Hosting options

2. Self Hosted Option - cost effective for collaboration across a large or diverse organisation

UNIT4 Collaboration Software Limited is able to offer clients a self-hosted environment. Clients that choose this route do so based on some of the following considerations:

  • The number of internal users far outweighs the number of external users. Meaning that the server can sit on the organisations’ WAN and benefit from potentially faster access to the servers.
  • Their Projects require them and them alone to have full control and access to the server.
  • Tight integration with their servers, e.g. financial systems, if required.
  • A hosting environment for other applications already exist and placing the BC server in such an environment provides costs savings.
  • The BC service is for the purpose of an Internal Document Management and/or dynamic Intranet only, requiring tighter integration with corporate systems.

Other Options

Some clients opt for both a fully managed environment and a self hosted system. Such an option is suitable where the customer would like the comfort of a fully managed server that will be used by their clients, suppliers and partners and an internal server which is used for internal document management, internal collaboration and as the basis of their Intranet.