There is a lot of interest and discussion about the cloud these days— and for good reason. As business leaders and department heads identify impediments to their teams’ effectiveness, they are beginning to recognize that the cloud is not just about storage; it’s about flexibility, process improvement, and savings. But it will take a balanced perspective to cash in.
As with any important business decision, a crucial step is to weigh the pros and cons to determine its suitability for your unique use case. Here is a list to get you started:
Pros:
- A hybrid approach leverages the best of both worlds in what could be called a mash-up of on-premises and off-premises resources
- Allows workloads and data to move between on-premises repositories and private or public clouds in a flexible and compliant way as demands, needs, and costs change
- Regardless of whether the user is accessing a document in the cloud or behind the firewall, they would see the same version using the same simple, easy-to-use product across all of their devices.
Cons:
- Many cloud services are only used for day-to-day file sharing and not content management heavy lifting
- Much ECM content remains on-premises - or migrated to the cloud in "private clouds"
- Cloud at scale isn’t a cheaper option
- Sometimes there’s not enough of a compelling reason
Need help evaluating these pros and cons and how they relate to your specific business? Check out this Webinar On-Demand, “The Pros and Cons in Your Journey to the Cloud: Mapping the Criteria That Will Make Business Users and IT Happy.”
Featured presenters Peggy Winton from AIIM and Jon Schupp, VP of Cloud Services at OpenText explore important factors to consider in when implementing Content Services in the cloud.
