In 1997 SPOT Business Systems redesigned SPOT to take advantage of upcoming technologies and to provide real-time data centralization across any number of stores and locations. The technology used to accommodate this is commonly called centralization application hosting or "Cloud Computing". SPOT Business Systems manages and maintains your application and data hosting services for both SPOT and custom web sites. You lease the hosting services from SPOT Business Systems on a monthly basis with several pricing options starting at just $68 per month, per connected workstation.
Is Hosting for you?
A recent burnt-to-the-ground fire at a Drycleaner in Cathedral Valley, California graphically illustrates the advantages of having your valuable customer, transaction, and operational data off-site! SPOT hosting service offers an effective answer to managing your drycleaning business in the face natural disasters, fire, and theft. In addition, SPOT hosting removes you from the complexities of managing and maintaining your computers and data. You focus on running your drycleaning business and not your computer system! This article explains the advantages of SPOT hosting from a real user who had a real disaster!
Yes hosting is for you! Every drycleaner needs to be able to run their business from the time a customer visits, through production, customer pickup and even after the sale is completed. With SPOT and SPOT Business Systems hosting services you will receive the best of all worlds. You will be removed from the IT business and will be available to manage your customers, employees, production and sales.
Disaster recovery is built in to the Hosting model. We have had many customers hit by both natural disasters, theft and fires. The content and computers in all cases have been destroyed but the data is in good hands located on our server farm. We are able to provide business continuance to these customers via fax before and after the disaster. Once the store owner is ready and a PC is supplied with an Internet connection you have business as usual including all customer information, history and current inventory at your fingertips.
Hosting services from SPOT Business Systems will allow you to spend more time managing your business and not worrying about updates, daily backups or hardware updates every couple of years. Technical support is available real time on our servers. Hardware required and supported includes Windows XP, CE, 2003 and 7 making configuration and training services a breeze.
We have built our hosting services around the latest and greatest proven technologies from industry leaders such as Microsoft, Citrix, Dell, Cisco, EMC and others to provide rock-solid hosting services. We now support 82 companies and nearly a 1,000 connections from our state of the art $40 million dollar hosting facility. These current customers range from the single-user to a 25 store, multi-station configuration.
Hosting is for you, whether you have a single station or 500 workstations in 250 stores, our services are built to suit your needs. If you have any further questions please contact our sales department at 801-208-2212 or Sales@SPOTpos.com for more information.
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Let SPOT Business Systems assist you in managing the technology side of your business. We can take the headaches of hardware and software updates, user management and other IT requirements. Let SPOT Business Systems host your application from our fully redundant, secure data center. Servers that support our hosting operations are located in the Viawest collocation facility in Lindon, Utah.
The Center7 facility offers standard-based network redundancies, redundant Air Conditioning, redundant power with 10,000 gallons of Diesel fuel and 24-hour onsite security. Viawest provides network and infrastructure redundancy. SPOT Business Systems's application server farm is powered by Dell, Cisco and EMC equipment that delivers the reliability and performance you rely on.
We offer SPOT Enterprise in this hosted environment for as little as $68 per month, per connected workstation. Currently we have 500+ workstations online ranging from single-user configurations to companies with 14 stores and 55+ workstations, all taking advantage of our hosting service model and its highly secure conveniences. Please contact our sales department at 801-208-2212 for more information on your options for hosting configuration and pricing.