Move to the cloud, lower costs and decrease downtime

SaaS stands for Software-as-a-Service. It’s a cloud-based licence model allowing you to access software applications over the internet.
There are many benefits to choosing SaaS solutions over traditional delivery models. For example, your software will be hosted, maintained and updated by your technology provider, so there’s less pressure on your internal resources.

There is also no need to invest in expensive servers or other infrastructure to use it – instead, you pay a subscription fee to your vendor partner.

SaaS solutions can be accessed via web browsers and mobile apps, meaning they are very flexible. In addition, your software isn’t tied to a single device or location, so it can easily scale as your company grows.

Software-as-a-Service delivers significant customer benefits. These advantages include:

• Low set-up and infrastructure costs: many SaaS solutions (including ShireSystem) are modular, so you only pay for what you need. This approach makes SaaS a cost-effective solution for companies of all sizes.
• Scalability: with SaaS, you can quickly adapt your requirements to the number of people who need to use your system.
• Accessible from anywhere: you can work wherever you want with SaaS technology: just connect to the internet via a desktop, laptop, tablet, mobile or other networked device.
• Better functionality: SaaS solutions can deliver features that were previously unavailable with on-premises software. For example, ShireSystem has been able to introduce Permit to Work, BI Connector and API capabilities.
• Automatic, frequent updates: some SaaS technology providers (including Elecosoft) will monitor customer feedback to develop and deploy useful new functions and features. It’s much simpler to develop industry best practices and share them with all software users.
• High security standards: regular, automatic updates mean SaaS software providers can keep pace with the latest security standards to ensure all users enjoy high security levels.
• Optimal performance: Elecosoft will monitor the performance of servers, networks and storage to optimise customer service.

With the right technology and best practices, SaaS can be far more secure than any on-premises application.

Elecosoft is ISO 27001 certified, which means that we follow industry-leading principles for managing security infrastructure, ensuring we are maintaining the highest levels of security and information compliance. Our security protocol includes: Encypting customer data, Monitoring, Virus Protection as well as Server Hardening/Patching (ensures the security of your ShireSystem). Please ask if you’d like more detail about this.

Your ShireSystem will be hosted in secure UK-based Microsoft Azure data centres.

Getting you onto our cloud service is simple – hundreds of Elecosoft customers have already migrated.

Once you have finalised your new contract and commercials with our Customer Success team or your Account Manager, the ShireSystem support team will work with you to take a copy of your ShireSystem data. Once your IT have taken a back-up of your data and documents, this will be securely transferred to our cloud environment, and we will configure your SaaS Cloud Hosted ShireSystem.

The migration process will vary from customer to customer, depending on the complexity of your environment. However, we migrate most of our customers within just a few hours (usually less than half a day).

Backups are managed as a service within Azure cloud.  It is a fully managed SQL Server database service that offers an enterprise end-to-end backup and disaster recovery solution.

Recurrent database snapshots are taken and then all transactions are recorded allowing any point-in -time restore over the last 35 days.  Additionally, databases are configured to be taken once a week and stored for 6 weeks and a further backup is taken once a month and stored for 6 months.