Launch of SaaS Assured service

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NCC Group PLC

23 January 2014

 



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23 January 2014

NCC Group plc

Launch of SaaS Assured service

NCC Group plc (LSE: NCC, "the Group"), the international, independent provider of Escrow and Assurance, has launched its new SaaS Assured service, which guarantees end user companies access to business critical software applications provided through software-as-a-service (SaaS) in the event of supplier failure.

The service is delivered by NCC Group's Escrow division.  It entails a simple interim continuity service that offers a safety net, enabling SaaS customers to continue to access the application and to extract their data should their SaaS provider fail.

This enables businesses to invest in SaaS with the full confidence that critical software applications and data will always be available.

The SaaS model is seeing rapid adoption and cloud software is already business critical to a growing number of businesses.  However, incidents such as the collapse of data centre firm 2e2 highlight the possibility of cloud customers losing their software and data in the event of supplier failure.

Gartner recently estimated that 25% of the top 100 cloud providers may no longer exist by 2015*, highlighting the need for a service that provides continuity for SaaS customers. NCC Group's own research revealed that around 90% of CIOs it surveyed, from a range of firms, are set to adopt some form of cloud service by the end of 2014, demonstrating the increasing amount of trust and reliance placed on SaaS providers.

Rob Cotton, CEO of NCC Group said:

"Through SaaS Assured, we can continue to provide our trusted level of assurance to all customers, however their crucial software and data is provided.  Hosting and cloud service providers are not failsafe and businesses can now ensure that their critical applications can be recovered should the worst happen.

"We believe that SaaS Assured removes one of the biggest barriers to wider cloud adoption by businesses. It adds value to the cloud proposition for both providers and customers."

*William Maurer, Gartner Data Center Conference, December 2013

Enquiries:

NCC Group  (www.nccgroup.com)	0161 209 5432
Rob Cotton, Chief Executive
Atul Patel, Group Finance Director
College Hill
Adrian Duffield/Rozi Morris	020 7457 2020

 

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