9 Reasons to Take Content to the Cloud - No Installation Necessary

Following on our 9 of the reasons why cloud is such a powerful delivery approach for content management, here's the next installment.

Reason 2: No Installation Necessary

One of the most basic benefits of the cloud is that its delivered as a complete service, without all the hassles of hardware, middleware, software and 3rd party products.

Traditional ECM implementations often have complicated technology stacks, even when they come from the same vendor!

Each piece of the stack has to be procured, installed, configured, supported, maintained, patched, upgraded, and monitored.  What do these activities have to do with business?  Not much. 

As noted in an earlier post, Patrick Meehan of Gartner proposes that while IT used to be judged on being in-scope, on-time and on-budget, now success is based on speed (cycle time, time to market) and scale (reach, productivity gains). 

With cloud, all you need is a password, a browser, and an internet connection and you are, more or less, ready to go. Cloud requires no hardware, no software, and no additional network infrastructure.

So you can focus on results, not on resources.