Software as a Service (SaaS): Taking your servers to a safer place
An application hosting provider hosts and manages software applications for multiple customers from a central location.
Time to Break the Shackles of Hardware Dependency
The thought of adding a new software program can make your head swim. You can spend thousands of dollars for the license, more for hardware upgrades, and even more than that on the costs of actual implementation.
How in the world are you supposed to fund the technical staff necessary to maintain your new solution without breaking your budget?
Perhaps it’s time to break the chains that shackle your company to its hardware and think about an Application Hosting Provider.
Application Hosting Providers, Defined
An application hosting provider hosts and manages software applications for multiple customers from a central data center. Businesses and their clients can access the applications they need via the Internet or through server-based devices such as cell phones and personal digital assistants. In many cases, the application host owns (and sometimes even develops) the software and hardware. They also hire and manage the staff required to support it.
Access Technology Group has a staff of trained professionals dedicated to the design, development, implementation and training necessary for deploying virtually any software solution that your company requires – without all the hassle of trying to deploy a similar solution out of your office.
Think about it: do you really want to take on the expenses and hassles – your money and time – of acquiring, deploying, upgrading, and maintaining everything yourself? Why?
With the fast-paced improvements of today's technological sectors, bringing high-speed Internet into most offices in America, any barriers that might have prevented this type of application hosting model five years ago have now all but vanished entirely.
It's more efficient to "farm it out"
Truthfully, there once was a time where companies were understandably reticent to deploy the cornerstone software essential to day-to-day operations at an off site location. However, the products offered in the modern market combined with the power of a lightning-fast Internet connection on every workstation in the nation has given rise to an era where the most portable, reliable and deployable software solutions are entrusted to companies that have built their businesses around them.
Incredible Results at a Reasonable Cost
Our infrastructure is monitored 24/7/365 by an automated alerting and notification system providing us with up-to-the-minute reports on the status of over 150 aspects of our network to ensure that issues are mitigated before they impact your business.
In other words, for just a fraction of what it would cost to create such a system internal to your company, you are provided with the peace of mind that comes with data that doesn't get corrupted or "lost", services that are there when you need them, and servers that don’t get hacked and leak information. Pre-empt a headache before it can manifest.
Is SaaS is the Right Choice to Make?
The task of properly analyzing your current application deployment model is no small affair, requiring both clear thinking and a measured, deliberate approach. When you evaluate the goals and objectives of your business to determine what elements are working most efficiently for you and which are not, how do your hardware & software solutions fit into the equation?
Consider your overall business strategy when contemplating this decision. One of the most important points to evaluate is whether outsourcing can work into that strategy: the culture, environment and methodologies of your business will need to allow for the possibility of change. You must be confident that senior management figures in your company are capable of being flexible before making a large-scale change to any of your business methods.
Does it Represent a Loss of Control?
Even when your hardware and software are deployed inside brick-and-mortar facilities not owned by your company, the ability to micro manage every single detail, no matter how large or small, remains in your hands.
Knowing that, ask yourself:
Is that really something I want to have to do?
Why concern yourself with matters that do not relate to the regular operation of your business, like installing service packs on your operating system to ensure that it is secure, or updating a software suite to the latest version so your people can use all of the features they need to get the job done?
You won't be losing any control over the things that really matter. All your business truly ends up losing is one more thing to worry about – and a truckload of things that would have been placed on your to-do list.
Application Hosting allows you and your business to focus on your core components: the things that you got into business to do.
To keep all of your software and hardware in-house – to continue to manage these operations yourself, instead of putting them in the hands of industry professionals – you're looking at costs associated with the software packages you'll need to keep buying each time the latest edition of anything comes out. You have to consider the hardware requirements of those software packages, and any expenses entailed therein.
Of course, there's also the cost of hiring one or more people to manage that hardware and software – and if your company requires a programmatical powerhouse to go about its daily operations, you may find yourselves requiring an enormous IT department.
Even if your business requires only one person to service all of your technological needs, consider what that person's schedule will end up looking like if something goes wrong: what could have otherwise been an easily fixed hard drive failure on a server with the necessary redundancy features and the right support team to maintain it ends up becoming a nightmare for your company.
You might even end up having to pay various temporary technicians to resolve the issue – and you're going to pay them not only for the time it takes to fix the problem, but also the time it takes for them to learn your system.
Opt for Predictability. Opt for Ease of Use.
Your business is your business. Helping you go about your business practices each day – well, that’s our business.
Access Technology Group can give you what you need to make your company's need for the latest and greatest in cutting-edge technology one less thing that you have to worry about. We make sure you have the best the market has to offer. We make sure that you’re up and running quickly, efficiently and reliably.
In short – we make doing business easier.