Cloud Computing - Is This a Safe Bet for the SMB Market?

One of the most laudable purposes technology for any company, regardless of size, on the world market on an equal footing with other competitors in the same industry to compete. Unthinkable until very recently, thanks to the possibility to become a reality, that offer Internet and other user applications.

Small and medium-sized enterprises, companies that may have benefited from this situation, as they were able to leave their local status and reach a global position helps them in the degree of competitiveness to reach, which until then had been almost is prohibited.

Mobile applications, Web 2.0 and e-commerce generated great progress in small and medium-sized companies with the outside world interact, but real change will come later thanks to software as a service (SaaS) and cloud computing.

Technological democratization

These are two new trends in technology are closely linked with each other, who are still a long way to go, information and telecommunication technology democratization because they allow (and will continue to in the future) even the smallest companies, the most advanced Get your infrastructure and applications to expand your business.

Under market access international (AMI) in its latest report on the introduction of cloud services to the SMB market, 12 percent of small businesses worldwide and 24 per cent of medium-sized companies use a kind of SaaS. Number, start, if not for the fact that the same study predicts that small and medium-sized enterprises around the world spend up to 95 billion dollars in the United States until the year 2014 technology cloud could be seen.

Advantages and problems

Take a look at some of the benefits of cloud computing, it's easier to understand this technology is booming.

First we need to understand that most systems Department for small and medium-sized enterprises not new market research events and assist in their implementation. Application usage, which may seem complicated at first glance, thanks to the easy to use SaaS and cloud-based software. SMES, over any type of installation, support and maintenance can be.

Not to mention the cost savings with this strategy, such as digits only, that they consume and have the ability to quickly sudden changes in their requirements, i.e. available. From scalability to meet demand peaks.

Cloud computing also allows heads of organizations, from any place and at any time to work, because the application online, 12:00 am available per day and you can access them through a variety of devices: smartphones, PDAs, laptops ... More Understanding for small business owners, coming on business a lot of investing their personal and professional time.