The Cloud Wave: An SMB Imperative
Risk 1: Your Business is Hanging by a Chip
To appreciate the scope and impact of the computer chip shortage, you need only consider that everything in your life that has an on/off switch requires one. We’re talking about your phone, car, coffee maker, that Peloton you bought in 2020 — and your company’s computer server. It follows that when semiconductor production slows, so ...
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The Cloud Wave: An SMB Imperative.
Five Risks in Maintaining the Status Quo
The cloud wave is coming. Perhaps it’s more accurate to call it a cloud tsunami. Your business has two options: ride the wave or get crushed by it. And if that weren’t enough, the tide is bearing down on businesses during one of the most uncertain times in recent history. Call it the perfect storm. ...
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Why Private Cloud is the Best Way to Host Sage BusinessWorks
Earlier, we worked to explain the differences between Public and Private Cloud and why the public cloud is not the best option for hosting your Sage BusinessWorks application. While the public cloud is an effective home for SaaS applications, for companies running Sage BusinessWorks, private cloud hosting is the single best option. It amplifies the ...
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Now Is the Time – 3 Reasons Businesses are Moving Sage BusinessWorks to the Cloud
For the past nearly 50 (yes, really) years, businesses building and maintaining their own onsite IT infrastructure was the only game in town. Cloud computing has changed all that. A whopping 61% of businesses migrated at least some of their workloads to the cloud in 2020. Likely your business is already running more than one ...
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Six Ways Hosting Sage ERP Maximizes Limited IT Resources
Companies were feeling the shortage of skilled IT workers before the global pandemic, but now the chasm between IT positions and those qualified to fill them has grown even larger. With IT personnel increasingly difficult to find and retain, outsourcing some of your company’s IT tasks can be a smart strategy. IT outsourcing is at ...
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How Private Cloud for Sage ERP Can Help You Survive — or Prevent — a Ransomware Attack
Hardly a news day goes by without stories of new ransomware attacks. In 2020, there were an estimated 304 million ransomware attacks worldwide — an increase of 62% from the prior year — at an estimated cost to businesses of $20 billion. For business owners, it’s no longer a matter of considering if security threats ...
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Cloud Hosting Maximizes Your Sage ERP Investment for Long-Term Gain
To sell or to hold is the age-old question in investing. Either an asset has peaked (or tanked!) and it’s time to offload it, or it’s worth retaining to maximize its value in the future. Very rarely, though, you get one of those investments that pays dividends now and continues delivering a return on your ...
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Now Is the Time – 3 Reasons Businesses are Moving Sage ERP to the Cloud
For the past nearly 50 (yes, really) years, businesses building and maintaining their own onsite IT infrastructure was the only game in town. Cloud computing has changed all that. A whopping 61% of businesses migrated at least some of their workloads to the cloud in 2020. Likely your business is already running more than one ...
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Hosted Sage ERP — Choosing a Specialist Increases the Value Proposition
When making the decision to host Sage ERP, you have two main options — hosting by a Public Cloud Services Provider (CSP) or by a Private CSP. We highlighted the differences and why private cloud is the best way to host Sage ERP in this article. But even among private clouds, you have options. You ...
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