Hitcast can be obtained in different ways depending on customers’ needs:
Customer | SaaS | In renting on CPE | Acquired |
Small Enterprises | Yes | YES | NO |
Large Enterprises | No* | YES | YES |
Service providers | No | NO | YES |
*In same case a Public Hitcast server can be provided a as a service in conjunction with one or more private server (acquired) to support public or mobile users in a high security distributed architecture.
Hitcast in Saas format
The advanced security infrastructure provided by the Hitcast platform allow customer to choose to subscribe a Hitcast service, in complete peace of mind obtaining lot of advantages:
- Zero investment in hardware for one or more server and NAS
- Zero cost for server maintenance and management
- Zero cost for server housing
In addition, if the main Hitcast users will be “mobile users”, Hitcast as a service is the best choice to avoid impact on the corporate network that do not have to support the communication among external users.
Hitcast platform grant to the Hitcast SaaS customer exactly the same level of control, profiling, reporting and features.
Hitcast in renting on Customer premises equipments
For multisite company, insurance, banks, and all enterprises equipped with large IT infrastructure, this is the best option to start introducing a UC&C technologies inside their business process.
Acquiring Hitcast
This is the best option for large organization or service providers requiring more than one server Hitcast servers.
Cost model
Hitcast cost model depend on the solution required:
Solution | Cost components |
Hitcast SaaS | Server License Concurrent Users Or Flat rate per configured users |
Hitcast rented | Server License Concurrent Users Or Flat rate per configured users Or Flat rate per configured users / features |
Hitcast aquired | Server License Concurrent Users |
Delivery process
Hitast delivery process it very easy. Hitcasr SaaS require no customers action: Hitcast Delivery manager will contact the customer Hitcast manager, decide with him the standard user profiles, pre-configure an initial set of users and execute the console managing course.
In other cases customer have to setup a server compliant with the hardware and software requirement, and setup remote access (via terminal server or similar tool) accessible from public network.
All other activities will be executed from remote, wherever the server is located, by the Hitcast Delivery Team.After the installation, Customer will be free to leave the remote access available for further use (i.e. by the Hitcast Support Team) o uninstall it for additional security.
After the installation a Hitcast console managing course will be provided to Customer’s Hitcast Platform Manager.
Delivery process, normally, require one day of activities by the Hitcast Delivery team with limited or null support by the customer.