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“We can host that application ourselves for less.”

Maybe.

But are you comparing the cost of managed hosting with your cloud bill, or with what it actually costs to keep that application running?

Because those are two very different numbers.

The real cost includes infrastructure, IT labor, security, backups and recovery, upgrades, monitoring, support and downtime.

And a lot of those costs are easy to miss because they’re spread across IT budgets, and your team’s time.

In a recent blog, Smith, LoadSpring Chief Operating Officer, outlines 8 costs to consider when comparing managed hosting with in-house application hosting so you get a true comparison.

Read the blog: The Real Cost of Hosting Applications In-House https://hubs.ly/Q04yW8x20

Cloud hosting. Managed hosting. Aren’t they basically the same thing?
Not quite.

Putting an application in the cloud explains where it runs. It doesn’t necessarily answer who’s running it: who handles patches, upgrades, monitoring, backups, performance or support.

You can manage all of that internally. Or you can have a managed hosting provider take on much of it.
So, which approach makes sense for you?

Our latest article by Smith, LoadSpring Co-Founder and COO, looks at the difference, what managed application hosting should include if you go that route, and when it may or may not be worth it.

Read: Managed Application Hosting: Is It Worth It?
https://hubs.ly/Q04x2Vc80

Time creates options.

Time to address a risk. Time to avoid a delay. Time to reduce a cost impact.

The sooner teams connect schedule, cost, and risk signals, the more options they have.

Explore how project leaders are bringing signals together to give teams more time to act.

https://hubs.ly/Q04wk39B0

We get to work with a lot of innovative companies doing some ambitious things with project technology. is one of them.

Creating a consistent view of project performance across regions, systems and teams is a challenge for any global organization. AtkinsRéalis took it on at scale.

They’ve built a standardized project controls environment used by roughly 3,000 people across the UK, Europe and the Middle East, giving project teams a consistent way to work and leadership a single, trusted view of project performance.

LoadSpring is proud to provide the managed cloud environment that enabled AtkinsRéalis to deploy and scale Octave Sequence Enterprise globally while maintaining control over where its data resides and how it’s governed.

Read the full story of how AtkinsRéalis standardized project controls globally on the LoadSpring Platform: https://hubs.ly/Q04vmRdP0

Most teams treat cloud hosting as a delivery detail. TSL uses it to win the bid. In a recent Primaned article, TSL shared how its Primavera P6 environment, supported by Primaned and LoadSpring, became part of its wider tender positioning — not just its delivery plan.

A proven project controls environment does more than help teams deliver after award. It can show clients you're ready before award.

Back Your Pitch With A Proven Environment
https://hubs.ly/Q04tlrq60

Considering Oracle Primavera Cloud (OPC) and thinking you need to give up P6?

You don't actually have to replace P6 to start using OPC.

A lot of companies think it's an all-or-nothing switch, but keeping P6 as your heavy-duty scheduling engine while using OPC as a collaborative frontend works incredibly well.

You just need a solid plan for how they talk to each other.

LoadSpring Co-Founder & COO Smith put together a really straightforward 6-step guide on how to let them coexist without making a mess of your data or breaking your baselines.

Read the full article here: https://hubs.ly/Q04sNnc30

The biggest Microsoft Project Online migration mistake we keep seeing:

"We'll export project data using Microsoft Project Desktop and continue feeding our Power BI reports."

For organizations focused solely on reporting, that may be enough.

But if Project Online supports broader PMO processes and governance, there’s more at stake than project data alone.

Before choosing the data export path, ask what happens to:

- Enterprise resources
- Governance processes
- Workflows
- Permissions
- Timesheets
- Portfolio reporting
- Dependencies between projects
- Ongoing administration

⚠️ Exporting files may preserve your data, but it doesn't preserve the way your PMO operates.

That's why LoadSpring, Project Group (TPG), and have partnered to provide a complete migration path:

- The Project Group (TPG) assesses your current Microsoft Project environment and designs the right future-state solution.
- FluentPro migrates project data, configuration, enterprise resources, and related artifacts.
- LoadSpring delivers and operates a secure, managed Microsoft Project Server environment, including hosting, support, performance monitoring, backup, and ongoing administration.

Let's find the best path for you. Message us or learn more here:
👉 https://hubs.ly/Q04sr1lS0

Most project teams spend months standing up their environment. Chemours did it 400% faster.

In the first 90 days after an award, teams need applications, access, onboarding, reporting, security, and the structure to get moving immediately.

See how LoadSpring helped Chemours deploy Oracle P6 400% faster than traditional application rollouts.

https://hubs.ly/Q04rKwTm0

You've won the programme. The clock starts now. But too often, time is lost in the first 30 to 60 days standing up the project environment: applications, access, onboarding, reporting, security, and the structures needed to get teams working.

It doesn’t have to take that long.

A project-in-a-box model means your programme environment can be ready in days, not months. The tools your team needs, the access controls your client requires, and the reporting your governance demands: provisioned, configured, and ready to populate.

When mobilisation windows are this tight, the environment needs to be ready before the team arrives.

For a real-world example, see how LoadSpring helped Chemours deploy Oracle P6 400% faster than traditional application rollouts: https://hubs.ly/Q04r22Nb0

When engineering services firms carry a backlog, the problem shifts to delivery. That’s when margins get squeezed. Take P6 for example.

Most major programs will need scheduling. So why should every program decide from scratch where P6 lives, how users get access, how partners are onboarded, how security is handled, how support works, and how reporting connects?

That’s where a repeatable model matters.

The point isn’t to “buy P6 hosting.” It’s this: If you know certain tools and controls are going to be needed program after program, standardize the environment once and carry it forward.

If every program is rebuilding the same foundation, margin is leaving before delivery begins. See the delivery model diagnostic. https://hubs.ly/Q04qJL740