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“Our IT department saw a lot of value in having the application hosted by Halogen as it eliminated the burden of managing and maintaining the solution from their already extensive list of responsibilities.” Alicia Van Blair, L-3 Interstate Electronics Corporation

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At Halogen Software, we give our customers the choice to deploy our software on their premises or have us host their solution. Whatever is most suitable – the choice is yours, at any time.

Whether our solution is deployed on your premises or in our carrier grade hosting environment - Halogen is committed to ensuring our clients receive the maximum business benefits with our Employee Performance Management solutions.

Our On-demand hosting option gives you all the benefits of using our EPM software without the IT requirements normally associated with introducing and supporting software in your organization. We provide all our hosted customers with world-class, on-demand service, characterized by:

• N+1 application and infrastructure architecture
• 99.3%+ uptime with a service level objective of 99.7%
• Fastest average transaction speed in the industry – less than 70 ms (benchmark: Salesforce.com 250+ ms)
• Over 1 billion transactions processed each year
• Software purpose-built for on-demand performance and reliability
• Hardware, software and networking technologies sourced from the world’s leading infrastructure vendors
• Excess computing capacity on all tiers to accommodate growth and seasonal spikes in demand.

For our On-Demand application hosting, Halogen partners with Q9 Networks Inc, a leading provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure for organizations with mission-critical IT operations. Q9's data centers and network are backed by an industry leading SLAs that guarantees 100% network and power availability.

In order to ensure the highest levels of performance, and uptime, Halogen also works closely with industry leaders such as Oracle, Cisco, HP, NetApps and Redhat. As a result, our carrier-grade hosted solution gives our clients:

• The flexibility to choose the software and hosting service that is right for your organization.
• A hassle-free, rapid setup - we do the work for you.
• Reliability and data security - Our carrier grade, worry free hosting facility ensures maximum security and uptime for your application and data.
• A cost effective hosted solution at a fraction of the cost of maintaining and monitoring it on your own.

Our robust On-Demand service provides the following benefits:

What do you get?	How do we ensure this?
Flexibility you decide the best licensing model for your organization	Two licensing models are available for hosted applications: Perpetual license Subscription licensing (SaaS)
Fast easy setup can be completed within hours of contract execution!	Halogen will perform all installation and upgrades for you.
24x7 availability, reliability and speed great response times even during peak load times!	Clustered servers, redundant high availability firewalls, load-balancers, switches and Oracle servers supported by dedicated and redundant carrier grade Tier 1 backbone connectivity to the Internet; and 24 x 7 monitoring ensure the your solution is always available and fast.
Data Security	Physical security Keycard & biometric access, constant electronic surveillance, security guards on premise 24 x 7. Logical security Tiered firewalls, state of the art intrusion detection, intrusion prevention and encryption. Application level security Various levels of user access ensure users only see the appropriate data. Weekly third party audits are conducted by industry experts to ensure ongoing security.
Cost effectiveness	Due to economies of scale, Halogen is able to offer all these services at a fraction of the cost of maintaining and monitoring them yourself.