Trust is something that is regularly put to the test and has become the very thing businesses have to rely on in this day and age.

Moving into the cloud is increasing your work speed, making your business more flexible and, ultimately, boosting productivity. However, according to Rob Stone, national partner director at Xero, Australia, “it requires a huge leap of faith” due to the number of adjustments that existing firms have to make. 

“At last, the argument of whether a small business should or shouldn’t be operating in the cloud has been put to bed. The cloud has won,” says Gary Turner, co-founder and managing director at Xero UK.

A lot of the technological conveniences we enjoy today were but mere glimmers in the eyes of their creators in the late 90s. In 1997, the majority of people were still on dial-up Internet, Amazon was still basically an online bookstore, Netflix had just begun developing a mail-order DVD rental service and we were a decade away from being introduced to our first iPhone.