Understanding the “Cloud”: Financials

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CONSIDERING THE APPROACH

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The money people will naturally have questions about organization wide, large scale transitions to new technology. That’s okay! The “cloud “ is on everyone's radar. Sonoran Integrations helps organizations (nerds AND money people) make an elegant transition to the cloud by preparing them ahead of time. Really, this process should not be faced alone. The best approach is for money people and nerdy people to work hand in hand with market advisors (that’s us ) to ensure needs AND finances are taken into account. We know money people aren’t apposed to making changes, but have a different perspective. MAINTAINING FINANCIAL STABILITY! We work with your own nerds to demonstrate the opportunities (cost savings, scalability, efficiency, speedy time to market, etc.) of the cloud. Then we transition into working with your money people to establish the economic impact of leveraging cloud technology and services. This two-sided approach ensures your organization is benefiting from the cloud in the best way possible!

FINANCIAL SIDE

The first thing money people will wonder about is cost. Of course! The benefit of potential savings in the cloud is extremely appealing. Money people and nerds are sick of the constant cost of licenses, maintenance and upgrades. When you start a pay-as-you-go model, your organization can turn huge upfront CapEx costs into affordable OpEx budgets. Preserving the budget will allow everyone to get what they need, when they need it! Upgrades come automatically with no fuss of maintenance or management. This type of change is what money people need to be aware of! This long term thinking is key to planning a cloud move and deciding which solutions are best. Cloud deployments mean money people can experience increased budget flexibility to work with their nerds to ensure successful solutions. As the organization works in the cloud, it passes off a lot of costs. Resources are delivered as a service. Purchase, storage, management and maintenance of the necessary systems are already taken care of. Organizations of all sizes & industries can take advantage of the latest solutions without overspending. That’s the theory… It ALWAYS depends on the provider and manner of integrating cloud solutions into your organization. There is a HUGE potential to save money, time, and stress as the provider takes on the burden of hosting your solution. Sonoran Integrations will help you choose the best cloud team!

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COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE

Cloud computing and services help establish competitive advantages. We help money people realize that the cloud is here to stay:

97% of fortune 1000 companies have some form of cloud technology or service. All developers are moving to a SaaS model. Have you tried to buy a MS Office or Adobe license lately? No more lump sum purchases! All monthly payments. It has become the norm!

McKinsey Global Survey, more than 80% of respondents indicated they are using or experimenting with cloud technology.

Organizations not considering this technology shift will be blind sided by the upcoming, sudden change in all service model. This could lead to service disruptions to customers and a significant competitive disadvantage. As a start, organizations leverage cloud technology and cloud services to improve daily operations. This change enables sales, expansion and innovation because the focus is now on what can be done within new, efficient and flexible environment; instead of, needing resources to get the job done.

CFO.com: “[Cloud] frees management to focus on the product, not the plumbing.” Let us help you find your path to the cloud, in as small or large steps as your comfortable with.

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CHANGING BUSINESS DEMAND

If history has taught us anything from the rise and fall of the 2000’s, it’s that demand can change at the drop of a hat! Furthermore, many organizations have some type of “seasonality” which is probably not as drastic; but is still a regular (Accountants… IM LOOKING AT YOU!) part of the normal business cycle. Cloud services can help organizations handle these changes because of inherent scalability within them. The services are also scaling at the desperately needed cutting edge, instead of in the lagging technology model of premise equipment. You can add cutting edge resources on demand at a PREDICTABLE cost and then decrease them again as demand wanes. This allows your money people and your nerdy people to be in sync with each other as well as your target market. This flexibility often leads to other benefits; such as, lower risk in new test markets. Work a little and see if the rewards justify the means. If not, scale the solution back down or move it to another needed area. Simple.

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TIME TO MARKET

Since a cloud solution is so efficient, an organization can leverage it to shorten development cycles. Team members will always have the resources they need, in the amounts they need them, for only the time they’re needed. Whether it’s a proof of concept, development of a new product or development of a new area (as discussed before), resources are simply at your fingertips. This makes it easy and less risky to move forward. Flexibility of this kind allows focus on innovation and pushing forward to next steps rather than twiddling your thumbs do to lacking resources. All this leads to new capital or reservation of capital within the budget to be expended as needed, instead of as forced. This will make the money people very happy and nerdy people very effective! Both will help grow overall service or revenue.

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SECURITY & SAFETY

Security is a huge concern on both side of the conversation with money people & nerds. It’s a valid concern. NO ONE wants to trust their information to someone else. We would never steer you in the direction of a company or solution that did not have your best interests at heart. After all, when you grow, we grow. That’s what having a good partnership entails. As far as current cloud providers, they have the scale and resources to conceive, deploy and manage a more secure system with many tenants, than you as an individual organization could build cost effectively. If they don’t have it, we would not be steering you towards them. Our providers will offer the highest levels of security. We will make sure they provide those levels transparently to you for your evaluation. The expectation is they have already spent the time, effort and money into making their solutions as secure as possible and have a plan to keep them secure. What’s more, many money people don’t realize that a lot of their data is already in the cloud. Payroll, marketing and use of online storage have already seen to that. It has become such a common technology, it’s used without thought, daily! Now WE can help YOU start taking advantage of it!

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AVAILABLE SERVICES

NERDS, ITS TIME TO GEAR UP!

• UCaaS – Unified Communications • CCaaS – Contact Center • VCaaS – Video Conferencing

• DaaS – Desktop • ITaaS – IT Department • IaaS – Infrastructure • HDaaS – Help Desk • MaaS – Mobility

Let us help your organization take elegant steps into the cloud (instead of falling face first without a parachute). We can help your nerds discern which services would work best and work with your money people to conserve capital!

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