I'm thinking of starting the move to online software but have a few fairly obvious concerns, including concerns about issues I might not yet have identified!
What performance related issues bother you while selecting Cloud Computing for your Accounting needs?
Cloud Computing or SaaS we know is upcoming trend for accountants and bookkeepers for maintain and running business. Are you bothered about the performance related issues with the service providers? What are your performance related threats from the service providers? Threats like:
- Data Privacy: as for companies (clients of accountants) accounting data privacy is very important.
- Availability of services and/or data
- Integrity of services and/or data
- Confidentiality of corporate data
- Repudiation of problems
- Loss of control of services and/or data
- Lack of liability of providers in case of security incidents
- Inconsistency between transnational laws and regulations
- Unclear scheme in the pay per use approach
- Uncontrolled variable cost
- Cost and difficulty of migration to the cloud (legacy software etc...)
- Intra-clouds (vendor lock-in) migration
How have you tackled these threats?