SES Blog

Investing in critical applications is an exciting time for businesses, thinking about how they will streamline operations, help us generate more revenue and free up our time to focus on higher-value tasks.

Have you considered who would redeploy your software application in the event of a release? This often overlooked aspect of software resilience is one of the most important to consider. In the unfortunate event your supplier is no longer available to support your application and the Software Escrow agreement is called upon

Have you set out your business continuity plan to protect your organisation against unforeseen circumstances? The majority of businesses rely on 3rd party developed applications to perform business critical functions within their organisation. Whilst using these external suppliers provides major benefits to your organisation

What steps do you take to maximise your business continuity against unforeseen circumstances? This short series explores the protections SES has developed to provide our customers with guaranteed business continuity in the event your software supplier is unable to support your business critical applications.

Choosing the correct Software Escrow protection to fit your business can be a challenging task. With so many options out there, how do choose the protection which fits your needs?

Having a disaster recovery plan to protect against unforeseen circumstances is essential to getting your business back online should the worst happen. With that in mind, how do you test that the recovery plans you have invested in are robust enough to guarantee that your critical applications can be swiftly and accurately redeployed in the event of a release?

Advancements in technology are creating a huge shift in the way we as end users are incorporating critical applications into our organisations. Locally installed on-premise applications which require huge financial and time outlays to purchase and integrate are being replaced with SaaS applications delivered through a third party hosting partner. 

European Cloud Computing giant OVH have announced last week that a major fire has destroyed one of its Strasbourg data centres and damaged another. The disaster is estimated to have brought more than 3.5 million websites offline. 

As we begin 2021 it is important to reflect on 2020 and the challenges we faced, preparing us for what lies ahead as we get back to what many describe as “the new normal”.

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. 

What is a Software as a Service (SaaS) model? And what are the benefits of a SaaS Escrow Agreement? Adam Boland of SES explains the steps you can take to protect your business critical applications delivered through a SaaS model.

Recently we have seen a shift in the way organisations integrate critical applications into their business. We are seeing organisations gravitate towards applications delivered through a hosting partner (e.g. AWS, Azure or Google Cloud Platform etc.)