Application Hosting
SECURE CLOUD HOSTING
An easier way to run your business
Your software applications are the key to helping you run your business more efficiently, and that’s crucial to remaining competitive and growing your company. The question is, where is the best place for your software to reside? On your servers (on-premise), hosted in the Cloud, or some combination of both?
SWK can help. We have solutions for each of these environments or any combination of them living in a hybrid deployment.
For many businesses, the secure Cloud is the future. And we recommend starting that transition ASAP and taking advantage of the many benefits of migrating, such as:
- Lower infrastructure management costs
- A more predictable monthly cost
- Unlimited scalability to help you keep up with business volume
- Built-in back-up and redundancy to ensure business continuity
- Rapid software deployment and easy integration of 3rd party add-ons and other solutions
- Closer collaboration with your software partner
- Letting you focus more on your core business and strategic initiatives
- Highest data security available today (see below for more details)
If you’re not 100% ready to join the Cloud revolution, we also offer on-premise/Cloud hybrid solutions that help you take advantage of both worlds.
Sage Partner Cloud
SWK Technologies is a Strategic Hosting Provider for the Sage Partner Cloud (SPC), a program designed to give Sage ERP users an easier path for migrating to a cloud-based environment. SPC gives SWK customers and partners multiple options for migrating Sage 100 or Sage 300 data to a completely hosted or hybrid cloud environment of their choosing.
Secure Cloud Hosting — The 1st and only single-source Cloud application hosting solution protected by affordable, enterprise-class cybersecurity
SWK is pleased to offer the latest in application hosting, armed with modern cybersecurity and scaled to fit your business. Our service, Secure Cloud Hosting (SCH), provides the most secure and cost-effective way to have your business applications hosted in the Cloud. SCH offers full-service hosting for your ERP, CRM, network monitoring software, and other business management applications.
Hosting your business applications helps you focus on your business, transform your technology infrastructure, and lower your total cost of software ownership. This is a perfect solution if you plan to move your applications from on-premise to the Cloud OR if you want a hybrid of on-premise and Cloud application functionality.
One Vendor for Your Technology, Software & IT Services
When you rely on a vendor for your software, another vendor for your application hosting, and another vendor for your IT and data security, you run into countless complexities and problems. When you run into problems and seek answers, your cloud service vendor blames the software vendor, the network security vendor blames the cloud vendor, and so on and so on.
At SWK, we can manage all of this for you. We work directly with accounting software and ERP, software process automation and compliance solutions, on-premise and cloud-hosted networks, and cybersecurity and cyber defense solutions. We have wrapped up these practices into our Secure Cloud Hosting so that we can be your single solution vendor.
SWK supports over 5,000 customers and we have helped them evolve their technology from entry-level accounting software to ERP and integrated process automation systems, and from on-premise servers to hybrid Cloud and fully Cloud-hosted solutions.
Let us take all the technology rigors off your hands. We can be your single solution vendor and your single point of contact for issues, challenges, and solutions.
Here are some of the products we support:
- Sage 50
- Sage 100
- Sage 300
- Sage 500
- Sage HRMS
- Sage CRM
- QuickBooks
- Acumatica
- Epicor
- Infor CRM
- Act!
Learn more about our cloud hosting services for:
Robust Technical Features:
- Integrated licensing and private hosting for Sage and Acumatica ERP with holistic support
- Lower monthly costs than AWS or Azure, with no hidden fees
- Single vendor for supporting Sage or Acumatica for infrastructure and software
- World-leading cybersecurity with 24x7x364 proactive measures and security monitoring
- Powerful business continuity with fault tolerance and full redundancy
- Strong productivity with load balancing, parallel processing and job scheduling
- Dynamic provisioning of resources means flexibility and speed for the customer
- Supports non-ERP applications for generic Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, similar to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure
Top Reasons to Host Your ERP & Accounting Software in the Cloud
Hosting your ERP or accounting software in a hosted or hybrid cloud environment provides many advantages over traditional on-premise deployments, like saving money on servers and other hardware, improving the speed and availability of support, and enabling your users to work remotely. While some solutions can offer partial SaaS functionality, only by working with a trusted provider will you be able to capture the full range of benefits of your solution while migrating to a cloud-hosted environment. Adopting Secure Cloud Hosting for your deployment will also give you access to real-time IT support and cybersecurity, consolidating your technology stack maintenance to one hand to shake. Discover even more reasons to consider moving to the cloud by clicking on the articles below.
Managed IT Support for Your Secure Cloud Environment
Managed Cloud Services (MCS) by SWK Technologies provides our customers with comprehensive infrastructure management and robust technology stack support for their entire application ecosystem. MCS also delivers real-time IT support for hosted and hybrid environments, state of the art cybersecurity solutions, network vulnerability testing, proactive employee security training, Dark Web monitoring, encryption and more.
FAQ – Frequently Asked Questions, and Answers
WILL I SAVE MONEY WITH APPLICATION HOSTING?
