On-site or On-demand?

Upgrade your systems, extend the reach of your business and respond rapidly to changing market demand.

EDP has specialised in delivering information solutions to merchants for over 40 years, both as hosted services (the company was founded as a computer bureau service in 1965) and through the implementation of on-site systems. We are therefore ideally placed to advise on the appropriate solution for your business.

The answer to the question "which is best?" will depend upon several factors and our team of consultants will be happy to meet with you in order to assess your requirements. Our Network Services team has delivered customer support services covering mainframe computing to the latest 'smartphone' technology and can offer comprehensive advice. Individual organisations have unique requirements and Quantum VS may be deployed either locally or in a hosted environment and each implementation is tailored accordingly. Choosing solutions, appropriate both for today and into the future can be an extremely challenging task. Sound advice is critically important and EDP can offer unrivalled experience to any merchant business.

EDP's Application Hosting Services

For companies wishing to contract-out technical resources, EDP's application hosting facility delivers the benefits of the 'On-demand' model. Computer technology continues to develop and become ever more complex, leading to rapid consolidation of server resources on a global scale. Recent demand for hosted application services has grown very significantly as organisations seek to concentrate management resources on core specialties, limiting their exposure to I.T. related overheads. Ultimately however, the decision will be determined by factors unique to each organisation and Quantum VS is available for any deployment model.

Key Benefits

• Reduced costs and maintenance
  If you currently store your company data on file servers on your network, then you know how much time and money you can spend keeping the systems securely patched, virus scanned, access controlled, etc., plus the hassle and risks associated with making those servers available from remote locations. With EDP's application hosting you can eliminate the need to have servers and VPNs in your office. Instead, your data is kept safe in our secure data centre so you can stay focused on your business.
• Enterprise-Class reliability
  Your applications are hosted on highly-available, fault-tolerant, high-performance Dell server clusters to provide enterprise-class reliability to businesses of all sizes. Regular back-up systems keep your data accessible 24x7.
• Business continuity
  Hosting enables you to connect to your applications and data from anywhere at anytime. If a disaster strikes your office, you'll be able to get to your business-critical information from computers at another site. Whether the disaster is as small as a PC crash or something more serious, we help keep your business running smoothly.
• No upfront hardware costs
  As you pay for space on our servers, there is no need to purchase expensive servers for your business that are soon out of date.