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ICTricity Product

The product ICTricity offers organisations an operational IT environment. This includes the maintenance of PC, laptops, LAN and printers and offers support to your users. ICTricity is ready for you in our datacenters. No investments or projects  needed for your organisation: your applications and users become members of the ICTricity platform.

Introduction to ASP (Application Service Providing)

Central in ICTricity is the word ASP. Cu4IT offers with ICTricity a broad range of services extending the term ASP. The combinations in ICTricity of central services and support on-site create an easy to use and to deploy solution. We will explain ASP to You and how we extend this service. ICTricity will be shaped to fit your organisation. 

ASP Servicedelivery: what is it?

ICTricity is a form of ASP. ASP stands for Application Service Providing. Simply speaking it means that certain IT functionalities are delivered as a service over the network by an ASP provider.  In most cases these are IT contracts based on numbers of PC's and servers. As a customer you will be charged for the maintenance of your own IT supplies. With ASP the number of users in relation with the delivered functionalities is the main case. You will pay for what you use and don't have to worry about the central serversystems.

As a customer will you use existing items in our datacenters. This rules out investments in hardware and software and prevents an in-house implementation of an IT environment.

ASP has, speaking for Cu4IT, another important quality: the different functionalities can be delivered on any place where there is internet available. The functionality becomes location-independant. Working at home, multiple offices will no longer require installing additional IT components but will in most cases be a case of using the existing internet connection most people have nowadays. The services also work perfectly with modern mobile connections like UMTS and HDSPA. For email even GSM and GPRS networks suffice.

Advantages?

What is so handy of this new form of servicedelivery? It highly depends on the services you as a customer choose and the situation you are currently in and used to. An employee who is mostly abroad and wants to be able to use companysystems will appreciate the mobile character of ASP. Employees who are mostly working from a fixed place will like the idea they can use the exact environment from home. In every case is the main aspect that is an advantage the scalability of ASP: what you don't use, you don't pay. Every workspace can be composed of these functions that are required. It gives you the chance to apply your IT budget only to the needs of your users and the flexible properties gives you the chance to evolve the way you use IT to the most optimal situation.