1) Opportunity to manage income & outgoings
Introducing third party cloud infrastructure solutions
presents itself as an opportunity to improve the management
of income and outgoings for both finance staff and
customers. Third party cloud infrastructure solutions
facilitate the easing of cash-flow management for finance
staff as the cloud pricing model has minimal upfront cost and
monthly billing, and it also minimizes variability of
expenditure on electricity. These are a benefit, in contrast to
in-house data center, as upfront costs of buying hardware are
high and clients can be slow to pay, resulting in cash-flow
difficulties. Additionally energy costs are a significant
outgoing and by using an external provider they would
benefit from providers ability to negotiate whole-sale energy
prices.