Business Report: Impact of Communication and Cloud Technologies

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of communication and collaboration tools, cloud computing, and online versus offline sales strategies within a business context. The report explores various communication tools, including Asana and Teamwork, and their role in enhancing business operations, especially during challenging times like the pandemic. It delves into the advantages and disadvantages of cloud storage and cloud computing, highlighting their suitability and applications. Furthermore, the report offers a comparative analysis of the positive and negative aspects of selling products and services both online and offline, providing insights into market access, customer experience, and security considerations. The report concludes with a discussion on the strategic implications of these technologies and sales approaches for business growth and effectiveness.

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Table of Contents
Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
PART 1............................................................................................................................................1
Different communication and collaboration tools and how these tools help business in the
situation of pandemic:.................................................................................................................1
PART 2............................................................................................................................................3
Advantages and disadvantages, suitability and applications of cloud storage and cloud
computing:..................................................................................................................................3
Compare and contrast the positive and negative aspects of services and products being sold
online and offline........................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Information and communication technology has become huge part of today’s world, with the
change scenario in the business world communication and information technology helps the
business to enhance the level of organizational effectiveness in most appropriate manner. There
are different types of tools that helps the business to gain effective growth and proficiency the
market. Due to the situation of pandemic there are various information technology tools that help
the business to gain effective growth and profitability in the market. Current pandemic situation
has impact on many businesses and use of information technology can help the business to gain
effective growth and proficiency in the market. This report includes information about the
different collaboration and communication tools that helps the business to gain effective growth
and survive in the business. Also this includes information about cloud storage and computing
and its importance in the business to deal with the pandemic in most effective manner. In the last
is has information about the positive and negative aspects of services products being sold online
and offline.
MAIN BODY
PART 1
Different communication and collaboration tools and how these tools help business in the
situation of pandemic:
Communication and collaboration tools help the businesses to stay connected and help the
business to gain effective growth and efficiency in the market. Collaboration tools help the
people to stay connected and main purpose of the tools is to provide support to the businesses to
accomplish their goals and objectives in most appropriate manner. This provides the growth to
the business at the time of pandemic situation in all over globe. Main tools and objectives of
collaboration focus on the idea and information that provides effective information in the market.
Below is explanation of two collaboration tools that helps the business to stay connect and get
support in this pandemic situation.
Asana: It is software as a service designed to improve work collaboration and network of
the businesses. This assists the businesses to manage projects and task in most appropriate
manner so that effective growth can be achieved in most appropriate manner. in this team can
creates project and work in most effective manner, in the situation of pandemic this helps to
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enhance the level of effectiveness in the business services that protects the growth and
effectiveness of the business in the market. This provides the access to the individual to connect
with the team members on directly on the application. In the situation of pandemic this becomes
a huge part of business life cycle and assist the business to gain effective growth in the market.
In this team members can directly communicate about the task to the team members and this
helps to gain better objectives and growth in the market. This provides the updates to the task
and helps the team members to gain effective knowledge and growth. thus, it is one of the most
effective tool that helps the business to gain better objectives and growth in the future. also this
helps to development of the business in this pandemic situation. For the better growth and
development of goals and objectives there are various tools and objectives that can the business.
Teamwork: It is the group of people working together to complete the shared goals and
objectives in most appropriate manner. It is project management software that lets the team
members to work in most appropriate manner where they want and deliver the outcome in most
appropriate manner. In the pandemic time business focus on enhancement to the group project
work and this helps to gain better objectives and growth in the business. Project management
software helps the team members to gain better objectives of project work. It lets the team
members to work according to their wants and needs. Teamwork helps the business to provide
better goals and objectives and provides better insight about the future enhancement of the
business aims. In the situation of pandemic businesses provides better objectives growth to the
employees so that effective growth and fulfilment of the needs can be achieved by the people.
Thus, team work also helps the employees and businesses to work in most effective manner so
that effective growth and fulfilment of the objectives can be achieved in most appropriate
manner. There are various collaboration tools that helps the business to gain better objectives and
goals in the future. Also this provides insight about the working process of the business and how
the activities of the business can be gained by the individual in this pandemic situation.
Comparison between Facebook v LinkedIn:
Basis Facebook LinkedIn
Stronger B2B
targeting
This helps the business to increase
the level of search appearance and
that helps the business to gain
better customer base and help to
This helps the business to increase
the reach to the professional
networks with high level of reach in
the search appearance and this helps
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increase the level of customer
experience. In the situation of the
pandemic this application of
communication and collaboration
can help the business to gain
effective customer base and
effective work environment in
most appropriate manner.
to gain better objectives and growth
of the business in the situation of
pandemic. This allow the business
to target current or the past
company of the employees so that
they can achieve effective goals and
objectives in most appropriate
manner.
Efficient B2C
Networking
This allows the business to
increase the level of reach to the
customers by the use of social
marketing. This helps to enhance
the networking with the people
from all over the world. For the
better gain of customer base
company can use this to enhance
the level of effective growth of the
business in the market.
with the use of this application
business can focus on the employee
base that assist business towards the
effective growth and fulfilment of
goals and objectives in most
appropriate manner. the stronger
brand image of the business can
help in better growth and fulfilment
of organizational needs so that
business can gain its goals.
PART 2
Advantages and disadvantages, suitability and applications of cloud storage and cloud
computing:
Cloud storage and cloud computing has become huge part of the business that helps to
enhances the data and information of the business in the market so that effective growth and
fulfilment of the informational technology goals can be achieved in most appropriate manner.
