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How to use the cloud to increase employee collaboration

Using the cloud to improve collaboration among your workforce is the way to go, just follow some simple rules

Email has for a long time been the main tool for collaborating on various business projects, but the cloud provides an opportunity to do more than just send someone a document and then wait for a response. Read more in CloudPro.

Published on 12th October 2011.

Can cloud help deal with peaks and troughs of demand?

Websites that buckle under the demand placed on them could benefit from being based in the cloud.

Questions need answering

Bryan Foss, a visiting professor at Bristol Business School and an independent commercial and public sector board level advisor, asks some poignant questions about how UCAS determined the amount of demand that was expected. He wonders whether it was based on its 2010 figures, and whether they were a good demand predictor considering the spectre of next year’s fee increases being on the near horizon.

Read more on CloudPro.  

Published on 5th October 2011.

The lock-in question

Can deals with mega-vendors lead to a loss of negotiating power? Find out the answer at: http://www.cio.co.uk/article/3306422/the-lock-in-question/.

Published by CIO magazine on 29th September 2011.

Delivering the brand: building market intelligence in the cloud

The cloud has introduced flexibility in marketing but what has it done for improving market intelligence? Read more in Graham Jarvis' article, published by CloudPro on 12th September 2011.

Client: CloudPro.

Marketers turn to cloud to modernise their campaigns

An article for CloudPro about why marketers are turning to the cloud. To read the article, please click on this link:

http://www.cloudpro.co.uk/saas/marketing/1643/marketers-turn-cloud-modernise-their-campaigns

Published on 2nd September 2011.

Email marketing: Ten tips for a successful campaign

Top tips for getting the most out of email marketing campaigns

Channels like email marketing can be used for a variety of reasons, including the targeted broadcast of a newsletter to keep your customers informed about how they can overcome, for example, their particular challenges and issues. They can be used as part of customer loyalty, promotional and sales campaigns too. Read more here.

Author: Graham Jarvis. Published by Startups.co.uk on 23rd August 2011.

 

CIO Profile: DWP and UK Government CIO Joe Harley brings a boardroom ethos to public-sector IT

Government CIO Joe Harley has had an illustrious career within the public and private sector. As well as taking on the mammoth task of transforming ICT within the public sector in January 2011, he remains CIO and director general for Corporate IT at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP)....read more here.

Published by CIO.co.uk on 23rd June 2011.

All together now: how to benefit from cloud-based unified communications

Unified comms is the promise of bringing different forms of communications together - is it a good fit for the cloud?

Unified communications is about bringing your mobile and fixed line telephony, email, instant messaging, collaboration and other communications together in such a way that you can manage them as one.

It's a great option for organisations that have a dispersed workforce, or those that want to adopt flexible working practices, as there are clearly some advantages in terms of permitting a your staff to work from home, which in effect helps to reduce carbon emissions and office space. As a practice it is argued that flexible working can also boost employee performance, and experience shows that it can facilitate and encourage a higher level of collaboration...

Read more on CloudPro.

A call to action

Could government departments really save £800m through smarter provision?

In October 2010 Sir Philip Green delivered a report that described government waste of public money and resources as being both staggering and shocking.

The government, he said, was not sufficiently using its huge scale and buying power to gain better deals in all operational and departmental areas. Different government departments and public sector bodies, for example, have often worked with a diverse range of communications suppliers...

Read more of Graham Jarvis' article on CIO.co.uk.

Getting to grips with workloads in the cloud

Clouds are nothing without workloads but how can a company optimise its deployment?

Without workloads the cloud is just idle. This perhaps seems very obvious to all of us because wherever data is being processed workload is created by the servers used to manage and handle it. David Chalmers, Technology Director for Hewlett Packard’s Enterprise Business Group agrees...read more on CloudPro.