Colleague Live!
If you’re starting a new recruitment business and want flexible and scalable recruitment software without spending the earth on your own network, or if your existing system is struggling to cope with remote users spread around various multi-office locations, then our fully hosted solution, Colleague Live!, could be just what you’re looking for.
Recruitment Software as a Service
If you’re starting a new business you’ll no doubt want to manage your set-up costs very closely indeed and you probably won’t relish the thought of installing a server, buying all the software you’ll need to make it work and paying an IT company to support you.
If you decide to keep everything in-house even a small network catering for just a few users could cost several thousand pounds to set up and may require specialist knowledge to maintain. The licenses for the server software alone could easily run into four figures and that’s before you’ve added hardware and the integrated recruitment software which makes the whole package work together.
Keeping your start-up costs as low as possible and maintaining your personal focus on winning clients and placing candidates rather than troubleshooting IT problems should be your main priority and that’s why hosted recruitment solutions, or Software as a Service as it is also known, has become so popular with small start-ups with big ambitions.
Colleague Live! Is a fully hosted recruitment software solution which means you can enjoy all the fantastic features of Colleague software while we take care of your network, your servers, your licenses, your upgrades, and your support. In a nutshell, Colleague will be your IT department for a simple monthly fee per user.
Remote Control
Just because you’re out and about it doesn’t mean you have to be cut off from your business. Whether you’re in your office, at home, or onsite with a client, with Colleague Live! you can access your client and candidate databases and manage your team . All you need is a PC − or laptop − and a broadband connection!
Hassle free IT
There are many benefits to using Colleague Live! but from a technical point of view one of the big advantages is the worry-free administration. It’s Colleague’s team of Microsoft certified software engineers who are dedicated to maintaining the servers and ensuring everything is working properly, not you. Doesn’t that feel better already?
Then there are the automatic updates as Colleague and Microsoft software is improved and the knowledge that you’ll have system compatibility across your network because all of your users will be running the same, most up to date versions of the Microsoft and Colleague software.
Colleague Live! also gives you extremely high levels of anti-virus security which check your emails and attachments long before they even get close to your PCs and databases. And with daily back-ups and a managed recovery service your data is safe whatever disaster may strike.
Cost efficiency and flexibility
When it comes to cost management, one of the key benefits of Colleague Live! is that it doesn’t require a large initial outlay for servers and software, just a simple, monthly ‘per user’ fee. The other major advantage is that you are able to buy in your IT requirement on a per user basis and peg your IT spend directly to your need. You don’t need to build a network capable of supporting 20 users right off the bat when you’re only starting out with two.
Colleague Live! is completely scalable to your business whether you’re in a period of growth or retraction. You only pay for the users you actually need at the time and it’s flexible enough to be managed from month to month if necessary. And because it’s Colleague’s responsibility to make sure everything works as promised you don’t need to employ your own highly skilled IT technicians to keep your system in perfect working order.
The Colleague Live! package includes Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft Exchange Server, SQL server and Microsoft Office all integrated with Colleague recruitment software enabling all the components to work together delivering a complete recruitment software solution at a minimal cost.
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For more information take a look at our Colleague recrutiment software page, read about Colleague Software, its history and ethos, or browse the Colleague News and Media Lounge for the latest recruitment news, videos and articles.