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THREE EXCELLENT REASONS to implement local government financial systems

IN THE CLOUD

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SAFE & SOUND

LOWER TCO,HIGHER ROI

FREEDOM

Agile, cloud-based financial system — IMPLEMENTED!

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Scenario 1Aging, financial software —

FIXED AGAIN!

YOU YOU

Scenario 2

Which scenario describes you?

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Local government financial teams:

Painful to keep up to date

System failure is a scary prospect

Security nightmares

Aging financial solutions:

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Buyers and users of financial software systems in city government know first-hand just how expensive it is to keep hardware and software licenses up to date.

When you’ve got aging, on-premise software and hardware architecture to maintain, and backup facilities to worry about, the majority of your IT resources are being consumed just to keep up.

AND WHAT IF THERE IS A SECURITY BREACH?

A compromise of this magnitude not only impacts all cross-functional teams, it also compromises your integrity in your residents’ eyes.

They expect perfection.

As your software needs grow and the services you provide increase, system failure or even slow performance can paralyze your organization and bring operations to a halt.

Often it seems growth costs more to maintain in manpower and dollars than anyone anticipated.

That’s not good.

An aging system prevents your staff from being as productive as they could be.

Double entry and reconciliation eat up their time, or they struggle with balancing each month for days. These challenges make it difficult to start anew. The time and effort it will take to implement a new solution seems unthinkable, especially when dealing with so many issues each month.

Duct tape-style repair

Grow more, pay more

Decreasing productivity redundant tasks

Aging financial solutions:

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Single point of failure

$$$ TCO:

1. Hardware2. IT support3. Aging software

Vulnerable to security issues

Costly to scale

Inflexible, time-intensive

No failure

$ TCO:

1. Hardware2. IT support3. Aging software

Extremely secure

Easy to scale

Flexible, time efficiency

ACCESS ANYWHERE

$OLD WAYS vs. CLOUD WAYS

$$5

If your servers fail, if your resources become overburdened or if your provider’s connection is interrupted — business grinds to a halt, employees can’t do their work, deadlines are missed and it’s very difficult to catch up.

Your data is distributed and available on demand from remote access points you control. Continuity and backups are easy to maintain using multiple network access paths to the cloud provider.

Differences between homegrown vs. proprietary solution, traditional hosting vs. cloud:

$$$$$$ $

WITH HOMEGROWN OR HOSTING, WITH THE CLOUD, there’s a single point of failure. there is no single point of failure.

You buy every server and piece of equipment, and your IT teams are required to spend significant time maintaining hardware, scaling it to meet your needs and performing updates.

The distributed cloud structure eliminates the costs of buying, maintaining and upgrading infrastructure, licensing and updating software and many other costs that local government would just as soon do without.

WITH HOMEGROWN, WITH THE CLOUD, there’s no shared cost. there is shared cost.

OLD WAYS vs. CLOUD WAYS

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And most local governments don’t specialize in security.

WITH HOMEGROWN, your security is only as good as your internal IT staff’s capabilities.

You are locked into your physical architecture and to add to it costs you almost exponentially, for every thing you add.

WITH HOMEGROWN OR HOSTING, there’s no economy of scale.

…with the speed of technology development in the industry. It’s time-intensive and expensive to keep software and integrated systems up to date and working smoothly.

INTERNALLY DEVELOPED, piece-meal solutions can’t keep up…

Reputable cloud companies provide much, much better security than a local government can afford to develop themselves.

SECURITY FOUND IN THE CLOUD has been shown to far exceed that achievable in-house.

It’s called flexible resource allocation — pay for only the resources you use, when you use them.

WITH THE CLOUD,there are economies of scale, without paying a premium.

It’s on autopilot and updates regularly and expeditiously.

WITH THE CLOUDyour solution is always up to date.

OLD WAYS vs. CLOUD WAYS

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Security/reliability

No hardware hassles

Quick and cost-effective scalability

Freedom — access from anywhere

Business continuity/disaster recovery

Shared cost

Put simply,cloud benefits include:

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$

It’s how most people listen to music, watch movies and read email. It’s how you stay in contact with friends and family. And it’s how you check your bank balance and buy everything from books (Amazon) to shoes (Zappos).

you’re already using cloud computing every day.

THERE’S A REASON GOOGLE, FACEBOOK AND NETFLIX USE THE CLOUD:

It’s the best way to deliver fast, functional software without hardware hassles.

Their business depends on users having easy, consistent access to their software.

AND SO DOES YOURS.

