Data & Database Solutions

Hosted solutions offer significant advantages to clients over traditional self-hosted software. Infrastructure costs are shared across a group of users enabling regular upgrades without the need for the sometimes lengthy internal capital approval process. Software upgrades are handled by the hosting services, relieving the client of a constant source of headaches. Help desk services costs are spread over several user groups, making this expensive service feasible even for smaller client organizations. Due to these and other advantages, the move to hosted, “software as a service” solutions is likely to continue.

Hatch Mott MacDonald operates a data center designed specifically for clients in the infrastructure industries such as utilities who require a secure facility that is available 24x7. Featuring strong physical and network security, it is designed to minimize the potential for unauthorized data access. At the same time, its convenient location on the Internet backbone and utilization of powerful servers ensures ready access to authorized users.