Still Hesitating to Move Your IT Systems to the Cloud? Do you know how much you lose each day by using outdated solutions? Read our guide and find out how beneficial transitioning to the cloud can be for your company!
Benefits of moving to the cloud
Did you know that 79% of SMBs believe that the right IT solutions can help improve financial performance during uncertain times? Yet, they still cling to outdated systems due to fears of high costs or the complexity of digital transformation. The cloud plays a crucial role in building an advantage in achieving business priorities. It accelerates growth, helps increase resilience and adaptability to change, and enhances security. Understanding the key benefits of cloud migration is a critical step in the digital transformation of future-oriented companies looking to build a competitive advantage based on new technologies. The benefits of moving to the cloud include:
- Easier implementation of new systems and modifications
- Access to new technologies, especially artificial intelligence
- Enhanced data security
- Reliability
- Scalability and flexibility of solutions
- Freeing up IT resources to focus on more critical tasks
- Faster business analysis
- Always up-to-date systems compliant with current legal and tax requirements
But how do you choose the best cloud solutions for your company?
Choose wisely when moving to the cloud
The first problem arises in selecting the best tools for your company. Today, almost every ERP system or office solution package is available as a cloud solution. How do you choose the most appropriate one? The key is to identify the essential needs of your employees and ensure that the chosen solution provides 80% of the required functionality without the need for modifications. The possibility of integrating the implemented system with existing tools is also crucial. How to prepare for cloud migration?
- Analyze your current IT infrastructure thoroughly.
- Identify the business problems you want to address and define the results you aim to achieve.
- Determine which applications will be migrated, how, and in what order.
- Choose a qualified implementation partner.
Advantages of using a single ecosystem of cloud solutions
Business applications operating within a single ecosystem facilitate collaboration between different departments and help employees be more productive. Having the right data in the right place and time, along with the ability to understand it, significantly eases and speeds up decision-making. Therefore, it is essential that all employees always have access to the same information, regardless of location or device. Cloud tools make it easy to share information or work on the same document. This eliminates the risk of employees in different departments working on different versions of a file. A perfect example is the Microsoft ecosystem. Suppose your company uses the world's most popular office suite, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365). You are well aware of the combined benefits of Outlook, SharePoint, and Teams. However, you are looking for an ERP system. The natural choice would be Dynamics 365 Business Central. Being part of the same ecosystem, it integrates with the tools you already use. You gain access to data collected by the ERP system without leaving Outlook or Teams, significantly easing and speeding up work.
Unlock employees' potential with Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence is a hot topic everyone has been discussing for months. Contrary to popular belief, employees are not afraid that AI will take their jobs one day. On the contrary:
- 64% of employees report lacking the time or energy to complete their work.
- Employees spend 3.6 hours a day searching for needed information.
- 40% of employees say they spend a quarter of their workweek on repetitive tasks.
- 70% of employees would gladly delegate a significant portion of their work to AI to reduce their workload.
At the same time, 29% of managers believe AI can help their employees automate routine tasks. And they are right – research shows that AI can increase employee productivity by 14%, and by 2025, it could accelerate decision-making processes in SMBs by 40%.
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Sources:
- SMB Group. 2023 Top 10 SMB Technology Trends, 2022.
- “Will AI Fix Work?,” Microsoft, 2023
- “Report: Employees spend 3.6 hours each day searching for info, increasing burnout,” VentureBeat, 2022
- “How Much Time Are You Wasting on Manual, Repetitive Tasks?”, Smartsheet
- “Generative AI At Work,” National Bureau Of Economic Research, 2023
- “Essential AI in Decision Making Statistics in 2023,” ZipDo 2023
