Cloud, Mobile, and Big Data are the new buzz words and use of technology is at the forefront of everyone’s agenda. Environmental industry runs on data -visual inspections or laboratory analyses. Twenty years back Microsoft Excel was the hot new technology; fifteen years back it was Microsoft Access; ten years back it was SQL Server; and now it’s all about cloud and SAAS (software as a service). For understanding the difference between traditional enterprise systems vs SAAS applications let’s focus on laboratory data.
You need to store the lab data, and a way to query it time to time to create reports, and keep it safe from unauthorized access. To achieve this, most of the consulting companies today buy an enterprise database management system (let’s call it RPS for convenience). RPS would be installed on your company’s internal servers. RPS would typically need Windows server and database software to run. Even before any data is uploaded into RPS here is what you are in a hole for:
- Hardware costs for the servers you need for RPS- primary and back up
- Cost of networking
- Operating systems and database software annual licenses
- And then RPS’ annual licensing fees
What’s more, you got to have RPS experts to run the system as you can’t access the data yourself. You also need IT support for maintaining the servers and the server software.
In a nutshell, you wanted a glass of milk every now and then. So, you went and bought a cow. While you were buying the cow the salesman also sold you a shed for the cow, a pasture for it to graze, and a second cow as the first one will get depressed if left alone and won’t produce any milk. Once you bring the cows home you realize that you don’t know how to milk so you have to hire someone to milk them. Cows also get sick which means you got to pay a vet to keep them healthy.
That’s your traditional enterprise database management system.
Instead if you went to a grocery store and bought a gallon of milk – that would be SAAS. Let someone else manage the cows, the milking, the feeding, and their health.
Cost of ownership and maintenance of software systems is incredibly expensive. Managing software will take your focus and resources away from your core business.
Try QNOPY. Minding the technology is our business so that you can focus on yours. Its technology when you need it and pay only for what you use.
Download QNOPY app on your phone and record your field data with our mobile app. View and print your data on the QNOPY web portal. As soon as the lab is done analyzing your samples you can generate your tables and figures on our web portal.
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To find out more contact us at info@qnopy.com