What is remote workforce development planning?
A Business Continuity Plan that ensures that employees do not have to relearn a new suite of productivity software but carry on with the familiarity of current software – but on Cloud! This cuts recovery time in fours and saves the funds that would have been allocated and spent on retraining!
Business Continuity Plan
A Business Continuity Plan that ensures remote workforces are able to work from home, at same or greater speed and security for confidential documents and office resources at an assured level. One of the ways is through a VDI Solution for employees.
All the tools and applications used for daily operation of businesses are all available and accessible in/from an infrastructure known as the Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). VDI on-demand virtual desktop embedded in a central server that becomes available when requested by an employee. With little or no access to COBO (Company-Owned, Business-Only) and/or COPE (Company-Owned, Personally Enabled) device options in this dire time and state of emergency, there is the need for BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) option that pulls from a VDI solution and offers safety if a cyber or security issue occurs. Any approved device-type will serve all-in-one desktop, laptop, tablet or a smartphone. In addition to the safety a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure brings, this option aids businesses save costs and extend its financial runway while an anti-virus is being developed for Covid-19; additionally, it ensures collaborative management from a single source.
With a Business Continuity Plan, your businesses are built with considerations for adaptability and sustenance of business activities in the times of crisis: physical crisis, social crisis, environmental crisis, cyber crisis, biological crisis (like the COVID-19 pandemic), et al. This combines smart thinking, systems, policies and courses of actions for the “rainy day” to ensure that there is no service failure for any of those involved in your businesses: customers, partners, employees, investors, suppliers and other external stakeholders like our local communities, financial houses and government.
While it is broad in nature, the BCP helps smoothen communication within our business organizations while maintaining the organizational efficiency in times of a disaster. It is more operational and tactical than strategic. The specific advantages, however, range from budget savings and cash reserve, to cloud based application accessibility and support and empowered remote workforce & enhanced security
As a SaaS (Software as a Service), Microsoft Office 365’s Enterprise suite of services is ready to deploy to the VDI solution via cloud. With these Office apps: Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneDrive, SharePoint, Teams and Exchange, collaboration on familiar software productivity terrains can be set up at affordable rates for employees in other areas globally and Version Control as is on GitHub is attainable with SharePoint.
When it comes to interaction that feels almost close to the real deal (face to face meetings), Microsoft Teams is capable of hosting meetings for up to 10,000 people and unlimited video conferences in high definition for up to 250 people.