ASP

ASP Offerings

ASP (Application Service Providing) is part of an IT solution approach having a growing impact on the market, and increased popularity with our clients.

The goals of the Application Service Provider are to supply clients with reliable, powerful IT-systems for their location-independent finance applications which can be leased at a reasonable price, without the need to purchase hardware and invest in its operation and maintenance, and furthermore without binding Internal resources.

In the past years we have successfully provided ASP-solutions on the European market.This being confirmed by clients such as Bombardier Corporate Financial Services and Novelis AG, amongst others.

Why choose Petatec for ASP?

We will be at your command with a team of specialists with a high degree of expertise and a comprehensive approach to your IT structure and workflows. With our technical know how and perennial experience we will support you competently in planning, preparing and realizing your financial value chain management (FVCM) solution. Our services are based on close cooperation and ongoing exchange between us, the Application Provider and you, our client. Within this cooperation we combine products, tools, systems etc. with individual, client- and application-specific enhancements, from preliminary studies and the implementation up to the daily operation, security and monitoring. You as the client have the choice to either handle certain tasks yourself or to assign them to us.

Examples of Application Service Providing (ASP)solutions in the Financial Value Chain Management sphere are:

PT-SUPERIOR

ASP in a dedicated environment with the highest possible operational availability and security totally independent of you own IT-network.

PT-SUPERIOR gives you the flexibility of the operating of your FVCM solution on our dedicated servers, which are totally autonomous from your own infrastructure, without fix capital lockup in Hardware and Software. A secure VPN-connection with corresponding Firewall via Internet allows you to access your solution from anywhere within your network. With PT-SUPERIOR you save not only time and human resources but use a professional infrastructure at calculable periodic costs.

PT-SUPERIOR includes:

• Redundant Hardware and separation of the application* and the
• database on 2 x 2 servers
• 4 servers(2x live and 2x redundant/test system)
• Each 2 CPU’s, 3.2 GHz, 2GB RAM, RAID 1+5
• 2 Firewalls securing connections between your network and the server farm
• (VPN-tunnel)
• Backup; 1 tape deck, incl. 10 Tapes and cleaning tape for data storage
• System software Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 standard edition
• Server CPU License** for the live system
• Tailor-made Service Level Agreement (SLA)

PT-CLASSIC

ASP in a dedicated environment with high operational availability and security, totally independent of you own IT-network.

PT-CLASSIC still gives you the flexibility of the operating of your FVCM solution on our dedicated servers, which are totally autonomous from your own infrastructure, without fix capital lockup in Hardware and Software. A secure VPN-connection with corresponding Firewall via Internet allows you to access your solution from anywhere within your network. With PT-CLASSIC you save not only time and human resources but use a professional infrastructure at calculable periodic costs

PT-CLASSIC includes:

• Redundant Hardware and separation of the application* and the database on 2 x 1 server
• 2 servers (1x live and 1x redundant/test system), each 1 CPU’s, 3.2 GHz, 2GB RAM, RAID 1
• 2Firewalls securing the connection between your network and the server farm (VPN-tunnel)
• BackUp; 1 tape deck, incl. 10 Tapes and cleaning tape for data storage
• System software Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 standard edition
• Server CPU License** for the live system
• Tailor-made Service Level Agreement (SLA)

PT-BASIC

ASP housing of your own Hard- and Software independent of your internal IT-network

For reasons of sustained high accessibility and security or because you do not want to modify internal workflow and work processes you plan to house your own Hard- and Software with the FVCM solution in a high secure external server farm and have it supported by the Application Service Provider. PT-BASIC is the right answer for this solution. With PT-BASIC you save on investments for the set-up of additional resources and have immediate access on our professional, high secure infrastructure.

PT-BASIC includes:

• 2x Firewall for the high secure connection and data transfer between your
• internal IT-Network and the server farm (VPN-Tunnel)
• Rack space as per your needs in our server farm
• BackUp; 1 tape deck, inkl. 10 tapes and cleaning tape for data storage
• Tailor-made Service Level Agreement (SLA)

*Application Tools such as i.e. Hyperion, Globe$, Sungard are not covered within this solution.
**The CPU license entitles to unrestricted user-access to the database

PT-INHOUSE

Your own or our Hard- and Software für FVCM applications without the need to build-up own inhouse special knowledge.

As Application Service Provider we offer you the set-up of your project specific FVCM-platform. We support you competently in planning, preparing and realizing the best suitable IT-infrastructure for your application, in order that your specific requirements on availability, security and performance are met exactly and take over the complete support of this environment for you.

PT-INHOUSE includes:

• Consulting mandate for the set-up of your FVCM application
• Tailor-made Service Level Agreement (SLA)

Our flexibility enables us to modify situational our services to your specific needs at calculable costs. You as our client decide which ASP solution is the best convenient for you.

All informations and specifications described in the above examples are a non-binding listing of possible options. Mandatory are only the precise described scope of services within the customer specific order and the corresponding Service Level Agreement (SLA).