{"id":15121,"date":"2015-06-08T13:38:06","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=227321"},"modified":"2015-06-08T13:38:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T13:38:06","slug":"cloud-based-collaboration-how-organisations-are-fundamentally-changing-the-way-they-collaborate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cloud-based-collaboration-how-organisations-are-fundamentally-changing-the-way-they-collaborate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud-Based Collaboration: How organisations are fundamentally changing the way they collaborate"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cloud-Based-Collaboration-C\"<\/a>The need to collaborate with co-workers, external partners and clients has always been paramount for organisations, but as the results of the 2015 BCN Annual Industry Survey \u2013 which includes responses from over 715 senior IT professionals \u2013 make clear, the needs of workers and their employers are changing swiftly.<\/p>\n

Flexible working is becoming more mainstream, and as a result the need to provide content collaboration and management capabilities for any device \u2013 whether corporate or employee-owned \u2013 while maintaining the strongest levels of security and data privacy is becoming not just more important \u2013 but essential. In a bid to facilitate more mobile workstyles, organisations are increasingly looking to adopt cloud-based collaboration services because of the many benefits they could bring: greater flexibility and employee productivity, lower CAPEX, and the ability to centralise data governance more effectively are but a handful that come to mind.<\/p>\n

But as the survey results also make clear, a number of barriers slowing the adoption of cloud-based collaboration services persist. This whitepaper, sponsored by Sharp Document Solutions and published by BCN, analyses the results of the 2015 BCN Annual Industry Survey to help explain:<\/p>\n