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9 Cloud Storage Services For Your Business

Start The Discussion | George Crump | April 09, 2009 06:05 AM

Storage can be expensive to manage and maintain, not to mention the constant need for more disk space. By using cloud computing for data storage, business owners can take advantage of more attractive pricing and minimize ongoing costs while integrating a host of new features available from different vendors.

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eXpresso

For many small businesses, the spreadsheet, specifically Excel, is the mission-critical application for the business. Businesses use them to track sales and invoices and create proposals. In fact, Excel easily can be considered a primary database application because data like customer information, project lists, and other business-critical information is often stored in spreadsheets.

Essentially, eXpresso takes Excel and your data and places it in the cloud and provides Excel as a service. It also adds the ability to collaborate and share spreadsheets. That means data such as customer lists can be shared and updated in real time throughout the company by anyone granted access; access can even be limited to certain areas of a spreadsheet. For example, if you were doing a national roll-up of a sales forecast, instead of e-mailing out individual spreadsheets and individually updating, you could have one spreadsheet with an area updated by each user. Also, eXpresso allows multiple users to view and update spreadsheets simultaneously. This solves two problems: First, it reduces the traffic and storage required by the e-mail server, and more importantly it solves the problem of making sure all the right edits are merged into the right document. EXpresso has nearly all the features of the desktop version of Excel and is adding other Office Applications.

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