Even a small number of repositories can create a large amount of admininstration. They need to be created and configured, backed-up, new users need to have complicated ODBC settings created, and network firewalls may even need to be changed.

By putting all this in the cloud, you have a simpler setup which is easier to maintain. Now everyone can have access to any of the repositories they need, and all the data is saved in a secure location.

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