Managed Hosting
Managed hosting makes sense for the following reasons:
- Lower costs: For all but the largest utilities, Olameter’s managed hosting solutions cost less than building a dedicated in-house support team with all the requisite skills
- Full support: Olameter provides on-demand support on a 24/7 basis
- Experienced staff: Olameter specializes in the needs of distribution utilities and so our staff will quickly become an extension of your team, and you won’t be dealing with a different person every time you call
- It is your software: You can make the changes you want
- Rugged operating environment: Olameter operates multiple data centers linked by diversely-routed communications links. We do this to ensure that there is never a single point of failure with regards to either storage or connectivity
- Security: Olameter meets the most stringent requirements of the utility industry and is constantly upgrading its capabilities to meet new threats from hackers as they arise
Software-as-a-Service
Utilities are increasingly demanding that their IT supplier provide Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions. The big advantages of this approach are:
- Lowest up-front costs: being purely subscription-based, there are no up-front license fees. Olameter manages the IT infrastructure that is running the software, which brings down the cost of hardware and software maintenance as well
- Quick set up and deployment: Olameter’s SaaS applications are already installed and configured. This minimizes the time needed to deploy
- Easy upgrades: Olameter deals with all aspects of hardware and software updates, deploying upgrades centrally to the hosted applications and removing this workload and responsibility from the utility
- Accessibility: All the utility needs to access the application is a browser and an Internet connection. This is generally available on a wide range of devices and from anywhere in the world, making SaaS more accessible than traditional software installation
- Scalability: Olameter provides many subscription options and flexibility to change volume commitments up or down as needs vary, or, indeed, can be cancelled outright
- Access to advanced platforms: such as Olameter’s Internet of Things and Spatial Data Infrastructure