Why Email is Bad for Your Business

Email is a very powerful tool: used correctly it helps businesses develop and grow beyond traditional boundaries. Used incorrectly - as is increasingly becoming the case - email presents some geniune challenges for your business. Challenges that could leave you in trouble in the years ahead.

Email is the best loved and most used internet application in any business. Millions of emails are exchanged each day, and even within the smallest enterprise, thousands can change hands over the course of just a few weeks.

The genius of email is its ease of use. Virtually anyone can use email, and the benefits for communicating quickly and effectively cannot be overlooked.

The Challenges

The problem is that email has become the de facto file system of many businesses. And this raises a number of difficult questions for information accessibility, availability, and security.

• Wrapped up as attachments to emails, documents are stored on a single user's computer, but can these be accessed by colleagues?
• When a colleague leaves or ill, can others access the information stored in their inbox?
• Multiple copies of documents are often exchanged and difficulties arise as to which version is authoritative. Who has the latest version?
• As email systems become increasingly clogged with information, how easy is it to find the information you need?
• As email is often stored centrally, how easy is it to access the documents it contains offsite?
• Does email often short-circuit your workflow/quality processes?
  
• Email is often stored on laptops, but these are inherently insecure, so how secure are your documents?

The Ice³ Online Collaboration is specifically designed deal with these concerns. Not to do away with email, but to provide a secure, accessible environment where documents and information can be exchanged openly and accessibly to all who need it.

Click here to find out more, to see how your business can benefit.

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