Cloud storage is simply data storage sharing system that provides the business access to store
data and information in most prominent manner. Whereas the cloud computing gives the access
to the work on the transform data so that effective project can be made by the coding staff. These
provide the business to access of all the data and information that needs to be stored in the
computers for the effective growth.
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Advantages and disadvantages of Cloud storage:
Basis Advantages Basis Disadvantages
Accessibility Using the cloud storage
gives the access to the data
at anytime, anywhere. This
helps the business to access
their files and data where
they want without and
interruption. With the
internet connection company
and their employee can use
the files and data with easy
access.
Internet
connection
Cloud based storage is depend on
having internet connection. It the
network is the slow business cannot
have an access to the storage with
the slow network. Slow network
having issues in the access to the
data.
Recovery In the event of hard drive
failure or other hardware
failure business can access
their file on the cloud. It acts
as the backup solution for
the access for the storage
files to the local storage. On
the physical drives can helps
to gain better objectives of
the data and formation.
Hard
drive
Cloud storage is supposed to
eliminate the dependency on the
hard drive. Some business provides
the access to the some specific hard
drive. Hard drive is important part
of the access to the growth and
network and assessment.
Security Cloud storage provides the
additional security to the
services to gain effective
security. Business has
addition storage on the cloud
and this helps to
development of the security
in the storage.
Support Support in the cloud is not always
the best. When business use the free
version of cloud this will impact to
the support to the access.
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Advantages and disadvantages of Cloud computing:
Basis Advantages Basis Disadvantages
Back-up and
storage data
It provides the access to the
data in cloud and deleted
data can be storage in online
data restore.
Limited
control
Cloud computing sometime has
issue of low internet connection.
Access these data on the internet
connection.
Improved
collaboration
Could computing helps the
business in the collaboration
by allowing groups of the
people to the get connected.
Business can quickly and
easy share data information
in the cloud via shared
storage.
Vendor
lock in
Vendor lock in is the biggest
disadvantage of the cloud
computing. Different vendor
provides different platform to the
businesses.
Excellent
accessibility
Could computing allow
having access to the data in
short movement. Using the
internet connection can help
the individual to have access
to the data and information.
Internet
connectivity
In cloud computing every data
have an impact every data stored
on the cloud. Internet
connectivity is important part of
the cloud computing.
Compare and contrast the positive and negative aspects of services and products being sold
online and offline.
There are various pros and cones of online and offline sale of the product and services.
Online and offline are two different platform that helps the business to sale their product and
services to the customers and gain effective productivity. Below is explanation of positive and
negative aspect of online and offline sale of product.
ONLINE – positive and negative aspects:
BASIS PSOTIVE ASPECT Basis NEGTAIVE ASPECT
Easy access to
market
It is one of the main
advantage of product being
Web sites Planning, creating, hosting,
securing web site design can
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sold online. It provide easy
access to the customers to
get the product at their
home form any where. It
helps in better customer
experience and growth of
the effective customer base.
It also helps the business to
gain profitability in most
appropriate manner.
cost increase the cost and increase
the expenses of the business.
Because maintaining web
sites in online business is not
cheap it requires high level
of funds.
Potential of rapid
growth
Selling online product can
help the business to gain
nonstop growth in the
market and enhance the
level of effective customer
base. selling on the internet
is being trend in today’s
scenario and this helps the
business to gain effective
growth and efficiency in the
marketplace.
Adverting
cost
Businesses also face the
issue of high adverting cost
on the online business and
that could have impact on
their growth and
effectiveness of business
profitability. To get right
customers business needs to
focus on the effectiveness of
the advert they show so that
customer can be attract and
growth to the business can be
gained.
Customer
intelligence
It assist the business to gain
the ability to use online
marketing tool to gain new
target customer. Website
analysis tool helps the
business to gain better
growth and proficiency in
the market. This provide the
Security
and
frauds
Online business also face the
issue of security and frauds
and customers gets security
issues with the online buying
and sometimes this has
impact on the level of
business profitability.
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needs and wants to the
customers and actual
growth to the customer
base.
OFFLINE – positive and negative aspects:
Basis Positive aspect Basis Negative aspect
Better prices It provides the business
access to the high customer
base in the market. Product in
the market can be sold on
better prices rather than
online sale. Business can gain
better profitability rather than
other businesses
High
maintains
Offline business require high
maintains rather than online
business and it is cost
effective for the business.
This could impact the level of
margins that business gain
from the sale of product and
services. This could increase
the expenses of the business
and increase the level of
effectiveness in business
growth.
Less cost of
transportation
It helps the business to reduce
the cost of delivery of product
and services. Customer can
buy the product form the
direct market and this can
helps the business to gain
better growth and effective
profitability.
High
competition
In offline market there is high
level of competition that
impact the growth of the
business and profitability.
High competition can impact
the level of effectiveness that
customer base has in the
market. Also there are various
competitors in the market that
could impact the level of
business growth and
effectiveness in the current
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market.
Secure Offline business is more
secure rather than online
business. Customers trust
offline business more as
compare to the online
shopping.
High risk In offline business there is
high risk of failure that every
business person face. At the
time of pandemic many
business person face
difficulties in surviving in the
market and increase the level
of business growth. High level
of risk in the current scenario
can helps the business to gain
better objectives in the future.
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CONCLUSION
Form the above information it can be conclude that there are various communication tools
that helps the business to grow in the situation of pandemic. This tools helps the business to gain
better productivity and growth in the market so that effective enhancement of business goals and
objectives can be achieved. Communication and collaboration tools provide better access to the
project competition in the organization and provide better growth to the goals and objectives of
the business. There are various advantages and disadvantages of cloud computing that helps the
business to gain data in the most effective manner also this enhances the level of business growth
in the market.
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