The benefits of application Hosting services lies in the reduced costs of a business process, resolving of the scalability issues, enhancing operational problems as well as security of your data.
Management of the process: with the management of the application outsourced to an application host your enterprise can effectively focus more on the core business without worrying for the associated IT support and application management. Thus, in a sense you are assured that the application is managed efficiently and in optimal condition by the dedicated expertise.
No long term commitment: Another way to look at the application hosting service is the sharing of risks for your IT requirement. Thus you have the flexibility of scaling up or down your IT infrastructure required for a process in no time and that also without the corresponding financial worries. This means that your enterprise does not need to provision and plan for the future IT needs in anticipation of growing needs. Hence, application hosting reduces the capital expenditure and instead requires only operational expenditure.
Pay as you go: As a corollary to the reduction in capital expenditure, application hosting services provide the model of ‘Pay as you go’. Thus you pay for what actual IT infrastructure you use, within a defined period and hence there is no requirement of long term binding commitments.
IT cost slashed: Each time you initiate a business process the associated application needs specific system requirement, server up gradation and other associated IT costs including the personnel to manage them. But with Application Hosting service you do not need system or server upgrades, no more backup facilities to manage or worry for security of your data.
Reliability of the service: Application Hosting service ensures that your enterprise does not have to deal with the problems of frequent Server downtime or other network troubles. With dedicated 24x7x365 IT troubleshooting support and redundant datacenters you are ensured of zero downtime environment and getting the IT support when you need without any extra costs involved. Thus the Application Hosting service ensures predictable IT budget.