Overview
Northern Star Hosted Desktop - Windows Desktop, Microsoft Office & Outlook email cloud services are designed and built to deliver businesses with a scalable solution that produce operational efficiencies and replace the traditional capital expenditure requirements of IT deployments with a simple usage based payment model.
With Northernstar Hosted Desktop you get the Microsoft Windows 7 desktop, Office 2010 and Exchange 2010 - there’s no need for expensive servers, hardware and renewing of software licenses. This simple service removes all IT headaches from your business so you can concentrate on what you and your business do best.
Features
- Standardisation of corporate desktop, office and email software;
- Localisation with Windows desktop and Office being delivered in multiple languages;
- Cost savings – would reduce IT costs by up to 40% over a 3 year period
- Replaces the traditional capital expenditure model on servers and software licensing necessary to deliver desktops and email with a usage based payment system, ensuring you only pay for what is used, with the number of users and territories able to scale up or down;
- Scalability – rapid deployment and easy to scale as you grow your business; any new companies acquired can be integrated to the standardised environment with speed and without capital investment whilst respecting local language requirements;
- Increased productivity resulting from greater service availability and increased remote working powers;
- More efficient remote working – no requirement for VPN configuration; greater flexibility of access devices which could be purchased in the future and whose functionality is developing at a fast rate such as iPads, tablet PCs and iPhones that can be used to access the corporate desktop;
- Business continuity and disaster recovery solution built in – users can access their corporate desktop, email, applications and company data from anywhere with data backed-up on a daily basis, ensuring a key part of business continuity is provided by the cloud solution;
- Easy management, removing the burdens of desktop management and software audits and replacing this with a ‘switch on, switch off’ cloud desktop service that can be managed easily through a web based customer portal and with the help of Northernstar’s support desk;
- Future proof – removes from the company the burdens (capital expenditure and other resource utilisation) created by upgrades to desktop, office and email software because the latest software is delivered in the cloud.
- Standardisation of group email to enhance European wide email communications.