Data Deposit Box Cloud Backup Expert Tips: The Roles of Cloud Backup Solutions in Online Collaboration

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By Ben Puzzuoli, Technical Sales Director at Data Deposit Box
June 16, 2016

Data Deposit Box Cloud Backup Expert Tips: The Roles of Cloud Backup Solutions in Online Collaboration

Yes, the days in which people were required to be in a specific place at a specific time in order to interact with their fellow employees and other business associates are now long gone. Indeed, brought into common existence by online data storage and backup companies (and the Internet itself, of course), cloud computing and collaboration has quickly become the new vanguard of interaction methods for business matters of almost all types.

Although collaboration using the Internet is by no means a new phenomenon, commonplace usage of cloud data backup has in turn boosted the popularity of storing and sharing data online in general, with most cloud data backup service companies now providing cloud computing elements to even their most basic of subscription plans. This has served to usher in a new era of geographical data freedom, where business professionals and consumers alike can store, download, edit and share files with anyone they want to from almost any location across the globe. Groups of businesspeople from different companies who cannot share the same space are now able to collaborate on projects together from multiple locations. All that is required is that one of these individuals sign up for an online backup account, and then the others can be granted access to join him or her in the cloud!

Cloud collaboration has also changed the way business is handled across a given enterprise as well, by both streamlining the flow of information between different departments and also allowing companies to hire their employees more so based on what they have to offer the company and not necessarily where that person might live or the amount of office space the company currently has available. In addition to this, online collaboration tools like shared calendars and automatic task-assigning software are assisting project managers with time management and scheduling activities. Also, with many employee’s prospective schedules now being posted online, making them easily accessible and updateable in real time, administrators can also use these tools to decide who should take part in any group assignments that they are responsible for putting together.

Conversational communication itself has also been rendered vastly more efficient by this new method of doing business. Beyond the fundamental advantage that has been brought about by email, instant messaging and video conferencing have both served to greatly improve both the flexibility and convenience with which business professionals communicate. By combining these new, augmented tools of communication and shared online files, groups of business people everywhere can now all discuss and modify a common deliverable from multiple disparate locations, bringing about faster project completion and more effective collaboration in general between all parties involved with a given project. Moreover, file versioning, or being able to “go back in time” and retrieve older saved versions of a file from an online backup service provider’s hard drives, has also cut down on project delays that can often result from mistakes when altering and re-saving both collaborative or individual files alike.

Finally, the ease and convenience in which vendors can interact with their customers and suppliers has also been greatly improved by cloud computing and collaboration. In fact, many companies are conducting, and indeed keeping records of, all of their interactions with customers and suppliers within the cloud, bringing about more transparency in their business transactions and easier access to customer records and other related sales data. By doing business this way, enterprises and clients alike can now often enjoy free access to discussion threads, sales histories and inventory availability, all through an easy-to-use online interface.

Speaking of easy-to-use interfaces; we here at Data Deposit Box are proud to provide a whole host of off-site data storage interaction tools as part of our state of the art cloud backup software. Indeed, by signing up for our cloud data backup services you will automatically be gaining access to the most sophisticated and user friendly cloud collaboration tools around. But, don’t just take our word for it, sign up for our free 14-day trial today and find out what cloud collaboration can do for your business!

About the Author: Ben Puzzuoli is Director of Sales & Marketing at DataDepositBox, a Toronto based cloud data backup service provider, which is listed at both the Toronto and Frankfurt Stock Exchanges. DataDepositBox technologies and solutions are currently used daily by over 200,000 customers, 1,000 resellers, 25 MSPs and private label partners for cloud backup and recovery, archiving, disaster readiness, secure file sharing and remote access. Visit DDB website here: www.DataDepositBox.com

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