AppStructure: Next-Generation Platform for Business Agility
When it comes to technology, organizations are faced with multiple challenges – how to integrate vast pools of internal and outsourced applications across business functions; how to enhance the performance of their computing resources while cutting down costs; how to use the new technologies to make their business interactive and responsive, and most importantly, how to ensure that technology works seamlessly with other strategic components of their business – both people and processes.
NaviSite’s AppStructure is the next-generation application infrastructure cloud computing platform designed to tackle most of enterprises technology challenges. This dynamic platform combines three of the most powerful technologies of the decade – Virtualization, SOA, and Web 2.0, all delivered via a single platform - eliminating the boundaries existing between infrastructure, application, and services. It is a flexible platform that can evolve to meet the changing requirements within each technology tier – be it Infrastructure, Application or Services, so that business could respond and adapt quickly to the changing needs in today’s global, competitive and turbulent business landscape.
The Power of Combination – Virtualization, SOA, and Web 2.0 Rolled into One
Virtualization
AppStructure virtualizes computing resources including servers, storage, and networking - allowing organizations to scale up and down their IT usage based on their requirements, quickly deploy resources, and ensure greater alignment between revenue and cost.
Integration
AppStructure leverages SOA application connectors to quickly develop tight integration points between both packaged and customer applications, whether outsourced or in-house, internal or with partners, while providing a unified, end-to-end integration.
Collaboration
AppStructure offers engaging and cost-effective ways to interact and collaborate with key constituents by leveraging the power of social networking and the information transparency of the Internet. The Web 2.0 offerings include fully-managed Social Networking, RSS reading and publishing, Blogging, Tagging, and Wiki functionality.
AppStructure Aligns Business and Technology
Greater Business Agility
AppStructure’ s On-demand provisioning model lets enterprises scale their computing resources up or down based on their current business requirements. The core computing infrastructure is virtualized, ensuring the technology fits the changing business needs.
Business Continuity
AppStructure provides inherent business continuity and availability with failover and redundancy, so that the technology is always running and responsive. The virtualized environment of AppStructure allows organizations to easily and securely back up, restore, and migrate applications with minimal downtime.
Ease of Deployment
AppStructure is a portable platform that allows dynamic provisioning and allocation of computing resources. Organizations can deploy resources quickly and easily in alignment with their needs. With AppStructure, acquiring new technology is not a matter of weeks or months, but a few minutes, ensuring faster time to market and business growth.
Tightly Integrated Application Environment
AppStructure creates a tightly integrated application environment based on application integration assessment and strategy, despite geographic separation and multiple technology platforms. The application connectors can be customized to connect packaged and custom applications to one another, and are constantly monitored.
Collaboration
AppStructure enhances collaboration to increase sales, improve brand loyalty, and promote knowledge sharing and viral communication. It offers turnkey, customizable Web 2.0 widgets and capabilities like content management, blogs, Wikis, polls and RSS feeds.
Security
Virtualization provides numerous security possibilities to safeguard valuable business data while giving the organizations freedom to access it anytime, anywhere. It is designed to meet PCI compliance standards and SAS70 regulatory requirements.
Expert Support
NaviSite offers 24x7 monitoring of application environment, combined with assistance for all stages of application and infrastructure management providing our customers with a comprehensive technology solution. NaviSite’s expertise in managed services and application solutions combined with vast experience of providing customized solutions makes AppStructure a solution that organizations can rely on.
Cost Advantage
AppStructure requires lower initial capital expenditure and operational expenditure for deploying technology and offers greater alignment between the growth in business and the technology spend. The flexible platform significantly trims down infrastructure, technology upgrades, or maintenance costs.
