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Over the past 12 months, office life as we know it has completely changed. While many of us want our home life to return to normal, we don’t see a “new normal” consisting of full-time in-office work. The reality is, managers are now on the hunt for permanent, stable, and remote-friendly cloud software tools for their team to use. In 2020 alone, cloud spending has increased by 6.3%<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once upon a time, software tools that we all have grown to love were installed locally onto your PC or server. Precious work files had to be backed up regularly to a server sitting in a dusty closet next to the break room. However, over the past decade, we’ve adopted the need to work and play almost exclusively on the cloud. With a worldwide pandemic leaving its mark on our office culture DNA for good, moving to the cloud is now necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just in case you still aren’t convinced that moving those tried and tested software tools to the cloud is the best idea, here are some facts to think about:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Migration is often easy and fast<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Cloud-based software service companies have perfected the onboarding experience. By investing in various tools to convert information from one system to another, it is in their best interest to get you back to work with as little disruption as possible. The quicker you can adopt and comfortably settle into their product, the faster you can become a loyal and paying customer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reduce or eliminate server maintenance costs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Keeping that old server that’s sitting in a dark and dusty closet is a costly affair. When you factor in hardware upgrades, software updates, and labour costs due to downtime and repair, it is much more cost-effective to move most, if not all, your tools online. You never know when those servers will crash. With subscriptions to cloud-based software companies, you have cost and uptime certainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Get tech support<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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With ageing software, companies often drop support for them. As time passes by, it becomes impossible for software companies to support legacy systems. While your office still depends on those tools to get your business done, you are on a deserted island in terms of who you can reach out to fix them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like having a warranty on a new car, when you move your software tools to the cloud, you are always an email, chat or phone call away from getting the help you need to get back to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More mobility in the tools you use<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Often, with in-house hosted software, you need to be within the office’s confines to access that tool. In the early stages of the pandemic, and everyone forced to work from home, this was one of the trickier hurdles that many offices had to get over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

With cloud-based software, all you need is a web browser and a steady internet connection to get working. And for most of them, an app is readily available for your phone. This easy-to-access mobility makes the transition to remote office work seamless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Routine data backups<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Protecting the data that has accumulated is vital to the success and viability of your company. Having your tools hosted on the cloud ensures that your information is safely and frequently backed up offsite. There is no need to have calendar reminders to do backups or worry that hard drives will fail and some vital data will get lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cloud software is routinely updated<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Because of the nature of software as a service (SAAS) products, automatic rollouts of fixes, enhancements, and upgrades occur frequently and, most of the time, are performed with minimal impact. There is no need to schedule downtime or suffer when software is neglected and gets buggy from not being updated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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