Hosted deployments

Professional and Enterprise are multi-user, multi-tenant deployments, set up for your organisation rather than downloaded and run locally. Unlike Desktop, they run as a standing service that your team accesses over the network, typically integrated with your organisation’s SSO.

The two editions differ in scale rather than architecture — see the deployment options comparison for the full breakdown.

Professional	A single-instance deployment with backup and restore, suited to teams that don’t need multi-zone availability.
Enterprise	A clustered, multi-zone deployment providing high availability, suited to production and business-critical use.

Architecture principles

Both editions follow the same architecture regardless of which cloud (or on-premises infrastructure) they run on: a set of standing platform services, a compute service that executes jobs, object storage for primary data, an SQL database for metadata, and a single front-facing gateway through which all client traffic is routed — see Security for how this is secured.

Getting ready for an install

Before an install, it’s worth having the following in place:

• Access to your organisation’s code repositories, so models can be imported

• An SSO provider (Azure AD, SAML, or OpenID), if you want to use enterprise sign-on

• Any external storage locations you want to import data from or export data to

Availability

Hosted deployments are supported on AWS, Azure, and GCP. On-premises infrastructure is also available as a custom deployment. Contact sales@fintrac.co.uk for a technical overview covering your target environment.

Next steps

Once your deployment is up, see Admin tools for setting up tenant resources, and Security and resilience for how access, security, and resilience work.