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Mon 8 Feb 2010
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| Could The Cloud Help Britain Out Of Recession? | |
| (case study available Outsourcery is an SME growing in recession) A raft of economic figures are expected to shed more light on the state of the British economy this week with the UK trade figures due Tuesday and the Bank of England’s inflation report due Wednesday, after figures from the Insolvency Service report showed a rise in personal insolvencies where the number of company liquidations fell 1.1 percent on the year to 4,566, personal insolvencies rose 24.9 percent on the year to 35,574. However, amongst this gloomy result a ray of hope appears as thousands of small businesses across the UK battle to survive in the current tough economic climate through the use of innovative technology to reduce start-up costs and avoid bankruptcy. As the debate continues as to whether Britain is in recession, there is no doubt that the lion’s share of job creation will come from SMEs. Cloud computing technology – where software and hardware is pooled centrally and made available over the internet – is enabling small and medium-sized businesses across the UK to reduce costs and enhance efficiencies. “The harsh pressure on start-ups and small businesses remains, as the latest figures from the Insolvency Service reveal,” said “Piers Linney, joint Chief Executive Officer at Outsourcery. “Technology such as cloud computing is providing help to many by doing away with thousands of pounds of costly IT investment in favour of pay-as-you go IT delivered over the cloud for as little as £6 a month, enabling many SMEs to continue trading in these tough times.” With the UK looking to SMEs to pull it out of recession, it is critical that this important sector finds ways of not only surviving, but growing. In 2009 as a whole, there were 19,077 company liquidations, up 22.8 percent compared with the previous year, and 134,142 people were declared insolvent, around 1 in every 320 adults, up 25.9 percent from 2008. About Outsourcery Outsourcery is the UK’s leading provider of mobile-centric unified communications (UC) and hosted IT solutions to small and medium-sized enterprises. The company has its own state-of-the-art data centres and hosting infrastructure to provide managed services and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) IT solutions such as hosted Microsoft Exchange 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Microsoft Office Communication Server, Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and UC solutions using a BroadSoft hosted switch. With an annual turnover of circa £45 million, Outsourcery is now the UK’s No.1 independent provider of business mobile solutions, having acquired the THUS Mobile business in March 2009. It now manages the customer bases for Vodafone and O2, providing mobile voice and data solutions to approximately 10,000 customers and over 100,000 business end-users. Outsourcery is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with a total of 7 competencies and employs over 230 staff based in 3 UK offices (London, Manchester and Leicester). Outsourcery is also the UK’s No.1 provider of hosted Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 and was awarded the prestigious “SME Hosted Communications Solution of the Year” award at the Comms National Awards 2009. For more information, please visit www.outsourcery.co.uk Follow Piers on http://www.pierslinney.com and http://twitter.com/pierslinney Follow Outsourcery at http://twitter.com/outsourcery (case study available Outsourcery is an SME growing in recession) Press enquiries email outsourcery@flamepr.com Or call Chris Netto on 0207 233 7578 |
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