In our second episode of the 2 Minute Podcast, Jason Chidester explains the differences between
hosting your own on-premise IT solution vs. leveraging a cloud solution and three benefits for moving to a
cloud solution.
In general, cloud solutions like GroupBy’s provide 3 major benefits over an on-premise software solution:
- Time-to-market
- Scalability
- Risk mitigation, and the benefits to better utilizing your human capital.
First, we’ll talk about time-to-market. With on-premise software, additional infrastructure such as
servers, load balancers, and additional network equipment is often required by an organization to get an
on-premise software solution up and running and out the door.
Procuring, configuring and deploying this infrastructure adds cost and, more importantly, adds
significant time to get your solution to the market. Needing to account for infrastructure to support
additional environments like development and testing – which are often part of getting any solution up
and running – only makes the problem worse.
With a cloud solution like GroupBy, you are immediately provided with an endpoint which can support
multiple environments. There’s no additional time or cost needed for server setup, installation, or
configuration.
Now let’s talk about scalability and risk mitigation. It’s often difficult for customers to
anticipate spikes in their user traffic. When this occurs, with on-premise software, the solution can easily
be overwhelmed and performance degrades significantly and rapidly – with the result being a poor
customer experience for your users. To scale an on-premise solution to meet the spike in traffic often means
purchasing additional infrastructure which in many cases will remain idle during non-peak activity times.
What this means is that you have additional costs for either non-utilized or under-utilized capacity.
With a cloud solution like GroupBy, it scales automatically to meet unanticipated customer demand, and it
does it in a fluid, non-disruptive manner – always maintaining a consistent and positive customer
experience – without additional costs.
Lastly, let’s talk about human capital benefits. How are you getting the most out of your talented
workforce? When an organization goes with an on-premise solution, it must dedicate a significant amount of
human resources to constantly maintain and support both the software and the underlying infrastructure
needed to run that software. Monitoring network traffic, applying patches and troubleshooting issues are not
activities that add value to the business.
This is not the case with a cloud solution like GroupBy. By leveraging a cloud solution, an organization
can better use its talented workforce to focus on activities that advance a company’s key strategies.
Those are 3 key benefits when looking at a cloud solution versus an on-premise solution. To learn more about
GroupBy’s cloud solution, connect with an expert.