{"id":4936,"date":"2014-11-07T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/?p=4936"},"modified":"2014-10-05T17:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T01:35:10","slug":"cloud-computing-lower-costs-and-greater-flexibility-lead-many-organizations-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-lower-costs-and-greater-flexibility-lead-many-organizations-to-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing: Lower Costs and Greater Flexibility Lead Many Organizations to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What does it take for mid-sized companies to consider the cloud as a viable option to long-used on-premise solutions? \u00a0That&#8217;s the question that <a title=\"Cloud Computing at Mid-Size Companies\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifsworld.com\/en\/news\/2014\/press-release-2014-09-29-best-in-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aberdeen Group recently took<\/a> up in work sponsored by IFS.<\/p>\n<p>Three reasons why mid-sized companies choose to move some of their operations to the cloud from on-premise solutions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Implementation and maintenance costs are cheaper<\/li>\n<li>Eliminates or reduces the need to have dedicated on-site IT resources<\/li>\n<li>Provides flexibility in being able to scale usage up or down, depending on how the organization changes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"Nick Castalina bio\" href=\"www.linkedin.com\/pub\/nicholas-castellina\/17\/19\/673\" target=\"_blank\">Nick Castellina<\/a>, Research Director at Aberdeen Group, <a title=\"Cloud Operations\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ifsworld.com\/en\/news\/2014\/press-release-2014-09-29-best-in-class\/\" target=\"_blank\">said that<\/a> &#8220;organizations may want to move some of their technology on-premise or utilise a cloud solution to open up a new business unit as part of a multi-tiered ERP strategy. \u00a0For mid-market organizations, the flexibility that cloud environments provide actually enables these organizations to implement more technology that can improve processes across the organization. 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