Why would you choose a hosted application service?

Media asset management systems, content management sys­tems and web-top publishing systems are complex to manage and need regular upgrading due to frequent technology and format changes. Companies wishing to utilise in-house solutions for any of those systems must invest substantial staff and fi­nan­cial resources. The requirements for connectivity alone in media asset management systems are so high that most, even very large companies, are unable to offer such services. If disaster re­covery, redundancy and load balancing come into play, com­panies need entire teams to operate such systems.

onison simplifies this by providing a very large system to many clients who share the cost according to their utilisation of the service. At the same time onison is maintaining the full ca­pa­bilities of customising the solutions to the individual needs of the customer in order to effectively function with the current busi­ness processes. With the hosted application service a company is substituting very high capital investments and fixed cost (which are often not even visible) with a low variable cost that is foreseeable, controllable and manageable, enabling even the smallest of companies to be able to utilise this service.

With the hosted application services, the problems of main­taining reliable and secure services are transferred to onison, who will in turn take responsibility for any issues that might arise with the infrastructure. Customers can better focus on what is most important and save money with our economical service while being in full control of its contents and having peace of mind in terms of security and reliability.

We still hear from companies contemplating building their own media asset management system internally. If such poten­tial systems could offer an adequate feature set, we know that such a mission would be a multi-year operation comprised of a team of many specialists at uncontrollable cost with a million dollar figure attached to it. If an organisation is not in the busi­ness of producing applications similar to onison's, there is no rea­son why media asset, print or content management would ever have top priority in any IT department. The systems will simply stop evolving within a short period of time.

These are some of the benefits that your organisation will gain from using our application services:

• Start when you need it and use it on demand
• Free up resources
• Focus on mission-critical issues and thus gain a competitive edge
• Eliminate duplication of valuable work (photography in particular)
• Substitute painstaking image preparation for the Internet
• Save substantially in marketing costs
• Eliminate training costs, as your users are already familiar with Microsoft applications and require no additional training
• No more last minute CD couriers (saving money and stress)
• Self-servicing 24 hours per day and 365 days per year
• No IT bottlenecks - you know who is responsible
• Get your copyright infringements under control
• Do more at lower cost and do it better