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Is It Time to Move Jonas to the Cloud?

44 min.Recorded October 20263 presenters

44 min.

Summary

Your team already works well beyond the clubhouse, so why should access to Jonas be tied to a server in a back office closet? This session is not about changing the Jonas you rely on every day. It is about a better way to access it, protect it, and manage everything that keeps it running. Courtney Daniels opens with what cloud access looks like in an ordinary week, from accounting closing month end at home to a GM pulling their own board report from a conference, and how Jonas takes over the update cycle so every club is on the latest version. Bjon Campbell then walks through what sits underneath: Azure hosting in the region closest to you, immutable backups tested quarterly, SOC 2 and PCI governed environments with 24/7 monitoring, single sign-on with conditional access, and a four step migration with hypercare after go-live. Trevor Williams shares how Midvale Country Club in Penfield, New York moved everything from club management to point of sale onto Jonas Cloud, and Le Ngo joins Bjon for a live Q&A on DR, Data Mart, POS speed, SSO accounts, idle timers, and kitchen display units.

What you’ll learn

  • What “you run your club, we run what’s underneath it” means in practice, and exactly which responsibilities move to Jonas and which stay with your team
  • How updates change, from a cumbersome self-managed job to monthly overnight updates handled by Jonas, with biweekly and on-demand updates on the roadmap
  • How your data is protected, including daily, monthly, and yearly immutable backups vaulted in two Azure regions and tested every quarter
  • The layers of security around a hosted environment, from a 24/7 external security operations centre to single sign-on with conditional access rules you control
  • How the four step migration works, from discovery and a snapshot copy of your data through departmental validation, a pre go-live checkpoint, and 14 days of hypercare
  • What to confirm before you move, including internet reliability, backup connectivity, printer and device compatibility, and integration support
  • How cloud pricing works as a predictable annual subscription and where to find the cost calculator and readiness checklist

Questions about this webinar

Will point of sale feel slower in the cloud, for example sending an order to the kitchen?

In most cases the speed is equal to on-premise. Where it is not, it has still been usable, and the difference almost always comes down to the club’s internet connection. That is exactly what the validation period is for: you test printing, POS, and integration speed on your real network before go-live so there are no surprises.

Does every server or seasonal staff member need their own SSO account to use the POS?

No. Each workstation needs a unique email address to sign on to the cloud platform, but it does not have to be an active mailbox and it does not add licensing cost. Once the station is signed in, staff use their regular Jonas or POS login to move between users on that terminal.

We use Data Mart for custom automations and queries. Will that still work?

Yes. Your Data Mart server can stay where it is, or Jonas can host it and allow the connections you need. The approach depends on which integrations you run against it and how you connect to the database, and the migration specialist will sort that out during discovery.

How does our data get from our server into Jonas Cloud?

Jonas partners with Hightail to give you a secure location to upload a backup, or a migration specialist can handle the copy. For some clubs an Azure link has been used to transfer the data directly. Either way the first copy is a snapshot that runs alongside your on-premise system for testing, and a fresh backup is taken on go-live day.

Is there a secondary data centre for disaster recovery?

Your databases are backed up in a secondary Azure region, and because the infrastructure is defined as code, your environment can be rebuilt there within about an hour if needed. There is no live failover with redundant resources running in a second region, since that would add significant cost.

Are kitchen display units still supported?

Yes. Today Jonas ships a small Linux bridge device that sits on your network and provides the tunnel to communicate with the KDS units. A software based replacement that removes the physical device is being tested now, since a single hardware box is harder to scale and is one more point of failure.

Find out if your club is ready for Jonas Cloud

Run the cost calculator, take the five question readiness checklist, and your client manager will follow up with a side by side comparison for your club.

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