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Who is ThinkGrid?

ThinkGrid provides business IT on Demand service to organisations all over the world through thier innovative cloud platform, which enables IT related organisations to embrace cloud computing simply and easily, and delivers real services and benefits for small, medium and enterprise businesses. ThinkGrid was the first company to connect businesses, the IT channel and the cloud together, and operates the largest of such platforms globally. After reviewing many services, and recognizing the strength of their platform Paragon System Solutions has partnered with ThinkGrid in order to bring the benefits of Cloud Computing to our customers.

Stop Wasting Money on Software!

Software As A Service or SAAS is one form of cloud computing most buisnesses are familiar with, possibly even using. But beyond applications like Salesforce.com and Google Apps, Paragon and ThinkGrid can even stream your desktop productivity software to you. This is hugely advantageous given the outrageous cost of software licencing. Microsoft Office alone, a must have for most corporate desktops, can cost up to $600.00/user. Paragon has helped companies implement Microsoft's Great Plains at the cost of $15,000 or more with hardware, software and services combined. And if you buy a license, you’re stuck with it. Over the years we have seen thousands of dollars in purchased software sit on a shelf unused after a month, if it was used at all. Its a huge waste, and no longer necessary. By paying for your software like Microsoft Office, Great Plains, Dynamics CRM or even ACT from Sage software on a month to month basis you can shut off any software you are not using, never paying for anything you don’t need. For example If you want to hire 10 temporary workers for 6 months for a big marketing push you might need to buy up to $10,000 worth of software using a traditional licensing model. That’s assuming licenses for Office and a CRM software. By using these apps in the cloud instead, your cost would only be $2000.00. The cloud model of delivering software gives access to the same application huge companies invest in, at a fraction of the cost. I really feel that this model of licensing is the future of the software industry. Not only does it lower the cost of entry for the mid-sized business and remove the burden of administration, but for the software companies it eliminates the threat of software piracy, which is key to lowering software licensing costs overall.

Key Benefits:

• Only pay for what you use!

• Unparalleled safety and security

• Instant deployment

• Easily integrated with your current systems

• Drastically lower cost of entry!

All The Software You Need!

Paragon and ThinkGrid provide a full application catalogue for you to choose from all priced per user and available on a monthly basis. If you have a custom application or are an ISV we can also house these in our infrastructure and make them available to your users securely and remotely!

Common on demand applications include:

• Microsoft Office 2007 Suites and Applications

• SAGE and QuickBooks

• Adobe Acrobat, Dreamweaver etc.

• Microsoft Dynamics/CRM

• Iris HR & Payroll

• and many more!

Your Data has never been safer!

Because all data resides in our data centres rather than on local machines, it cannot be lost or stolen, nor is it subject to individual hardware failure. Similarly, because the applications are constantly backed up, data cannot be accidentally erased or corrupted. It is transmitted using industry-standard SSL encryption, as used for online banking and by the likes of Amazon.com. This means that it's impossible for outside parties to view the data being streamed from us to you. We run multiple data centres on a highly available, fully redundant, constantly mirrored, Grid computing model to ensure 99.99% availability even in the unlikely event of a disaster at one of ThinkGrid's facilities.