According with feedback collected form Romanian companies, more business decision-makers say that they expect their businesses to be more successful in the next 12-18 months than in 2011. It’s undeniable that the widespread adoption of the Internet is central to this growth in European businesses’ reach. The easy ability to find a market for your product coupled with the low cost of entry has made it easier than ever for businesses to sell beyond their doorstep.

 

To do so, technology is fundamental to the success of small- and medium-sized businesses success, both at present and in future. According with a Vanson-Bourne study, 66% of business companies agree that computing technology is not just important but is vital to their business. In addition, 64% say that computing technology is crucial to helping them to get through the current economic crisis, showing that many organizations’ use of technology at present is fundamental to getting them through the awkward period ahead of them. The internet revolutionized how businesses operate in the mid-nineties, allowing the rapid growth both of intranets within businesses so that colleagues could share data and resources, and the ability for businesses to communicate quickly, cheaply, and efficiently with suppliers, customers, and other interested parties across the planet.

 

A technology that has grown in significance over the past few years is cloud computing. The ability to provision services as and when required, the ability to run programs in a virtual environment that allows staff to use the same interface at any computer anywhere in the world, and the ability to decrease the reliance on in-house servers and infrastructure, have been trumpeted in some parts as the start of a major shift in how organizations will use computer technology in future.

 

Cloud Computing has generated an actual technological revolution for companies, offering access to a wide range of services and capabilities that only very large companies used to afford in the past. Using just an Internet connection and a web browser, companies of all sizes can have access to any service they need, paying a monthly fee for only for what they use, similar with the standard subscription model for utilities such as water, electricity, etc.

 

Romania is no different, even though we are our cultural legacy is to own our infrastructure instead of renting. In the end I will provide with an eloquent quotes from one of our clients : “Office 365 won us over with the familiarity of Microsoft programs we were already using, but once we moved to the cloud, we realized it offered us more functionality than we thought we needed.” said Mr. Eugeniu Iacob, IT Systems Manager, Provident Financial Romania. I invite you to see more customer evidence on : http://www.microsoft.com/ro-ro/office365/customer-stories.aspx  

 

Source: http://rbd.doingbusiness.ro/ro/1/articole-recente/1/765/growing-cloud-business