Flexibility to grow: providing the ability to scale the business

Applied Cloud provides brokers freedom from the office. With mobility, employees can work from home or meet clients whilst always being connected to the business. “You go out to the customer, you have a laptop, you get it all of the information inputted into your system there and then,” said Emma Gollogly, financial advisor and general manager, Gollogly Insurances Ltd. “It just makes the process a lot faster, which in turn helps grow the business.” Rather than gathering all of the information outside of the system and risking errors and omissions, brokers can bring the system with them via their laptops and serve customers anytime, anywhere. “It’s like a one-stop shop for everything,” Emma continued. “You’re not leaving the cloud, that’s where you remain for the day. Everything you need is there.” Brokers can access documents and information from various applications held in the cloud at any point, eliminating the time spent manually switching from one platform to the next to retrieve information.

The flexibility and scalability delivered from the cloud also provide opportunities that on-premise servers would not be able to offer the broker. “Relay being on the cloud will help grow our business,” Emma explained. “If we wanted to open a second office, it would be possible because of Relay Cloud. On a server, it would be like running two separate companies out of two separate offices. It wouldn’t be possible. The cloud makes growth possible.”