Introduction to Ensim Unify

Ensim Unify is the industry's first true carrier-grade multi-service hosting solution. It is a flexible hosting automation infrastructure through which hosting service providers can manage multiple Windows® services, such as Hosted Exchange 2003, SharePoint and .NET Web hosting. It addresses critical operational challenges for provisioning, monitoring, metering, self-management, authentication, and integration, and it is the first hosting platform to offer “out-of-the-box” support for ASP.NET Web site hosting.

Ensim Unify is designed to deliver the reliability, scalability, and performance that are key to successfully offering mass-hosted services to a large and growing market. The system's modular architecture makes it a turnkey solution that can also be integrated with a service provider's or reseller's existing operations support systems (OSS) and business support systems (BSS) using the Ensim Unify API.

Ensim Unify has the following components (Illustration):

When a service is sold to an organization, the server space and other resources required to provide the service are allocated from a hosting server. Service providers have one or more hosting servers for each service, and each service is installed on a separate server. Hosting servers cannot have more than one service installed on them.

Resellers who purchase hosting servers can manage these servers through the reseller control panel.

Each control panel has a comprehensive Help system and quick-start tutorial designed to help users find answers quickly.

To access online Help, log in to a control panel, then click the Help icon Help icon in the upper right portion of any page. The Help icon links to context-sensitive Help pages. You can also open the general Help system and service-specific Help modules from Help navigation panel (bottom left).