ERP and CRM Consultancy Specialist Ardent Solutions Launches Hosted Dynamics AX
Date:8/17/2009 3:22:00 PM
- Ardent 24 Offers Microsoft Dynamics SaaS and Provides Secure and
Resilient IT Management and Cutting-Edge Hardware to Enable Greater Focus on
Core Business Activities
ERP and CRM consultancy specialist, Ardent Solutions
http://www.ardentsolutions.co.uk/ has announced the launch of its new hosted
managed service, Ardent 24. The service sees the provision of an option for
hosted Dynamics AX - Microsoft's solution for improving financial,
customer-relationship, and supply-chain management - for a fixed monthly fee,
mitigating the need for an expensive long-term capital outlay. The
announcement of Microsoft Dynamics SaaS from Ardent comes at a time when more
and more businesses are remaining increasingly aware of financial outlays and
long-term commitments within the current economy, particularly within the
manufacturing and distribution industries.
Ardent Solutions, comments, "As our recent report - The Ardent Solution SME
Business Technology report: http://tinyurl.com/ln2a32 - highlighted, our
hosted Dynamics AX offering is very timely for business, as IT spend and
associated risks in long term investments are being assessed and kept to a
minimum across the majority of companies as they look to emerge cautiously
from the recession." Watkinson continues, "The Ardent 24 initiative is set to
give customers greater flexibility, ensuring that they are able to take
better control of IT expenditure whilst benefitting from a secure, up-to-date
and supported IT infrastructure through Microsoft Dynamics SaaS."
Ardent 24 http://tinyurl.com/nlsx6f takes the entire existing Microsoft
infrastructure including operating systems, Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft
Office applications, as well as any third party integrated applications, and
hosts them as Microsoft Dynamics SaaS at Ardent's secure data centre using
the latest IBM technology.
The hosted Dynamics AX solution from ERP and CRM consultancy specialist
Ardent Solutions provides management of enterprise-wide applications as well
as standard Microsoft Office and Exchange requirements. This gives an
end-to-end business solution that delivers the end user with increased
performance, security and resilience for a fixed monthly fee that is
substantially lower than the costs involved in running and staffing an
equivalent infrastructure.
Watkinson explains, "By failing to stay up to date with technology or
carrying out poor hardware management practices, a company is opening itself
up to all types of risk. Not only are security issues a genuine cause for
concern, but many companies simply do not attach enough value to how they
manage data and what would happen to their business should they lose it. Our
recent research showed that only 57% of SMEs surveyed stated they had a
disaster recovery plan in place in case of hardware or software failure."
The business benefits of ERP and CRM consultancy specialist
Ardent Solutions' hosted Dynamics AX solution, Ardent 24 include:
- No capital investment
- Fixed price per user per month
- Flexible IT - only pay for what is needed
- An ERP solution delivered back to end users
- Microsoft Office, Exchange, Security, back-ups and anti-spam/virus
included
- Access to the system 24/7
- No costly hardware purchases
- All upgrades and patches to applications and operating systems included
- Greater resilience and resistance guaranteed
- Microsoft Dynamics SaaS
Ardent 24 - the hosted Dynamics AX solution from ERP and CRM consultancy
specialist Ardent Solutions - offers full server technology using failover
and load balanced technologies. Online back-ups are produced as standard as
well as nightly off-site backup and a full disaster recovery solution is also
available if required.
ERP and CRM consultancy specialist Ardent Solutions has partnered with
one of the leading data centres in the UK, UK Solutions (UKS), to provide a
reliable and efficient hosting environment for its offering of Microsoft
Dynamics SaaS. The UKS North site is a purpose-built facility, specifically
designed and built to Tier IV specification - the highest level that can be
reached when specifying a data centre's criticality. Security of data is
paramount and as such the data centre has been built with special
consideration and attention to the exterior landscape, controlled access ways
and comprehensive CCTV coverage, along with a 24/7 on-site security team.
Watkinson comments, "The benefits of a hosted Dynamics AX solution reach
far beyond the obvious advantages of a secure IT function and a fixed monthly
charge. A hosted solution removes the requirement for a business to manage
its technical infrastructure in-house, allowing resource to be utilised in
more key focus areas for the company, creating greater efficiency and
increasing the resilience of the company's IT."
Watkinson concludes, "The pace of technology change is escalating on an
almost daily basis. In a business world that is, now more than ever, focussed
on remaining competitive and sustainable it is vital that businesses embrace
alternative methods of not only keeping up with the changing face of
technology, but staying ahead of it."
About Ardent Solutions Limited
Based in the
business software specialist that provides ERP and CRM consultancy,
implementation and integration services, as well as a hosted managed IT
service, Ardent 24, to companies in a wide range of industries, including
manufacturing, distribution, service, FMCG and IEM (Industrial Equipment
Manufacturing).
Ardent Solutions was awarded the Microsoft Dynamics EMEA Partner of the
Year in
'New Named Sites' and works with third party resellers in order to deliver a
'whole solution'.
A Microsoft Gold Partner, the company is one of the largest-based
resellers of Microsoft Dynamics AX software in the UK with full Microsoft
certification and accreditation for all its consultants. Ardent Solutions
also has strategic partnerships with third party products and organisations
including IBM enabling it to deliver its customers a 'total business
solution'.
About Ardent 24 - http://www.ardent24.co.uk
Ardent 24 is the hosted Dynamics AX managed service offering from ERP and
CRM consultancy specialist Ardent Solutions. It has been designed to take the
headache out of managing IT and allows a business to concentrate on what it
does best.
Ardent 24 can take an entire existing Microsoft infrastructure including
operating systems, Microsoft Exchange and your Microsoft Office applications
as well as any third party integrated applications and host them at our
secure data centre on the latest IBM technology. Ardent 24 delivers Microsoft
Dynamics SaaS - an unrivalled user experience back to the end user with
increased performance, security and resiliency for a fraction of the cost.
For further information, please contact:
Katie Jones Krista Cundy / Kirsty Cornell
Ardent Solutions Limited The itpr Group
+44(0)844-880-6146 +44(0)1932-578800
http://www.ardentsolutions.co.uk http://www.itpr.co.uk
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