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Port to Port Charity Bike Ride

June 23rd, 2010

On the 17th Sept 2010, 18 men, all (at least 3!!) in the peak of physical fitness, take their trusty bicycles on a journey from Calais to Bilbao all in the name of Charity.

Riding for Cancer Research and Kirkwood Hospice (all sponsorship split 50:50). Part of the 18 team are two members of the Ancar B Technologies, Paul Binns and Andrew Barnes.

Calais to Bilbao

The challenge is 800 miles in 9 days across France from the Port of Calais to the Port of Bilbao in Northern Spain. Again we aim to raise money for Cancer Research and Kirkwood Hospice, both great causes and always in need of additional funds. At present we have 18 cyclists ready willing and most of them able to take on this ride along with a backup vehicle to support them. We are all paying our own way for Ferries, accommodation and transport so all donations go 100% to the designated charities.

Please help support our charities and allocate your donation to Andrew or Paul and leave a message of encouragement.

http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/Port2Port

Port 2 Port Website

Much appreciated

Andy

Hosted Sage

May 14th, 2010

Hosted Sage Solutions

Hosted Sage solutions are not a new concept. For years companies have outsourced their Sage solutions to data farms just like SAP users.

However, due to technology advances and licensing models introduced and developed over the last 24 months, hosted Sage solutions are becoming a much more viable solution.

Ancar B Technologies has been working with major UK Sage Partners in deploying Hosted Sage Solutions for several years in physical environments. However, due to developments in virtualization technology, we also offer solutions within a Private Cloud.

Cost Reductions

Microsoft in recent years released a licensing model that allows companies to “Rent” Microsoft licenses based upon monthly usage which allows for low cost deployment of hosted services and has created the increase in deployment of such services.

Unfortunately, Sage still operates a policy where the software has to be owned by the user outright for its deployment.

So, with the cost savings with Virtualization and the Microsoft License Agreements, the initial Capital Expenditure is reduced to the costs associated directly with the procurement of the Sage software.

Sage 50 to Sage 1000

Don’t forget Sage 200 and Sage Line 500 either! They can all be hosted remotely. Sage 50 can be deployed in a single virtual server config using Server 2008 and Remote Apps to offer extremely cost effective solutions. These are hosted within Ancar B’s “Customer Cloud”.

Larger deployments of Sage are hosted within Private Clouds dedicated for each customer, offering high data security and availability.

Hosted Sage ERP, CRM and ACT!

The benefits don’t just end with the Account ranges. With all the applications now turning into Web Services, the Sage ERP, CRM and ACT! solutions can also be deployed in a virtual or cloud environment.

Read more about Ancar B Technologies Hosted Sage Solutions.

About our Blog

April 7th, 2010

It’s been 24 months since its inception but the site is finally here and with the new site comes a new feature, our blog!

So we thought it was about time we started blogging to share our opinions and views of the industry. We have a group of people willing to talk to anyone that will listen and these members of the Ancar B team are going to put time into the blog in order to make it a success. Among these people will be Andrew Barnes (Managing Director), Rob Jennings (Services team manager), John Rider (Help Desk team manager) and myself Martin Riley, a technical consultant.

We’re hoping that you’ll appreciate our posts and that they will be of use to you. On our blog we’ll be mentioning company news, but we’ll be driving the blog as a discussion point for industry news as well as a little bit of a technical reference for customers. I can’t guarantee that some of us won’t get carried away and have the occasional debate about football. After all, some of our staff can get rather chatty when it comes to sport!