How well would your company do if you left your industry-specific applications, or custom apps, behind when you moved to a cloud configurations? You wouldn’t be in a cloud, you’d be up a creek.
Yet very few companies that sell what they call “managed hosting,” or “cloud computing” can let you migrate all of your applications in a way that lets them work as well, or better, than they do right now in your office. In fact, some "hosting" companies have serious applications hosting limitations.
At External IT, nearly every one of our clients relies on applications that are either specific to their industry, or custom-designed and specific to their business. As you may have read elsewhere on this site, these applications can be Windows-based or Web-based. With External IT, you can run both, whether SaaS or private install, alongside each other.
As we’re on the subject of SaaS, why make your employees go to eight different locations for their various applications? With External IT, and the OS33 Portal Desktop, everything is right in front of them, ready to go.
Custom Applications
We support all specific-line-of-business applications. When we say "all", we're talking 100% of what any client anywhere in the world could conceivably need. We're talking about a number that no one can beat, and many companies can't match.
No one can say they've seen every possible application configuration under the sun, but we’ve seen every possible configuration under the moon and the stars.
Every day, we work with applications that run the gamut. These include:
| WE WELL KNOWYOUR APPLICATIONS | |
|---|---|
| ERP | |
| CRM | |
| Accounting | |
| Securities Trading Platforms | |
| Legal Case Management | |
| Database Applications | |
| Any custom web-based or Windows-based application | |
Windows-based applications hosting with Citrix and OS33
Think of an application, off-the-shelf or custom, requiring SQL Server, Oracle, another database engine, middleware, you name it. Citrix reaches out from wherever you’re working, into the cloud, and makes the connection as if the application were right there on your desktop, locally hosted.
Increasingly, the story in the press is how many small to midsize businesses are relying on web applications, both SaaS and private installations. But as web applications proliferate, and challenge network capabilities, many hosting companies struggle to deliver a reliable high-performance experience.
Not so with External IT.
There are a number of ways we can help you in hosting your private, web-based applications.
| Improve Performance | Improving performance is always a good thing. External IT guarantees fast access and 99.99% uptime. How can we do this? By accelerating applications, using load balancing and intelligent content switching. |
| Secure Information | As you’ll read in our Availability and Security section of the site, External IT can give you whatever level of security you need. We can protect against malicious attacks and eliminate password misuse by automating and centralizing password management. |
| Optimize Bandwidth | We can do this for you by leveraging advanced multi-level compression and through dynamic content caching. We can also minimize network latency in remote offices by reducing, and compressing, WAN traffic over capacity-constrained networks. |
Our solutions use the most practical, cost-effective, and proven methodology and architecture being implemented today. They’ll save you money, and give you real flexibility to help you grow. We see it every day, in every business category.
Installation, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
You can use in-house systems managers to handle this work, 3rd party consultants, or do as many of our clients do and have us take responsibility for your applications. It’s entirely up to you, and a function of the resources you have available.
Here is but a small sample of the business office productivity applications we host.
| CLIENT APPLICATIONSA SMALL SAMPLING | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Adobe Acrobat Pro Adobe Graphics Suite ACT Adobe Agency Allocation Master Amicus Autodesk AS400 Client Access Blackberry Enterprise BusinessWorks CardScan Case Aware ClickYes Custom App CreateACheck Crystal Reports Crystal CRD |
CS Accounting CS UltraTax Dimension Returns DicksonWare Docuware Dreamweaver Dymo Label Exchange E-Z 2000 EZ Claim FAS 100 FedEx ShipManager File Manager FileMaker Pro FileZilla Fishbowl Foxit FrontPage |
FRX Goldmine Hyperion InfoPath IPM iRebal Laserte Tax Laser Fiche MapPoint MAS90, MAS200, MAS500 Microsoft Office Microsoft Outlook Microsoft Dynamics Microsoft Project Morningstar Moozie Oracle Peachtree |
Perfect Practice Picture Manager Portfolio Center ProSeries QuarkXPress Quickbooks QuickLaw SalesLogix SAP BusinessOne SAS Sharepoint SharePoint Designer Symantec SQL Server Timberline TimeClock UPS WorldShip Visio |
