This “Beat the recession” piece for the regular Orange Business Matters newsletter is about how going high-tech could help businesses save money.
For the most part, it’s about ways that businesses can use the Internet to find free productivity software, collaboration tools and virtual workers. For example:
The Google Apps Team Edition software is also ideal for businesses who want to embrace this cloud computing concept.
It aggregates Google’s key online office applications, enabling remote-workers to share a common Google Calendar and to securely share documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Google Docs supports Microsoft’s Word, Excel and PowerPoint file formats as standard, so there are few (if any) compatibility issues.
It’s not just small and medium-sized businesses that can benefit from working in the ‘cloud.’ The Telegraph Media Group (TMG) recently switched its 1,400 journalists from Microsoft Office to Google Docs.
You can read the full article by clicking on the image below.
