How cloud accounting can take your business sky high
Grazed from Smart Company. Author: Editorial Staff.
Often ‘The Cloud’ is spoken about with little context on what it offers that established systems don’t. It is easy to dismiss cloud or online services as nothing more than just buzz. After all, if it isn’t broke, why fix it? The reality is that computer systems are changing, along with the way we engage with them. Today’s workers are mobile and regularly work outside of traditional business hours. Cloud computing makes it easy for us to adapt to our new behaviours and enable us to be more efficient than we ever could with traditional software packages.
The freedom to let you work wherever, whenever
Our jobs and the way we engage with the workplace have drastically changed over the past decade. Today, many of us are using smartphones and tablets to handle day-to-day work tasks away from our office desks. With so many people working from multiple locations at different times, it is integral that users are able to access the software they need to get the job done…
CommVault has launched Simpana for Endpoint Data Protection, a new solution set designed to help protect and enable the mobile workforce by efficiently backing-up laptops, desktops and mobile devices and providing secure access and self-service capabilities. With today’s mobile workforce increasing their reliance on information saved on local endpoints and outside IT’s traditional domain, the need to protect sensitive data residing on desktops, laptops, and mobile devices has become more critical than ever before.
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella spent his first year on the job making the company less dependent on Windows. This week, when Mr. Nadella is scheduled to show off the next version of Microsoft’s most famous product, will reaffirm the operating system’s key role in his company’s fate.
SAP is looking to expand its presence in cloud computing and ecommerce across China, which it believes will bring "tremendous growth and change". In an Interview on SAP TV, Mark Gibbs, president of SAP Greater China, said the software giant is aligning with partners to provide "great support and leadership to help China run better".
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. is trying to interconnect business and social networking for the second time around. The world’s biggest internet retailer have quietly launched the app, called DingTalk, in December of last year. DingTalk, which the company says is still in its beta phase, is an attempt at “versatile mobile communications app that fills a gap in the market for corporate mobile messaging,” an Alibaba spokeswoman said, cited by Reuters.
Box Inc. the cloud service provider is expected to go public this year and has filed for an initial public offering. It is imperative to state that the company had filed for an initial public offering for the first time last March. The company is seeking a valuation of $1.6 billion according to the documents filed by the company with the exchange and the regulatory authorities. The company had delayed the initial public offering the last time around because of the unfavourable market conditions for technology stocks last March. The company consequently raised $150 million through private funding last July.