IRIS Hosting

IRIS Hosting – Run IRIS Accountancy Suite on a hosted remote desktop.

The IRIS Accountancy Suite is a portfolio of accounting and payroll software for accountants, bookkeepers and business finance departments aimed at all levels of industry, healthcare, charities and education.

The solutions in the IRIS Accountancy suite are desktop software applications, designed to be run on Windows PCs and Laptops. Modern businesses are looking for cloud accounting software, web-based accounting software; this is where Your Office Anywhere have the perfect solution.

We host IRIS Accountancy suite applications on our hosted remote desktop platform, turning it into online accounting software that can be accessed from anywhere via the internet, and on any device.

Not only is this solution ideal for IRIS Hosting, but also any other desktop software applications, including Microsoft Office and Office 365.

In addition to hosting IRIS, we provide all the surrounding infrastructure to enable you to connect to IRIS securely using 2,048 bit encryption over the internet, and also to support you and your software by monitoring your server and alerting for issues like low disk space, malware, and other technical issues, as well as backing up your data off site.

Include Microsoft 365 in your IRIS Hosting package

Your Office Anywhere are a reseller of Microsoft 365/Office 365 subscriptions and can help advise on the correct plan to run Office applications along side IRIS Accountancy Suite on your hosted remote desktop platform. If you do not yet have a Microsoft 365 subscription or tenancy, or you are looking to change reseller please ask us about our Microsoft 365 licencing.

Benefits of IRIS Hosting with Your Office Anywhere

• Run IRIS Accountancy Suite from anywhere in the world over the internet. Work from home, from the office, at your customer’s office, from a hotel, conference centre, or café. All your team can enjoy the same great experience no matter where they work.

• Integrate IRIS Accountancy with other applications running on the remote desktop such as Microsoft Office.

• Run all your business desktop applications on the platform and remove the need for a local server.

• Fully managed service, you don’t need to worry about any of the IT infrastructure or supporting it. We look after everything and deal with any issues that might arise.

• Surety of IT costs, many companies are concerned about how much cloud computing systems will cost, and hear horror stories of unexpected and massive bills from companies like Microsoft Azure and AWS. At Your Office Anywhere the prices are transparent and remain the same month in month out, and only change if for example you change the number of users, or you need more disk. Of course, prices may change periodically, for example if Microsoft change licence prices, but we will give you 3 months’ notice of any changes.

• Fully scalable, suits any size of business from a one-man band to a large practice with dozens or hundreds of users. The platform can grow with your business often system resources like memory and disk can be added on the fly.

• Totally flexible, increase or decrease user numbers as needed by your business. There’s no contract to tie you in so you can cancel at any point without penalty

• You’re not restricted to Windows PCs, you can run IRIS Accountancy Suite on a Mac as well as iOS and Android devices.

Features included when hosting IRIS with Your Office Anywhere

• Connection methods include:

Full remote desktop
RemoteApp – your application looks and feels as if it is running on your PC/Mac
WebClient – Your application running inside a web browser
Remote Desktop Client App – available for Mac, iOS, Android, and Windows to run your business software on any device.

• Windows licences and Remote Desktop Services licences included in the price

• Backups of data to a second site geographically distant from our main site, retained for 20 days.

• Managed antivirus, antimalware on your remote desktop server. Alerts sent to our helpdesk who will investigate and take action.

• Managed Windows Updates ensuring your server is up to date with the latest security patches and application bug fixes.

• 24/7 support for critical issues

• 99.5% uptime guarantee

• ISO 27001 certified for our Information Security Management System – audited annually

Optional Features

• Multi-Factor Authentication – An added layer of security based on something you know (like your username and password) and something you have (like your smartphone or landline telephone), to make sure only you can access your account. More information on MFA here.

• Third party cloud backup – Offsite backups, managed by Your Office Anywhere, are included in the service. However, for additional peace of mind, and to meet compliance obligations, you can have a second backup, operated by a completely separate company, enabling you to restore data without needing our involvement. Find out more here.

• Microsoft 365 subscriptions and licences. See plans and pricing here.

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