Application managed services – a simple, effective form of enterprise IT

Enterprise software is not as well-known as the programmes that frequently accompany the purchase of a new home or small-office computer. Home computer users are largely familiar with word processing and spread sheet software, as well as email, web browsers and digital photography tools.

Enterprise applications, whilst not nearly as well-known, nonetheless play an equally pivotal role in our daily lives. These powerful backroom database-driven programmes influence how we plan and book our travel, our hospital visits, our ATM transactions and our weekly shopping, to name just a few examples.

Such applications, when running smoothly, interact effortlessly with our everyday lives – so effortlessly in fact that we often forget they are even there. However, behind the scenes, they require considerable management and support. Traditionally, companies have chosen to run software packages, such as accounting and procurement programmes, in-house. The in-house provision will often include hardware and will require a skilled support team who will be an integral part of the company.

However, the digital revolution has ushered in a different but equally, if not more, effective means of IT provisioning. Enhanced business internet connectivity and increasingly sophisticated browser based interfaces have facilitated a relatively new method of delivering IT software: application managed services.

At Interoute Application Management, one of the UK’s leading application support providers, we specialise in powerful, yet flexible, application support services. In an application managed services arrangement, a whole application is ported in its entirety from its in-house base to an external data centre. The client company then uses the application via a secure internet connection through a web browser interface. For the large, busy enterprise, hardware management concerns become a thing of the past and the total cost of ownership goes down.

Moreover, enterprises will benefit from our expert 24/7 support, driven by deep knowledge of and experience with these complex data-driven applications.

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