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Mergers and acquisitions aren’t easy: the failure rates fall between 70-90%, so anything and everything you can do to weigh the odds in your favor are critical, especially leveraging the cloud. In the first two parts of this trilogy, we’ve looked at reasons for M&As, the due diligence required, human resources implications, intellectual property, strategic partners and regulatory approval. For the finale, we’ll take a closer look at financial and timing considerations and why the cloud can be a difference maker.

For millions of businesses across the country, QuickBooks plays a central role in day-to-day operations. However, now that cloud use is widespread, there’s an easier way to leverage the software within your company. Hosting QuickBooks in the cloud allows you to make more efficient use of the platform, quickly and easily deploying it to your accounting staff, regardless of where they may be located.

A merger or acquisition allows a company to think big without the painstaking timeline of gradually scaling. From a tech perspective, this opens up a number of opportunities to modernize. Take full advantage by leveraging the best of both organizations and using the scale of the newly formed company for purchasing power. If cloud is on the roadmap for your company, read more about the specialized advantages we offer companies undergoing a merger or acquisition on our mergers and acquisitions page.

To attackers, databases are the new banks; they want to break into them, because that's where the valuable information is. If you're using SQL Server, you benefit from the lowest number of vulnerabilities of any major database over the last six years (according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, compared to systems like Oracle, MySQL and SAP HANA). The way you configure your database - and especially access to it - is how mostdatabase breaches actually occur. As well as updates to the latest version of TLS (1.2) to protect data in transit against ‘man-in-the-middle’ attacks, SQL Server 2016 includes 3 newsecurity features designed to protect your information from common attacks.

With cloud adoption on the rise in the senior care industry, with more than half of US-based senior care providers using the cloud today, it should come as no surprise that technological innovation is starting to seep into many of this industry’s functions. The growing popularity of private cloud solutions in senior care is an indicator of the overall modernization taking place in the industry. In an industry that has historically been slow to innovate, incorporation of new technology is having major impact.

Once past the barriers to cloud adoption, legal industries find that the cloud can be particularly useful for helping them run more efficiently, securely, and at a lower cost.  According to a cloud survey report from Lexis Nexis Firm Manager, among current users of the cloud in the legal industry, storage (50%), and backup (56.4%) were among the most popular capabilities.

The cloud can transform how you interact and collaborate with clients and colleagues. Not only can the cloud meet the industry’s strict security and data privacy requirements, many law firms are utilizing cloud services to achieve mobility, efficiency, flexibility and cost savings.  With remote client consultations and internal meetings, anywhere/anytime access to your data, and less of a reliance on physical assets, the cloud can help your firm accomplish more with less.

Insurance organizations are well positioned to reap the maximum benefit from cloud infrastructure. There are a number of ways to apply the technology within the insurance sector that can prove impactful for your business. These include: improving customer service, lowering overhead and remaining compliant with industry regulation including HIPAA.