Hi all,
I'm looking for recommendations and advice on how to configure our Sage products.
We have a monthly subscription to Sage 50cloud Professional v28.0.226.0 (bundled with Sage 50 HR v4.0 and Sage 50cloud Payroll).
At present, all three of these applications are hosted with an IT supplier. We have a desktop shortcut that enables us to access the applications via a remote desktop. We do not have the software installed on our machines, nor do we hold any data on our machines or servers here.
I am not convinced by the remote desktop approach. When Sage becomes unstable and gets stuck in a processing loop I need to speak to the IT supplier to force close my application. It also creates some annoying workarounds for downloading data and reports from the remote desktop to our machines, or uploading attachments to Sage from our machines.
I am looking at various suppliers that appear to offer 'cloud hosting'. In my mind this would mean the software was installed on our machines and all data was held securely in the cloud, with no sync issues if multiple users were logged on at the same time.
What I am wondering - and am hoping others can provide their thoughts on - is whether this 'cloud hosting' tends to be remote desktop via another name or something else?
What are your experiences of cloud hosting suppliers? How do you find it best to configure your Sage products? Am I missing a trick that might work for us - local access to data held securely offsite with real-time sync in place and exporting data / printing reports defaulting to local machines?
All comments and thoughts welcomed. For info - we are a 3x user company.