Last time I talked about the attractiveness of buying services more flexibly, on a user centric basis, and have been asked by a couple of people what types of services are best suited to this. My response to this is simple; it's not what you buy it is how it is delivered.

There are lots of services you can purchase from the public cloud or have delivered to your own private cloud, the most popular being email, CRM and hosted telephony; all of which can deliver real benefits. However, what you buy must be business grade if you want your users to have confidence in them.

For me business grade means the services are secure, always on and accessible via public or private cloud, backed by a meaningful SLA. In addition it must come with guaranteed QoS for real time applications like voice and video. To deliver this you need a partner who can manage the quality of the network and storage environments.  For further reading on the benefits of buying on-demand services per user please click on the link below.

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