On Monday, your boss asks you "can you find this piece of information for me?"
You reply, "Sure! It's likely in one of the hundreds of file cabinets in the basement. I'll look through each one until I find it. I should have it for you in a few weeks!"
Now, if simply reading this scenario brought you back to the 1970s and gave you secondhand stress, worry not!
In 2022, cloud tech services have streamlined the way a business stores its information.
With cloud tech, your data is safer, more accessible, and easily sorted.
Read on to discover 3 tips for implementing cloud tech services at your business!
Cloud-based tech can be used for a wide variety of purposes.
You may be trying to store your information or you may be implementing a new software to assist your day-to-day business operations.
Before you implement cloud-based tech, identify why this data migration is occurring and what you hope it does for your company.
One way to do this may be to identify pain points that your company currently has and direct solutions that cloud tech can offer to relieve those.
By doing this, your cloud migration will be aligned across various stakeholders and will stay on track with your core purpose.
As with any widespread change in a company, becoming a cloud tech company can be overwhelming.
Be sure that your people are prepared for this change by implementing it slowly as opposed to all at once. Notify employees about this change long before it occurs and consider rolling it out to only certain teams to start.
Then, you should ensure that there are leaders within your company who can guide others on how to use the technology. Investing in cloud tech certification for certain employees will put everyone else at ease.
A main concern that prevents many companies from using cloud tech is the safety of their information.
There are several steps that you can take to ensure that the privacy of your data is protected.
For one, you can enable two-step authentication to ensure that only verified employees can access the cloud. You can restrict your cloud to being a private cloud too.
Additionally, you can educate employees on best practices for accessing the cloud, restricting them to only accessing it at certain times of the day or from certain locations.
When cloud tech is implemented correctly and purposefully, it can make a huge difference in the efficiency of your day-to-day business operations.
By considering why you want to use tech, equipping your team with the skills to use it, and having a safety net for your data, cloud tech will launch your business into the future.
For a consultation on how cloud tech solutions can help your company, contact us! We can sit down with you and evaluate your specific technology needs while answering any questions you may have.
