What SAP Business One hosting is
SAP Business One is an ERP system used by small and medium-sized businesses to run finance, sales, purchasing, stock and reporting in one place. It's powerful, but it's also demanding: it needs well-specified servers, a properly managed database, reliable backups and secure access for every user.
Many businesses still run it on a server in their office. Hosting moves SAP Business One to secure cloud infrastructure managed by us, so your users get fast, reliable access from anywhere and you no longer have to own, maintain and replace the hardware it depends on.
It's a specialist service. Few IT providers have the experience to host line-of-business applications like SAP Business One well, and hardly any local competitors offer it at all.
Who it is for
- Businesses with an ageing SAP Business One server that is due for replacement.
- Teams that need remote access, including sales staff, warehouse managers and finance teams working from home or other sites.
- Multi-site businesses that want every location working from the same live system.
- Firms without in-house infrastructure skills, who want the platform looked after by specialists.
- Growing businesses that need SAP Business One to scale with more users, more data and more locations.
What's included
- Hosted servers and database, sized for your users and data, with capacity that can grow with you.
- Secure access for your users from the office, home or on the road, typically through a hosted desktop that also runs Excel, Outlook and your other everyday applications. See cloud desktops.
- Backups and recovery of your SAP Business One database and files, held securely and tested. See backup and disaster recovery.
- Security, including patching, endpoint protection, access controls and monitoring of the hosted environment.
- Performance management, so reports and transactions stay responsive as your business grows.
- Support from our in-house team for the hosted platform, working alongside your SAP Business One partner.
How we deliver it
1. Discovery
We review your current SAP Business One environment: version, database, users, add-ons, integrations, reports, printers and how each team works with it. We also talk to your SAP Business One partner where appropriate.
2. Design
We design a hosted environment sized for your needs, including how users will connect, how printing and integrations will work and how data will be protected.
3. Migration and testing
We build the environment, migrate a copy of your system and ask key users to test it. Once everything works as expected, we schedule the final switch, usually outside working hours to keep disruption to a minimum.
4. Ongoing management
After go-live, we manage the hosted platform day to day, including updates, backups, security and performance, and your team contacts us for any issues with access or the environment.
Connectivity matters
A hosted ERP system is only as good as the connection to it. Slow or unreliable internet shows up as slow screens and frustrated users, however well the servers perform. We work with multiple, diverse network suppliers, so we can make sure each of your offices has the right business connectivity, with a backup line where you can't afford downtime.
Why choose Seabeck
- Specialist experience hosting SAP Business One, a niche very few local providers offer.
- One provider for voice, data and IT, so hosting, connectivity, phones and managed IT support all come from one team.
- Partner-friendly. We work alongside your SAP Business One partner rather than replacing them.
- An in-house team based in Elstree, Hertfordshire, supporting businesses across the UK.
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