The Era of ETRM in the Cloud A ComTechAdvisory Whitepaper that user company data remains secure. The alternative is a single tenanted environment, which Commodity Technology refers to as“ hosted in the cloud”. Both approaches have been adopted by user companies, though the industry preference generally has been
CONTIGO’ S APPROACH
for single tenanted where they can enjoy the cost benefits of the cloud but also retain a customized or modified version of the solution to better support their operations and processes.
Contigo’ s software is available hosted in the cloud in a single tenanted environment allowing it to offer a customized version of its software while still delivering significant cost savings and other cloud benefits. Access to the application is via a secure URL and is completely browser-based. Security is further enhanced by not allowing users direct access to the database layer of the application. The solution is built on cutting edge Microsoft technologies including. NET, developed in C # and ASP. NET and runs against a SQL Server database backend. Contigo keep pace with technology updates and changes, ensuring the latest versions of third-party software are used in their solutions.
The web application is hosted in Internet Information Services( IIS) running on Windows servers. By offering the application as single tenanted, but in a shared infrastructure, Contigo offers users essentially a managed service solution that is both secure, cost effective, and maintains strong segregation of customer data while allowing the exact same level of customization and extensibility as a traditionally deployed solution. About a quarter of Contigo’ s current customers have taken up this model to date.
Contigo’ s approach provides a significant reduction in costs as there is no requirement to purchase hardware, third-party software, nor even deploy upgrades to that hardware and software as these are managed by Contigo’ s application experts as are back-up and recovery processes. Back up and disaster recovery is performed by using two data centers, both located in England, and a full back up is completed every night with transactional back ups every 30-minutes. Contigo also offers customers the option to host the software themselves in the cloud if they so chose.
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