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Stitching the Cloud Together

No one system, app or technology can provide the functionality and productivity that multiple systems can. But the time spent on linkages, transfers, and learning can make committing to one technology seem appealing.

Two new technologies handle the linkages and transfers beautifully. On the personal level, there is IFTTT (www.ifttt.com). This app migrates information, tasks, and your social cloud content from system to system; reducing duplicative efforts and moving your social content to where it can be most productive. Using relationships and actions as a trigger to click off custom processes. You can create recipes that automate the transfer of social and cloud content. When this blog is posted, we can create a tweet and a post on our company Facebook page automatically.

At the enterprise level, this customization and linkages continue. Zapier (www.zapier.com) provides the transactions between cloud systems. Migrating information and transactions from hundreds of cloud systems through APIs. If your Sales is using Salesforce to track programs and contacts, information and messages can be migrated from that system to the marketing and design groups’ Basecamp discussions.

Cloud customization will enable these transactional linkages and bring new functionality and levels of productivity to your organization. The challenge then becomes training and learning. As you string together cloud technologies to meet your unique processes, focus on creating custom training materials to support your users understanding of your unique process. By creating customized materials, you can call out the specific details used in the process and simplify standard materials down to the necessary functionality. This greatly increases adoption, usage, and productivity. Here you can create expertise in your unique process and not expertise standard systems.

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