Escrow Services
Over the past 12-18 months a number of IT
suppliers went bust bust due to the global
economy. Unfortunately, this could still be a very real
threat to your business. Business failures soared to a
16-year high during first three months of 2009 and analysts are
predicting between 125,000 and 150,000 company bankruptcies in the
UK this year. We get enquiries from frantic IT Managers every
day with a situation like this on their hands where a business
critical application, the development of which was outsourced, is
suddenly unsupported.. We are able to help in getting your
business back up and running as quickly as we can, then
retrospectively learning your application with our unique health check service to enable us to
provide ongoing support.
Lots of companies are trying to be proactive in entering into an
escrow arrangement where by their application source code is
deposited with an independent third party to be accessed in the
event of a supplier going bust.
But what do you do if that actually happens? Are you
confident that your escrow provider has the necessary skills and
experience to pick your business critical source code up and
support it immediately? Most don't, being secure source code
repositories rather than software developers. We could.
Our Support
Service is geared up for the worst case:
- a business critical system
- which has no documentation
- and no team available to support it
- and it has just broken.
The process we use to take on support means that we can start at
short notice and together with our highly skilled and experienced
team, we will get you back up and running in no time. For the
quickest response when the worst happens, prepare proactively by
engaging us now, so that we learn the application
now.
In addition, can you be sure that what you think is being
protected actually is? What if your supplier had not been
updating the source code as changes were made? MSM can help
by periodically checking it to make sure it's correct. As an
impartial party, our highly experienced and qualified team can
carry out a verification of the system under the auspices of our Health Check service. We can give
our professional opinion of the code, database and technical
documentation and covering any recommended remedial actions, plus
any issues you highlight to us giving you that extra piece of
mind. Support solved.
Further Reading
BCDR Plannig is also essential for continued business
success, speak to to a member of your team and find out how our
services are easily tailored to your business needs.