Cloud Collaboration Tools for SMEs : Introduction

No matter whether your employees are in the office or on business trip; projects, tasks can be solved with Cloud Collaboration Tools. From Employers’ point of view; an employee is an investment, but the investment is not a rigid matter but a human. Allowing freedom to move might bring better return of investment. This article is an Introduction to the Cloud Collaboration Tools for SMEs – as our regular readers are aware of – we split bigger articles in to 3-5 parts.

We also wrote the reason – Reading 1000 words on Screen is more laborious when compared with Print Text. We have the option to print the text, still splitting an article to several topics adds many advantages – discussing these topics will divert towards Professional Grade Blogging instead, we will stick to more serious topic – Introduction to Cloud Collaboration Tools for SMEs.

Cloud Collaboration Tools for SMEs : Not Every Data Demands Much Privacy

For efficient collaborations in the business, appropriate tools fall among the essentials. This realization has now shifted towards the middle class. Systems which were previously often referred to as Groupware tools now almost every provider has solution as SaaS. The term collaboration is generally very broad : the common access to files via Dropbox also falls under this category as well as a complex server solution using OpenStack Private Cloud. We have focused this Introduction on the solutions for small and medium businesses; these are easy and useful to use for working from the SOHO environment (Small Office, Home Office).

What do working groups share and exchange with each other? The success of Dropbox shows that file sharing is on the wish lists. But the coordination of appointments should be there : The cloud solution with a Central Desktop is set out to meet these needs and to provide the user a kind of “office workstation” on the Web. Yes, the weak points of SaaS based Services must be kept in mind. Please search on this website with Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Computing Privacy etcetera topics to get quite good number of articles, specific to your need. In short; not all data demands high security.

Cloud Collaboration Tools for SMEs : The Idea of Having a Central Deskop

On small workgroups, optimized solution which offers a free version can be well tested. Even the paid starter solution for 30 users, for example can be tested for 15 days. All the important opportunities, such as file sharing, editing files, calendar, discussion forum or creating and maintaining a wiki should be evaluated.

The structure of the software should a good solution – through simple wizard, the user should be guided. Management and maintenance of data, and employees and their access rights are also should be clearly laid out.

Conclusion

Cloud Collaboration Tools are addons which can be tested for free of cost. May be, unknown tools can bring more productivity for your business. In general, Central Desktop should be a well managed idea, providing all the necessary functions with an Active Directory connection. As security issues ( read spyware actions ) are exposed, possibly it is better to avoid the solutions provided by Google and Microsoft.