1. Reasons to
collaborate more
in the Cloud
The cloud is fast becoming a popular place for businesses
to operate, and collaboration on the cloud is what Forbes
Insights suggest ‘enables enterprises to carry out business
activities much faster than would normally be possible’*.
Collaborating in the Cloud offers far more freedom and
flexibility than doing it on internal servers, and collaboration
itself offers so many benefits, such as the five listed below.
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2. Employee
Participation
There are many ways to boost employee participation in
collaborative tools (as mentioned in this blog post), however
simply through using collaborative tools in the cloud you can
already increase employee participation, by keeping projects in
one location and allowing employees access, they are instantly
able to collaborate more. Employees can help each other, offer
opinions, give updates on projects and timescales.
Competition
Companies who do not embrace collaboration and cloud computing
risk losing to more forward thinking competitors. As more and more
SME’s join the cloud and implement collaborative tools, those who
don’t, are in danger of getting left behind, as it is becoming an
essential to many businesses.

3. Efficiency
Most SME’s don’t have servers with the capacity to send huge
documents. However the cloud offers endless (at a small cost) space
and therefore the potential for more collaboration and in turn improved
business processes. It also removes the tiresome and incessant
emailing between employees and clients and offers one platform in
which to exchange ideas. .
Scalability
Cloud computing offers the benefit of scalability: because users only
need to utilize however much of the available resources which they
want. Therefore you can have and use as much or as little space and IT
infrastructure as you need with the potential to upscale as and when
your SME requires it.

4. Ease of access
to content
By collaborating in the cloud, businesses
can create a dynamic work environment in
which employees do not have to be
connected to a network or intranet to
access files. Yet, there are other
advantages such as real time notifications
and collaborating together all while
different versions are automatically saved
and retrievable. As the cloud can be
accessed remotely and from virtually any
device, collaboration has never been
easier.

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