Is your business losing money? No matter how careful you are preparing and implementing your business budget, there are always ways that your company can cut costs to prepare for an uncertain future. With Vorsite and Microsoft Cloud Solutions, you can find small ways to trim your annual budget, leaving more capital for expansion and new product development. Look for these three ways your business could be costing you money every day.

1. Email maintenance and servicing issues

Sometimes it takes managing a large staff to understand how critical email downtime to patches or maintenance can be. Microsoft Exchange Online helps companies manage email accessibility by offering:

• Mobile access and an easy-to-use Web interface for online environment management
• 24/7/365 live support
• Automated patching to eliminate maintenance tasks
• Continuous data backup

Along with built-in anti-virus and spam filters, Microsoft Exchange gives approved users access to community inboxes (up to 25 GB) to make information-sharing fast and simple.

2. Excessive overhead costs

If you don't allow employees to telecommute for at least some of the time, you could be sacrificing a great deal of your profit to unnecessary overhead costs. By hosting business work applications on the cloud, you can encourage employees to work off-premises. Some of the Vorsite applications that make intelligent telecommuting possible include:

• Exchange Online: Email
• SharePoint Online: Document Sharing and Remote Collaboration
• Lync: Web conferencing, Chat
• vorApps: SharePoint Lists and Libraries

Not only does even occasional telecommuting cut down on space costs from the physical office, but it also helps cut down on energy costs.

3. Inflexible growth potential

One of the biggest advantages of running your business on the cloud is that its multifunctional services allow for a slew of capabilities. For example, very small businesses may only need a very small amount of data storage, perhaps 10MB. With the cloud, you only use and pay for this much space. But as your company grows, you'll need more data storage. You can elect to pay for this increased data as necessary, not waste money on excess storage you don't really need.

But the cloud's rapid expansion in data storage capabilities isn't just necessary for company's growth over a long period of time. Many small businesses experience a “busy season” when a temporary increase in data storage is necessary (such as higher email volume), but the increased storage becomes unnecessary shortly after the season is over.

In addition to lower IT costs, reduced energy consumption, and better employee productivity, Vorsite is proud to offer Microsoft Cloud Solutions for small to medium businesses that don't have the budget or need to host their servers directly on site. Virtual collaboration through software like Microsoft Office 365 empowers business owners with the technology necessary to help their businesses grow, not waste money on excessive and unnecessary costs.