Versatile ERP Cloud Computing Solution | VITA Cloud Angel

Discover the Agresso ERP cloud deployment option

VITA Cloud Angel™ is the world’s most protective, and versatile option for dynamic businesses looking to leverage the key benefits of cloud computing. The solution offers a subscription-based deployment of the Agresso Business World line of ERP software.

VITA Cloud Angel extends the low-cost “do-it-yourself” change advantages of Agresso Business World's unique VITA™ architecture. VITA is uniformly acknowledged and documented, both by industry technology analysts and Agresso Business World customers, as the ERP market’s most effective technology platform for Businesses Living IN Change (BLINC) ™.

Via VITA Cloud Angel, Agresso Business World users now gain additional versatility for evolving requirements around hardware infrastructure, data and processing locations, industry-specific deployment needs and shared service requirements.

Sector focus

The new VITA Cloud Angel solution provides rapidly deployed, turnkey solutions across four industry sectors: 

• Professional services
• non-profit/charity businesses
• healthcare services and;
• education

Each of these 80% pre-built templates are mapped to industry requirements, speeding up typical ERP deployment cycles by months or even quarters.

VITA Cloud Angel is designed to protect and insulate dynamic, rapidly changing companies from some of the concerns around cloud-based solutions, while offering the cost-savings of subscription-based cloud deployment:

• No co-mingling of business-data;
• Full knowledge of where the business data resides;
• No restrictions on location of technology hardware infrastructure;
• No costly migration for companies changing deployment options in the future – from on-premise to off-premise or back again;

Five key capabilities

The specific five new capabilities offered with our cloud computing solution, VITA Cloud Angel, include:

1. A Virtual-Machine (VM) Environment Choice: Multiple hardware deployment choices that allow businesses to migrate between on- and off-premises environments as they wish.
2. The Perfect Private Cloud Environment: The IT operations of VITA Cloud Angel will be managed by UNIT4 Hybrid Computing Center which provides Agresso Business World customers with a single point of contact;  service level agreements; a centralized provisioning/reporting center; end user IT support and telephone/e-mail and self-service portal support. Various private cloud options are available to manage/host an organization’s data.
3. The Intel-Agent Data Privacy Protection: UNIT4 is also introducing Intel-Agent ™ Data Privacy, a unique VITA feature that provides a complete set of administrator-only controls for maximum data/application protection.
4. A Redundant Web Backbone and Data Storage Component:  The virtual, high availability of these operations enable all components within a data center to be switched within seconds in the event of a problem.  Fiber-optic lines provide an additional monitoring layer to provide immediate combined fail-over and data recovery.
5. A Shared Service Option for Industry Partners and Associates:  Agresso Business World Shared Services has been deployed by over 450 private and public sector organizations around the world and is in use today by more than 77,000 active users. This option is now available via the VITA Cloud Angel deployment option. This offers economies of scale by the sharing of one application, but allows organizations to retain autonomy through their own chart of accounts and data.

VITA Cloud Angel is being rolled out and may not be available in all regions of the world at present.

For more information see the press release or contact us.