The Cloud: A New Home for Enterprise Content and Collaboration

Storing documents in the cloud immediately removes the borders that have prevented collaboration and sharing. Secure cloud-based systems allow people to work together on projects, depending on their roles and privileges.

Without a collaboration system, employees typically work together on a project by trading emails with large attachments that eat up network bandwidth (that is, of course, if you can even get that 15MB PowerPoint past your e-mail server). People work on different versions simultaneously and there is no efficient or accurate way to track changes or versions. Employees waste time opening, saving, and locating files; there are no formal security measures built-in, and users generally must have the files’ software installed on their devices in order to open the attachment.