What is On-Premise & Off -Premise IT Services Everything You Should Know!
On-Premise Vs Off-Premise
On-Premise Software :-
On-premise is the software and technology that is located within the physical confines of an enterprise — often in the company’s data centre — as opposed to running remotely on hosted servers or in the cloud.By installing and running software on hardware located within the premises of the company,internet technology(IT) staff has physical access to the data and can directly control the configuration,management and security of the computing infrastructure and data.
Examples of On-Premise services —
- SharePoint 2013 -:
Business collaboration platform for the enterprise and web.
2.Adobe Creative Suite-:
It is set of application and services used for graphic design,video editing,web development,photography.
3.WebTrends On-Premises
Off-Premise Software :-
In cloud computing,a third party provider hosts all things for us which allows company to pay on an as-needed basis and effectively scale up or down depending on overall usage,user requirements,and the growth of a company.
Examples of Off-Premise services —
1.Creatio -:
Creatio,formerly BPM online,is a cloud service specifically for marketing,sales and servicers to manage business processes and assist companies to facilitate consumer experiance and customer journey.
2.Slack -:
Slack is an american based cloud service designed to facilitate internal team collaboration through its tools and services.
3.Google Cloud -:
Google Cloud Platform,a cloud service offered by Google,runs on the same infrastructure that google uses internally for its end-user products like Google and YouTube.
4.Microsoft 365 -:
Office 365 is a product line of subscription-based services such as Outlook,Powerpoint,and Excel.
5.Salesforce -:
Salesforce has a cloud based software-as-a-service(SaaS).It is both a business-to-business and business-to-consumer commerce solution.
On-Premise Vs Off-Premise :-
#1:Development —
On-Premise : With on-premise software,the company remains responsible for maintaining the solution and related processes.The deployment is done in house using the company’s infrastructure.
Off-Premise : In a hosted cloud,the service provider maintenance the systems on their server,accessible by the enterprise at any given time with related processes taken care of by the host-cloud service provider.
#2:Control —
On-Premise : In an on-premise environment,enterprises enjoy complete control over their systems and maintain 100 percent privacy.These are two reasons why most big organisations choose to stay away from off-premise.
Off-Premise : In Off-Premise environment,even though the data and encryption keys are shared with the third-party provider,there is shared ownership and accessibility remains an issue if there is to be any downtime.
#3.Security —
On-Premise : Security is an essential requirement of any organisation when it comes to financial account,customer and employee details.Even though traditional on premise seems more secure as it is in- house,there are multiple measures that need to be taken to fully maintain the security of the data.
Off-Premise : With Off-Premise there are very less chances of any hardware,software of infrastructure malfunction that can hinder the entire operation and result in hefty losses.The ERP vendor is more likely to have multiple disaster and redundancy protocols for data security.For both platforms,realiable network connectivity plays a very important role when it comes to remote areas.
