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Is a SAAS eCommerce right for you?
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Why we love SAAS as an eCommerce Solution – no big upfront purchase costs; no need for servers, or even an IT staff—a simple “pay-as-you-play” monthly subscription fee covers everything. But, we understand it may not be the solution for every organization.
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The Pros and Cons of the Software as a Solution for eCommerce
Pros:
- Minimal upfront costs, no hardware to maintain.
- No software integration to configure.
- No in-house IT requirements.
- Universal access through web browsers and mobile devices.
- Pay only for what you use – eliminate the need to equip (and maintain) every computer, licenses are shared across the enterprise.
- Software vendors have greater application experience than in-house IT staff.
- Software is kept up to date, available and managed as part of subscription – upgrades and enhancements are tested and delivered more frequently.
- Service level agreement guarantees a certain level of service and up time, which internal resources may not be able to match.
- Data is stored off site and mirrored on the Cloud.
Cons:
- Reliance on an external vendor
- Limited input into functionality. End users generally accept the application as provided since customized solutions can be expensive.
- Harder to change vendors. Once data is set up, exporting difficult or impossible thus making a transition difficult. Many will put up with in inferior services rather than go through the learning/technology curve of an alternative solution.
- Vendor could go out of business. Not many ASPs (Application Service Providers) survived the dot com bust; how will your vendor survive the next bubble?
Multi Channel eCommerce
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Secure Access Anywhere, Anytime
- Run your business from anywhere…Connect to the Web – Software As A Service – Sign in and Go! All you need is an internet connection and a Web Browser…you could be at a remote business location, trade-show, on the road for business or on personal time…no matter where you are, you can rest assured that you are only a few clicks away from access to real time information regarding the current state of your business.
- Scales with your Business, Add Users on the fly. You can sign-up for the service with one or more users (mapping to their specific roles and functions within the business) that are currently operating the business. As your business grows and you add employees, you can add users into the system by providing them individual accounts thru the administration capabilities within the tool. The customer only pays for what they need at any point in time while preserving complete flexibility to add, change or delete users as required adapting to the changing needs of the business.
- Low start up & operating costs. The service is delivered on a low-cost per user subscription model – What this means for customers is a low entry point to begin using the system for their business without a large upfront acquisition cost for a license fee based software product. In addition, the hardware cost of deploying this system for a multi-user business is small compared to the traditional client-server model that would require acquisition of a server and a sophisticated intranet connecting all the systems along with the ongoing maintenance and administration of the IT infrastructure.
- No data protection and backup worries. AGILIRON takes care of running your channels and business operations on redundant fail-over systems with regular backups of your business database (see our Service Level Agreement for specific terms of service) so you no longer have to worry about hard disk crashes or computer failures. You are leveraging a world class IT infrastructure to run your business…all our servers run on the Amazon Web ServicesTM cloud computing infrastructure.
- No software patches or upgrades. With a hosted solution, the software upgrades and patches are performed on our servers (you will be notified before major upgrades) and the next time you login you are automatically using the new version. There are no software installation hassles and headaches keeping up with the latest versions and associated data migration on your end…just login and use the system and let us handle the IT infrastructure. You and all your employees are always using the latest version of the product!
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