It’s proven that managing, maintaining and upgrading servers come at a steep cost in comparison with having your applications hosted. You will also save money on the costs of back up technologies, network security and adding new servers whenever you grow. Application hosting covers all these costs – and more! – and can provide you with a highly predictable monthly cost.
WILL I SAVE TIME HAVING MY APPLICATIONS HOSTED?
HOW WILL APPLICATION HOSTING AFFECT MY COMPANY’S PRODUCTIVITY?
WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE FOR MY APPLICATIONS TO RESIDE?
There are several variables. The first one is if you already have servers. If they are old, or aging, you will have to upgrade them soon and there’s a cost involved with that. This is a good time to look into cloud hosting. You should also consider your level of security and scalability, both of which are more robust with our cloud hosting solution. However, if your servers are up to date, you may want to consider some balance of on-premise and cloud hosting, or “hybrid” computing. Contact us and we can walk you through determining which is the best option for you.
WHY SHOULD I HAVE MY APPLICATIONS HOSTED IN THE CLOUD INSTEAD OF ON OUR SERVERS?
MY SERVERS ARE GETTING OLD, SHOULD I STILL USE THEM?
If your servers are aging out, it’s a good time to consider moving to the cloud. Otherwise, you’ll have to invest in upgrading your servers then you’ll have to upgrade them in a few years again. The latest and greatest software often requires very specific server specifications, and if you don’t keep up, it will cost you additional overhead. With cloud hosting, you never have to make that investment again.
WHAT HAPPENS TO MY SERVERS IF I MOVE TO THE CLOUD?
WHAT IF I WANT TO KEEP MY SERVERS?
I WANT TO ADD NEW APPLICATIONS. SHOULD I LOAD THEM ONTO MY SERVERS OR HAVE THEM HOSTED?
Good question. You should consider the age and specifications of your servers before you add new applications. If your servers are properly spec’d out for your applications, your new software will not work properly, and it may take you hours to find out if you problems are caused by your software or your hardware. To boot, your hardware provider and your software provider may very well point fingers at each other for the problems. This situation is not in your best interest and will never happen with our Secure Cloud Hosting solution.
HOW SECURE IS APPLICATION HOSTING?
SCH has the most secure of any application hosting service in the SMB market. In addition to an industry-standard firewall configurations to protect data, and avoiding the use of vendor-supplied passwords and other security defaults, we include an enterprise-class cybersecurity service not available elsewhere.
WHERE ARE THE APPLICATIONS AND DATA STORED?
HOW DO I ACCESS MY DATA?
IS MY DATA BACKED UP?
IF THERE’S A DISASTER OR A MAJOR PROBLEM, CAN I RECOVER AND ACCESS MY DATA?
WHAT TYPE OF APPLICATIONS CAN YOU HOST?
WHAT SYSTEM AND APPLICATION AVAILABILITY IS OFFERED BY YOUR SERVICE LEVEL AGREEMENT (SLA)?
We guarantee a 99.9% monthly average of scheduled availability. You can read our entire SLA here: https://securecloudservicesinc.com/pages/service-information
WHAT HAPPENS IF I AM NOT ABLE TO ACCESS MY APPLICATIONS OR MY DATA?
This has never happened to us. However, the health and success of your business is in our best interest and we’re confident of our 99.9% guaranteed uptime because of the robust and redundant infrastructure we have in place. If a significant problem occurs, we will provide you with a credit for the downtime. See our SLA for more details : https://securecloudservicesinc.com/pages/service-information
WHAT DO I DO IF I NEED SUPPORT?
We provide help desk support in as little as 15 minutes with a 45 minute guaranteed initial response time of 45 minutes. Click here for more details on SCH support: https://securecloudservicesinc.com/pages/hosting-support
DO YOU HOST SAGE ACCOUNTING SOFTWARE AND ERP SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS?
Absolutely. In fact, we have been a Master Developer for Sage solutions since 1989 and are experts at Sage consulting, implementations, integration, customizations and support. Having the Sage software stored in our cloud makes it easier and faster for our consultants to support you, that means faster service. We support Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, and Sage CRM. Additionally, we are partners with and support the many 3rd party add-ons and modifications for Sage solutions.
DO YOU HOST ACUMATICA CLOUD ERP?
Yes, we do. We are the Acumatica Partner of the Year and have a tight relationship with them. Having the Acumatica software stored in our private cloud makes it easier and faster for our consultants to support you, that means faster service. Additionally, we are partners with and support the many 3rd party add-ons and modifications for Acumatica.
HOW MUCH DOES APPLICATION HOSTING COST?
It’s more affordable than you might think! And much less than Amazon Web Services (AWS) or Microsoft Azure. Our pricing is based on the number of users. Contact us for pricing information.
IS SECURE CLOUD HOSTING AVAILABLE FOR WHITE LABELING?
Yes, Sage 100 and Sage 300 VARs are able to white label Secure Cloud Hosting to their customers and gain tier credit for each sale. Contact us for pricing and branding information.