VERBI GmbH is the software provider of MAXQDA, a software to support academic, scientific and business institutions in their daily research with worldwide distributed teams. To support the team work of their customers, VERBI developed with MAXQDA TeamCloud a cloud strategy for a frictionless collaborate work on common research tasks between members of the research teams. This strategy shall be developed entirely in the public cloud. VERBI chose YOTRON as their consultant to introduce the public cloud into their strategy because of our experience in Cloud topics.