Productivity Cloud Services

Software as a Service (SaaS) allows you to introduce a new way of running and managing your applications.

By putting them into the Cloud you instantly eliminate the expensive license demands you face each year.

You now pay for what you use and no longer need to worry about license renewals; whether you are infringing licenses; what platform do you need to run the application; what do you need to do for additional employees; and so on.

We work with a number of major organizations to offer an extensive number of applications that can be provided via the Cloud.

Give us a call to discuss what applications are causing you the biggest headache and let's discuss how we can help.

Examples where we can help:

Microsoft Applications

Embracing Cloud allows you to implement all your critical MS applications without having to buy and manage anything.

All key applications can be provided as a Cloud based service allowing you to forget about operational problems and pay for what you need.

Cloud services are available for:

MS Exchange
MS Office
MS CRM
MS Collaboration
PC Management & Security

Thin Client remote working

More and more organizations are taking advantage of home working and hot desking. Similarly, it is no longer necessary to maintain expensive servers at every branch office or remote location.

Virtualization has allowed physical resources to be efficiently shared and distributed to end users and this now extends to allowing thin client remote workers the capability of working on whatever they need, wherever they are and whenever they want.

The benefits include:

Reducing cost of physical infrastructure requirements
Lower software licensing costs
A truly mobile workforce
Improved security as only changed data is sent to remote users

It also becomes future proof as new functionality or necessary scalability is transparently executed within the Cloud.

2D/3D Visualisation

We can also take the thin client Cloud model to another level. Until recently, if you needed your remote workers to run high performance graphics, 2D/3D modelling or visualisation, then you had the cost and management issues of supplying expensive high end workstations and ensuring an equally costly high speed communications pipe to each location.

New technology has moved things on and all you need now is modest bandwidth and a fairly standard thin client platform to perform even the most demanding graphics based application. However, creating an infrastructure and maintaining it could be very complex and difficult to manage.

Our deep technical background means we have developed a lot of expertise and knowedge in this area which we are using to create Cloud based services to deliver a high specification solution but which removes all the headaches for you.

So whether data interpretation, data modelling or animation development, cost reduction can be dramatic. We will be happy to show you how.

Data Loading

In Oil & Gas E&P environments, the traditional approach for loading seismic data into applications for a new project is to find an experienced geologist and hire them for several months.

We have an alternative Cloud service. You can look upon it a the "shoe elf" service of the Information Management world!

Give us temporary and controlled remote access to your environment, tell us where the data is and leave the rest to us. Overnight when the systems are quiet we connect to your environment and start the data loading. When you arrive in the morning, the job is done and the elves are nowhere to be seen.

Adopting a serious note again, though, you save money and time without the inconvenience of having to go search for and find the right person. A task that is increasingly more difficult as experienced resources become harder to find.

Geophysics & Geology Applications

G&G applicartion licenses can be expensive, especially for small or mid-sized oil & gas companies. Often it would be much more advantageous if you could just pay for your usage. It may be that you use applications such as Petrel, Openworks or Kingdom, etc., but only as required rather than on a daily basis.

We can offer a Cloud service whereby you access these applications but pay for them on a monthly basis thereby reducing cost and eliminating operational overheads.

This lowers cost as you no longer need to own the applications nor pay recurring support charges.

We are working in partnership with the Global leaders in Oil & Gas services to offer new ways of provding core services.

Portfolio Applications

Just because you may be a big user of SAP, Oracle or other CRM, ERP, etc., type applications doesn't mean that you cannot exploit the Cloud.

Cloud based services exist for all major applications whatever the size or complexity.

Digital Asset Preservation

All organizations have valuable Intellectual Property wrapped up in the information they own, use and collect.

Sadly, this information is often neglected and poorly managed with the real potential value not appreciated. However, many organizations are now beginning to investigate how they can preserve this data for long periods or, in many cases, for ever.

This is not simply a case of archiving data, it also has to cover a number of other considerations. For example, ensuring the stored data remains accessable (if it is stored on tape media, that media needs to be regularly refreshed). Another consideration is that the data needs to be kept in sync with new application releases so that it can still be read in the future. These are just a few considerations that need to be taken into account.

This is a complex business but fortunately we can help.

Our AssetGrid solution will allow you to implement a digital preservation infrastructure. If the management implications are daunting we can offer a Cloud service.

In fact, we can offer a full Cloud Service whereby we install an appliance on site and your information is transparently pushed into the Cloud and automatically replicated for maximum protection. But, it remains easily available either directly or via a web service.

Or we can deliver as a hybrid service whereby we can either provide you with infrastructure or help you create it and then set you up to replicate into our Cloud and take care of the complex stuff for you.

Give us a call and we can explore the options with you.