Collaboration is one of the big buzzwords of today’s economy. The truth is that all successful businesses are a collaborative effort and have been since the days of cavemen hunting mammoths. One of the biggest irritants with PC-based systems is how they are designed for one user at a time and how many force you to pay for unreliable multi-user versions. Think about Microsoft Word. If you’re accessing it on the network, you’ll find only one user at a time can read or edit it. This was true of the older desktop accounting packages. The older, desktop-based accounting packages only allow one user. Their multiple user, network packages are expensive and clunky. The cloud-based systems like Xero or Saasu, an online service based out of Elizabeth Street here in Sydney, come with the team work functions built in. Recently, at a workshop in Melbourne, a director of a large services company told me how his board of directors is using Google Docs to work together on agendas and committee documents. The use of cloud services are saving him and his colleagues many hours of work and avoiding having big piles of documents dumped on them the weekend before their board meetings.
Your team isn’t just your employees; your team can also be your customers, suppliers and other business partners.
Cloud services allow you to share selected information without compromising your own systems. Editor’s note: Whether you’re working with a decentralised workforce or collaborating with suppliers, advisors and strategic partners, managing your communications in the cloud allows the entire team to access up to date information and to work together in real time, online. Paul Wallbank shares his top recommended cloud applications in the free eBook.
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