Host*Net Features and Benefits

Mobility
Use your applications, such as FIMS or FoundationPower, Microsoft Office 2000 Professional and Exchange, from any location that provides Internet access. Simply open a Web browser and begin to work. Get your e-mail. Use shared calendaring. Access all of your documents, spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations.

Easy to use
We minimize or eliminate the number of commands or keywords end-users have to learn, buttons they need to select, decisions they have to make, messages they have to understand and steps they have to perform to get their work done.

Affordable
Host*Net clients enjoy the same functionality and flexibility as larger organizations, but without the higher prices. Save money by "renting" software and hardware. Enhance your FIMS or FoundationPower applications with professional office applications, Microsoft Office 2000 Professional and Exchange.

Outsource system administration
Software and data are housed offsite, so you don’t have to worry about network administration, backups, purchasing software upgrades or virus protection.

Reliability
NPO’s Data Center offers a superior infrastructure that provides extensive fail-safe and redundancy protection in case of circuit outages, or network slowdown. Our data center has two direct connections to the largest and fastest Internet backbones. Connectivity is carefully managed and ensures data travels the fastest, shortest possible path to our customers. Your data and documents are backed up daily. Count on around-the-clock access to your applications and data.

Faster deployment
Delivery of your software, software upgrades and custom software is more efficient and faster with Host*Net.

Faster software performance
Software runs using sophisticated technology so your local hardware plays little role in overall performance. Experience great performance using inexpensive hardware, as long as you have a reliable Internet connection. Even with a 56k modem, you’ll experience the speed of the Internet as only screen updates and keystrokes pass through the Web, dramatically reducing bandwidth use.

Reduce your hardware TCO
(Total Cost of Ownership)
Host*Net allows you to use thin client computing. A thin client is a device, such as a PC or Windows-based terminal, that employs a server to use software applications and data. It performs little or no application processing, and requires relatively small amounts of memory and local disk storage capacity. Older-generation computers, notebooks and Macintosh computers are not so quickly obsolete using Host*Net.

Host Page
Staff and constituents can log in to a customized Web page where they will find data from your database in statistical or graphical summary, or even in detail, depending on ID and password. All stakeholders at the foundation can have convenient Web access to a preset panel of information. Formats can include charts of contribution or grant activity and a menu of Crystal Reports (i.e. applications slated for the upcoming board meeting), run against your data. This information then could be output on a home, or office printer.