Getting More Out of the Working Day

The first change most companies notice after adopting an intelligent office platform is cost. Servers, storage and development platforms used to be bought outright and maintained in-house. With public cloud services billed by usage, the upfront investment largely disappears.

The saving is not only on hardware. Electricity, licences and the staff time spent keeping systems alive all shrink as well. Where internal infrastructure moves to a private cloud, consolidating and virtualising servers raises hardware utilisation and automates much of the day-to-day operation. Taken together, this removes spending that was never producing value and puts the finance side of the business on firmer ground.