Is The Cloud The Best Business Tool Around Right Now?

Any of you that follow the movie scene closely will know it’s been award season lately. This got me thinking; if there was an award for ‘best business tool’ what would win it? After a lot of deliberation, it dawned on me that there’s one thing that helps businesses out more than almost anything else; the cloud.
The more you think about it, the more this makes sense. Every day, businesses use the cloud for different things, and we forget how helpful it is. In many ways, it’s transformed the way we conduct business in the modern age. Obviously, it would be downright silly to make a claim like this without backing it up. Consequently, here are a some of the main reasons the cloud is the best business tool around right now.

Data Is More Secure Than Ever

When it first became part of the mainstream business world, we used the cloud to store data. These days, pretty much all the IT companies out there can help a business set up cloud storage. Why? To keep your data more secure than ever. Data in the cloud is almost impossible to lose. A few days ago, I was working on a project, and then my laptop randomly suffered an error and shut down. I hadn’t saved the work and was frantically trying to reboot my laptop to see if it was still there. Luckily, my work was being saved in the cloud using Google Docs, so it was still there. If I’d not been using a cloud service, then I would’ve lost pages of work! Cloud storage means we no longer have to worry about devices breaking down or being stolen, simply because we have all our data stored online, in a safe place.

Collaboration Couldn’t Be Easier

The cloud has also brought a range of services that make collaboration easier for businesses. Nowadays, so many members of the same team can work on projects from different locations. They use the cloud to access the same word document or presentation and can edit it from wherever they are in the world. Likewise, people can share data files on the cloud, making it so much easier to work together. As a result, businesses can now employ remote workers and save on office costs because people can work from home. This is literally only possible because the cloud makes collaboration seamless.

Productivity Has Hit New Heights

Following on from the point about collaboration, the cloud has also made productivity hit new heights. There are so many ways you can work, and in so many places too. You can work on a spreadsheet on your commute to work, and then load up that same sheet on a different device when you get to the office. Similarly, imagine your work computer stops working one day. Instead of wasting hours trying to fix it, you can use your tablet, or borrow someone else’s computer and access your work in the cloud. It leads to less downtime in a business, which means more productivity!
Evidently, the cloud is a phenomenal business tool that you need at your disposal. I’d go as far to say that a modern business can’t survive if it’s not making the most out of cloud services.