Cloud Based System To Manage Your Data Assets
One of the biggest assets your company probably owns is its data. Within files and folders stored on hard drives in your offices, your company will likely hold much of your data about customers, transactions, as well as any specific data related to the products and services.
If you are a retailer or a manufacturer, data plays a big part in how you drive your business. Historic sales data will ensure that you have accurate buying and tar getting. Knowing about how you performed in the past is always the key to driving your performance in the future.
In customer services and advertising, data sets about your audience are vital. Companies pay a lot of money for this information, and you cannot afford to let system errors jeopardize this.
Finding A More Secure Data Option
Hard drives and servers crash. Of course, backing up is very standard practice, but there is a better way of ensuring that your data is safe and secure and will not fall foul of technology failing.
The Ease Of Access Your Business Needs
Using cloud computing your data will be stored online and will be accessible by you from anywhere you that you need it. Whether you want to view it in the office, from overseas, or have teams members who are working from home, your data is where you need it to be at the touch of a button.
Manage And Analyze Data With Ease
Using cloud-based technologies such as Snowflake Analytics will allow you to measure your companies performance data live. There is no sending sales figures by emails or waiting for uploads from servers.
Whoever you need to grant access to within your organization will be able to see the data that they need to see in order to make informed decisions about their role.
Security
When it comes to your data assets, you need to be confident that they will be safe and secure. Cybercrime is a major threat to all industries, and if you’re not protected then you will be leaving your company open to considerable damage. Poor security functions also put your customer’s data at risk too. Cloud-based systems offer excellent security protocols. While major cloud technology companies handle large amounts of data for many big businesses, their primary concern is the safety, privacy, and security that you need for your companies peace of mind.
Access levels can be amended on all files and folders and grating or denying permissions is effortless for the person in control of the data. Implementing policies and procedures surrounding cloud-based permissions should form a significant part of your security management.
Speed Up Processes
With no uploading, downloading, and worrying about different versions you are looking at important files, cloud systems make data handling so much quicker and more efficient. When your entire team can work from the same document and see changes in realtime, this opens up collaboration and reduces the time spent on bureaucratic data management leading to a much productive workplace.
7 Comments
Rosie
I think more and more companies are using the cloud for their data. I didn’t realize that it also enabled many other enhancements to using that data, but makes sense.
Kate Sarsfield
No, see, you’ve completely lost me here. Clouds float in the sky and carry raindrops!
Diane K. Brimmer
It is so nice to have Cloud to store your important things. So many times with computers crashing, it is nice to know that you have them on Cloud and won’t loose them. Great advice.
Crystal K
This is good advice. I’ve been slow to adopt Cloud storage – I still can’t get my iphone syncing to the cloud!
Tamra Phelps
I’m still not completely sure what the cloud is, lol. I am the least tech savvy person on Earth.