OPSIS Hosted - Legal Software as a Service (SaaS)

OPSIS provides another way to access functionally rich practice management online using OPSIS Hosted. Your practice can enjoy the benefits of the latest legal cloud computing technology without heavy investment upfront and can achieve substantial business efficiencies as a result. What's more, with OPSIS Hosted and an Internet connection, fee earners can work remotely from anywhere in the world. Learn more by reading the Overview of OPSIS Hosted.

Managing information technology requires expensive, skilled resource, and the current economic climate is causing many law firms to question how wellthat resource is being used.

By "hosting" their core systems, firms are released from the day-to-day running of their system.

They are also gaining benefits in terms of ease of access to information, and being able to refocus IT resources onto higher value projects or else reducing the amount of dedicated internal resource required.

Hosting can therefore deliver many firms benefits in both cost reduction and IT effectiveness.

What is "cloud computing"?

A Hosted System generally refers to a complete outsourced IT managed service where the technology used to deliver the service usually resides in a location other than your own office environment. It is web based computing, whereby shared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices on-demand, enabling remote working.

Other terms sometimes used to describe hosted systems include;

• SaaS - Software as a Service
• ASP – Application Service Provision
• Managed Service
• Cloud Computing
• Utility Computing

Legal Cloud Computing describes a new supplement, consumption and delivery model for Legal IT services based on the Internet, and it typically involves the provision of dynamically scalable and virtualized resources or "software as a service" (SaaS) over the Internet. It is a byproduct and consequence of the ease-of-access to remote computing sites provided by the Internet.

The term “cloud” is used as a metaphor for the Internet, based on the cloud drawing used in the past to represent the telephone network, and later to depict the Internet in computer network diagrams as an abstraction of the underlying infrastructure it represents.

The OPSIS Hosted legal cloud computing solution delivers our legal software as a service for complete online practice management applications, accessed using remote connectivity software, while the main software and data are stored on IRIS OPSIS servers in a Data Centre, a building purpose built for housing computer, network and telephony systems.

The primary Data Centre facility used to house the IRIS hosted systems are in a decommissioned Bank of England Bullion Vault in Manchester, with the backup disaster recovery centre in Leeds.

To request Brochures or arrange a Demonstration for any of our web based practice management software products please use our Brochure Request form.

Overview of OPSIS Online Legal Software Solutions

OPSIS - Another way With IT hardware and software changing so fast, it is more and more difficult to ensure that your practice has the most appropriate Legal SAAS IT infrastructure in place to enable it to run as efficiently as it can and deliver improved levels of service to clients, fee earners and other users. Our main products can be used in the OPSIS Hosted Legal SaaS environment; Millennium Accounts, Millennium Solo, Solicitor Case Manager, PMS and SPS, as well as Microsoft products; Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, Word Powerpoint, and Microsoft Exchange.

Overview

OPSIS Hosted has been designed to host your core software applications on dedicated, powerful servers in a highly secure, scalable Data Centre, the only equipment you need to run OPSIS Hosted at your premises is PCs and a broadband connection. And furthermore, your PCs don't even need to be state of the art!

Benefits of OPSIS Hosted

The cost benefits of IRIS Hosted are enormous, particularly for start-ups.  Hardware costs are minimised because there’s no requirement for expensive servers and other equipment.  In fact, the only hardware you need to purchase upfront is PCs, laptops and printers.  Everything else, including software licences for third party applications such as your Microsoft Office suite, is taken care of.
 
The second major benefit of IRIS Hosted is the back-up element which means no stress or worry about either data loss or continuity of work in the event of emergency.  Crisis contingency provision means that whatever happens in the workplace, members of your practice can still access all systems from a remote connection.  This gives true peace of mind.  Pay a simple monthly fee per user connecting to the service, thus managing your IT spend efficiently.

• Manage your business growth by simply paying for each additional user as you add them.
• 100% tax deductible.
• Low start-up cost for new practices.
• Fix your costs for 3 years with the fixed price option.
• Mobile office.

Technologically Advanced

• Eliminate your worries about upgrades and licence costs – OPSIS Hosted always uses the latest Microsoft Office cloud computing applications.
• Keep firm control of your IT budget through upgrades to the next generation of server operating systems provided as part of a monthly fee.
• Your own team of IT consultants on hand from OPSIS ensures you have the best technical advice possible.
• No need for maintenance, development and support of business-critical applications or the infrastructure that supports them as these are looked after by OPSIS experts.

Maximise your performance and productivity

• Enjoy improved resilience and security.
• Improve your data security – OPSIS systems utilise the latest database technologies to ensure high levels of data integrity.
• Regular data backups – OPSIS automated tape backup and off-site data backups provide additional security and peace of mind.
• Planned schedule of maintenance to ensure systems are stable, secure and fast which reduces downtime.
• Be protected by tight SLAs – OPSIS works to tight Service Level Agreements that deliver both system performance and helpdesk availability.

Email with additional bonuses.

• Access your SaaS legal software from anywhere in the world – Outlook Web Access makes your life even easier by allowing viewing, sending and receiving of emails anywhere via an Outlook style interface with broad support for all major Internet browsers. This increases both the efficiency of the practice and client satisfaction.
• Mobile synchronisation of your email and diary with PDA/phone to Exchange, with the widest range of mobile devices supported; Blackberry, Android, iPhone, etc.
• High Security helps to protect your data and your business in an increasingly mobile world, allowing remote working from virtually anywhere regardless of firewall type, including hotels, airports, etc. This is achieved using the latest SSL tunnelling feature from Microsoft.

How does it work?

What you get...

For a monthly fee we can provide you with the following hosted applications:

• OPSIS Hosted online practice & case management system.
• Microsoft Office: Outlook, Excel, Word Powerpoint.
• Microsoft Exchange.

Hosted Applications

Application	Hosted?
Millennium Accounts
Solicitor Case Manager
Practice Management System (PMS)
Small Practice System (SPS)
Millennium Solo
Weblink Online Case Management	external
Microsoft Office
Microsoft Exchange

Please call our sales executive to discover more about how OPSIS Hosted can help your business:-

Jason Mendrik

	Tel: +44 (0)844 815 5751
	Mobile: +44 (0)7811 380451
	Email:

To request Brochures or arrange a Demonstration for any of our Hosted products please use our Brochure Request form.

Download OPSIS Hosted Legal Software Solutions data sheet

More questions? - Download the comprehensive IRIS Hosted FAQ's document

More reading - The Perfect Host - How hosted services can save you time and money

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OPSIS Hosted Data Sheet

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More questions? - Download the comprehensive IRIS Hosted FAQ's document

More reading - The Perfect Host - How hosted services can save you time and money

To request Brochures or arrange a Demonstration for any of our Hosted products please use our Brochure Request form.