The cloud is a hot topic today with the immediate perception of cost cutting. Yet in our experience, if companies move to the cloud without a lot of forethought, they can wind up creating something that’s far more expensive or undesirable for their workplace environment.
At DaVinci we are cloud neutral. We aren’t trying to push you to use anything. Instead we take the time getting to know the customer and their pain points. What we find is that many business owners feel trapped by technology. Whether they are in one industry or another, many feel they have to use one particular application, because it’s integral to their business. But this one application is incompatible with everything else they are doing.
To help work through this mindset, often we will say in conversation with a client, “We’re going to hand you a magic wand with zero consideration for cost, and zero consideration for compatibility issues, and we want you to paint your ideal picture for us.” Their response may be unrealistic or something they can’t afford, but it’s a mechanism for getting the customer to articulate what they really want.
For some clients, we have been able to take them all the way to the cloud; with other clients they go in thinking they want that and come out realizing they want a hybrid model or something different. Part of our cloud service offering, more than just pushing a lever and moving people to the cloud, is really helping our client determine what’s the best fit for them.
Rather than the cloud using the customer, we really help the customer use the cloud.