This new service offers customers the opportunity to concentrate their management efforts solely on core activities, whilst EDP are responsible for hosting, managing, and maintaining their software and hardware requirements.

Application Hosting for e-business

As the management of e-business enabled systems becomes an ever increasingly complex task, it is recommended EDP not only host your e-business web site, but also host your application as well.

In most circumstances there are good reasons to have EDP host both:-

	As demands increase upon your application server, EDP is responsible for providing sufficient server power to maintain high performance & keep your service continually available.
	Not only does the application server have to be capable of handling high peak loads, but the transactions need to be replicated in case of a fault with a server. Therefore as part of the hosting service, EDP replicates all transactions to 2 servers simultaneously.
	There is no restriction on the number of visitors, customers or local users who may access your site and application simultaneously.
	EDP carries out the system management (but not data management) tasks for you.
	The service includes all application upgrades plus: UniVision, Operating System, Quantum VS middleware and web application servers - over the 120 months operating agreement period.

Application Hosting for Your Application

For customers not involved with e-business, it is also possible to host your application with EDP. Again this promotes a trouble free experience for Users, allowing EDP to manage and maintain:-

	As EDP are responsible for the day-to-day smooth running of your application, any problems/issues can be dealt with immediately, removing delays as would be if engineers had to be called out.
	There is no need to replace expensive hardware that becomes out-of-date after several years.
	EDP carries out the system management (but not data management) tasks for you.
	The service includes all application upgrades plus: UniVision, Operating System and web application servers - over the 120 months operating agreement period.