Over recent years, the public sector has progressed with the world’s technological advancements. However, as the world has moved into cloud-based solutions, large swathes of the public sector have failed to keep up.
There are many benefits of migrating to the cloud — many of which would help streamline processes throughout organisations and push the public sector forward through inefficiencies that are currently holding it back.
In this blog, we’re going to go over the technological needs of the public sector — looking at how the cloud can have many benefits throughout different parts of the public sector and help you take the next step into the future.
While providing great public services, the public sector has benefitted from knowledgeable tech enthusiasts providing great digital services for their specific subsectors.
However, on a wider scale, the public sector has faltered in introducing digital solutions into public organisations. In the 2021 State of the Digital Nation report, five key findings were made regarding public sector organisations and technology —
The cloud helps enable the future of modern businesses, as all of these findings can benefit from the cloud in one way or another. With the power and versatility of modern cloud-based technology, it’s easy to see why organisations worldwide are opting for the cloud as their main infrastructural solution.
Any organisation thrives on good communication and collaboration capabilities. The cloud fully enables communication and collaboration throughout your organisation in a flexible manner.
Collaboration has never been easier — with your organisation’s files in the cloud, sharing them with collaborators and colleagues is simple. In programs such as Microsoft Office, you can also collaborate freely in real-time, making collaboration far more productive and efficient.
Communications are vital to any organisation — the cloud unlocks communication abilities by giving free and versatile access to your organisation’s systems wherever they are, allowing them to remotely communicate with others while never losing the ability to access what they need.
On-prem systems are costly. The capital expenditure that comes with buying and maintaining the server hardware — as well as buying hardware that will perform well enough for your team to use — is quite expensive.
The cloud completely mitigates this, as you’re never paying for any hardware — simply for the service provided by the cloud provider. This works out cheaper in the long run, as the many costs associated with on-prem hardware simply disappear — meaning you can allocate that expenditure elsewhere.
Modern organisations worldwide are constantly under threat of attack. Especially in the public sector — where organisations oversee critical services — security planning is becoming increasingly important.
The cloud naturally improves your security posture significantly. As your data is stored on the servers of the cloud provider, they’re basically impossible to breach and so you can ensure that your organisation won’t have any physical data breaches and extractions.
The cloud enables employees to work more flexibly and with more versatility, including remote working and working from any device.
This means they can ultimately be more productive, as working how they want will ultimately boost morale and efficiency which will be beneficial for everyone.
Just like on-prem hardware is expensive, it’s also very difficult to scale. This is because you can’t really scale down, and scaling up means buying more hardware that your organisation won’t be able to scale back down.
With a cloud-based service, scaling up and down is a matter of a few clicks. There’s no need to invest in hardware, and you can make your spending far more versatile and suited to your needs by scaling effectively.
Data is one of the world’s most important resources, and so being able to fully access data that is enabled by the cloud will help you make more informed decisions for your organisation.
Cloud-enabled data services and analytics will let you set up automated data tracking algorithms and other AI-powered services that will even further help your organisation truly prosper.
The public sector isn’t adjusting to technological advancements and needs as well as it could be — migrating to the cloud is one of the major ways that organisations can unlock their full potential and take a step into the modern technological world.
If you’re looking to get started with the cloud, reach out to us. With our many years of public sector experience, we’re here to help you through the whole process and our team of experts will provide you with a guiding hand to ensure that your business truly prospers going forward.