Cloud Migration — Improving Your Bottom Line
Making a direct cost comparison is a useful place to start when comparing cloud alternatives with premise-based communication systems. This straight comparison, however, does not fully reflect the cost reductions attained by switching to a cloud communication service.
Here are five ways that migrating to cloud communications can improve your bottom line.
Productivity & Collaboration
Cloud solutions give employees better ways to collaborate across boundaries, saving time and improving efficiency. Better collaboration and heightened productivity can mean a shorter time to market for innovations, potentially resulting in an advantage over the competition.
47%
Productivity Increase Across more than 30,000 users in March / April of 2020.
81%
Of employees say collaboration apps improve productivity.
86%
of owners and employees believe ineffective communication tools are responsible for workplace failures.
Overhead Expense Reduction
As more companies employ a mobile or remote workforce, cloud solutions provide the solid platforms that employees need to remain productive while also reducing overhead expenses.
81%
of surveyed employees say flexible work options would make them more loyal to their employer.
40%
reduction in absenteeism and 10-15% reduction in employee turnover.
$11,000
can be saved per half-time telecommuter per year when all factors are considered.
Corporate Continuity
Cloud solutions protect against business disruptions by giving companies the ability to pivot quickly to remote work or another office. By implementing cloud solutions, companies protect against the financial losses a disruption can bring.
$9,000
Average cost per minute for a data center outage
60%
of small businesses never reopen after a disaster within five business days
47%
of companies with 200-500 employees estimate one hour of downtime can cost $100,000.
Budgeting Flexibility
With costs built on an operating expense model, companies without a large capital expense budget can get into a full-service solution that meets their needs and grows with them.
$1,830
Estimated cost per license of on-premise solution vs. $1,153 for the cloud.
37%
of IT leaders are migrating to cloud to reduce capital costs.
52%
of companies with cloud solutions paid less than $75 per license.
Advanced Security
From reduced data recovery costs to improved customer retention, companies save money when data is secure. Cloud solutions offer a host of security benefits, including encryption, offsite data storage, and automatic security updates
46 /127
routers have not received security updates within a year in a recent study.
94%
of businesses see security improvement after switching to cloud.
74%
of cloud adopters trust that cloud-based data is secure.
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Cloud Migration — Improving Your Bottom Line
Making a direct cost comparison is a useful place to start when comparing cloud alternatives with premise-based communication systems. This straight comparison, however, does not fully reflect the cost reductions attained by switching to a cloud communication service.
Here are five ways that migrating to cloud communications can improve your bottom line.
Productivity & Collaboration
Cloud solutions give employees better ways to collaborate across boundaries, saving time and improving efficiency. Better collaboration and heightened productivity can mean a shorter time to market for innovations, potentially resulting in an advantage over the competition.
47%
Productivity Increase Across more than 30,000 users in March / April of 2020.
81%
Of employees say collaboration apps improve productivity.
86%
of owners and employees believe ineffective communication tools are responsible for workplace failures.
Overhead Expense Reduction
As more companies employ a mobile or remote workforce, cloud solutions provide the solid platforms that employees need to remain productive while also reducing overhead expenses.
81%
of surveyed employees say flexible work options would make them more loyal to their employer.
40%
reduction in absenteeism and 10-15% reduction in employee turnover.
$11,000
can be saved per half-time telecommuter per year when all factors are considered.
Corporate Continuity
Cloud solutions protect against business disruptions by giving companies the ability to pivot quickly to remote work or another office. By implementing cloud solutions, companies protect against the financial losses a disruption can bring.
$9,000
Average cost per minute for a data center outage
60%
of small businesses never reopen after a disaster within five business days
47%
of companies with 200-500 employees estimate one hour of downtime can cost $100,000.
Budgeting Flexibility
With costs built on an operating expense model, companies without a large capital expense budget can get into a full-service solution that meets their needs and grows with them.
$1,830
Estimated cost per license of on-premise solution vs. $1,153 for the cloud.
37%
of IT leaders are migrating to cloud to reduce capital costs.
52%
of companies with cloud solutions paid less than $75 per license.
Advanced Security
From reduced data recovery costs to improved customer retention, companies save money when data is secure. Cloud solutions offer a host of security benefits, including encryption, offsite data storage, and automatic security updates
46 /127
routers have not received security updates within a year in a recent study.
94%
of businesses see security improvement after switching to cloud.
74%
of cloud adopters trust that cloud-based data is secure.