Productivity

Bundled business productivity software effectively allows smaller organisations to become officeless. When you can keep everything you need for creating and collaborating on documents, running payroll, billing clients and conducting meetings in the cloud, there’s no need for bricks and mortar.

Doing it through a cloud provider also saves on licence fees. Such suites won’t offer the bells and whistles of proprietary software but if savings are the top priority, it can be attractive.

The phrase SoMoClo has emerged out of nowhere to fulfil an important function within a modern enterprise
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Apple's iCloud service constitutes a total of nine apps. iCloud will be available for free on an iPhone, iPad or iPod touch running iOS 5 or a...

Microsoft’s Business Productivity Suite delivers the company’s familiar suite of services from the cloud, including 25 gigabytes of mailbox...

Google Apps is the company’s Software-as-a-Service offering providing customisable versions of Google’s own products, including Gmail, Docs, Talk...

Office 365 is an evolution of Microsoft Online Services and combines Microsoft Office with the advantages of the cloud. Users can access email,...