Hosted Systems

Overview

Being able to access your information from wherever you might be with an internet connection brings mobility and flexibility to organisations large and small. Hosted software can save a company the headaches of ongoing maintenance, time and money in IT support and equipment costs.

The number of businesses embracing hosted software has grown steadily, especially in the last couple of years, with small and midsize businesses leading the charge. Hosted systems were once only available to corporate enterprises but with falling hardware costs and advances in web technologies, hosted solutions are now available at prices to benifit even the smallest of businesses.

Read about Touchretail's Hosted system news here in the blog

Data Integrity

Hosted software resides on secure Internet Data Servers. Using unique user names and passwords for your system, you simply 'remote access' your software over the internet.

The physical environment of a data centre is rigorously controlled through air conditioning, uninterruptible power supplies and fire protection systems providing the safest place to house your data. Our hosted systems automatically cross backup your data daily. 

Accessibility

Access your data from the office, from home, when on buying trips, from an internet café, from practically anywhere!

Sue Leech ( Jonathan Trumbull - Norwich ) comments: "since moving over to the hosted system we have been very impressed with several things.  No longer do we have to laboriously backup every night. Several people can access the site from anywhere, do reports, book stock in etc. which is very useful. And also its much faster!!"

Hosted Software

Our stock control software (Rapidstock) and our accounting software (Retail Accounts) are both ideally suited to the hosted software model. More information is available on these products through the following links.

• Rapidstock - Stock Control
• Retail Accounts - Accounting Software

Connect Across Platforms

With your system hosted, a variety of platforms provide the facility to connect to your data. Any platform that provides a Microsoft Remote Desktop Client can be used to access your data. If you want stock control on Apple Mac or Linux then the Touchretail hosted system is the ideal solution for you.

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Stock control PC - Stock control Unix - Stock control Linux - Stock control Mac OS X

Software as a Service – SaaS

Software as a Service – SaaS – has grown in popularity and availability over recent years, largely due to the cost efficiencies for the end user.

Using SaaS reduces the up-front expense of software purchases, through less costly pricing from hosting service providers. In addition, several users can access the software without pre-loading the application in each device in an organization. The sharing of end-user licenses and on-demand use also reduces investment in server hardware for growing businesses. And for smaller businesses the flexibility offered by the SaaS model through access to the core system from any location and at any time is a tangible advantage.

Use of professional security, backup and recovery utilities means that Touchretail’s Hosted Service is designed to minimise the risk to your data – we even cross backup different ISP Data Servers.

For new customers, the ability to have a fixed monthly figure covering software, installation, training and support without any capital outlay for these items is a powerful incentive to invest in new technology in a difficult climate.