To The Cloud or Not To The Cloud

Companies are at a key time in the evolution of document/content management for their companies, a time similar to the early 2000's when Salesforce.com came on the scene. (For the sake of this paper, we will refer to all file types as documents, so for expediency sake this includes digital files from CAD programs, MS Office programs, web-based content, emails, video, audio, etc.). Around the beginning of this century, many senior executives and IT professionals were questioning the prudence of placing some or all of their client relationship information on a system not residing in the company's managed data center, outside their firewall. All sorts of predications were made of the possible bad consequences that could transpire. Of course, more than 10 years later we now know using a cloud provider (SaaS or not) not only makes sense but provides considerably more value to companies than implementing an on premise solution for their CRM application. Similarly, companies are looking at moving some or all of their document management solution to the cloud. And yet again, senior executives and IT professionals are questioning the correctness of taking this route.

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