Why It’s Time to Embrace Cloud and Mobility Trends To Recession-Proof Your Business?

Staying Afloat Despite the Crisis

Cloud-based solutions eliminate additional responsibilities such as monitoring, managing, or updating your software systems. Moreover, cloud services are far more secure than on-premise solutions as they minimize the risks associated with on-premise software management during a recession phase. 

With the help of cloud-based solutions, businesses can easily cut down on IT costs for their organization because it is based on the flexible pay-as-you-go model, an obvious thing to do in the present scenario. Most service providers offer service-level agreements prior to initiating the development. Here are some specific ways the cloud is helping businesses stay afloat despite the coronavirus crisis:

1. Provides a remote worker-friendly environment

All businesses have the short-term goal of keeping their doors open while planning for long-term recovery. This pandemic has taught businesses that an on-premise infrastructure cannot provide the same level of agility as presented by cloud services. Most businesses would like to keep their employees away from physical offices. Cloud services make this possible without worrying about physically installing hardware somewhere.  The pandemic is presenting an opportunity for business leaders to innovate to keep pace with a changing world while adapting to changing work environments.

2. Document sharing 

In the present scenario, businesses cannot afford to risk the loss of important documents. Cloud-based document sharing ensures that key pieces of content can be viewed and accessed by everyone involved, without wasting precious hours searching for them. Working together while being in different locations is challenging. Thankfully, document sharing platforms allow for seamless collaboration making it easy to hold the reins on your key content, even if the rest of the world is in a state of flux. 

3. Cybersecurity

Cyberattacks have posed serious threats to the digitized business world and the pandemic is only aggravating the problem by significantly boosting the possibility of breaches. With many of the best security platforms utilizing artificial intelligence, cloud-powered cybersecurity gives your company the digital muscle to detect and immobilize threats in real-time. 

4. Scaling 

For most businesses, this is the time of great uncertainty with regard to size. While some digital firms are experiencing dramatic growth rates, most others are facing the possibility of downsizing and furloughs. Since the cloud is not dependent on a physical on-site fixed server to operate, it allows you to use as much or as little computing power as you require. Thereby, it lets you scale dynamically without waiting. 

5. Customer service 

Along with businesses, consumers are being plagued with uncertainty and reduced incomes. For instance, call center operations have come to a halt as reps cannot be physically present at BPOs or customer care centers to answer calls. Taking your customer service to the cloud alleviates these issues. It carries the benefits of additional speed and bandwidth and makes life easier for your customer service agents. Cloud can ensure that high call volumes function smoothly.