Software-as-a-service | SAAS
Integrated solution, hardware and software, for digitizing farm processes

The advantages of using Farm King

• 24/7 support

  Email: [email protected]

  Our support team consists of business consultants, IT consultants and system engineers.
  Depending on the nature of the customer request, it reaches the appropriate department.

• Cloud computing - IT resources, hardware and software, immediately accessible

  Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of IT system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed across multiple locations, each of which is a data center. Cloud computing relies on resource sharing to achieve consistency and typically uses a pay-as-you-go model, which can help reduce capital expenditures, but can also result in unexpected operating expenses for users.

  The US National Institute of Standards and Technology's definition of cloud computing identifies "five essential characteristics":

  • Self-service on demand
    A consumer can unilaterally provision computing capabilities such as server time and network storage as needed automatically without requiring human interaction with each service provider.
  • Wide / broadband access to the network / internet
    Capabilities are available over the network and accessed through standard mechanisms that promote use by heterogeneous thin or thick client platforms (eg, mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and workstations).
  • Pooling of resources
    The provider's computing resources are pooled to serve multiple consumers using a multi-tenant model, with different physical and virtual resources dynamically allocated and reallocated based on consumer demand.
  • Fast elasticity
    Capabilities can be elastically provisioned and released, in some cases automatically, to rapidly scale outward and inward in proportion to demand. To the consumer, the capacities available for supply often seem limitless and can be appropriated in any quantity at any time.
  • Metered / managed service
    Cloud systems automatically control and optimize resource usage by using a metering capability at some level of abstraction appropriate to the type of service (eg, storage, processing, bandwidth, and active user accounts). Resource usage can be monitored, controlled and reported, providing transparency for both the provider and the consumer of the service being used.
• Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS)

  IaaS, or Infrastructure as a Service, is a cloud computing model that provides on-demand access to computing resources such as servers, storage, networking, and virtualization. IaaS is attractive because purchasing computing resources to run applications or store data traditionally takes time and capital.

• Multi-role multi-account

  When creating a company's account / channel, the first user automatically receives the admin role of the channel. It can create roles and accounts.

  The portal is used by many companies and they have come up with the explicit requirement to limit users' access to functionalities based on the roles they belong to.

  Within the functionalities to which a company has contractual access, an account related to a role will only have access to the functionalities to which that role has access.

  A user account can have multiple roles which makes restricting access to functionality and data flexible.

• Reducing operational costs

  The portal is structured on modules, each with specific functionalities.

  When creating an account / company channel, you can choose the modules to which you want access, hence the exact estimate of operating costs. By knowing exactly what is being used from the time the company channel is created or configured, operational cost is accurately estimated and our provisioning of hardware resources helps us maintain a constant level of portal scalability.

  Once a company channel has been created, with contracted modules, it is possible to opt for a reconfiguration in the sense of contracting new modules or renouncing already contracted modules. These operations can be done within the legal terms of the portal.

• Cloud-based security scalability

  The portal is hosted in a tier 3 data center. It ensures the physical integrity of the servers through human security and fire and flood protection. The data center also provides us with redundant access to power sources and a redundant connection with a very high bandwidth to the Internet.

  We use a virtual environment, with virtual machines hosted on redundant servers down to the CPU level, memory DIMMs, ssd and hdd.

  We only use licensed and up-to-date software. In addition, we monitor 24/7 the traffic related to the portal.

  At internally established time intervals we back up data in separate data centers with the possibility of quick go up.

• Added value

  It is very difficult to reduce the list of advantages brought by the use of IT services to a few words, we will try in the following lines to highlight only a few.

  Using IT services is not a new idea. We have many examples of international IT service providers. From e-mailing to CRMs or even ERPs, they are a known and recognized presence online today. As business or production procedures formalize and mature, companies turn to IT services due to the need for ease of operation, integration, scalability, cost reduction, security, modeling or standardization.

  In recent years we have witnessed the maturation of technologies for cloud infrastructure and the services it hosts. This technological advancement has a big impact on the business of most companies. Archiving documents on the Internet, transmitting documents on the Internet, saving profile information to facilitate our authentication on several online services or ensuring the security of various Internet transmissions; all these are provided by IT services.

  Many current companies would have major operational problems in terms of profitability if they did not rely partially or even totally on the daily use of IT services. We have all witnessed in recent years a galloping increase in the cost of consulting and development in the IT market. In these conditions, many companies turn to the use of services primarily to reduce costs.

  From an IT company in the shadow of huge consultants on the Romanian market, Centric IT becomes a SAAS information services company, cloud-company.

  Feel free to contact us for discussions, evaluations or simulations.

• Technology transfer and support ecosystem

  We are part of several technological hubs: of Business, Agri-Food, Industry 4.0, Farming 4.0; both from Romania and from Europe.

  We have signed partnerships on technology transfer topics with research and development institutes in various inter-industry fields.

  We have functional partnerships with several faculties for semester course programs, bachelor's programs, master's programs.

• Awards and Recognition

  As project leaders and part of an ecosystem we have won several fundings and awards, we list a few:

  • 2017-2019 European funding, AFIR measure 6.4
  • 2019 EBRD - Greentech Amsterdam, funding fair participation
  • 2020 EU funded Track_3 Project, award
  • 2021 Award for scientific article from the Romanian Ministry of Research and Development