Hi there, no idea if this is the right forum for this or not. If not, just let me know.
I'm an owner in a small business. We have 30 people. The people live all over the country and could be working in North America or South America. Right now, we all have Windows machines. We use all cloud based tools to support the business. For example, hosted exchange, Pipedrive CRM, Egnyte file sync (similar to Dropbox), LogMeIn, etc. I'm basically the computer guy, even though I don't have any background.
I have a computer image that I load onto new machines, then mail them out. Everyone logs into their respective cloud apps and away they go.
The problem becomes that people don't really like the file sync program. We used to use Dropbox, but with the limited features it had we went away from it. Egnyte is great, but it syncs more slowly.
I guess, what I'm after here is, I only know what I know. Is there some other type of configuration or setup that would be better for our company? We don't have a network, VPN, active directory, etc. and the cost of the email cloud hosting is getting to be pretty pricey ($350 per month for 50 mailboxes). Same with Egnyte sync, $15 per user per month.
I like the cloud stuff because it syncs things locally and gives everyone access to everything in a very quick manner. However, there can be file conflicts. I'm just looking for any advice on what I can do to improve our process. I feel like we're getting big enough that we need something more "enterprise", but I don't really know if that even makes any sense. Maybe what we're doing is pretty good?
I'm an owner in a small business. We have 30 people. The people live all over the country and could be working in North America or South America. Right now, we all have Windows machines. We use all cloud based tools to support the business. For example, hosted exchange, Pipedrive CRM, Egnyte file sync (similar to Dropbox), LogMeIn, etc. I'm basically the computer guy, even though I don't have any background.
I have a computer image that I load onto new machines, then mail them out. Everyone logs into their respective cloud apps and away they go.
The problem becomes that people don't really like the file sync program. We used to use Dropbox, but with the limited features it had we went away from it. Egnyte is great, but it syncs more slowly.
I guess, what I'm after here is, I only know what I know. Is there some other type of configuration or setup that would be better for our company? We don't have a network, VPN, active directory, etc. and the cost of the email cloud hosting is getting to be pretty pricey ($350 per month for 50 mailboxes). Same with Egnyte sync, $15 per user per month.
I like the cloud stuff because it syncs things locally and gives everyone access to everything in a very quick manner. However, there can be file conflicts. I'm just looking for any advice on what I can do to improve our process. I feel like we're getting big enough that we need something more "enterprise", but I don't really know if that even makes any sense. Maybe what we're doing is pretty good?
