Business system hosting

Business system hosting involves purchasing or leasing the functionality of a particular system without the costs of having to invest in the infrastructure, support and maintenance of these systems. Essentially, we provide the servers, software, licensing, support and maintenance to keep these systems fully functioning. Therefore, you have access to the services without any of the associated headaches that will accompany them.

The benefits of hosting include:

• Minimise capital outlays for initial systems and future server and software upgrades
• Faster support and correction of problems
• Ability to access these services wherever you have a connection to the Internet
• Minimise or eliminate the need for in-house IT staff, training and system maintenance. Communicat provides system support, maintenance and data backup. Therefore, you will know your systems are running correctly and you can focus on your business as a service.

Increasing communication speeds and falling costs are leading companies to host their critical business systems with Communicat. Hosting is especially popular for businesses spread out over multiple locations. Companies are hosting a variety of systems categorised into the following functions:

• Business and Accounting Systems: Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains), Arrow Financials, Crystal Reports, Business Objects etc.
• e-Business and eCommerce Systems: ArrowShop, eShop etc.
• Email: Microsoft Exchange or generic email services
• Client Relationship Management: Microsoft Dynamics CRM (Microsoft CRM), ClientNet CRM etc.
• Data storage: Remote file server
• Web site hosting
• Replication: Have a remote backup location to mitigate risk of catastrophic failure, have a backup or failover email server, website, file server etc.