Online Backup for Independent Professionals, IFAs and Agents
Independent Professionals, IFAs and Agents
Independent Professionals, IFAs and Agents value their business data as much as any
other organisation. Yet, often being smaller operations, they do not have the
time, resources nor energy to devote to something as mundane as backing up data.
Like many business, time is money and 20 minutes a day doing a tape / disk backup
can adds up to 10 working days of wasted time. But this is nothing compared
to the wasted time incurred if data is ever lost. This can be individual
proposals, project reports or entire contact databases.
Compliance is a key issue for many working in the financial services market and
backing up electronically produced proposal data is a legal requirement to remain
compliant.
Many independents work in a home-office environment where computers are less secure
than in a traditional office environment - perhaps increasing the risk further that data
will be lost.
So how can online backup provide a simpler, compliant and less risky working
environment?
Online Backup Business Benefits
Online backup provides a hassle-free, reliable and effective way of dealing with this
critical task yet non-core task.
Online backup ensures:
- No lost productivity in case of data loss - proposals, contact databases and
other business records can be recovered within minutes.
- Better compliance with the FSA regulations - as CD based archive sets can be
produced for you to keep for the required six years.
- Reduced professional liability insurance fees because of the additional protection
provided to business records and the reduced risk of litigation.
- Peace of mind knowing your data is always backed up and recoverable in a fast,
secure and hassle-free way - and that you are not wasting your client-facing time on
this mundane task.
Plus for those that work with shared data:
- Share files between office and home office environments.
- Access backed up files from client sites or when travelling using a secure
web-browser access.
- Produce CD archive sets for long term storage.
- Take advantage of affordable broad band connectivity to backup quickly over night.
Backup Direct™ Services
Our services are available for laptops, PCs and files servers.
Our PC packages can backup from 500MB through to 30GB per machine and our file server
packages cover from 10GB through to 100GB per machine.
Our Data 4G package is a perfect fit for independent business PCs, providing ample
protection and web based access if required. For a home-office environment, we
recommend our System package, which offers 10GB of data and system file backup.
Take both and you can then share data easily between the two machines delivering
efficiency as well as security.
Remember also, that upgrades are free. So there is no need to purchase any more
capacity than you need today - our service will expand as your needs do.
What Next?
Most independent professionals will either have a single PC or perhaps a PC and
Laptop. Some will have a small office network. Whatever your own particular
situation, you can certainly make use of our secure, simple and affordable online backup
service.
You can download the fully working software to backup 4GB data here. The
installation takes only five minutes even for a non-technical person. Within
ten minutes you can be backing up.
Or, if you would like to know more, then call one of our advisers on 0800 0 789 437.
They will be happy to discuss you particular requirements, explain in more detail how the
process works and provide larger capacity trial software if you would like to test the
service in a more realistic way.
