Cerulean for hosted dynamics

Reviora takes the lead with Cerulean, the most advanced private cloud for ERP software

Clearwater, Fla. – Reviora is the first of 4000 worldwide Microsoft hosting companies to offer its partners a sophisticated, self-provisioning private cloud built on Microsoft Hyper-V. Reviora launched the product at the 2011 Microsoft Dynamics NAV Directions Conference this month to showcase the new service, Cerulean, and to form new partnerships.

Backed by Microsoft and powered by Reviora, Cerulean is the first cloud service to automate the complex provisioning of enterprise-class software at an advanced level for multiple ERP software programs. It includes an easy to use web-based control panel where a Reviora partner can simply select what ERP (Enterprise resource planning) software they wish to provision, enter in the company and username information, and click “Create.” Within hours or even minutes a new, secure private environment is installed and customized for the new customer. Reviora has synthesized this engine to provide auto-provisioning within the state-of-the-art Microsoft Hyper-V environment. The entire system is a robust, scalable and secure architecture and enables partners and end-users to easily manage their private cloud.  It is able to provision and host Microsoft Dynamics NAV, AX, SL, GP, CRM, and SharePoint.

Founded in 2007, Reviora is a frontrunner in powering cloud-based software. Reviora is the leading provider of managed private cloud solutions for ERP. Reviora focuses on enabling partners to offer software as a hosted or on-demand solution for their customers in order to create a revenue stream. Reviora also specializes in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) incubation, helping Microsoft Partners with customized versions of hosted Dynamics go to market with a fully web-enabled SaaS offering.

Defining cloud computing

Today I ran across some good information describing cloud computing at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing. They have a number of good definitions, and even go so far as to say that cloud computing may be the ultimate form of globalization.

Here is a good description: "The majority of cloud computing infrastructure as of 2009^[update] consists of reliable services delivered through data centers and built on servers with different levels of virtualization technologies. The services are accessible anywhere in the world, with The Cloud appearing as a single point of access for all the computing needs of consumers."

Wikipedia also touches on some good points about what potential customers that are investigating using software-as-a-service or SaaS should ask or consider before moving in that direction.

John Lloyd and I had some good talks today about how to "sell" the Hosted Data (HD) service we offer through Reviora. We think a lot of it will of course come from getting in front of the people, as with anything, but also in making it so simple that a fifth-grader can understand it. There's a lot of technology that has to go on behind the scenes, but to the end-user, they have to have a good understanding of how it affects them.

Reviora HD

Last night and today we updated Reviora's website at www.reviora.com to explain a little bit more about cloud computing. The challenge with our service is easily conveying what our service is easily to new people. People that get it, just get it easily, and others seem to not quite understand what it is even though they may really know, and even already use sometime of SaaS.

We decided to call our cloud computing product HD or Hosted Data. This is a perfect example of Software-as-a-service because we literally take software of the shelf and stream it to customers for a monthly service fee. We have a lot of complicated technology behind the scenes, but the end-result is simple. The new slogan is "simple, reliable, ingenious" and we use it to describe the basic benefits to using a virtual office type thing. Reviora is definitely not the only company using or offering cloud computing of some type, but it's a unique spin on it.