When The Only Thing Constant in Business is Change, How Do You Keep Up?
Benefits of cloud computing for small businesses who can always count on change.
Most professional services organizations know the struggles of managing substantial fluctuations in business cycles. It may be an accountant’s office that manages most of their client’s returns at tax time or a marketing firm who just got a project for a new client and needs to hit the ground running… Then, there are summer vacations and the winter holiday season that bring a dramatic lull in activity for many small service organizations. These drastic ups and downs in activity can be challenging for any business. No one can afford to pay for more resources than their business demands…
So, what’s the answer? As a small, professional services business, we understand that what a you need is maximum resistance to respond to your adapting business needs. This is one of the major benefits of cloud computing for a smaller organization. With the ability to scale both up and down automatically in accordance with the immediate needs of the business you have the benefit of paying only for what you are using.
Do you…
- Struggle to respond to a sudden influx of work? Such as onboarding a new client or tackling a new project?
- Find yourself paying for idle IT investments? Are you holding onto old servers and software licenses that you needed to purchase to accommodate those busy months of the year?
- Have difficulty managing complex IT demands? Does upgrading software, addressing integration issues and optimizing network performance seem like a burden to you?
If you answered yes to any of the questions above, then cloud computing may be best decision for your business.
With cloud computing, you can meet increasing demands without the burden of purchasing and deploying new software, and allow remote workers or contractors to work and access the system from any location at any time. Cloud computing also rids the need to have in house servers and costly software licenses as you can scale your IT capacity up and down according to your real-time needs. Finally, with a cloud based solution from Vertilocity, you can free up time to allow you and your associates to focus on what you do best – servicing your clients – not managing IT. Let’s face it, managing an IT infrastructure can be both complicated and time consuming, especially if you are adding this to your normal day to day workload.
Operating a small business is not an easy endeavor. The one thing we can tell you from our own experiences is that the only thing constant is change. What happened in the previous quarter does not dictate the needs of the next one and that is something you can always count on! This everlasting state of fluidity is the primary reason that so many small businesses are moving to the cloud and also the reason the cloud will become a necessity – not an option – for small businesses in the future.