I’ve resisted this for a long time, preferring the traditional self-hosted, outright purchase model and have been a very reluctant convert! But over the last few months I’ve been starting to use more applications that operate on a SAAS basis.
Why?
- These applications are VERY good at what they do – they are fast, efficient, & cost effective – I’ve bought the Premium subscription to most of them and they are still excellent value for money.
- Synchronised data available anywhere – Stick your “stuff” in the “cloud” and it’s instantly accessible from anywhere on a variety of devices.
- Bandwidth & accessibly is no longer an issue. It’s very rare that I’m not online in some way whether at home, at work, in the car, at a clients or even in a hotel or airport.
- I don’t need to worry about infrastructure – about servers – bandwidth requirements – security updates – patches – software upgrades. That’s a huge cost & time saving.
- Reliability / Uptime is great. Ok – so these systems fall over once in a while – but so do my in-house systems – the difference is I have to fix those myself!!
Of course – my old skeptical self ensures that any information stored in these systems is either backed up elsewhere or stuff that I can easily afford to lose.
And BTW – if I’m buying any shares this year it will be in companies with an interest in network infrastructure & data centres! I suspect that we’re just seeing the tip of an iceberg …
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