By now you have probably read about the great collaboration software available to help your business run more efficiently and ultimately help to deliver results. Incontech Hosted Services division can provide your company with Exchange 2007 and SharePoint applications as a service, this is commonly known in the industry as software as a service or SAAS.

SAAS enables your company to simply pay a monthly fee to Incontech Ltd, your Service Provider who will provide the infrastructure, software and licenses required for you to run these applications, you don't have to worry about anything.To be able to do this legally Incontech Ltd have signed up to a special licensing model which is called the Service Providers Licensing Agreement or SPLA. Without this license it is illegal to provide software in this manner.

Businesses that procure their software using a subscription-based licensing model stand to gain in many ways over those that own a traditional perpetual license.

These include:

• Being able to source the applications of their choice without any capital outlay
• The potential to choose between a fixed service fee per month, or a usage-based charge for access to functionality
• Having rapid access to software that could boost the company’s competitive edge, enabling new levels of customer responsiveness and speed to market with new innovations.
• A risk-free way of trying out new software functionality
• Eliminating the concern about being stuck with obsolete software in 1, 2 or 5 years.

When you become a customer of Incontech Ltd and purchase one of our Exchange 2007 hosted services packages you will receive a free copy of Outlook 2007. Outlook 2007 is the client for our Exchange 2007 hosted services. This copy of Outlook alone would cost your company £90 per person which would have to paid up front.

If your company is interested in obtaining other software, for example Vista and Office 2007, on a monthly subscription basis please contact us to discuss your requirements.