Choosing Between Hosted or On-Premise IP Asset Management
Posted by Jerry Lamigo on Fri, Jan 08, 2010
We have been asked this question a number of times during our interactions with the prospects.
In response, we ask them to remember the last time they needed the support from their IT organization. How much time did they take to resolve the issue?
Hosted
This option works best when you do not have adequate support from your IT organization. You can "go live" faster and your vendor is a single point of contact for any issues during or post implementation. You do not need to procure any hardware for this approach. The vendor provides security and back-up infrastructure as well.
If you plan to integrate with other systems (such as Finance, Matter Management, Corporate HR directories or others), you should check with your IT if they allow third party hosted applications to integrate with internal systems.
On-Premise
On-premise means that the IP asset management application will reside behind your firewall. Regardless of the vendor, you should have IT on your side.
In this model, your IT should provide hardware/software required to deploy the application and database. Typical software required is Windows/SQLServer or Windows/Oracle. IT would also need to set up a mechanism for regular data backups.
IT support issue may be secondary for some companies if they are very sensitive about their data. On-premise is the only choice for them.
Lecorpio provides both deployment options: hosted and on-premise. The application functionality is the same for both options. Feel free to contact us for more details.
