The On-Site Technical Solutions August newsletter is out.
On-Site Connections
Here is the Notes From the GM column for August:
Here at On-Site Technical Solutions we are in the process of moving our internal business systems to The Cloud. We have already migrated to Google Apps for mail and document sharing and use Google Apps and Service Sidekick for sharing calendars. Once we move QuickBooks from the server to The Cloud we will no longer have any internal business applications running locally.
That means we have no need for the hardware or a network to support our internal applications – we let our vendors handle that in The Cloud. No capital expenditures for that hardware, no licensing for the network and powerful computers attached to the network to run those applications. Everything is a monthly operating expense.
Add an employee? Add the licensing to our monthly operating expense. Lose an employee? Drop the licensing from our monthly operating expense. All of our data and systems can be accessed from any computer or PDA (iPhone, Blackberry, Palm etc.) with an internet connection.
With Office 2010 Microsoft will be offering a free web version of their flagship product. Inuit wants its QuickBooks and Quicken customers to move to The Cloud so it can get out of the disk burning and mailing business – saving Intuit millions of dollars in production costs. Everything Google creates is in the cloud. Google, Microsoft , Amazon and others are spending BILLIONS building gigantic, portable data centers to support the move to cloud computing.
Scott has tested the Google Apps app on the iPhone and is going to be migrating from his Blackberry to an iPhone. I’m the conservative one; I’ll wait until my Blackberry dies to make a decision on the next PDA. The iPhone interface is simply perfect for Google Apps and Scott will also be able to use an iPhone app for remote support for customer servers and workstations.
The technical world is changing faster than ever and we can all expect to be doing business differently in a very short time. The changes we are now seeing are simplifying technology, making it less expensive and easier to use and support.
Why am I discussing this and what does it mean for our customers? The iPhone now has more than 35,000 apps and counting. Eight months ago we looked at Google Apps and said it wasn’t ready to run a business. Today we’re using it to run our business and some of our customers businesses. The world is changing and businesses are going to get on board or get left behind. We can ensure that businesses navigate the labyrinth that is technology today and make the best fit for each business.
We’re already saving customers the expense of running Exchange servers and for our smaller customers even the expense of a network server. If we’re not talking directly to you about how the changes in technology can run your business cheaper, more efficiently and effectively, call me or Scott.
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