What's wrong with the SME cloud computing?

Small and medium sized enterprises are the economic units with relatively small size, asset scale and operation scale compared with the large enterprise in the industry. China's existing small and medium-sized enterprises about 10 million households, labor-intensive export products and some High-tech export products are mostly small and medium-sized enterprises, small and medium-sized products exports accounted for 60% of the total exports, small and medium-sized enterprises to provide about 75% of urban employment opportunities. Since the reform and opening-up, most of the labor force transferred from rural areas has been absorbed by SMEs. SMEs each year for the country to pay the industry and commerce tax accounted for about 50% of the total. In the rapid economic growth since the 1990s, 76.7% of the new industrial output is created by small and medium-sized enterprises. Therefore, the development of small and medium-sized enterprises is of great significance in a country with a large population, vast territory and great difference in the level of economic development. First of all, the benefits of such a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises, only one purpose is to say that the current small and medium-sized enterprises in China's economic construction has an important impact, and even a relationship between the national economy. The informatization construction of small and medium-sized enterprises is also an urgent matter to be solved, with the continuous progress of social economy, IT industry has gradually come into people's life, information management has become the mainstream of business management, trends. This trend is irreversible. Moreover, now many enterprises are proud of the realization of information management. However, there are some blind spots in the informatization management of small and medium-sized enterprises.

At present, cloud computing tide together, what is cloud computing, we first come to understand briefly, narrow cloud computing refers to the delivery and usage patterns of IT infrastructure, which means acquiring the required resources through the network on an as-needed and extensible basis; broad cloud computing refers to the delivery and usage patterns of services, which means that the required services are obtained through the network in an on-demand, extensible manner. This service can be it and software, Internet-related, but also other services. The core idea of cloud computing is to manage and dispatch a large number of computing resources with network connection, and form a computing resource pool to serve the users on demand. A network that provides resources is called a "cloud." The resources in the cloud can be extended indefinitely by the user, and can be obtained at any time, on demand, at any time, and paid for by use. Cloud computing industry level three tier: Cloud software, cloud platform, cloud equipment.

Based on the above concept, we can sum up several small and medium-sized enterprises in the application of cloud computing characteristics. First, the application is changed from buying to renting. Cloud applications allow SMEs to turn from buying software products to renting applications, allowing users to experience a premium and pay on demand. Second, it is not subject to geographical constraints. SMEs may adjust their office address or business scope on demand. Third, the procedure is simple and easy to use. Small and medium-sized enterprise employees do not need to have very professional IT skills, as long as the Internet, through the viewing online demo can operate on the leased services. Four, internal and external management interconnection and interoperability. Before small and medium-sized enterprises to manage customer files is difficult to correspond with their own business. Five, improve the overall operational efficiency. Small and medium-sized enterprises through the cloud service platform to achieve real-time online communication and interoperability. These are the reasons for the small and medium-sized enterprises have been stirring, but now small and medium-sized enterprises cloud computing faces some problems.

First, large companies like government and financial firms, even if they are deploying cloud services, are the most expensive kind of services in cloud services, while large state-owned enterprises are generally funded by government and are quicker to deploy than SMEs. Second, the findings also show that for the security of cloud services, no matter the size of enterprises have a strong demand, and small and medium-sized enterprises in the use of cloud, the first is to pay the cost of private cloud, second, if the use of public cloud services, security risks have become the biggest obstacle, resulting in small and medium-sized enterprises are sandwiched between the two, so , the adoption of cloud computing has so far been implemented quickly. Only 17% of small and medium-sized enterprises with fewer than 500 people use cloud computing.

And we have to note that the degree of informatization in the lower and middle enterprises depends on the decision of the CEO of the company in a certain sense, whether the cloud computing road goes smoothly, also depends on the concern and support of the high-level enterprise, so it is necessary for the high-level of the enterprise to understand the characteristics of the cloud, and the cloud service provider Should be based on the business characteristics of small and medium-sized enterprises, targeted to put forward some solutions, this is the responsibility of it vendors, but also the key to occupy small and medium-sized enterprises cloud market, only to obtain the recognition of small and medium-sized users, cloud computing will have more earnings scar effect.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)