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384 coaching , differentiating the firm from its competitors . “ We can surround our clients with resources which can guide them along and motivate them to change proactively ,” he adds .
As well as enabling its customers to advance their operations , Ingram Micro is working towards the same goal of innovating its functions internally . “ We ’ re changing our business model and evolving to the cloud . We previously had large data centres with IT infrastructure that serviced the entire company . As an example , we recently moved the entire company to Microsoft Office 365 instead of hosting the solutions ourselves . We also standardized the entire company on Microsoft Dynamics CRM , versus hosting our own .”
With cloud adoption increasing at such a rapid rate , one of the company ’ s biggest challenges is to compete with other businesses taking advantage of the advancement . “ Everybody understands the opportunity and is pursuing it . Ingram Micro envisioned this opportunity before our competitors and started delivering cloud services about 12 years ago . We certainly
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