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So, you’ve heard that IT is moving to the cloud. But what should be in the cloud? Everything? How can we ensure secure communications and transfers? What about system uptime and maintenance?

To have more freedom to work remotely and the ability to work on the go, we depend on our mobile devices more than ever. ServiceNow’s new mobile apps are here to give you just that freedom to work from anywhere.

DevOps is a set of best practices, to combine a better and more agile way of doing software development (Dev- part) and IT operations (Ops- part) in order to make the whole system development life cycle faster.

Our concept “Smart Resourcing” is in short a simpler, cheaper and more predictable way for our customers to book and staff their ServiceNow or Google projects, with the right type of resources. 

Being able to offer a digital workplace is becoming increasingly important, and has put pressure on those employers that want to attract the best candidates. Job seekers now expect more jobs that can offer this. Is your workplace digital enough?

As an authorized reseller of G Suite, The Cloud People uses the platform internally. I’m convinced that the confidence a training course will give me will result in more motivation and pleasure in using the platform everyday.

The distinction between the marketing and sales department must be wiped out in order for a company to achieve the desired growth. Good communication and a common system are essentials to achieve this. With HubSpot Growth Suite, you are one step closer. 

Today, virtually everyone owns a computer and a smartphone, and for most people, the Web is their primary source of information. This makes the demand for a universally designed digital product that is built for everyone more important than ever. 

Not only are we moving offices in Norway, Oslo, but we’re also changing the company name. Symfoni Next becomes The Cloud People. The Cloud People will meet the increasing need for capabilities on the fastest growing Cloud platforms.

It’s important to be familiar with your workplace’s word processing software in order to work effectively. Google’s word processor – Google Docs – appears on the surface to be very simple, but contains a number of clever features that can help you to work smarter and faster.

The platform from Google makes it easy for businesses to efficiently collaborate and stay productive, and users can choose from three different pricing plans; Basic, Business and Enterprise. All include popular apps such as Gmail, Docs and Drive. But what really differentiates them?

Many people use the same password to log in to all services and systems online, and are therefore more vulnerable to multiple accounts being affected if a password is compromised. By adopting an extra layer of security you are better protected against any attacks.

For the majority of computer users a Chromebook will mean better performance and less maintenance than with more expensive machines. A Chromebook is not only fast and secure – the devices are also hard-wearing, which makes them a sensible choice.

Google for Education is a set of digital products from Google. The tools are designed to be used for hosting and distributing digital documents, communication and collaboration through cloud-based technology, and can assist teachers, students, researchers and organisations – at all levels.

One of the biggest benefits of purchasing G Suite through a reseller is access to professional and personal support during migration. Most resellers also offer training to make sure businesses effectively utilize the platform.

Choosing a brand and type of laptop for the workplace is a difficult choice. Chromebooks have been on the market since 2011, and there’s models available to suit all tastes and needs.

As The Cloud People ramped up as a GCP partner, I had plenty of chance to study the different GCP options for running containerized applications. There are several different options which will work well for different usage requirements.

It may seem frightening to transition to G Suite if your organization has invested a great deal in training in Word and Excel. Now you can get the best of both worlds. In fact, in Google Drive you can import and save Word, Excel and PowerPoint files.

Good cooperation in business is no longer simply about good project management – technology is just as important, if not more so. Google designed G Suite in a bid to help businesses towards better cooperation through flexible, cloud-native, intelligent tools.

We live in a time when the fact is that a company’s website is in many ways the face it shows the world. Web design creates an immediate first impression for your company, and is therefore an important tool for turning visitors into customers.

Hi! I work as a web developer at The Cloud People. I’ve been here for 12 years now – and I love it! Today the whole company focuses on Google Cloud, and is a certified partner and dealer.

Once you take the step into a cloud-based website, it’s not just the database and media files that get handled better – the website itself gains advantages. Cloud solutions handle both higher and lower traffic better, utilizes resources better, and comes with automatic scaling.

Good internal communication is essential for every organization that aspires to effective operation. It ought to be easy to communicate across departments and with the management. That’s why companies need a platform and an intranet like Happeo.

PRINCE2 is a tried-and-tested «best practice» method for effective project management. We think a systematic approach to project management, like PRINCE2, will increase the likelihood of success.

The Cloud People focuses first and foremost on their employees and the skills they possess. That fact, along with the Google partnership, was just one of many reasons why I wanted to work precisely here.

One of The Cloud People’s earlier main products was a document management system, Docs & Folders. After moving the solution to GCP, our customers have experienced less downtime, better service and the cost of maintaining the solution has decreased.

Search engine optimisation has existed since the end of the 1990s, and is becoming ever more important. New search habits and digital development have made search engines more advanced, and this imposes greater requirements for proper SEO.

We moved one of our applications to the cloud – a Legacy Monolithic CMS application running in PHP with Laravel and utilizing a PostgreSQL database.

What does the cloud mean for people who have a website? The big difference is the structure of the systems. In the cloud you have access to different services and systems that can free up technical managers from manual work.

Happeo meets all the classic needs that an intranet deals with in an organisation, and “bundles” all the G Suite applications and ensures that the information you have access to is cross-searchable.

With G Suite employees have access to all documents at any time, and they no longer have to depend on taking their work PCs home with them. Everything is stored in the cloud. This makes working from home or on the train easier than ever.