1. Fund business solutions without compromising cashflow : Cloud-based subscriptions offer affordable, predictable monthly outlay. As software rental costs are operating expenditure (Opex), they can be fully subtracted from revenue when calculating the organization’s profit/loss. This minimizes the amount of profit liable for tax.
2. Quickly see return on investment: With no need to wait for hardware procurement, deployment or testing, standard IFS Cloud solutions can start implementation sooner
3. Increase business focus: Free your valuable IT staff from routine administrative chores, patching and maintenance to focus on adding value to the business.
4. Reduce dependence on specialist in-house skills: Refine, refocus and streamline your IT recruitment, training, retention and costs. Benefit from IFS experts who manage solutions globally day in, day out, without the cost of creating similar skills in-house or the headache of skills attrition and obsolescence.
5. Eliminate hardware obsolescence and security concerns: Benefit from constantly-optimized and refreshed cloud computing infrastructure.
6. Seize competitive and strategic advantage: Adopt, exploit and innovate new services quickly and easily on cloud. Roll out new capabilities rapidly and affordably.
7. Keep infrastructure agile and scalable: Quickly respond to deal with acquisitions, divestitures or business/market strategy changes.
8. Reduce risk: Secure a minimum application availability commitment, with world-class enterprise cloud infrastructure and services providing exceptional resilience and redundancy.
9. Make one party fully accountable: With IFS Cloud just one party – IFS – is accountable for the delivery of service.