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Clouds

My team makes its living helping

• They have been getting by using stop-gap

companies make the move to the cloud

measures like spreadsheets, macros, generic

(adopting applications like Salesforce, Box,

office applications that are inefficient and,

SuccessFactors, Jive, etc.). We find that when

again, a hassle to use.

organizations make this move, they are

invariably leaving one of these two scenarios

But the business case to move to the cloud

behind:

is strong no matter what size the company is.

For example, even a small company, if it does

• They are decommissioning some in-house

a truly honest total cost of ownership (TCO)

legacy software that they have outgrown and

analysis for an application like Salesforce, will

has become a huge hassle to maintain and use;

find it to be a great investment compared to

or

the costs of a “Spreadsheet Sales Tracking”

alternative.