Implementing Rabbit
Rabbit is built to connect the enterprise. Available as an on-demand, hosted service you can start realising benefits straightway without having to install, manage or maintain the system.
Different businesses have different collaboration requirements so we’ve made it easy to choose which Rabbit is right for you.
Rabbit Information Sharing lets you take full advantage of the easy ways to share files and content in the Rabbit environment, as well as providing you with the secure web-based storage. It’s the ideal way to introduce information sharing to your business and works in parallel with your existing file systems. Whether you want to have easy remote access to your information, share it quickly with other users or just have a secure copy then Information Sharing will get you started straightaway.
Rabbit Enterprise Edition brings together all the capabilities and features of information Sharing with Enterprise Social Networking, Intranet and Business Applications to give you a complete information sharing and collaboration environment that’s tailored to your enterprise requirements. With Enterprise Edition you can host Rabbit in-house, develop new interfaces, integrate with web-based applications and even build your own. There are premium applications available that you can use to enhance your Rabbit service.
How do I install Rabbit?
SaaS |
Installed |
Appliance |
| Installed on secure cloud-hosting environment | Client takes full responsibility for hosting and managing software | Installed at client but pre-built appliance with all software installed slots into client system |
| No hardware to manage | Client needs to assign/buy server to host Rabbit |
Client only needs to select preferred appliance in terms of Server OS and database specifications |
| Guaranteed 24/7 availability with supporting SLA |
Client responsible for uptime | Client responsible for uptime once installed |
| Infrastructure costs fixed within user licence model |
Client has to incur infrastructure costs as well as perpetual software licence costs |
One-off appliance cost |
| Secure implementation | Client manages security issues | Client manages security issues once installed |
| All upgrades automatically applied |
Client downloads and installs upgrades | Client downloads and installs upgrades |
| Flexible storage and bandwidth with changes on-demand and increases billed retrospectively |
Storage and bandwidth changes may require hardware and infrastructure upgrades |
Storage and bandwidth changes |
| Customer has no maintenance or management issues | Customer responsible for maintenance and management but retains control |
Customer responsible for maintenance and management but retains control, and avoids initial setup and installation time |
| Monthly or annual discounted on-demand payment |
Perpetual licence | Perpetual licence |
