SEMYOU: The Cloud Office of the Future
“Founded by Volker Jahns in 2008, SEMYOU enables a new way to efficiently incorporate the cloud into business, to lower costs and to increase flexibility.” There are a lot of companies that provide Cloud-Software. However, a firm needs more than one software product. Every company has different departments with different needs and different tasks to solve. The target of each CIO is to reduce IT-Costs. Handling plenty of different applications in an IT-Environment is expensive. Based out of San Francisco, USA, SEMYOU represents not only one product; it represents an APP-Suite. With SEMYOU, you have the opportunity to make your business more efficient with low investment and no effort. The idea for SEMYOU came to its founder Volker Jahns when he thought of having an App-Store for business apps. Instead of one big application that uses 10% of the functionality, the store would offer an app for each service of a company. The benefit would be: The Right APP for the Task you have to do. Initially, the company’s plan was to publish a cloud desktop with apps like Apple – just for the business and the desktop PC market. The first version was a Cloud-Desktop with a set of different APPS which the user could use. Over an App-Store, a couple of apps like Knowledge management, Cloud Storage and Project Management Software were provided. The company built a big research team that could investigate the needs of a company and its daily business there. The result was a new product (a new cloud app from SEMYOU). In 2008, the company built the first Cloud APPS. In the last couple of years, SEMYOU has grown up from zero to a company with over 500 employees and over 7 locations worldwide. With SEMYOU, customers have the opportunity to be agile, reduce their IT-Hardware costs up to 75%, reduce the resources for administration and have the right app for each task in a secure environment. SEMYOU Cloud Solutions SEMYOU provides a cloud framework for Enterprise-Cloud APPS and offers different BusinessCloud-APPS as well. The company focuses mainly only on SaaS (Software as a Service) and not on IaaS or PaaS. SEMYOU develops its own Business-APPS and doesn’t allow foreign apps like AppleStore or the Google Play Store. It currently provides over 30+ Enterprise Apps in the Cloud for different Needs. Each APP can be ordered and used with one-Click. It is just one click away to setup a global team or providing e.g. a Task-Management Tools to worldwide employees. Each APP can be rent monthly, starting from $5 per month per user. The idea is to use this service (APP) which one really needs, with no effort regarding downloading, installation or changing the hardware infrastructure. The company provides customers with its own App-Store from where they can easily order their required APPS.