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Financial Benefits Drivers for Cloud Collaboration
• Rapid deployment – Time to Value “Current budget restraints, limited IT
• Reduced IT support expenses expertise and unwillingness to
• Return focus on core competencies undertake large capital expenditures
• Many offers include bundled transport costs is a driving force for this shift in
• Pay-for-use models – Flexibility buying behaviors.”
• Support for multiple endpoints
• Reduced CapEx – OpEx Model ELIZABETH HERRELL.
• Less obsolescence - Evergreen FORRESTER RESEARCH
• Improved business continuity planning - DR
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Forrester, The CaaS Market Heats Up
Communications-As-A-Service Generates High Interest
And Will Soon Displace Premises-Based Alternative, May 27, 2010
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