Templeton Leverages Microsoft to Build Cloud for CPA Firms Templeton Solutions has build a cloud-based practice management system exclusively on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011. This program -TC Practice Management -offers professional services firms to achieve faster growth and greater profitability. Through this initiative, Templeton Solutions is eliminating the need of toggling between programs as its TC Practice Management brings project management, time and billing, document management, analytics and sales and marketing all together under one log-in. TC Practice Management’s clients have a choice on how they want their application deployed. The system can run on the Cloud natively or be
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Justifying Your Cloud Investment: Web Sites This report examines the case for deploying Web sites onto an IaaS cloud computing environment. Agility is a common cloud advantage, and this translates into faster time-to-resources for application development and operations professionals. But business justification only comes from ensuring the right fit between the applications and the cloud service, and the right IT ops protections and processes. CLOUD ROI HINGES ON THE SPECIFIC APPLICATION USE CASES Hype about how cloud computing can save you money is everywhere you look. Unfortunately, these claims often paint a very misleading picture of cost savings. Through our
IBM Cloud Boosts Sales for S&S Worldwide IBM cloud has driven personalized product recommendation sales for S&S Worldwide via its Web sites. S&S, a national distributor of sporting goods products for recreation, health care, and education professionals grew recommendation sales 75 percent in just three months with IBM Smarter Commerce software in the cloud. Before implementing IBM cloud, the distributor was using a native application to serve up generic product recommendations on its Web site. This portal was not contributing to the company’s bottom line and accounted for only 5 percent of all online sales. IBM notes that today’s
How is the Software Outsourcing Industry Embracing the Cloud One of the cloud computing trends I identified referred to custom cloud computing services and I believe that outsourcing providers will gradually turn into experts in migrating to the cloud and offering this type of services. Whether you wish to migrate some of your applications or build new ones, a software outsourcing company can help you during this process. But is the IT outsourcing industry ready for the cloud? Here are some guidelines on how an outsourcing provider can help you with your cloud migration: Now that you can store your
Five Tips for Cloud Security Cloud computing has created a new model that offers the possibility of elastic and flexible computing environments for software, infrastructure, and development platforms with reduced costs and quicker time to value than traditional in-house solutions. So with these benefits in mind, you might wonder why everyone isn’t riding the cloud wave. The main impediment to cloud growth continues to be that of security concerns covering a broad spectrum of issues, including: risk and audit posture of the cloud provider; proliferation of data within the cloud; lack of control. Perceived security challenges aside, it’s certainly possible
State of Wyoming Migrates to Google Cloud with PC Helps The State of Wyoming is migrating to Google’s cloud-based email messaging and collaboration system designed specifically for Government agencies. Migration to Google Apps for Government is supported by PC Helps, a provider of 24/7, expert, on-demand support for the core office software applications and mobile devices used by corporate employees. PC Helps is offering a 24/7 phone support service for 10,000 end-users in order to ease the transition to the new system and meet the demand of end-users building familiarity with Google Apps. In addition, PC Helps is also absorbing
