AvantGard Hosting Services

SunGard AvantGard extends its commitment to delivering flexible solutions to meet our customers’ diverse requirements by offering IT and application hosting services. SunGard's AvantGard Hosting Service provides your business with outsourced IT, hardware and application management by leveraging SunGard’s leadership in managed services and disaster recovery.

SunGard's AvantGard Hosting Services reduce the total cost of ownership of your application by decreasing the IT and infrastructure costs while also offering a single point of contact for all IT support and application management requirements.

In a hosted environment, users can access any AvantGard application from any location globally, via a secure connection. With user-defined performance and availability service levels, corporations, financial institutions and the public sector can improve quality of service (QoS), gain highly reliable network performance and enhanced application and upgrade management.

SunGard's AvantGard Hosting Services are supported by two highly secure 24x7 data centers owned and managed by SunGard Availability Services, with locations in London and Philadelphia.  Both centers support the mission-critical requirements of many of the world leading global financial institutions and include ongoing support for financial solutions and banking systems.

The data center is a fully managed environment, with various levels of disaster recovery or high availability configurations. If your company is already a customer of these services, there is a simple process to migrate additional applications from AvantGard.

Features:

  • Secure Virtual Private Network (VPN) and outbound communications for remote connectivity
  • Dedicated customer relationship support manager
  • 24/7 support including monitoring of systems
  • Operating system and database management
  • System backup and data storage
  • Fully audited (e.g. SAS70) and hardened facility
  • 99.999% network reliability
  • Hardware Provisioning & Installation
  • Disaster Recovery Services

Benefits:

  • Faster IT Response Time
  • Accelerated Implementation Timeline
  • Dedicated Support Team
  • Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
  • Managed by Domain Experts
  • Single Point of Contact
  • Secure IT Infrastructure & Comprehensive Backup / Recovery

 

AvantGard also offers System Integration, Application Management, and Comprehensive Implementation & Support Services.

Datasheet: SunGard's AvantGard Hosting and Managed Services TCO Program