<p>Several small and medium businesses (SMBs) across India have adopted IBM Cloud to transform their IT, enhance organisational collaboration, and provide better services to customers. SEL Group, Polytech Instruments and Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) will use IBM Connections Cloud, enabling them to significantly reduce operational costs and improve productivity. <br> <br>IBM Connections Cloud is a set of cloud-delivered online technologies that combine social networking and online collaboration, messaging, and web conference tools. The cost-effective social network platform enables organizations deepen customer relationships, increase effectiveness, optimize workforces and reduce IT costs and complexity. Using these collaborative tools, employees will be able to provide a better experience and superior support by being able to tap into internal experts, information, and resources.<br> <br>Each of the aforementioned companies have facilities across India and abroad and each turned to Connections Cloud to develop better collaboration and integration among employees and between business groups.<br> <br>"Enterprises, small or large, are harnessing the benefits of cloud computing. They face challenges around reliability, standards, security, and control in truly extending the use of cloud beyond IT. IBM Connections Cloud provides easy-to-access integrated email, social business capabilities and third-party applications along with its enterprise grade security and control. This will help these SMBs to overcome the challenge of optimizing workforce with minimal IT spend, with client delight in mind, "said Gaurav Sharma, Director, Social Solutions, Smarter Workforce & Internet of Things, IBM India/SA.<br><br>(BW Online Burea)</p>
