{"id":2790,"date":"2016-05-24T15:08:44","date_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devbloglavaprotocols.nityo.in\/what-you-didnt-know-about-cloud-technology-for-ngos\/"},"modified":"2016-05-24T15:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-05-24T15:08:44","slug":"what-you-didnt-know-about-cloud-technology-for-ngos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavaprotocols.com\/the-cloud-blog\/what-you-didnt-know-about-cloud-technology-for-ngos\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Didn\u2019t Know About Cloud Technology for NGOs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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While \u00a0everyone from big businesses to small medium enterprises are buzzing about cloud adoption, a smaller wave of adoption is already taking place within the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGO) sector. <\/span><\/p>\n

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According to TechSoup\u2019s 2012 Cloud Computing Survey, \u201c<\/span>90% of the 10,500 NGOs respondents worldwide across 88 countries are already using some form of cloud technology ranging from \u201clightweight\u201d services like email to \u201cheavyweight\u201d services like databases and web conferencing<\/span><\/i>\u201d. <\/span><\/p>\n

From project management softwares to Customer Relationship Management (CRM)<\/a>, the ability to use cloud solutions to quickly and effectively deploy a technology application is critical to the kind of success NGOs are seeking. <\/span><\/p>\n

With easily adoptable cloud technologies such as Google Apps for Non-profits, NGOs today are further empowered and streamlined with cloud technology that work out-of-the-box. <\/span><\/p>\n

The added benefit of collaboration<\/a> has enabled cross collaboration while further diminishing the segregation of work barriers that NGOs once have had to deal with in the past. <\/span><\/p>\n

However, as with any adoption of new technology, there are barriers that have to be addressed. The lack of knowledge on cloud solutions coupled with cost-based issues are the predominant barriers\u00a0\u2014 both identified by the TechSoup survey as well as based on Lava\u2019s firsthand experience when dealing with the Malaysian NGO cloud landscape. <\/span><\/p>\n

In an effort to address these barriers, Lava has in the past highlighted the multitude of features and benefits of Salesforce\u2019s cloud CRM solution with the message of various initiatives that can kickstart an NGO\u2019s adoption of Salesforce\u00a0 \u00a0\u2014 such as the free Salesforce licenses via the Salesforce Foundation \u2018Power of Us\u2019 initiative<\/strong>. This is in-line with Lava\u2019s strategy to empower NGOs with 4 core motivating factors when considering the move to cloud solutions which are:<\/span><\/p>\n