What Are the Business Benefits of Azure for Builder’s Merchants?
Businesses across the globe have been faced with new obstacles in recent times. While the mass adoption of a hybrid, or fully remote, workforce has brought about many positives – increased flexibility, ample opportunity and a liberated workforce - it has also come with its own set of challenges.
Organisations are having to adapt to new ways of working, in terms of their day-to-day tasks, communication and how data is stored. This is especially true for those working within the builders’ and timber merchant sector, as it is crucial to the success of their business that they are able to allocate and deliver construction materials accurately, efficiently and on schedule. BisTrack is a powerful ERP software that facilitates enhanced mobility, accurate delivery and dispatch and much, much more for builders and timber merchants.
Two key challenges facing organisations within the builders’ and timber merchant sector are reliability and resilience, both of which can be overcome thanks to the business benefits of Azure.
How Can Azure Help Your Business with Reliability?
As a builders’ and timber merchant, you are required to handle large volumes of orders on a daily basis; this also means that you have to be able to adeptly process the information that comes with it. This can range from new product requests and dispatches to the delivery of materials for existing customers. Therefore, it is paramount to the success of your builders’ and timber merchant that your IT is reliable.
By hosting BisTrack on Azure, your organisation is able to benefit from the added reliability of its infrastructure. Excenta can connect all of your on-premises devices, from fax machines and printers to laptops to your Cloud infrastructure. This removes the complex barriers surrounding your business applications and systems, as you can simply rely on Azure’s innovative infrastructure. We can also set up a secure Cloud environment for your organisation, within Azure, so you can access all your core business applications in one, centralised location. Excenta will deploy and manage everything for you, including networking and servers, so you can rest assured that both are always running reliably and are fully optimised.
The Business Benefits of Azure for Enhanced Resilience
The resilience of your systems, as a builders’ and timber merchant, is crucial to your success. By hosting BisTrack on Azure, you can help improve archiving capabilities, performance and backup and security of data. Excenta are unique in offering both BisTrack and Azure expertise, despite them being deemed mutually exclusive solutions.
If you don’t have the proper infrastructure in place to store, sort, handle and index your legacy data, BisTrack will be unable to work at maximum capacity. However, with Excenta, your builders’ and timber merchant business can utilise the archive and performance monitor modules, along with Archive storage, provided by the Azure Cloud to create an optimised environment for archiving legacy data. This also boost the performance of BisTrack, speeding up processing requirements and bolstering the reliability of your systems.
There are a number of risks involved in storing your data on-premises, without the use of the Azure Cloud, as your data could be lost permanently as a result of system failures, natural disasters or a security breach, to name but a few causes. Excenta will migrate your applications, as well as your files and data, to the Cloud, where they’ll be store off-premises and operated through Azure. This is one of the many business benefits of Azure, and helps to increase reliability within your builders’ and timber merchant business.
It’s Time to Leverage the Business Benefits of Azure, with Excenta
While Microsoft Azure can boost both reliability and resiliency for builders’ and timber merchants, this is just the beginning of the business benefits of Azure. To find out how you can solve commonly faced struggles with the help of Azure, check out our eBook, today.