In wake of recent power outages on the East Coast and the unforgiving fires in the western half of the United States, it is yet another reminder of how important it is to have safe, secure, and reliable data storage for your company.
What are the Advantages to Web-based Software?
Web-based healthcare staffing software or “cloud computing software” offers significant advantages to the healthcare industry, allowing quick, easy access to large scale data facilities 24 hours a day. Users get all of the functionality of desktop software without the hassle and expense of purchasing, installing, maintaining, and upgrading it. Everything resides on the internet, in the cloud. Accessible 24 hours a day, you needn’t worry about your data in the event of a disaster. For the average user this new interface will be easier, cheaper, more mobile, and more reliable than desktop software.
All of the great features of being in the cloud become even more important in the event of a natural disaster, a power outage, or something as common as a hard drive failure, how well are you protected? How often do you back up your information? Because web-based data is stored from a secure site monitored and maintained by your software provider you can rest assured your information is safe and protected. Disk failures don’t go away, but are fixed by the company’s IT personnel. Offline backups are created and maintained by the software provider in the unlikely event the entire server database fails or is destroyed. By using a web-based healthcare staffing software solution, a company now has the ability to develop, maintain, and continue business by simply logging on to the web from anywhere in the world to access their data.
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With Web-based software, most users won’t have to think about anything except the application they use. Neither the data nor the applications are kept on your computer. Thus, you don’t need to install anything to use it and you don’t use your computer’s memory to store it. No more stressing over software updates and figuring out what version you are supposed to be running. All the messy updates are maintained and released by the software provider. The users need nothing more than their computer or in some cases a mobile device with wireless internet to access their application. Unlike web-based healthcare staffing software, when you install desktop software on a computer, you can only use it on that system. Worse still, your files are trapped on that system. The inconvenience of this model not only limits your software, but also puts your data at risk in the event a natural disaster occurs where that system is location.
As web-based software solutions continue to grow in popularity we see more companies adopting this concept. The ability to have access to your data from anywhere in the World at anytime can be crucial to the success or failure of a business. With the benefits over in-house, client server software, it is no wonder that cloud software is expected to dominate the healthcare staffing market.
