Your AI in the cloud or in your office? Azure or Ollama, without the jargon.
Before choosing an AI tool there is a more important question: where your data will live. The two options we use, what each is for and how to decide.
The momentThe question nobody asks at the start
Your team already uses AI to draft emails or summarise documents. It works, and someone suggests going further: letting it answer with contracts, price lists or customer histories. That is when the question that should have come first appears: where is that data stored and who can see it?
It is not a technical question. It is a business decision, and it has two good answers depending on your case.
The two optionsIn the cloud or in your own office
In the cloud, with Microsoft Azure: AI models run in a business-grade environment, with per-user access and data in the region you choose. You do not run servers and it grows with you. In your office, with Ollama: models run on your own machines, with no outside connection. Data never leaves your company.
The best AI for your company is the one that works where your data is allowed to be.
How to decideFour questions that make it clear
How we do itProcess first, technology second
In our AI consulting we start by understanding how you work and where time gets lost. With that, we choose with you where the AI lives and put it to work: assistants with your company documents, automation of repetitive tasks and integration with your CRM.
