We provide Azure hosting services for our CareFlow Medicines Management solutions, removing the requirement for your in-house IT team to manage a system. When hosted on the cloud, internal resources can be freed up while also enhancing user experiences. We can fully support and manage the application off‑premises, meaning you can rely on System C as your trusted hosting partner.

Through our CareFlow Medicines Management hosting service, we can provide both a modular and scalable solution that allows high availability while maximising performance. This allows a more dynamic approach to hosting, as customers can select what functionality they desire based on their usage and needs.

Benefits of Hosting with System C

Our Azure‑hosted solution is designed to support your organisation and IT teams with a modern, scalable and secure infrastructure. The following benefits illustrate how this approach enhances performance, resilience and operational efficiency:
Cloud Hosting with CMM Benefit Table

Credentials

We have been a Microsoft Solution Partner since 2008 and a technical partner since 2020, helping to provide a continuous flow of innovation.

As a result of this partnership, our staff have been expertly trained by Microsoft’s certified trainers (ESI), allowing the hosting solution to be skilfully monitored by our professionals 24/7.

Why choose System C?

We have over 20 years of hosting experience. We have delivered reliable hosting for mission-critical health and social care applications for more than two decades.

All hosting services are delivered using UK‑based Azure data centres and are operated in compliance with UK GDPR and applicable NHS data protection and information governance requirements.

Understanding the Differences between On-Premises, Private Cloud and Azure Public Cloud Hosting

Choosing the right infrastructure starts with understanding the differences between on‑premises, private cloud and Azure public cloud hosting. The section below outlines how each model compares, highlighting why Azure public cloud provides the most flexible and future‑ready foundation for hosting.

On-Premises

On-premises hosting presents several drawbacks that can limit an organisation’s effectiveness:

  • Risk and resilience are fully managed by the customer, with no geographical resilience in place, which could lead to exposure to outages.
  • Security can be weakened by limited monitoring and reliance on manual updates, which the customer is responsible for.
  • Scalability is also constrained, as customers must manually scale infrastructure, often requiring significant time and resources.
  • Disaster recovery and backup operations must be manually managed, increasing the risk of service disruption or data loss.
  • Maintenance and upgrades remain the customer’s responsibility when using on-premise hosting, adding to the ongoing operational burdens.
  • Deployment speeds can be extremely slow as they can be hindered by existing infrastructure and hardware limitations.

Private Cloud Hosting Services

Private Cloud Hosting Services offer some improvements over on-premises solutions but continue to present notable challenges for internal teams:

  • Some risk is transferred and resilience of the application is improved compared to on-premises.
  • However, security remains the same, with similar monitoring and management constraints.
  • Scalability of the solution is still limited by the available infrastructure.
  • Disaster recovery is typically included but often requires manual interventions, which can delay recovery times.
  • Maintenance and upgrades on Private Cloud Hosting Services require scheduled monthly downtime for patching.
  • Deployment speed is very dependent on the available resources.

Azure Hosting Services

Azure Hosting Services offer major improvements over both of these approaches:

  • Azure Hosting significantly reduces operational risks through comprehensive risk management and built-in redundancy:
  • Security is also strengthened due to proactive, real-time monitoring and automatic updates which ensure continuous protection.
  • Scalability is effortless, allowing on-demand scaling without any infrastructure restraints.
  • Disaster Recovery is highly effective, using automated redundancy and Azure backups to enable rapid recovery.
  • Customers have access to cloud-native features and the latest technologies without additional overhead.
  • Our teams handle maintenance and upgrades with minimal disruptions to services.
  • Deployment speed is dramatically improved with instant provisioning and rapid deployments, allowing solutions to be operational within hours.

Next Steps

If you are interested in learning more about our hosting solutions, please contact your account manager or contact us so we can arrange an opportunity to have wider discussions, provide more information and arrange a technical consultation.

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