Cloud Computing Services

Ideaca’s Toronto, Calgary, Vancouver and Edmonton offices have the experience to improve organizational focus and reduce costs with our Cloud-based services. Having worked on a number of Microsoft Azure Platform engagements, Ideaca is well poised to become your partner of choice whether evaluating alternatives, migrating to, deploying or supporting Cloud-based solutions.

“If you only need a glass of milk, why buy the whole cow?”

Cloud computing represents a significant paradigm shift in IT management by letting organizations run applications over the Internet, without having to buy, install or manage your infrastructure. By offering the potential to pay only for the services or resources that you use, cloud computing eliminates capital expenditures and provides IT as a scalable utility. By eliminating standard IT tasks, such as server maintenance and testing, IT resources can provide more time to focus on delivering solutions that can provide innovation and business value.

Why should you care?

Forrester, Gartner and more mainstream media sources are increasingly citing the growth of the market and it's future potential such as Gartner's bold claim that;

"20% of businesses will get rid of all IT assets as they move to cloud by 2012"
- Gartner Inc., "Predicts 2010 Special Report", December 2009.

The primary drivers we have identified in explaining this movement towards the cloud include:

  • Reduced IT overhead by eliminating legacy applications and automating their maintenance
  • Re-focusing resources on new innovations that enable organizations to deliver value quicker and faster to customers and users
  • Rapidly scalable computing and storage capacity that eliminate the need for additional hardware and enable organizations to meet demand and optimize the use of resources
  • Converting capital expenditures into operating expenses through subscription services, paying only for what you use
  • Reducing the time to market of projects or new applications (ERP, CRM or E-commerce) by providing managed IT infrastructure

WHAT CHALLENGES ARE ORGANIZATIONS EXPERIENCING WHEN CONSIDERING THE CLOUD?

Some key questions that Ideaca can help clients address when considering the cloud include:

  • What are the options? Whom are viable vendors from a business, technical or security perspective for my organization / industry?
  • What are the economics? TCO comparisons? New revenue opportunities?
  • What are the implications on the rest of my business? How will you integrate with the rest of your business?

Our experienced team of consultants can help guide you through these challenging questions from start-to-finish by helping to identify existing opportunities, innovating appropriate solutions (PaaS, SaaS), then provide implementation and integration services with existing systems and processes to deliver a truly connected solution.

To learn more about Ideaca’s Cloud Computing solutions and services, please contact 1-866-816-IDEA x5157 or e-mail sales@ideaca.com.