Finance teams have emerged as global strategic leaders with the onset of the pandemic. Be it helping businesses transition into new normal or finding new ways to manage remote operations and reduce operating expenses. Finance teams have been in the heart of it all. This begs business owners to ask the question, “Have I done everything in my power to enable my Finance teams to go about their work?“ Keep in mind that almost every function of the Finance team depends on other departments.

If you upgrade your phone every year or two, you’re not alone. If your company regularly renews tech contracts and gives you the latest laptop to take home – and if you’re lucky enough to drive an electric car – well, good for you! But there’s a catch. And it’s huge. Laptops, phones and electric cars need batteries. Extracting the lithium and other rare metals required to make those batteries is resource intensive. Sometimes dangerous.

I am quite sure after learning the terms On-Premise vs Cloud you must be reinvigorating about the knowledge you have, perhaps some of you have minimum knowledge about them which is likely enough to be involved in the very start of the conversation. If you are thinking IT companies should be worried about this topic and you ain’t since your domain differs, let me illuminate the fact that by this end of the blog you will realize both on-premise and cloud apply to every domain.

Microsoft has had its own share of outages recently and during the evening of December 15th Azure AD was the cloud culprit. As a result, the Exoprise sensors detected this Microsoft 365 outage more than an hour before Microsoft informed customers of the issue. Here’s some of the errors that users were experiencing if they attempted to sign into Microsoft services: Most of our worldwide customers knew well in advance of the problem before users or business suffered.

Atlassian says that 95% of new customers choose Atlassian Cloud. That’s a pretty convincing statistic – and proves that Cloud isn’t the future: it’s now. But many organisations are still hesitating to migrate to the Cloud. Cost concerns, security implications, downtime and compromised data integrity – there’s so much to worry about. Except, there’s really nothing to worry about at all, if you have the right Cloud migration strategy in place.