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The Business Case for Teamwork Solutions

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CollaborationHow our teams work, and our businesses run, continues to evolve. Teamwork — communication and collaboration — brings people together to share information, work together, and accomplish common goals and objectives. When you have a place to create and make decisions, you empower your team to achieve.

Market Dynamics

Finding secure, easy ways to connect across teams and locations is a high priority if you want to create a competitive advantage in today’s quickly changing business landscape.

83% of knowledge workers depend on technology to work together

72% of workers will work remotely, full or part time

35% of knowledge workers still collaborate on documents using email

 

Cloud Forward teamwork solutions enable you to customize your workspace, keep your team secure, and communicate more effectively.

Challenges You Face

Most businesses see the value of Cloud Forward solutions, but migrating to the cloud does not ensure results. Real value requires changing some of the ways you work, leveraging features, and enhancing individual and team productivity and effectiveness.

Communications: How can you bring teams and resources together?

  • Enable real-time communication
  • Provide secure mobile access
  • Empower teams to work remotely

Mobility: How can you enable employees to work from virtually anywhere, on any device?

  • Enhance mobility within your company
  • Reduce overhead, and save money on office space, as employees work remotely

Secure Sharing: How can you make it easier to connect with customers, co-workers, and others?

  • Secure and preserve company data when sharing information with others
  • Distinguish between the information external users can and cannot access
  • Keep track of who has what information

Solutions that Drive Success

Adopting Microsoft 365 means more than migrating emails and files. Adopting Microsoft 365 involves managing change; educating your team on ways to use the teamwork technology to:

Get more done

Teamwork technology embedded in Microsoft 365 enables productivity solutions that:

  • Streamline teamwork
    Integrate team chats, meetings, and files in one place; increase productivity
  • Enable real-time teamwork
    Make it easy for teams to work together on documents; rapidly advance ideas and innovation
  • Connect applications
    Provide the tools and services customers use every day to collaborate; connect people, information, and ideas

Work better together

Microsoft Teamwork solutions enables collaboration solutions that help you:

  • Improve security
    Strengthen your overall security posture and improve compliance and reduce your use of unsecure apps
  • Work from virtually anywhere
    Use digital tools to empower teamwork across your mobile workforce, no matter where your people work or what devices they use

Build your business

Microsoft 365 makes it easier to set up and manage users, devices, and data within a highly secure, cloud-based productivity platform.

  • Use an integrated solution
    Save time, money, and the headache of managing multiple vendors and technologies for security and team solutions
  • Reduce costs
    Microsoft technology provides a nearly 80% cost savings over similar technologies provided by third-party vendors

Partner for Success

We understand that change is challenging. We also see that the results outweigh the effort when teams embrace and adopt new capabilities and improve how they work.  Empowering your team enables success.  Through our Managed Cloud Services, we co-manage your IT services and provide on-going education and support to help your team adopt and leverage new capabilities.  We help your employees succeed at their jobs; we enable your company to achieve your desired results.

Contact us or email us to learn more. Or, schedule a complimentary Cloud Advisor Session and discuss your goals, challenges, and opportunities.

Tech Leadership: Focus on Business Success

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Cloud StrategyThe tag line of a recent ZDNet article says it all:

Tech leaders have to support how their business generates revenues and profits if they are to be taken seriously.

As reported in the article, KMPG reports that 76% of CEOs want their technology projects to “make” rather than “save” money.  And while this data is from a survey of large and mid-market enterprises, we understand the small and midsize business owners and decisions makers want the same results. Cloud gives you the ability to reduce resources needed to manage and maintain IT infrastructure, which can free up resources for IT solutions closer to the revenue stream.

Your mindset as a business leader should remain on Business Outcomes; your IT service provider should have the same focus.

Whether you are the IT decision maker, you have a CIO or IT Director, or you rely on an IT service provider for strategic guidance and tactical solutions, here are some ways to rethink and redirect your IT direction and value.

  • Identify the biggest challenges in your organization: Start by understanding what your business wants to achieve and the most critical roadblocks. These are most often business, not technology, issues. Technology, however, provides the tools needed to overcome challenges and enable opportunities.  Let desired business results guide your technology strategy and drive specific projects.
  • Focus on how to develop new business models: Think beyond how a new technology can cut costs.  Explore and evaluate how emerging technologies, such as AI and Machine Learning, can enable your business to rethink “how” you work and how you manage revenue streams.
  • Use information to create a more efficiency: Take advantage of new business intelligence tools that empower you to convert your data into useful, actionable information.
  • Remember that “Digital Transformation” is a process, not a solution. Rethinking your business processes to better leverage cloud and new technologies continuous effort. Remember that new apps, tools, and templates need to adapt as you learn more and as your business needs and priorities change.
  • Pick the right partner: We are past the “one and done” era of IT solutions. Your environment needs to evolve with you business, your employees, and your partners.  Pick a partner that can stay with you for the long-haul.

Cumulus Global focuses on “Cloud Forward” IT solutions that support your desired business outcomes.  Contact us for a complimentary Cloud Advisor session to discuss your business goals, challenges, and priorities.

 

A New Look for Spring

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Yes! We launched our new website!

Our objective, to provide a better understanding of our solutions and the breadth of products and services we mix and match to create them.

Our focus remains on helping you achieve your goals and objectives by providing you with cloud-enabled technologies, services, and expertise.

We will continue to add and enhance the content in our belief that information is key to making sound decisions. To that end, the Resources section gives you access to our Cloud Solutions eNewsletter, our monthly 3T@3 Webcast series, and the Cloud Solutions Daily.