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Cloud Computing and You
Everything changes; the world, business, technology, everything. In the year 2000, we had dial-up internet, expensive software suite solutions, IT departments, and branch offices. We still have those things – except if you still have dial-up, stop reading and go get DSL – but we use them in different ways in a different environment. A lot has changed in eight years and all that changing is because technology first changed. Well, it’s about to change again.
If you have an online email account or use Google documents, then you already are using “cloud computing.” Soon enough, cloud computing will not only be a very good option for business, it may be the best option.
Cloud computing is internet based software. The internet itself is the cloud part of the metaphor. Right now, you can store all of your files on someone else’s server. You could have only one source of email and have it be internet-based. You can create and share documents and spreadsheets where neither the files, nor the applications reside on your computer. This is our current form of cloud computing. As we speak, it’s getting better.
Do you use QuickBooks for your business’s accounting? Intuit has a cloud version. IBM just launched Lotus Notes for the clouds. Google, Zoho, and others have internet based word processing and spreadsheets already. If you want to have a slick phone exchange system, there are many companies that offer a virtual PBX. Need a robust Customer Relationship Manager? Try SalesForce. If you look hard enough, you can probably find a company that is offering a cloud version of most every part of your business.
Obviously, switching to say, a virtual PBX will save you tons of money on equipment costs alone, but there are other reasons for getting excited about cloud computing. As the floodgates open, you will be able to duplicate every aspect of your business in the clouds and your office computers will be reduced to just outlets and workstations.
The beauty of cloud computing is readily apparent to anyone with computer hardware headaches. Are you one of those poor owners who has ever lost time, money, or information due to a server meltdown? With cloud computing, powerful servers with dedicated IT professionals are at your disposal. You don’t have to lift a finger! Expansion for your business becomes an easy natural process.
The companies that offer clouds services will expand as necessary too. They will service, maintain, and watch over their servers. They will have the latest anti-virus. They will worry and deal with all of the hardware issues you have now – or have ever had – so you won’t have to.
The first downside that comes to mind is keeping track of or integrating several different services for your company. Most likely, you already have many different programs that you have formed together on the computers in your office. The only difference with cloud computing is that your programs will be through the internet.
There isn’t one company that provides the cloud computing version of everything for everyone. Most likely, there will never be one. We don’t even have that now. What it will be is a shift of labor and hardware requirements for businesses, making them more flexible and coherent.
Hotmail, Yahoo, and Google introduced us to using applications that we didn’t purchase and install. Without even noticing, we took our first steps into the clouds.
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Web-Based Enterprise business software Platforms. Can they really build any common business app w/o coding?
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On Interneer’s site (http://www.interneer.com/landingpages/GAW/rpd.asp <-- click here) it is said that Interneer Intellect "allows the average person, with or without knowledge of computer programming, to easily build fully-functional and extremely useful business applications." It says that you can use it build custom enterprise project management software solutions, document management solutions, compliance management solutions, etc.
Is it better to use a platform such as this to build these solutions yourself? Or, are you better off purchasing hard-coded solutions specializing in these specific areas?
Hello, I know Interneer Intellect. It is a platform and it allows people to create business solutions without doing any single coding. Of course knowing coding might provide additional strength when you are developing a solution but it is not necessary when you applications like Intellect.
I personally haven’t seen any application that provides as much as flexibility Intelllect does.
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