Jola Cloud Solutions' Blog

Over the last 30 years solvent and chemical suppliers have been growing and evolving and now distribute a wide range of products which require them to forward information in the form of MSDS and up to date data regarding REACH. They have become a one-stop shop from manufacturing and distribution to waste management and are heavily involved in the supply chain to ensure high quality standards.

If you are one of the 4 in 10 businesses in the UK that can get Fibre Broadband you are probably enjoying a significant improvement in performance. You may not be aware that for a small monthly premium you can upgrade your Fibre Broadband to a new type of dedicated leased line that will reduce your overall communications spend by around 50%. How is this possible?

Private dentists have several computers all networked so each dentist can access patient records. Receptionists access notes from patient records too to make appointments which generate automatic text reminders. Many cosmetic dentists now offer a range of services including clear braces where photos, x-rays and patient details are emailed to US headquarters to produce braces which are then sent back to UK dentists to fit and refit regularly throughout the treatment plan.

1. Documents are never lost

My laptop crashed last week which caused me great distress as I work from home and store all the marketing documents for the company locally. Luckily I also back up these documents in the cloud so not only was I able to retrieve these documents from the cloud using a laptop I borrowed, but with Microsoft 365 I could also download the windows software and start working with my saved profile as if I was on my old laptop. My old laptop is back up and running again now although I do now love the laptop I borrowed as it is so fast.

…and why 90% of UK SMEs don’t use hosted voice.

1. Acceptance of the concept. Before IP voice was commercially viable, millions of US SMEs were already using Centrex. In the early 1980s the US telecommunications market liberalised, creating 7 local operating companies (the equivalent of Openreach) nicknamed ‘Baby bells’. These all launched their own central exchange offerings (Centrex) in preference to on-premise telephone equipment. With a big stake in the equipment market, BT was never really interested in Centrex and the UK’s first Centrex product launched by Mercury in the early 1990s was clumsy, unreliable and expensive.

Jola is exhibiting on stand 23 at Convergence Summit North at Harrogate International Centre on 17th and 18th March. Come and see us to see how we can help you improve your customers' business communications and save them over 50%.

Many chartered accountants that use broadband to access client files, email information and to submit tax returns are struggling with the following issues:

• The service is often too slow
• The service is not secure.
• There is no agreed fixed time when the service goes down.

According to Market Monitor the market for cloud computing services such as hosted telephony will grow at a rate of 36% every year and revenues will be just shy of £12.7bn by 2016. This growth has come about from a number of factors:

On a building site having the latest smart phone is less important than having something that works and can survive the environment, however builders still need a good and cost effective mobile service.

Instead of upgrading at the end of their mobile contract they are looking to reduce the bill, now the original handsets have been paid for, and not sign another contract term.

Trade suppliers use the Internet like many of us for email, researching projects on the web and for accessing the corporate network. Slow and unreliable Internet can cause a delay in communications and hinder productivity.