Consolidate Box and Salesforce Together
Cloud storage services have become a prominent choice for sharing documents, pictures, videos, and more. While the cloud offers an effective way to store our information, managing it is a complicated process, as we get confused between all our cloud storage platform subscriptions.
The Problem with Using Multiple Cloud Services
Using various cloud services to securely store information results in a lack of data consolidation; which is a harrowing issue for any company to have to experience. Not being able to quickly find your documents, photos, videos, etc, is not only dangerous because the information might be lost, but also reduces your productivity as you have to search for a document in so many cloud service platforms.
There 2 schools of thought on this subject:
The reasoning behind this school of thought is that because we use different platforms for different functions, it doesn’t mean that they’re for different projects. Therefore, synching them all together consolidates them in a platform-agnostic way.
For example, let’s say that you start your idea in the morning on your commute over to work in Evernote, follow up with that idea in Salesforce, back it up to Box, and then go back at night to your Evernote note in order to continue developing your idea. Our consensus? This is excellent as well. It all depends on your workflow.
The Problem with Using Multiple Cloud Services
Using various cloud services to securely store information results in a lack of data consolidation; which is a harrowing issue for any company to have to experience. Not being able to quickly find your documents, photos, videos, etc, is not only dangerous because the information might be lost, but also reduces your productivity as you have to search for a document in so many cloud service platforms.
There 2 schools of thought on this subject:
- You can consolidate all of your cloud services to one central cloud storage service. Here, you should have a feed of all your Gmail, Google Docs, Evernote, Basecamp, Salesforce, all being backed up and consolidated to your cloud storage provider. In this example, we’ll use Box.
The reasoning behind this school of thought is that you can keep adding as many cloud services as you like, while making sure that you back it up in a safe and easily accessible place. Our consensus? It works. - You should sync all your services together in order to have them interchangeable with one another. That way, it doesn’t matter where you go to access your documents, notes, pics, etc… they exist in any of your cloud platforms.
The reasoning behind this school of thought is that because we use different platforms for different functions, it doesn’t mean that they’re for different projects. Therefore, synching them all together consolidates them in a platform-agnostic way.
For example, let’s say that you start your idea in the morning on your commute over to work in Evernote, follow up with that idea in Salesforce, back it up to Box, and then go back at night to your Evernote note in order to continue developing your idea. Our consensus? This is excellent as well. It all depends on your workflow.