Making Cloud Technology work for your business

Making Cloud Technology work for your business

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Victoria Playford, Director; Phil Broadbery, CIO PKF Cooper Parry and PKF International, on behalf of Microsoft

14.55 – 15.35

Demystifying the CloudVictoria PlayfordDirectorPKF Cooper Parry – IT Solutions

What are cloud services?

Measured Service

Pooled Resources

Broad Network Access

Elasticity

Self-Service

Business Drivers Behind Cloud Adoption

Agility FocusEconomic

s

• Boost Productivity• Emails, files, video conferencing and line of business

applications from anywhere

• Agile• Flexible, grows when you grow, always latest technology, pay

for what you use

• Worry Free IT• Military grade security, Disaster recovery, hassle free backups

What does this mean to you (and us)?

Our cloud experiencePhil BroadberyCIOPKF International

Introduction…Who are PKF International?Recent developments in the network

Drivers for change

Forced change of IT solutions provider

Complete IT overhaul required

Security concerns

Replacement of legacy platforms

(Notes, Documentum, Sugar CRM, Jahia)

• Office 365• Enterprise subscriptions for PKF International Staff and Firm

ILP

• Private Cloud• On-Premise environment through services on High Availability

environment

• Google • Sites service based on email, document management and talk

Review of cloud providers

Office 365 project

Phase 1:

Core IT, email, document storage

4 weeks

Phase 2: Extranet, Global resource center for firms, boards, users Network Tools

10 weeks

Phase 4:

Firm integration

PKFI Single sign on

12 weeks

Phase 3:

Lync - Enterprise voice and dial in

Referral database

12 weeks

Current situationStarting Phase 4

Challenges faced

• Managing access• External users vs. form based authentication

• Analytics• Extraction can be difficult and required 3rd party tools

• Customisations• Straying off the beaten track

• Zero IT infrastructure on premise• Back up automatically • Flood proof…• Significantly reduced cost• Enterprise pricing starts at £5 per user per month• New features being added to the

platform• Yammer• Lync voice website integration (live chat)

Results

What next?Cloud based email is a no-brainer.

Lync to change your communications culture.

Sharepoint to collaborate more effectively.

Contact details

Victoria Playford07967 355051victoriap@pkfcooperparry.com