What cloud computing can do for your business
Tried and Tested
Google is deeply committed to this way of working. With 3,000 businesses signing up to our cloud computing suite, Google Apps, each day, there are many examples of Australian businesses embracing this model of working.
Benjamin Chong from Jetabroad, a Sydney-based global online travel agency, has 30 staff who have been using Google Apps since mid-2007. He values its reliability and its simple, per-user pricing model that’s easy to understand and budget for. Jetabroad is also impressed by the number of features added to the service (all updated online without him doing a thing) since they began using Google Apps. To Jetaboard, Google Apps provides peace of mind with a service that is available anywhere from a wide range of internet connected devices with gigabytes of storage per user, minimal administration, the reliability of Google infrastructure, and the ability to scale as their business grows.
Simon Pollitt from Maptek, a mid-size Australian company with operating bases all over the globe, provides technology solutions for the mining industry. For him, Google Apps has delivered numerous benefits to the business including anywhere/anytime access, ease of set-up and, best of all, no email spam. “Our team was spending approximately 40 hours per week babysitting email and fighting spam. Since moving to Google Apps we now spend about two hours per week on administration,” Pollit recently told us. For Maptek, mobile access to Gmail from a range of devices is a “breath of fresh air”. In terms of training, he recalls that this was not a big issue, with most of the employees finding the Google Apps platform “simple and intuitive” as they’re already familiar with Google’s consumer products such as Gmail.
Andrew Mitchell is product specialist for Google Australia, which has a suite of collaboration and communication products that are business-ready called Apps Premier Edition. Dynamic Business readers can trial it for free for 30 days, and then at a fixed cost of US$50 per user, per year, at www.google.com.au/a
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What a great post on cloud computing! At GoEverywhere we are currently offering free beta accounts for small businesses. GoEverywhere provides quick and easy access to your webtop which is like a personal desktop on the web. On your webtop You also get single sign on access to all your log-in sites like Amazon, Facebook, LinkedIn, Gmail, Zoho and more. Looking forward to seeing your next post on cloud computing!
As an online PC backup provider for the SOHO market, we have seen a great increase in traffic to our site as well as trials and sales of our software. I think that sales in this space is an education thing. If you can do it in the cloud for cheaper then why wouldn\’t you at least try it.
What a relief it is not to panic about where this document or that document is, and or what version is the most up to date. When I\\\\\\\’m traveling around from trade show to trade show I have enough to organize without having to worry about who is emailing me what version of which document when!
Our team has been using shared online docs and schedules for awhile now and we can\\\\\\\’t imagine how we did business before. I used to worry what would happen if my laptop went missing (not happened yet – knock on wood) or if it crashed before a big expo (Singapore, 2007 – boy was that a pain.) Now all I need is an internet cafe and my entire business is at my finger tips.
Thanks Andrew!
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This is great work and very good information on cloud computing. This post is really helped me to learn about cloud computing in depth. Keep up the good work and thanks for posting.
Cloud software is the future. I´m already waiting for the time when those pesky data carriers like USB or disks are replaced by a internet wide or atleast widely supported by programs cloud softwares. Oh the joy of having no copies and messing up everything.
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What attracts our customers is not only our HR services, but the cloud computing nature of our product. Small companies ofter lack capital. By not having to purchase servers and IT staff, cloud computing allows small companies to still benefit from excellent services with low barriers of entry.
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This is a great idea and will surely catch on over the next few years. As long as the service is reliable, especially when connecting from other countries, then it would be a fantastic addition to a small business owner.
Most of us have our own laptops and will carry them wherever we go but problems do arise and it’s great to know that using Cloud computing technology you can literally use any computer as long as it has a decent internet connection.
I will certainly be keeping an eye on how this software develops.
Any one know of an account / invoicing, CRM SaaS package, with authority levels. EG: service tech can set up a client and implement an invoice but cant see monthly statements or profit loss reports. Once new client is set up, email address update in CRM section without having to import. CRM links to outlook or similar. Thanks Dave
this is a great idea and will surely catch on over the next few years. As long as the service is reliable, especially when connecting from other countries, then it would be a fantastic addition to a small business owner.
This is the best idea for all the small business owners so i hope that it will relate it to all other countries and implement it as soon as possible.
The implementation should be done within short period of time so that all the people can gain more income and off course small business owners will gain more profit good idea