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You create your company? You wish to develop a specific activity inside your current company?

You intend to drastically reduce the budget related to your IT infrastructure?

You would like to automate your workflow in an homogeneous environment in order to limit errors and waste of time?

The cloud is the promising solution for most businesses. Why not yours?

Contact us to analyse your business procedures in order to make an estimate with no obligation!

The Cloud

Thanks to the emergence of the cloud, you have the opportunity to...

  • Reduce costs and constraints related to the office suite
    Traditional office suite requires to settle and maintain a local IT infrastructure. On one hand you must install and update softwares on desktop computers, and on the other hand set up different servers (mail, document storage…). Going over to the cloud makes a break with traditional tools. A cloud-hosted web-based productivity suite is sufficient for 95 percents of use cases. Your documents are wholly edited and managed through a web browsed, on a light and cheap workstation as heavy processes run in the cloud.
  • Extend accessibility to your data/documents
    Where are your data? It is no big deal. What matters is to access them anywhere anytime while a simple browser is enough to view and edit documents. For the sake of convenience, native applications exist on main mobile operating systems.
  • Ease data/document sharing
    Sending documents via e-mails, repeating the operation for each update, merging the changes coming from all sides is a tedious work triggering sometimes data losses. Nowadays, the cloud permits viewing a perpetually up-to-date document, not a temporary copy. The changes are done in real time, without any ambiguity concerning the author. It makes versioning far less critical.
  • Secure your data/documents
    With the cloud, you don’t systematically lose your data in case of theft or crash of your computer or device. They are under cover, and even redundant in different data-centers around the world. By default, the documents are only present in the cloud, nevertheless you can keep a synchronized copy on your local drive. Moreover, the protection of your data access may be strengthened by a two-step verification, which drastically reduces the consequences of a password theft. It should also be noted that the documents are automatically saved after each change, avoiding nasty surprises in case of mishandle.
  • Customise the existing tools to automate your business processes
    Cloud tools are highly customisable. They are also available as services for further developments through numerous API’s. For instance, a text report may be automatically generated when a specific spreadsheet operation is executed. Then, any of these generated reports could be sent by e-mail to a list of recipients once a day at a set time. These automations are set up inside the collaborative suite, without any help from external services.
  • Work on up-to-date tools
    In the cloud, anyone uses the same version of tools, the last one. It limits incompatibility risks and disastrous conversions of documents. The relevance of an update isn’t the subject of big discussions inside IT and accounting departments anymore.
  • Develop workflow centric tailor-made applications
    The cloud is also a blank page where your ideas come to life. These new custom-made applications use the same user accounts as your productivity suite. As a result, the users enjoy a seamless experience, while their process follow up through the differents tools remains clear and uniform.
  • Only pay the used resources
    You no longer need to buy licences for each installed application or to set up expensive servers that aren’t profitable for sure at the end. In the cloud, you only pay the resources which have been necessary. In this way, the invoicing will naturally fluctuate according to the size and the activity of your company. During quiet periods, with low activity, the costs will be small, even free in certain respects. The cloud is the solution to start a new business without large up-front costs.
  • Forget the physical limits
    Thanks to the server mutualisation and the opportunity to allocate resources in no time, the cloud is able to absorb activity peaks that would fall local infrastructures on their knees. When the peak is over, useless resources are freed and reallocated to other customers who face in turn an increased need.
  • Increase the disponibility of your information system
    People think that having total control over the information system makes them more reactive. The feeling they are solely responsible is maybe more bearable than thinking a third party may cause a stoppage of their services. Yet it turns out the unavailabilities of a local IT infrastructure happen more frequently and last longer than cloud ones.
  • Reduce your ecological footprint
    As the efficiency of a power plant is higher than the one of a car, a same CPU unit is more frugal in a datacenter than in a small company local infrastructure. Not to mention that datacenter equipment is often more intensively used during its lifetime.

Solution

Google Apps

Google Apps For Business is the management platform for the productivity suite SaaS’s (Software as a Service), the documents and the users. The most important applications are the virtual directory Drive (see video above), the spreadsheet, the word processing, the mailbox Gmail, the calendar, the instant messaging and video conferencing service Hangout, the internal social network Google+, the CMS Sites…

Google Apps Marketplace offers cloud applications from third party editors as well. They are integrated with the Google environment and are likely to use some aforesaid default applications as services. Likewise, Google Apps Script gives the opportunity to create automatic behaviours inside the Google Apps in order to adapt the tools to your specific procedures.

The Google Apps are accessible via a simple web browser or available as mobile apps (iOS & Android). Each user is automatically recognized thanks to its company identifier.

Choosing Google Apps is making a break with the heaviness of the two last decades productivity suites. MS Office document file formats are nonetheless taken in charge to ease the transition to the Google Apps.

Google Cloud

Also integrated in Google ecosystem, and thereby in Google Apps, Google Cloud Platform includes an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) et un PaaS (Platform as a Service) offering flexible solutions on the cutting edge of cloud technology to work out your business processes. This platform adapts to your needs in terms of storage and data processing in any event, absorbing easily the activity peaks and freeing the resources as soon as they are no longer needed. Furthermore, the Google platform is considered as one of the less polluting according to a Greenpeace ranking.

With Oauth, your custom applications are likely to take the company user accounts in charge. Besides, they are able to closely interact with the Google Apps through their numerous API’s.

Java EE

Java is the second most popular programming language behind C, but Java is first when it comes to corporate multi-tiers applications. It’s also supported by Google App Engine, the PaaS (Platform as a Service) solution of Google Cloud Platform.

A lot of applications are likely to be hosted in the cloud to benefit from its multiple advantages. This is obviously possible, either on the google platform or on another Java SE or Java EE cloud service.

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