Our Cloud Offer

For all otris products we realise every form of op­er­a­tion that makes tech­nic­al sense: In the cloud or on the company’s own server (on premises). If you decide to operate in the cloud, you can choose between public cloud and private cloud. What are the dif­fer­ences between the vari­ants, which cloud suits your re­quire­ments and what is the cloud anyway?

Our un­der­stand­ing of the cloud

The term “cloud” is not a phys­ic­al quant­ity. There­fore, defin­i­tions often become blurred at the edges. For users of our soft­ware, the fol­low­ing dif­fer­en­ti­ation is im­port­ant: If you use an otris product in the cloud, the soft­ware is op­er­ated on the server of an ex­tern­al data centre. You access the soft­ware via an in­ter­net con­nec­tion and browser. To dif­fer­en­ti­ate: With our on-premises offer, the server is located in your company’s own data centre.

Com­pan­ies make a de­cision for or against the cloud based on their IT com­pli­ance guidelines and eco­nom­ic aspects. For em­ploy­ees, it is ir­rel­ev­ant whether they use otris products in the cloud or on-premises. The in­ter­faces of both vari­ants are identic­al.

Se­cur­ity in the cloud

The ques­tion of whether op­er­a­tion in the cloud or on a company’s own servers is more secure cannot be answered uni­ver­sally. However, our ex­per­i­ence from many cus­tom­er pro­jects shows that the IT se­cur­ity stand­ards of company-owned data centres often do not reach the level of an ex­tern­al data centre. From backup to fire pro­tec­tion to access control: If your soft­ware runs in an ex­tern­al, reput­able data centre, you benefit from the pro­fes­sion­al se­cur­ity concept.

Cer­ti­fied data centres
We realise our cloud offers in co­oper­a­tion with our sub­si­di­ary bytemine. bytemine uses data centres that have been cer­ti­fied by re­cog­nised aud­it­ors in ac­cord­ance with ISO 9001 and 27001. All servers of the data centres on which we run otris products are located in Germany.

High data se­cur­ity
Auto­mated data backups protect you in the event of data loss. Se­cur­ity is in­creased by the fact that the backups are stored locally sep­ar­ate from the op­er­at­ing server of your otris product.

The otris private cloud

If you use an otris product in our private cloud, you access a server op­er­ated by an ex­tern­al data centre. As far as func­tions are con­cerned, the private cloud does not re­strict you: in­ter­faces, in­di­vidu­al ex­ten­sions or con­fig­ur­a­tions – what works on-premises also works in the otris private cloud.

The otris public cloud

If you use our soft­ware in the otris public cloud, you access – as with the otris private cloud – servers of an ex­tern­al data centre. The dif­fer­ence: in the public cloud, you do not use a server in­stance set up spe­cific­ally for you.

Con­serve in-house IT re­sources
Neither one nor the other is “better” or “worse”. Only one cri­terion is de­cis­ive: the op­er­at­ing mode must fit your re­quire­ments. If you have the re­quire­ment not to use in-house IT re­sources, the otris private cloud is in­ter­est­ing: you use the soft­ware, we take care of the op­er­a­tion of the system. This means that we keep the server hard­ware and soft­ware re­quired for op­er­a­tion up to date. Ad­apt­a­tions, ex­ten­sions or updates of the ap­plic­a­tion soft­ware are ser­vices that we – as with on-premises cus­tom­ers – ad­di­tion­ally perform after com­mis­sion­ing.

Use eco­nom­ic ad­vant­ages
The shared server in­stance has eco­nom­ic ad­vant­ages. Small and medium-sized en­ter­prises in par­tic­u­lar ap­pre­ci­ate the soft­ware of­fer­ing in the low-cost public cloud. From a tech­nic­al point of view, however, the shared server in­stance has one re­stric­tion: the otris product is only avail­able to you in a pre­defined stand­ard version. In­ter­faces and ex­ten­sions as in the private cloud cannot be real­ised in the public cloud. Private cloud, public cloud or on premises – we would be happy to explain all the details to you in a meeting. Get in touch with us!