The provision of services via the cloud, such as the Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) SunGard Assurance solution, available locally from ICT specialist Quintica, are becoming increasingly popular among organisations across the financial services, manufacturing, mining and retail industries to name a few.
According to Quintica, SunGard Assurance provides customers a cloud-based service with less interruption; enables them to safeguard customers and employees before, during and after disaster scenarios; helps them better protect their corporate reputation; and ultimately enhances shareholder value.
"In a world where the physical technology footprint of companies is rapidly shrinking as a result of virtualisation and the advent of software-defined architectures, a SaaS solution is a critical component of a vendor's portfolio," says Kerry Evans, MD at Quintica Africa.
"SunGard Assurance has to date proved to provide customers an affordable solution that enables all companies, no matter their size, to better leverage the benefits of business continuity without the constraints of a physical architecture."
To Evans, business continuity solutions available via SaaS allow a business to safeguard those systems, from core accounting and budgeting platforms, to back-office infrastructure, ERP and CRM solutions as they get marched by IT into the cloud.
Quintica says that the SaaS-based assurance offering captures the processes and experience of real business continuity and disaster recovery planning, it then makes these accessible to a broad array of users, pulling together reviews of all current industry standards and tools.
"Even though cloud computing represents the largest change in technology since the dawn of the Internet, it has also seen an increased need for improved governance and compliance laws, all of which need to be adhered to. Financial institutions, in particular, need to develop and maintain their own business continuity and disaster recovery plans, all of which fall in line with these compliance and regulatory needs, which they can now achieve by accessing the SunGard Assurance service," concludes Evans.
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