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SwingMobility has a hosting infrastructure offering:


A range of operational, administrative and supervision services


  • Round-the-clock supervision of servers
  • Secure, reliable bandwidth
  • Backup
  • Software and electric server reboot
  • High availability.

High telecom connection potential, with an available bandwidth of 100 Mbps.


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SaaS mode in a few words


Flexible, modular and reversible, renting SaaS applications presents a number of decisive advantages compared to the classic licence model, especially in a difficult economic climate.


SaaS also offers the advantage of being easily reversible without punitive financial consequences. It allows you to abandon an application without significant losses. The company's processes and structures will be impacted to a lesser degree if deployment of an application is interrupted, if it is found to be inappropriate for the company or obsolete.

SaaS can also be approached as "an initial solution, which, if found satisfactory, can then be re-internalised quite quickly".


Because the financial effort it represents is limited at the outset, when the uncertainties are greatest, SaaS mode can enable companies, particularly SMEs, to equip themselves with certain applications perhaps more rapidly than they would otherwise have done.

"All the more so as in a period of economic crisis, there is often a tendency to accelerate investments to become more competitive, to be more commercially aggressive and to win market share".


Reactivity therefore becomes essential.

The faster deployment time of the solution, as well as its scalability, which consists of a capacity to change an installation in either direction, by adapting it to changes in the company's dimensions to take up a new opportunity, also argue in favour of SaaS.

"SaaS mode includes the maintenance and the permanent inclusion of software upgrades, enabling the business to enjoy optimum use of its solution at all times ".


SaaS reduces all the costs that any information systems manager is faced with in the early years following the introduction of a software package, raising the question of the adaptation of internal resources. It is clearly not always easy for an SME to have the right skills at the right time when it needs to equip its business with a new solution.


The proportion of software used in this way may eventually reach 40 %. Today, a high proportion of clients (70 %) who have opted for this approach "re-internalise" later on. How the respective costs of the two approaches evolve will surely be a decisive factor.


Remotely hosted software is continuing to win over businesses. More and more of them will choose it in 2009. Essentially for reasons of cost and rapid roll-out.

According to the Gartner consultancy firm, 90 % of businesses already using Saas (Software as a Service) will maintain its use or add other SaaS mode solutions to their information system in 2009.


SaaS mode won over North American companies first: 62 % of them plan to increase their use of these tools next year. As for European companies, once again they are lagging behind, on just 49 %.


To arrive at this result, the analysts at Gartner surveyed 260 companies across eight "representative" developed countries. Although the adoption of the SaaS model has accelerated particularly over the last few years, 40 % of the companies questioned have in fact been using this model for longer. "Which suggests that a significant number of final users have adopted this type of tool. In a certain number of companies, they even become a source of proposals", notes Sharon Mertz, in charge of the study at Gartner.


With an unequalled satisfaction rate (90 %), almost one company in four (37 %) intends to replace one or more of its software solutions deployed conventionally in the company with an SaaS alternative hosted outside. Companies are thus looking to reduce their IT costs and to accelerate the deployment of solutions in order to follow as closely as possible the changes in their business and strategy.


Paradoxically, whilst the use of SaaS is also a way of expressing disappointment with traditional software, only 38 % of companies have set up a process of assessing the online service. Easier to roll out, these tools are therefore seen as easier to replace. A mistake according to most experts.