In March 30 new companies signed up to Collabor8online more or less one a day! (still 2 days to go!)
Firstly, welcome to our new clients and a big thank you for making March a record month. To cater for this increased demand we have provisioned additional server space (that’s on top of the additional space we arrange last month) and plans are in hand to quadruple our disk capacities over the next 3 months.
Which made us wonder, has the penny finally dropped?
The penny we refer to was the one that was, stuck in the machine that said “I don’t really need any additional tools to share my documents, I’ll just continue to use e-mail, USB memory sticks, snail mail and of course I have my laptop, and I can move things around with that”
Except of course, e-mail frequently has that “unable to deliver your e-mail” message, or “file to big to send” and I won’t even mention viruses| Another drawback is that with email your conversations are always “private” even when you’re dealing with a group or team. So
With online collaboration systems communication is open and informative, so when document’s are published the whole team gets to see them and has the chance to comment upon them. Everybody sees the comments, everybody’s in the loop and has a chance to contribute. Nobody is left in the dark. Does the Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody story ring any bells? (Read that here)
Of course a pricing policy that embraces the concept of “unlimited” users no doubt helps. It is long been held within online document sharing circles that, systems which include unlimited user licenses (within one set fee) are the only truly workable solutions. If you charge users per seat or per license (as per the old software business model) then users will inevitably share logins and economise where they can. This in turn leads to confusion as to who did what, or which user is the appropriate contact for any instance. Transparency and openness is the key so it is vital that every user is allocated a genuine login and appropriate contact details.
The incredible growth of cloud in general has helped account for our increased popularity. Facebook, LinkedIn have now been joined by accounting systems such as Xero, Kashflow and our own favourite Clearbooks. For many companies the move to Cloud-based software is well underway, for others it’s inevitable.
So, we hope that if you haven’t already taken your first step towards The Cloud you will take the opportunity of at least trialling our product, after all.
We hope that you join the ever-increasing numbers who after placing one foot in the cloud decide to take the plunge.
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