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What are the Advantages of Web-Based Software?


First, what is web-based software anyway?

Web-Based Software is software you use over the internet with a web browser. You don’t have to install any CDs, download any software, or worry about upgrades. If you use an online bank or web-based email program like Gmail, Hotmail, or Yahoo Mail then you’ve already used web-based software before.

And why is it better for my business?

When you use web-based software you don't have to worry about anything technical — you can just do your work. We handle all the security and uptime and backups and upgrades and “IT guy” stuff. You can stay focused on what you're good at and we'll handle the rest.

Web-based software is safer.

With traditional software, employees save data on their laptops, USB drives, or portable hard drives. It’s not as safe as it sounds. Laptops are stolen, computers are rarely backed up properly, and it’s unlikely everyone’s machines are up to date with the latest security patches and updates. When you use our web-based software, your data is stored on secure, always-updated, backed-up daily enterprise-class servers in a state-of-the-art, highly-secure data center

We walk the walk with you.

We use our products every day. We store all our sensitive, confidential data on the same servers that our customers use. We trust our entire business to our products and security policies. You can feel comfortable that we’re walking the walk with you.
 

Your data is safe and secure with us.

We run your application on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).

Amazon EC2 provides numerous mechanisms for securing your compute resources.
  • Amazon EC2 includes web service interfaces to configure firewall settings that control network access to and between groups of instances.
  • When launching Amazon EC2 resources within Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (Amazon VPC), you can isolate your compute instances by specifying the IP range you wish to use, and connect to your existing IT infrastructure using industry-standard encrypted IPsec VPN.
  • For more information on Amazon EC2 security refer to our Amazon Web Services: Overview of Security Process document.

Everything together in one place.

A key advantage to web-based software is that all your data is centralized and accessible over the web from any computer at any time. You can’t leave something on the wrong computer since everything is stored in one place on the web. You can get to it from anywhere. Safe, secure, and password protected, of course.

Your data is automatically backed up daily.

Your data is backed up every day. Our backups are stored in multiple locations for additional redundancy. You could say our backups have backups. We’ve never lost anyone’s data and we won’t lose yours.

You’re always using the latest and greatest.

Unlike traditional software that requires you to download and install updates yourself, our products are updated automatically. Whenever you use our products you’re always using the latest and greatest version
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You’ll never have to ask “Is it compatible?”

Software used to only be available for certain platforms. There was Windows software, Mac software, etc. Our software works on any platform with a web browser and internet connection. Mac, Windows, Linux are all supported

You can work from home, work, or on the road

When you use web-based software your office is everywhere. At work, at home, a hotel, at a client’s office, even on your mobile phone. You data is accessible anywhere with internet access.

There’s nothing to install, ever.

With our software there’s nothing to download or install. Just log in with the web-browser you already have (Internet Explorer 7, Safari, or Firefox). It’s just like your online bank or web-based email program.