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PRODUCTIVITY ISN’T LOST ITS WASTED

a day, or 9.3 full hours a week the collective hours we spend it instantly. This allows business
just managing, searching and manually uploading and owners and their teams to
gathering their own existing downloading documents from seamlessly access information,
business information. Despite the cloud, and saving all those switch between projects, and take
great tools like Trello, Google wonderful Bookmarks that we action faster. The companies that
Workspace and Microsoft never, ever, go back to! With exist in the same US patent class
365, studies show that over workplace information saved as Zudomanzi’s Clever Cloud
50% of most company’s digital across the cloud, offline desktops, solution include Amazon, Adobe,
information, still exists well web browsers and internet based HP, AT&T, Dell, Citrix Systems
outside their content management applications, the management of and VMware just to name a few.
systems. Furthermore, 43% of the business information is a major With a market capitalisation of
companies researched, said their challenge for today’s businesses. over $54 billion dollars, VMware
selected content management is a player in this efficiency space,
systems don’t actually provide So How Do We Do Better? yet the South African borne Clever
effective document search – with Most large organisations already Cloud is quickly establishing its
over 62% finding it difficult to have several existing technologies, own influence in the same space.
Zosukuma Kunene, Head of Marketing, From a monetary perspective, a share information with their cloud service subscriptions and Clever Cloud provides companies
Clever Cloud company with 100 employees, customers, suppliers and partners. massive IT infrastructures. with the unique ability of using the
paid an average salary of R33,000, According to research, enterprise software in conjunction with other
he current Covid-19 are collectively paying their staff teams utilised well over 200 systems like Trello, Microsoft 365
global pandemic has R924,000 a year just to check Clever Cloud SaaS(Software as a Service) and unlimited SaaS applications.
Thighlighted the importance email. Of course, emails are a applications per company in It means users can finish projects
of individual productivity within critical component of business allows you to finish 2021. The challenges for growing faster without changing the way
companies. Fully understanding communications. Nevertheless, projects faster. companies are similar, yet even they work, whether in the office or
what impacts our business the Adobe study found that worse, without the resource working remotely.
productivity is critical to more than half of our email time of IT teams to support them.
surviving and thriving in the is spent managing spam and Fortunately, there is finally some Solutions that comply with
current business environment. personal emails. Context Switching good news. existing and expanding business
environments are indeed
Many of our beliefs about Nathaniel Borenstein, the When changing between the In today’s business world, possible, and Clever Cloud is
productivity have been challenged inventor of the standard behind projects we’re working on, we specialised service providers forging the way in the world of
over the last two years, especially email attachments, ironically waste time not only saving the that fully understand these the new normal. 
in South Africa. Our traditional describes email today as, “the many applications we’re using, dynamics are finally answering
views on things like, allowing our headache of being your own but also finding the various the call. These service providers
employees to work from home, system administrator”. So how do different documents, websites and are offering better solutions that For more information on how
Clever Cloud software works, email us at
have been radically challenged we counter ongoing inefficiency? administrative resources we need integrate efficiencies with both info@clevercloudnow.com or log on to
and forced us to re-evaluate Industry leaders are now starting for the next project. Computer new and existing administrative www.clevercloudnow.com.
several key aspects of information to explore better ideas regarding scientists call the time that we lose, tools, to seamlessly connect the
management and productivity. the management and sharing of context switching, and it’s a time disconnected spaces of the digital
information. waster that’s costing big businesses environment. Clever Cloud, is
Checking Email and smaller teams alike, tens of an efficiency application that
A recent survey by Adobe Searching and Managing billions of rands every single year. integrates all parts of a computer’s
Systems found that on average, Information A study by Mckenzie & Co. infrastructure – including the SCAN
employees are spending over Searching and gathering showed that employees use desktop, internet and the cloud. QR CODE
three hours a day sending and business information takes an almost 25 minutes on average, The US patented software helps
checking emails, the equivalent incredible percentage of our getting fully back on track computer users quickly gain TO SEE
of 15.5 hours per week, and worktime. On average, working after a workplace interruption. perspective on what information VIDEO
93 days a year spent on email. teams are spending over 2 hours Part of the problem includes is actually valuable –and presents

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