DealerBuilt
Hosting Services
DealerBuilt offers clients the option of hosting their LightYearTM DMS platform in a secure and fully-dedicated cloud environment. While an on-premises install is also available for dealerships that have the internal IT resources to deploy and support it, our DMS hosting services provide clients with the advantages of a reduced and more predictable total cost of ownership, as well as ease of implementation and worry-free maintenance.
Reduced Upfront and Long-Term IT Costs
- No cost to purchase and maintain server hardware or software
- Additional internal IT staff not necessary for hosted server administration, upgrades, maintenance, backups, security, or monitoring
- Reduced and more predictable total cost of ownership (TCO) due to significant reduction in costs associated with equipment issues or failure
- Clients can move infrastructure costs from CapEx to OpEx, allowing them to be more agile in their pursuit of new opportunities
Robust Performance and Reliability
- Advanced hosting facilities featuring N+1 core applications, availability zones, data center access monitoring and review, and environmental protection
- No worries about performance bottlenecks or upgrades
- Can scale up quickly for new demands or growth, so high performance levels are maintained even as client needs evolve
- Use of standardized, proven server configurations underpinned by optimized hardware results in predictable, stable performance
- Predictive high-availability and hot spare hardware in place that delivers improved availability
Data Security
- Our hosted solution offers:
- Dual Next-Generation Firewalls from Cisco in high-availability routing
- Multiple layers of network security controls including policy-based-routing (PBR), Web Application Firewall (WAF), and Intrusion-Detection/Intrusion-Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS)
- Advanced asymmetric encryption for protection of in-transit data from end-to-end
- At-rest data encryption of personally identifiable information (PII) to achieve a high level of data protection
- Real-time, continuous security monitoring
Rapid Deployment and Support
- No server equipment to purchase
- Eliminates burden on internal IT resources
- Quick initial solution deployment for faster realization of client’s return on investment in LightYear DMS, plus ease of implementation for new services and environments
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
- Flexible disaster recovery options ensure protection and recovery of vital data and environments
- Hosting can include near-real-time replication of production environment and data to a geographically disparate disaster recovery site
- Daily full database and transactional-level backups
Audits
- DealerBuilt routinely undergoes third-party audits to test and validate our strict security controls, including:
- Vulnerability testing completed at least quarterly, mitigating all findings and retesting
- Penetration testing at least annually, mitigating all findings and retesting
- Annual security program audit, with quarterly review of results