Pay as you Go Computing

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 YourOffice 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. A typical hosted desktop system is around £30.00-£40.00 per user per month including office licenses and running a dedicated server with business applications

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 (old) 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.

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.