Centrix offers in-house hosting package

Secure Access for Everyone offers best practice methodologies

IT services company Centrix has launched a new consultancy package for firms wanting to develop and manage their own hosted business applications for in-house and remote staff and partners.

Secure Access for Everyone (Safe) offers enterprises a suite of Itil-based best-practice methodologies, software tools and consultancy services to help them quickly deploy and publish hosted applications, according to Centrix chief executive Lisa Hammond.

The suite features six modules, covering development of a central platform for hosting multiple applications; securely managing access to apps; and ensuring services meet requirements.

Hammond said that more and more firms are deciding to host online applications themselves as a cost-effective means of supporting mobile staff or integrating external partners and service providers into business processes.

“In particular, organisations that use offshore facilities are interested in the hosted model because it allows them to keep applications and data here [in the UK], but provide offshore staff access via a browser,” Hammond added.