SES Blog

Figures from the first Business Impact Tracker report issued by the British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) present concerning, yet unsurprising reading for businesses affected by the current global pandemic. 

An increasing number of organisations rely on 3rd party developed, business critical applications which are delivered through a hosting provider such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform using a Software as a Service (SaaS) model. 

You’ve gone through the process of finding the right developer, scoped your needs, had the application developed and implemented and your employees have been trained to use it effectively. You’ve got so much invested in the application, its critical to your business, so what happens when you’re no longer able to use it? 

As one of the UK’s leading Software Escrow agents, we’ve heard every myth, challenge and reason in the book why Software Escrow isn’t at the top of your priority list.

Validation is an important step in the Software Escrow process. It provides an audit of the application development process to determine whether all the pieces required to build the application are present and accurate.

When setting up an Escrow agreement to protect hosted applications, ensuring you can retain access to the most current version of your application data should be your number one priority. 

Do you understand the potential risks of third party developed, cloud based applications? Last week we shared a piece of content discussing some of the dangers of becoming reliant on unprotected third party applications and within minutes of sharing it one customer was already on the phone to us. 

In recent years we have seen a significant shift in the way end users access their business critical applications. Almost gone are the days of lengthy uploads to install applications on site, now we simply log into our applications from a web browser using our unique credentials.

As we touched upon last week, SES has always focused on making Software Escrow simple and increasing our security. Simplifying Escrow so that more businesses can benefit from its protection and enhancing security to give our customers the confidence to secure their critical applications with us. 

Software Escrow needn’t be complex or difficult to introduce within your business. It’s designed to provide business continuity by protecting against unforeseen circumstances and, as we see it, more organisations should put it at the top of their priority list.

Business applications are essential in today's world of work. In a world that’s always on, always pushing for the next insight, the next edge and the next innovation which gives us an advantage over our competition, business applications have helped us reimagine the workplace.

Standardised, off the shelf applications no longer fulfill the requirements of today's highly dynamic organisations. Although these applications are good as a starting point, a foundation to build on, they often don’t fulfil the true needs of their users.