, you don’t pay salespeople to sell your products. You pay them to paint your company and your products in the best possible light. When they do that, great salespeople will usually win. But sometimes they lose deals for reasons that are completely out…
Do you have a Statement of Values (SOV), or some other similar document that describes all of the qualities that you want each of your staff to possess? Does it describe how you want them to communicate with each other and with the world? If not, stop reading this, and…
That’s a tough question to answer. Of course, it’s a lot of things. It’s how you treat your customers, how you treat your staff, whether you make your community a better place to live, whether you’re profitable, etc. But, is there one quality, more than any other, that best defines…
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software is customer-centric, and allows you to communicate effectively and consistently with your customers and prospects. An ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system allows you to handle your financial affairs, your inventory and billings, and even to manage and track your manufacturing processes. So, should these systems…
Rob Preston, VP and Editor in Chief of InformationWeek, recently posted the commentary “Sorry, But Outsourcing Isn’t Evil”. To read the full article CLICK HERE. I have objections to his commentary, some based on the content and some based on the style. First, my style objections. Mr. Preston said that…
To be fair, for every instance of a security breach of a cloud service, there are likely 10,000 breaches of on-premises systems.
System availability is always one of the greatest concerns of any company’s executive management team. For some companies, a system that is down is merely an inconvenience. For many others, they are out of business until the ability to process returns. So, this issue of system availability has been turned…
