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The Business Benefits of InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite
Experts agree that there are many business benefits to running a business via Software as a Service (SaaS). These include lower cost of ownership, access to state of the art versions of your application, faster time to implementation and access to a superior computing environment than most companies can provide for themselves. Equally compelling is the concept of focus within your company: the ability to focus on your business and not be distracted by the upheavals of managing a technology infrastructure and the IT staff to keep it under control.
Let’s look at the principle benefits of InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite SaaS model.
Smart Enterprise Suite Advantage 1: Cost of Ownership
The cost of initial start-up may be the most well-known in cost savings with InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite. Because the subscription model for licensing provides predictable costs “not possible with licensed software” budgeting and planning is easier and more reliable.
According to The Gartner Group, application outsourcing can reduce total cost of ownership by 50 percent or more. InfoStrength provides the data center, network and management services and thus provides cost avoidance, freeing companies from capital investments, upgrade and ongoing management costs.
Technical staff time is also saved because the InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite only requires a web browser to access. Unlike the client/server models in which an administrator has to load code on each client workstation or laptop, and the time to upgrade all of a company’s client devices can be significant.
For the CFO, another compelling point: the cost of InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite is entirely predictable and lives on the expense line, which is vastly different from that of on-premise capital investment solutions. For the CFO the cost of access is an operating expense with a minimal impact on the bottom line.
Smart Enterprise Suite Advantage 2: Faster Time to Implementation
The time to deploy an application determines just how quickly the organization can benefit from it. Unfortunately, the complexity of many implementations will take months to complete. Organizations often find that they simply cannot upgrade infrastructures, adopt and deploy new technology fast enough to keep pace with their business needs.
InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite allows you to move at the speed of business, unencumbered by hardware, software, network and staffing constraints. Typical implementations of InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite take three to five business days. As a result, organizations can focus on the competitiveness of the operations, rather than IT.
Smart Enterprise Suite Advantage 3: Enhanced Scalability
Companies expand and decrease in size over time. While most proponents of the SaaS model talk about the ability to seamlessly add employees over time, it is important to note that both business expansion and contraction is accommodated easily with the SaaS model. The InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite is designed for rapid scaling; SES is immediately available to new users when it is needed, giving organizations the flexibility to expand operations without waiting for their IT infrastructure to catch up. This guarantee is not possible in any other business model today.
Smart Enterprise Suite Advantage 4: Improved Data Security
A company’s corporate jewel is their Intellectual Properties. However, many mid-sized companies lack the ability for reliable failsafe backup capabilities.
With InfoStrength’s Smart Enterprise Suite we are able to provide far more resources and extensive data security than a single company can provide for itself. Our computer centers are guarded and secured. As a result businesses that deploy InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite enjoy a much higher level of security that they could ever on their own.
Smart Enterprise Suite Advantage 5: Validated and New Functionality
The InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite hosted environment is continuously maintained in a validated state. With over 1,000 test scripts all upgrades are fully tested and for validation readiness and the highest documented quality before any clients are upgraded.
Smart Enterprise Suite Advantage 6: Business Predictability
Uncertainty is the hallmark of IT projects: as many as 60 percent are not completed on time, on budget, or at all. Applications, particularly those that are business critical, must reliably perform the function for which they are needed, at the level of service that is required. InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite delivers service level at 99.9% system uptime.
Smart Enterprise Suite Advantage 7: Business Control
InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite makes it far simpler to integrate employees, customers, suppliers and partners into a collaborative business model by providing a user name and password with web browser access.
Conclusion
InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite is positioned to allow small and mid-sized companies to run their business with state of the art technology just like the Fortune companies. InfoStrength Smart Enterprise Suite lowers cost of business solutions ownership and provides predictability of costs over time. It provides more rapid implementation with improved security, performance and availability anywhere anytime via a web browser.