When your company purchases Servigistics InService, there is a basic deployment decision made related to the actual deployment and management of Servigistics InService. The following sections describe the two main deployment options; on-premise or managed services.

Using an on-premise deployment typically means hosting and managing the Servigistics InService software on your servers, and maintaining responsibility for infrastructure and application support and performance.

With an on-premise deployment, you can perform the deployment yourself or engage PTC Global Services (or a PTC certified partner) to manage the deployment on company servers.

Companies with a robust IT organization and a strong desire to maintain in-house control over the system often choose this option.

Using a managed services deployment typically means deploying, hosting, and managing the delivery portions of a Servigistics InService application on a third party server, usually in a private cloud. With managed services, an outside organization is responsible for managing the necessary infrastructure and ensuring application performance.

The publishing portion of a Servigistics InService Application is typically maintained in proximity of the systems that generated the authored content.

For companies concerned with the IT burden and expertise required to manage Servigistics InService, PTC provides a managed services deployment option. With PTC Managed Services, companies purchasing Servigistics InService can typically accelerate deployment, minimize IT cost and requirements, and ensure ongoing performance. PTC Managed Services hosts your Servigistics InService solution in a secure PTC data center that has ongoing application management, performance tuning, and updates.

For more information about PTC Managed Services, see http://www.ptc.com/services/cloud.