Contracts wins for cloud computing specialist Dynamic Edge Solutions
Posted by Engage PR on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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New IT solutions company, Dynamic Edge Solutions, is on track to hit a turnover target of £400,000 after delivering state-of-the-art cloud computing solutions for 10 companies.
Dynamic Edge Solutions, one of the Scotland’s leading exponents of cloud computing which gives desktop PC and mobile computing users access to their software and data securely via the internet – reducing the need for expensive hardware and software – was awarded eight of the contracts in the last three months.
Rob Hamilton, director at Dynamic Edge Solutions, has recently seen a surge in interest for Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS), which was launched worldwide by Microsoft in May last year. The company was the first in Scotland to be certified by Microsoft to deliver its online services solution.
The total value of the 10 contracts to the Aberdeen company is around £150,000.
Aberdeen-based Norson Power, a leading provider of hydraulic engineering solutions to the oil and gas industry, Westhill-based Albapharm – a leading support network for pharmacies across the United Kingdom – and Create Financial Solutions, the established Aberdeen financial advisors, are three of the firms Dynamic Edge Solutions have “put in the cloud” along with seven other businesses.
Mr Hamilton expects more North-east companies to move to the scalable web-based, pay-as-you-go, on-demand delivery of IT services in the next 12 months.
The company, which also delivers traditional IT support services, is confident of recording £400,000 in turnover by the end of the year and has set a turnover target of £700,000 for 2011.
Mr Hamilton, who set up Dynamic Edge Solutions at the beginning of last year, said the recent growth was down to company directors looking to reduce costs and improve efficiency by using cloud computing, which is also known as SaaS (Software as a Service), where company information is stored in huge data centres as opposed to in-house hardware.
A former Business Development Manager at an established Aberdeen-based IT firm, Mr Hamilton said: “The market is beginning to understand how this development in IT can reduce costs by as much as 40%. Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) really is the next generation of IT services and the biggest step change in the industry for 25 years.
“We’re delighted to agree contracts with 10 forward-thinking North-east companies. The internet-based model delivers a range of benefits for these businesses from reducing the amount of money spent on servers, ongoing IT support and upgrade projects. There is also greater flexibility with regard to remote access with the ability to log on and access company data wherever you are in the world.
“The Business Productivity Online Standard Suite (BPOS) has been particularly well received by financial directors as the future costs of IT can be worked out to the penny rather than estimated. This change from capital expenditure to operational expenditure, due to the fixed monthly costs per user per month, has made us attractive in the marketplace.
“IT managers have also been positive as the cloud computing model means someone else takes care of the headache of installing and owning equipment and keeping applications up to date. This frees up IT executives to concentrate on core business such as strategy, planning and improving processes.
“The level of interest we’ve received from business people at seminars and demonstrations has been extremely encouraging, especially when it’s explained that IT costs can be reduced. From a functional point of view, latest figures reveal there is a 99.9% uptime for cloud computing which obviously compares favourably with a traditional IT set-up.
“Due to our knowledge of traditional IT systems we can assist companies wishing to migrate to the cloud computing model as they look to decrease the need to manage hardware, such as servers, and software. A small business with 10 staff could be set up in the cloud within two days.
“Just like electricity a company can use as much or as little computing power as it requires. This scalability as companies take on more or let go of staff is one of the main reasons we expect further growth for Dynamic Edge Solutions in 2010. It means that expensive software licences or redundant servers can now be a thing of the past as companies only use what they require.”
The Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) is a set of Microsoft hosted messaging and collaboration solutions including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Office Live Meeting, and Microsoft Office Communications Online.
These online services are designed to streamline communication, deliver security and simplify IT management through a fixed monthly payment per user or on a subscription basis.
A company’s data is stored in huge Microsoft data centres and accessed through an internet connection, reducing the need to maintain IT services onsite. Coca-Cola and GlaxoSmith Kline have moved core parts of their business into the cloud.
Dynamic Edge Solutions, based in Aberdeen’s West End, currently has a team of 5 and is looking to increase that figure in the first half of this year to 7 by securing further contract wins.
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