Microsoft has posted a case study from the non-profit sector in the UK demonstrating the speed and benefits of deploying cloud services for smaller organisations

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Microsoft has posted  case study from the UK – Wellbeing of Women using Office 365

Small-business focused but highlights some of the benefits of work being in the cloud and the speed of getting up and running compared to the time required to establish traditional on-premise infrastructure to support communications, productivity and collaborative working

The real test came in May 2013, when we relocated to new offices on Oxford Street, London. It took 2 weeks for our ADSL to be connected, but we continued to work simply with our smartphones and 4G laptop dongles, we could access email and work on documents