Benefits of As-Sadeem to Pakistan

The most critical benefit of Astrolabes Datacenters to Pakistan’s education sector is the standardization of education quality across the country. They can also facilitate the management of big data once all four hundred HEIs and ACs become fully digital in terms of managing the campuses, administration, faculty, students, staff, and operations including finances and grants management. Further, the same datacenters will remain vital for minimizing the technological gap that is hindering Pakistan’s local corporate to become global market leaders due to lack of research facilities and limited centers of research within the country. These following few benefits has the potential to revolutionize the education and research infrastructure of Pakistan in a very short time.

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

One of As-Sadeem’s key features is to avoid additional costs and the complexity of managing servers or datacenters, HEIs will only need to acquire the features that they need to use. HEC will manage the infrastructure, while installing, configuring, and managing its own software, operating system, and applications.
Benefits of IaaS:
Improved disaster recovery and operational continuity: IaaS provides high availability, continuity, and disaster recovery without additional costs while HEIs can access their data.
Stability and reliability: HEC will maintain, update software or hardware, or solve problems within the equipment, since HEC will oversee the infrastructure.
Adaptability to developing conditions: Agile and rapid availability of resources to adapt to increases in demand in applications. When the situation returns to regular usage, the added resources are lowered as well not to remain cost effective.

Platform as a Service (PaaS)

As-Sadeem will also operate as a cloud development eco-system, from simple cloud-based applications to complex cloud-enabled enterprise applications. As-Sadeem will provide organizations with the resources needed through secure and uninterrupted access. It is the implied solution to assure the life cycle of web-based applications and their design, testing, execution, administration, and renewing. As-Sadeem will also include development tools, database management, business intelligence services, and data analytics.
Advantages of PaaS:
Less time to code: PaaS based development tools lower the time spent on coding new software or apps since they have pre-coded components for applications available.
Latest technological tools: The PaaS service model allows organizations and HEIs access to analytical and business intelligence tools.
Multi-platform development: Opportunities to develop on various platforms such as: computers, mobiles and browsers will allow for faster and easier creation of applications.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

As-Sadeem’s Software as a Service will enable the connection and use of cloud-based applications over the Internet for HEIs across the country. Common situations are email services and collaboration tools such as Microsoft Office 365. As-Sadeem will enable the use of an app for clients to connect through the internet. So, the entire software infrastructure and stored data are in the Astrolabes datacenters which are responsible for managing the maintenance of the software and hardware for all client HEIs.
Advantages of SaaS:
Premium access to applications: As-Sadeem will provide users with applications and systems of great relevance to the competitiveness of their data, resources, or strategies, such as HEC’s Maktab will be seamlessly accessible while HEIs do not have to worry about infrastructure updates and maintenance at any time.
Free access to cloud solutions: HEIs will be able to run most SaaS applications from the web without any special or additional downloads or installations through As-Sadeem.
Access data instantly and remotely: with information saved in the cloud, clients can retrieve it from any machine, whether it is a mobile phone, desktop or a laptop. A primary benefit is that the information is easily recoverable in case of harm to the cell phone or computer.

Anything as a Service (XaaS)

As-Sadeem will bring XaaS to the client HEIs with no additional costs, XaaS has emerged after certain technologies and innovations connected over networks and converged to become products. XaaS leverages cloud computing instead of on-premises local software to offer numerous services and reach users. It provides more flexibility to run an HEI on servers hosted in the Astrolabes Datacenters. HEC understands that the XaaS sector is evolving and will be a growing focus of attention in the coming years. As-Sadeem can utilize XaaS to transform the way HEIs operate in Pakistan.

As-Sadeem’s XaaS Model in Pakistan’s Education Sector

As-Sadeem will use cloud computing to serve millions of users within and beyond Pakistan. The products will be online platforms that are always available for users to connect. Users will find an easy-to-use workspace that is often hosted directly in their browser. After making modifications or getting the data from this workstation, the browser will create a request and send it to the platform. Typically, the platform will run on local servers to offer the following additional features: