Migrate to the Cloud and ReduceYour IT Budget in 2012

A free webinar from Ledgerwood Associates IncKent Sorensen – Director of Marketing, Ledgerwood Associates

877-918-8301Greg Forshey – President, Trapp Online

877-942-2568

What is The Cloud?

A Simple Definition“Cloud computing is accessing your applications and data over the Internet.”

Doesn’t Change the Way You WorkAccounting ApplicationsEmail – MS Exchange & OutlookScanning and printingThird party apps

“The things we do every day, email, printing, scanning, document storage, exporting to Excel, they all work seamlessly, and I don’t get any complaints from employees.”Glen Adams, Principal, Coaction GroupSage Timberline Office User on Macs

Disruptive Technologies• Automobiles• Personal Computers• iPod• Cloud Computing

Disruptive technologies are game changers.

Example: PCs drastically altered the market for mainframe computers.

Why do I want the Cloud?Reduced Capital ExpendituresLower IT Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)Fewer IT HeadachesBe a budget hero

How does the Cloud save me money?Economies of ScalePay as you go Interest Expense (On equipment lease or

Investment)Electrical Power ($525 per year per 500 watt

server)Maintenance

UpgradesBackupsReduced IT Tech Support

(at $125/hr. or more)

SmartdataCollectivehttp://smartdatacollective.com/onlinetech/40776/rethinking-outsourced-cloud-part-ii-2011-benefits-cloud-adoption

Cloud Adoption in Construction is Accelerating

“…55% [of construction companies] plan to invest in IT departments in 2012. However, companies… are searching for ways to avoid large-scale upfront investments.

Cloud-computing is one way to do this, and 24% plan to switch financial, job cost, or operational software to the cloud this year.

Another interesting trend is approximately 33% would consider investing in new financial or job cost software if they could lease the technology.” Constructech Magazine, February, 2012

The Cloud Fits ConstructionPay Only for What You Need to Fit Your

Workload

Easy Setup for Field and Office Users

Mobile Access

What is TimberCloud?Hosting or Outsourced CloudSecure Scottsdale data centerWorks with all your licensed versions of

TimberlineAlso works with QuickBooksNo feature loss

How TimberCloud is a Game Changer“Maintaining Timberline in the Cloud environment is now less expensive than the traditional LAN.”

Save 22% on IT Support for Workstations(Getting Older Workstations to Run Timberline)

Save 50% or more on upgrade costs(No Longer Upgrade Individual Workstations)

Save Time Doing Fewer Backups(Data is continually backed up at a secure location)

ConcernsReliability – 99.5%+ uptimeFeatures – No loss of functionalityData Security

Individual servers (physical or virtual)Secure Data Center

Regular redundant backups Data encryption Disaster recovery

(fire, flood, theft, sabotage)

Other BenefitsAnywhere, anytime accessAccess from Mac and mobile devicesFewer IT Headaches Maintaining Fewer

ComputersOutsourced IT expertsUpdates and upgrades

ScalableBig jobsChanges in the economy

Easy to get startedMinimal training

What about Sage Construction Anywhere?Sage Construction and Real Estate’s new Cloud

OfferingRolled out in phasesR1 is limited in scope, basically cloud access to Timberline

Office reportsR2 coming later this yearComplements TimberCloudTimberCloud puts existing functionality on the CloudConstruction Anywhere will add new operational

functionality and web access for other project participants

Coaction Group on TimberCloud“Putting our Timberline applications on the cloud saves money and eliminates all of the usual IT problems… The data security of the cloud means I can sleep at night.” “Anyone who’s worked on a network picks up on it with no problem at all.” Glen Adams, Principal, Coaction Group

“I don’t have to think about doing backups anymore. I used to have to think about it twice every day; it was awful.”Lindsie Perry, “The Queen of Cheap”, Controller, Coaction Group

Who should get itPlanning a server upgrade in 2012Have multiple locationsPreparing for growthWant to save money on IT

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Kent Sorensen 877-918-8301kent@ledgerwoodassociatesusa.comwww.ledgerwoodassociatesusa.com

Greg Forshey 877-942-2568 gforshey@trapponline.comwww.trapponline.com

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