It’s no secret that many contemporary businesses are migrating their operations to the cloud to increase productivity.
For hire businesses, this means more efficient rental operations and enhanced collaboration between their teams. It also means increased visibility and more accurate business insights across your teams, from sales and drivers on the road to the back office and business owners, analysing their business data to design new strategies.
But what does this increased efficiency and connectivity mean for your business in the long run? It means a chance to expand your business, make your operations independent, and have all your important data backed up in one place.
It is reliable and affordable
A growing hire business means your operational needs are always in flux and your equipment and staff need to adjust to these changes so you can scale your capacity as required.
Cloud rental software makes it easy to adapt to these changing standards. For example, as your workforce and audience grow, you can swiftly add or remove users from your network without changing your existing software.
What’s more, cloud rental software can also manage remote access to your server from each site, enabling you to manage your hire business seamlessly from each depot.
Accessibility to your rental software solution is granted from anywhere at any time—this makes teams across every depot productive and efficient. This is particularly helpful if your hire company is still managing with minimal IT resources.
Growing businesses with limited budgets can use cloud solutions that can be scaled up to swiftly accommodate evolving business requirements.
You can ensure this scalability with minimal costs too. Reducing the need to hire more talent, in turn, means a decrease in your overhead and training costs.
The significantly low cost of ownership when you strip away the need to manage, customise, and support in-house applications or purchase hardware, software licences, and support, also makes cloud solutions a more profitable alternative.
It is time-efficient and productive
Cloud software frees your team from the responsibilities of having to look after and maintain your hardware and frees you of the long hours spent looking after it.
Instead, most contemporary cloud rental solutions, like the MCS Cloud, come with access to IT support experts, eliminating the need to recruit new talent or invest in third-party IT companies to manage your equipment rental software solution.
All your data will be fully managed by technicians and tech consultants, ensuring that your rental software always runs smoothly in the background as you focus on your scaling efforts.
Running a hire business from the cloud reduces the burden on companies that want to use their IT resource more strategically or start-ups that wish to avoid the overhead costs of recruiting and developing the necessary IT staff.
This enables hirers to spend less time managing their IT infrastructure and more time concentrating on their business strategies. Rental companies will also avoid the costly IT management surprises that can hit budgets hard.
It is efficient in keeping rental data secure
With the ability to access your equipment rental software solution from anywhere, 24/7, and on any device, you can ensure the consistency of your operations and empower your teams to work on actionable data without relying on the IT team.
A hybrid or a mobile workforce also increases connectivity and communication among your teams.
Everyone in the back office, those working from home, and even drivers on the road can access your systems with a mobile device and an internet connection—you can streamline operations, from optimising driver routes to monitoring asset delivery and pickup. This will enable your hire cycles to run as smoothly as possible.
Another plus of cloud rental software is that your data is protected at all times. In-built disaster recovery facilities and regular data back-ups make your hire data safe and secure.
Unlike manual records made on legacy systems, cloud data is less prone to be altered or lost. Even if your business premises face a disaster, you can still keep your business running from any other premises and reduce operational downtime.
Cloud rental software—keep your hire business live and running
COVID-19 made it apparent that businesses need to prepare for crises to ensure continuity.
By letting your hire business run from the cloud, you can rest assured that your operations always have their cogs turning—no matter the time or place.
As experts in cloud rental solutions, the MCS team can help you through the journey of upgrading your hire solutions and accelerating the growth of your hire business.