Believe it or not,

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73% of IT Pros say employees’ personal use of cloud apps/mobile devices has significantly influenced their organization’s decision to adopt cloud computing.*

66% of IT Pros say their personal use of cloud has influenced their recommendations to their organizations about moving to the cloud.****

73% 66%

State of the Cloud report:

*CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report, p5 - Percent who said somewhat or very significantly **CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report, p5 - Organizations that are implementing or maintaining cloud computing, n=479***CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report, p5 - Percent who somewhat or strongly agree****CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report, p6 - Organizations that are implementing or maintaining cloud computing, n=479

CDW 2013

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61% of cloud users** agree that employee use of cloud apps/mobile devices is making their organization move faster to the cloud vs. only 34% of non-cloud users.***

61%

*CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report

Gartner predicts that the worldwide market for cloud computing will grow 18.5% to $131 BILLION

The trend is upward: 39% of organizations are implementing or maintaining a cloud solution, up from 28% in 2011

Discovery Planning Implementing Maintaining Not Considering

35%

30%

25%

20%

15%

10%

5%

0

2011

2012

What percentage of your organization’s IT budget do you currently expect to spend using cloud resources and applications?

In one year? 20% 23%In four years? 30% 33%

2011 2012

Cloud adoption is growing

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More than 50% of gov apps are now intersecting with the cloud.

More than half of organizations are migrating or planning to move a wide variety of services to the cloud

Messaging

Conferencing & collaboration

Storage

Office/productivity suites

Business process applications

Governance applications

Compute power

Hosting internally developed software externally

18% 12% 10% 22%

17% 14% 12% 25%

15% 16% 14% 20%

13% 13% 15% 24%

12% 14% 11% 20%

11% 11% 10% 19%

10% 15% 12% 22%

10% 12% 11% 22%

Migrated Migrating Piloting Making a plan

CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report

More than 65% of office suites have been migrated.

These functions are moving to the cloud

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State and Local Government at a Glance

CLOUD FORECAST

One Year: 12%Four Years: 20%

55% of cloud users say Increased Efficiency is the number one benefit of the cloud** One Year: 15%

Four Years: 27%

WHO’S MAKING THE CLOUD DECISION*

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2

3

Concerns with security of proprietary data/applications

Concerns with performance of cloud services

Senior-level non-IT management is holding us back

BIGGEST IMPEDING FACTORS TO CLOUD***

49%

29%

27%

1

2

3

IT Director

CIO/CTO

Non-IT C-Level Executives

49%

29%

27%

The average percentage of budget IT pros expect to SPEND on cloud computing in:****

The average percentage of budget IT pros say they expect to SAVE on cloud computing in:****

49% of cloud users say Improved Employee Mobility is the second biggest benefit of the cloud**

55%

49%

CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report*Respondents asked to select the top three **Organizations that are implementing or maintaining cloud computing***Respondents asked to select all that apply****IT budget

What aboutstate and local gov?

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These are telling statistics:

One of every seven dollars spent on packaged software, server and storage offerings will be through the public cloud model, growing five times faster than the total IT industry, by 2015. —IDC

84% of CIOs cut application costs by moving to the cloud. —Business Insider

Worldwide Public Cloud Services Market to Total $131 Billion Strong demand is anticipated for all types of cloud services offerings. The cloud business process services segment (BPaaS) is the second-largest market segment after cloud advertising, comprising 28 percent of the total market in 2012, followed by cloud application services (software as a service [SaaS]) at 14.7 percent. —Gartner

What you’re hearing is true…

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SAFE & SOUND

*Microsoft Small and Midsized Businesses Cloud Trust Study

As cloud-based software and service has been evolving, it has been developed with better, much more secure operations than a single organization could provide for its own internal hosted systems.*

91 percent of SMBs said the security of their organization had been positively impacted as a result of cloud adoption.*

1THE CLOUD IS SAFE AND SOUND

91%

It boils downto these 3 benefits

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*CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report, p17 - Organizations that are implementing or maintaining cloud computing

LOWER TCO, HIGHER ROI

You don’t have the burden of hardware to maintain and keep updated — your software and data are updated automatically.

What percentage of your organization’s IT budget do you currently save or expect to save using cloud resources and applications?*

2THE CLOUD SAVES YOU MONEY

SA

VINGS IN ONE YEAR

21% SA

VINGS IN FOUR YEARS

27%

$$

It boils downto these 3 benefits

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55%Increased efficiency

49% Improved employee mobility

32%Increased ability to innovate

31%Freed current IT staff for other projects

25% Reduced IT operating costs

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FREEDOM

The cloud enables efficiency, freedom and saves loads of time. No need to be tethered to your desk to access cloud-based apps.

Cloud users* say increased efficiency, employee mobility and ability to innovate are top benefits:

3THE CLOUD MEANS FREEDOM AND EFFICIENCY

*CDW’s 2013 State of the Cloud Report

It boils downto these 3 benefits

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