In the future, the convenience store on the street will also use the cloud technology!

It's no secret that

giants like Wal-Mart, Amazon, and McDonald's tend to invest huge in it and, of course, have advanced technology solutions. They use modern technology to analyze data in order to make better business decisions. It is reported that Wal-Mart has invested 600 million of dollars to deploy its POS system, such an investment to let some small companies marvel, obviously, they are far behind.

in 2009, James McKelvey, a glass product maker, missed a 2000-dollar business in his own shop for the simple reason that they could not accept credit card payments. So he and his friend Jack Dorsey realised that there should be a way to handle credit card transactions conveniently and to serve small businesses. So they built a cloud-based deal to deal with the start-up square, which now has an estimated market capitalisation of more than $4 billion trillion. But more importantly, many small businesses around the world can easily handle credit card transactions.
In fact, SMEs have been able to rely on cloud technology to benefit, and this is fully justified.
Cloud-based Software as a service (SaaS) platform is increasingly being used in enterprise operations. Many small businesses have started using Third-party SaaS software to manage their payroll settlement, employee health care, and other enterprise decision functions.
software that used to be used only in large enterprises is now being transformed because, unlike the technologies of the past, the technology does not require expensive costs, complex hardware, or a dedicated IT team. Software as a service is becoming cheaper, faster, simpler and more intelligent. Analytics firm Gartner predicts that by 2016, the market for software--services and cloud-based enterprise Applications--will grow from $13.4 billion trillion to $32.2 billion trillion.
SMEs are in great need of cloud technology because they lack technical resources and expertise that can be quickly remedied by cloud technology. Because there is no complex IT environment, SMEs can quickly adapt to new technologies, and can find the value of it, more importantly, not too much capital invested.
The following are some examples of cloud technologies that can be applied to small businesses:
§ File Management: Dropbox, Google Drive. Now more and more small businesses will store their important data in the cloud, they will use some low-cost or free services, For example, Dropbox and Google Grive, users use these two services, as long as they can connect the Internet, you can easily access documents and files, even on mobile devices to use.
§ Accounting:: ADP, Intuit. The vast majority of small business owners are not accounting, so they will seek out cloud technology software solutions to help them solve time-consuming and laborious accounting tasks such as payroll settlement, invoices/bills, budgets, forecasts, etc.
§ Web Site Administration: Squarespace, Wix. For most businesses, their official website is essential. But creating and managing a Web site requires a certain amount of technical capability, and it takes time and cost. Like Squarespaceand WiX such services, can easily create a customer-oriented web site, and very easy to master.
§ Marketing: Signpost. Each business needs to market its own products and services and track its customers and build loyalty. Today, there are a number of small and medium-sized enterprises designed to develop the next generation of automatic marketing software, can help enterprises to design advanced digital marketing activities, so that they can get new customers at home. More importantly, the software does not cost much, it can bring a lot of repeat customers to the business.
When deploying some enterprise-class IT services, it often takes months or years to throw in millions of of dollars, all of which are the costs that need to be invested before the IT value is reflected. and small and medium-sized enterprises do not need to do so, they can contract with a cloud service provider, the cost is very low, even within a few minutes to complete the deployment of the operation. If the service is worthless, small and medium enterprises can dump them at any time. And those big companies, because they signed a multi-year contract, hardware investment also spent a lot of money, which makes it difficult for them to resolve to overthrow the work done before.
For all these reasons, even some "antique" companies are now experimenting with cloud technology services. According to the IDC report, Enterprise-class cloud technology applications revenue reached nearly $23 billion trillion in 2011, which is expected to reach $67 billion by 2016. By that time, one dollar for every five dollars will be spent on cloud technology software and infrastructure. At the same time, according to Cisco forecasts, by 2016, the amount of data related to cloud technology will increase from 39% in 2011 to 64%. Now, some smart big companies, when confronted with the same problems, will try to use the experience of small and medium-sized enterprises, using cloud technology services to solve.
for enterprises, the most important thing is their products, services, and the economic capacity of the operating enterprise. In a business environment, cloud technology improves the competitiveness of small businesses. More and more small enterprises can also use some advanced technology, but in the past, those advanced technical resources are occupied by large enterprises, only for internal use.
As we look forward to the next few years, we will find that more and more enterprises have the same technology, and these advanced technologies can not only provide automated solutions, but also optimize business operations. We hope to see in the future, some small shops will use the same cloud technology tools as Wal-Mart, also can use Salesforce Automation marketing program, as well as customer relationship management system, large data analysis, automated settlement payroll and accounting services, recruiting, signing contracts and so on.