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Working Together in a Mobile World

Tue, 21 Jun 2011 09:45:00 EDT

You are always on the move. One day you build a presentation at your home office. The next, you’re running through a contract at a client site. No day is the same, but one thing is consistent: the need for you and your group to collaborate on documents. The documents that are most essential to your team are often built and used by globally distributed and mobile teams. These teams need instant, anywhere access to view, edit, approve, and share their documents across large numbers of professionals. This article looks at best practices as we follow a project team that is building a proposal for their board. A project team led by Patrick needs to develop a presentation for the board. They hope to get approval for a new initiative called “Project Galaxy.”

Cloud Computing: End Document Chaos – Managing Documents in the Cloud

Fri, 13 May 2011 11:00:00 EDT

Each day, your company creates hundreds or even thousands of documents. These contracts, agreements, presentations, and proposals are generated, stored, and shared en masse by your team. But with each new document comes a management challenge. How do you ensure that the right content is created? How do you help teams to work together to create content? How can you securely store your documents so they are easy to locate? And how can you quickly access your documents when you need them?

Understanding the Benefits of SaaS for SMBs

Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:45:00 EST

The adoption of cloud computing has brought renewed focus to the software as a service (SaaS) application delivery model. Some small and medium businesses (SMBs) see SaaS as an equalizer that gives them the same application functionality as larger competitors, without incurring the massive investments in technology and resources. Other SMBs don’t yet fully understand what SaaS is, how it works and why it makes business sense. This article will explore the evolution of SaaS and discuss the benefits to SMBs of purchasing and deploying cloud-based SaaS applications. In the traditional software delivery model, you purchase software upfront under a perpetual use license agreement. You’ll also typically pay an annual maintenance fee to cover bug fixes and minor enhancements. The software is deployed in the company’s data center. Most likely, you’ll need to engage the services of an implementation partner that is knowledgeable in deploying the software. This model is still employed by large enterprise application vendors, making these applications inaccessible to the SMB because of their cost and the scope of the implementation.