Pay as you go for the computing functions that you need now to run your business efficiently. Choose the services to suit your situation - email, document management, application hosting. Change your services to suit your changing situation - the choice and flexibility is yours. Take the worry out of buying and managing an in house server with Your Office Anywhere's managed service using Microsoft's SPLA licensing model.

A managed service is usually something that is considered by large corporate's with lots of money to spend on their I.T. systems, but a managed service provides "utility computing" and is now available to anyone from as little as £5.00 per user per month for a document management system.

You don't buy 1,000 gallons of water up front for the first 6 months of a year, you pay for this as you use it. Think of the solution as a tap - if you need more mail boxes or more users to access documents or more users to access applications, as you get more staff you turn the tap on and you pay for this monthly as you consume it, if you need to decrease the number of users, you remove the user from the system and no longer pay for his/her license and turn the tap off.

This is completely different from current licensing and infrastructure models. If a server is deployed to a customers office a server is specified based on the information the customer supplies plus the capability to scale - if the customer doesn't meet targets or exceeds them the customer ends up with either a server that is too powerful for their requirements and have paid for computing power and potentially licenses they no longer need. The opposite of this is also possible where the solution is not scaleable enough to meet the number of users they have unexpectedly grown to. As an example Small Business Server has a limitation of 75 users. A hosted solution can cope with either of these scalability issues. As an end user of the service you don't need to worry about how busy the server is, have you got the right number of Microsoft Client Access licenses for the application, is the server out warranty. the worries are endless.

The applications can be accessed from anywhere where there is a broadband connection. The system does not need any locally installed software so applications and email can be run from home, over a 3G connection on your laptop or even an internet café whilst on holiday!

The customer is always correctly licensed for Microsoft applications hosted at the data centre as this is part of your monthly payment - we report license usage to Microsoft at the end of each month and is a requirement as part of our license agreement with Microsoft. Neither you or Cardium own the licenses in effect they are leased.

The Data Centre is secure and has fire protection and UPS backup for the servers in case of power failure. Servers will close themselves down cleanly without loss of users data;

The Data Centre has tier 1 access to the internet with more than one provider for internet access;

Servers are security patched and monitored by a Microsoft Gold Partner with enterprise skills in terms of deploying these systems for corporate clients and ensuring the patch process doesn't break a customers application;

Servers and data is backed up to a locally to a backup server and then this is backed up to another backup server at a different location. All backups are held on disk which is more reliable than tape;

The solution does not need to have a server located in the office just PC's, a firewall and internet connection, where the PC's can be managed by a local PC support person rather than a large company.

Easier to manage - customers are not able to inadvertently change server configurations of SQL, VPN, exchange, backups, install additional software that is not compatible with the core customer application or install monthly security patches that breaks the system. The customer will have server side support from a Microsoft Gold Partner. Cardium should never need to visit the customer in this scenario as problems can be replicated in our offices in Burnley by connecting to the system in the same way the user does. In this way we can identify whether the issue is at the server or a configuration issue on a PC, unlike a customer owned server on their company property where a configuration change can mean that no access to support the system is available over the internet and a costly drive to attend on site is required by support staff

Upgrade to latest version of a product doesn't necessarily require costly new hardware at the customer's office to support this. Your Office Anywhere will implement the next version of say SQL (if this is a shared solution) and the user can manage the transition to the new system much more easily as it is all centralised, this enables the customer to migrate to the latest version of a product easily. The cost to the customer is the consultancy cost to migrate to the latest version of the application there are no associated licensing costs so the monthly charge will be the same from Your Office Anywhere as the customer is licensed to run on any version of a hosted product that they are paying a monthly rental for.

Still confused - see our FAQ's page or call our office here and someone will be more than happy to talk to you and explain any parts of the solution you don't understand.