Home Forums Discussions General Discussion Amazing Charts May Be SaaS

Thanks for all the great discussion. First, let me allay any concern that we are migrating Amazing Charts in any way from our good old #1 rated EHR to some cold slow limited browser solution, selling data to the highest bidder. That would be Amazing Charts without its usability and without its soul, and it?s not what we?re about.

There are, however, a growing number of people requiring a hosted version of Amazing Charts. Our software delivered to them over the Internet, without them having to install and maintain anything other than a basic network through which they can access the Internet. Makes sense, and as Indy noted, he and others have already been providing this service to some clients, who have reported to us that its been a life-saver.

During our V6.0 rollout, we quickly became aware than nearly 15% of practices were experiencing performance issues. 15% doesn?t seem like a very big percentage, but try telling that to one of the 15% (aka 750 practices) that experienced slow-downs. (This issue is currently solved in V6.1 Beta.)

Anyway, not something we want to re-experience (which is one reason V7 will be ready when it is ready ? and not before). In any case, the idea of hosting got fast-tracked as we identified one reason for the performance issues: there is wide variability in the way clients have deployed Amazing Charts. While medical practices tend to flow essentially the same way, there is a tremendous variation in the hardware, software, and configurations of various practices. (And yes, as JamesNT points out, we find ourselves spending much time troubleshooting and arguing the merits of these weirdly configured systems with the weirdly configured IT people who designed them.)

The solution? Exactly as Indy, JamesNT, and others here already have done: provide an option to clients wishing for a solution that they can access over the Internet, and not have to worry about how Amazing Charts is set up or configured on local machines.

Yet as JBS noted, Amazing Charts needs to choose a trustworthy and reliable service provider who is capable of providing an always up, redundant, and robust system. Although we found a number of these folks, we could not find any ability within their pricing models to allow for the other requirements of being an Amazing Charts product or service: it needs to be easy to get started, free to try, and affordable to buy ? and without requiring any long-term commitment. This is what Amazing Charts in the Cloud can offer.




Within the next few weeks, we should have a ?sandbox? in which you can experience the Amazing Charts in the Cloud experience.

Pricing
The Amazing Charts in the Cloud hosting service is an additional charge on top of Amazing Charts pricing, and is by user, or seat-based. This design is due to Microsoft licensing requirements (there is a reason Microsoft made $70 Billion last year), as well as our goal to make this as affordable as possible for both solo and groups of various sizes.




More on Amazing Charts in the Cloud coming soon...

In the meantime, please let us know if you would be interested in beta testing Amazing Charts in the Cloud - please specify that this is what you would like to do in the comment section of the submission form.